William Bolcom and Steve Blier spoke to Rebecca Milzoff about the particular challenges and pleasures of opera Inglese.

How do you know if he thinks of you as more than a cellist?

What’s red and fishy?

A century of operatic advances (plus the odd glitch).

It seems simple: If you’re in the business of selling people tickets to see musicians, you should try to make the people and the musicians as happy as possible.

“The Nightingale and the Rose,” Stephen Petronio Company, “Slow Dancing,” “Death in Venice,” and “From Here On Out.”

It looks so simple. Gwen Widell and Jill Gurhan, design and technical vice-presidents respectively at Wacoal, describe the engineering necessary for a bra to do its thing

Yes, the town’s overflowing with tulle. But mercifully, there’s a Nutcracker to satisfy every taste.

If you missed these bright lights of the classical scene—a young dynamo and an established leader—in their recent high-profile city appearances, catch them this week.

A concert dedicated to one composer—especially one who’s not as familiar as Beethoven or Brahms— can paint a much richer picture of his music than a single symphony would.