The summer music festivals are in full swing. These concerts are all readily accessible from the city, and are played in a decidedly more peaceful setting.

These two major modern cantatas are as intriguing for their music as for their backstories.

Next project: A Python ballet!

A retiring ballerina, a tap superstar, and a beloved company give sure-to-sell-out-early performances.

Everyone’s gaga for Roberto Bolaño this summer. But what else is crying out to be translated into English? We asked some experts.

Small-scale chamber concerts allow the chance to dip a toe into the avant-garde.

In this quiet week between spring and summer seasons, these high-caliber pairings stand out.

These performances—enhanced by their sacred settings—should get you to the church (or synagogue) on time.

City Opera’s VOX 2007 festival celebrates some of the most innovative American opera composers today. Here, New York’s picks from the two days’ worth of performances.

These concerts, featuring anything but run-of- the-mill instruments, highlight the vivid spectrum of sound outside the orchestra’s realm.