WQXR Staff

Xian Zhang will be the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s 14th music director starting a four-year term in September 2016.

Disruptive mobile device use during classical concerts reached a new level when an audience member began a video Skype session during a Daniel Hope performance.

In 1947, the composer George Kleinsinger wrote the Brooklyn Baseball Cantata, a humorous, largely forgotten work inspired by the Dodgers' cross-town rivalry with the Yankees.

Musical names have long been used by carmakers to suggest a sense of elegance or class. The latest effort comes from BMW.

Over the next two months, we've got you covered with concert broadcasts, special events and other ways to feed your passion for classical music.

A letter by Mozart seeking to reclaim some scores from a friend fetched $217,000 at an auction in Boston on Thursday.

Videos allow WQXR to share music and tell stories in ways that go beyond our traditional role as a broadcaster. Here are 11 that we consider particularly unique or extraordinary.

Placido Domingo will miss four performances conducting Tosca at the Metropolitan Opera in order to have gallbladder surgery.

A 19th century violin belonging to the concertmaster of the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra was seized by customs officers in Russia on Thursday as he tried to leave the country.

"Any news a page turner makes can only be bad," a critic once wrote. But with this tempest, the page turner is the evening's hero.

The conductor Dennis Russell Davies suffered a serious knee injury 30 minutes before a concert on Sunday night, forcing a last-minute substitution.

Amid emotional scenes, audience and musicians at the Metropolitan Opera House welcomed back Dmitri Hvorostovsky as he takes a pause from treatment for a brain tumor.

First introduced in time for the Met's 2015 NL East Championship win, this "Meet the Mets" arrangement by Sara Davis Buechner makes opening day special.

Studio 360’s Kurt Andersen spoke with Esa-Pekka Salonen if he's interested in taking on a music directorship at the New York Philharmonic.

Pope Francis has spoken of his love of artists like pianist Clara Haskil, conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler, and operas such as Wagner's Parsifal and Puccini's Turandot.

In the mid-1980s, Placido Domingo began to realize his potential as a crossover artist. Among other ventures, he sang a duet with Miss Piggy in a "Night of 100 Stars" TV special.

Monday's opening night of the Metropolitan Opera brought the traditional red carpet, gussied-up celebrity guests and a parade of arriving singers.

Last week, the Opéra de Paris launched 3e Scène, or “3rd Stage,” a new website showcasing digital design. Here are three highlights.

In an age when one can't walk down a sidewalk without bumping into someone immersed in their smartphone, Anthony Tommasini's column touched a nerve.

From the sublime to the truly ridiculous, here are three moments that had classical music and opera fans talking this weekend.