Zachary Woolfe

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Birds joined in for the blissed-out sounds of concerts organized by the adventurous flutist Claire Chase at the Ojai Music Festival in California.

Memorable performances included a pair of Strauss operas, a suave villain, a star soprano in “Fidelio” and a new conductor in “Le Nozze di Figaro.”

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