Zachary Woolfe

Brendel, who died on Tuesday at 94, concentrated on a small number of canonical composers, mainly Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.

A Monteverdi masterpiece and a new work by George Lewis are played simultaneously in an American Modern Opera Company production at Lincoln Center.

In this short piano piece, an intimate song without words, Brahms holds back the tears, which makes it heartbreaking.

En esta breve pieza para piano, una canción íntima sin palabras, Brahms contiene las lágrimas, lo que la hace desgarradora.

The director, one of the most influential in opera, is staging new productions in New York, France and Austria this summer.

Des Moines Metro Opera has become one of the country’s most successful smaller companies doing adventurous repertory in a 467-seat space.

Calm and graceful, this cello piece by Bach slowly dances through hopefulness, longing and introspection.

Fleming is making her directorial debut in Colorado working with young artists on Mozart’s “Così Fan Tutte,” an opera in which she appeared early in her career.

Wilson, who died this week at 83, created works of otherworldly dreaminess that were also deeply human.

Davidsen, who has returned triumphantly to the Met in “Tristan und Isolde,” said that singing “has been my world, my everything. And now it’s not.”