Alex Ross’ ‘Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music’

The winner of last year’s ‘Yiddish American Idol’ brings ‘historic African-American-Jewish music’ to life on his new record.

And with them the hope of change through activism

Race theory, Aryan purity, and a Jewish purge in Wagner’s ‘Parsifal’

Urban planning may be exciting, but the latest musical tribute to New York’s master builder is a turgid dud

The British composer Thomas Adès, the son of Syrian-Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, leads an operatic adaption of Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film into a biblical trap

New York City Opera strikes it rich with Puccini’s ‘La Fanciulla,’ in a ‘triumphant’ return for the house of music of our humble European immigrant ancestors

The 60th anniversary of Jan Peerce’s landmark Cold War Moscow show, where a final encore pointed the way to deliverance

The strange side story of the 1905 comic operetta, which is being presented by the Metropolitan Opera on New Year’s Eve

The 1960s battle for Lower Manhattan gets the ultimate dramatic rendering

A lifelong protest avoider tiptoes into the fray with ‘Death of Klinghoffer’

Dispatch from the scene at—and in—Lincoln Center Monday night

John Adams’s masterpiece is about an American Jew murdered by Palestinian terrorists, but the real opera is off stage

Protestors plan demonstration outside Lincoln Center in New York City

Israeli Opera performs La Traviata this week at the ancient fortress