Michael Brodeur

The Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra made its first visit to the District in eight years under its new conductor.

John Adams’s 2000 opera-oratorio “El Niño” comes to eye-popping life in a new Metropolitan Opera production by director Lileana Blain-Cruz.

Composer Terence Blanchard performed works from his opera “Fire Shut Up in My Bones” with baritone Justin Austin and soprano Adrienne Danrich at Strathmore.

Katherine Goforth will receive Washington National Opera’s inaugural award for transgender and nonbinary singers.

Opera Philadelphia names countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo as its seventh general director.

French pianist Lise de la Salle joined the chief conductor of the Sydney Symphony Orchestra for a program of works by Mozart, Strauss and the late Kaija Saariaho.

“Cinema Paradiso” director Giuseppe Tornatore takes his time telling the life story of the prolific Italian orchestrator Ennio Morricone.

The charismatic former director of the Berlin Philharmonic and the London Symphony Orchestra is now in his inaugural year leading the esteemed German orchestra.

The energetic conductor of the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra led the NSO in a program of Coleridge-Taylor, Dvořák and a concerto for saxophone by Billy Childs.

Puccini’s odd little love story is enjoying overdue attention. A recent performance from Washington Concert Opera makes clear why.