Happy New Year, Essential Arts readers! 2025 is already shaping up to be a feast of a year in terms of arts and culture in Southern California, and we here at The Times are ready to eat up. Here are ...

The global rise of Chinese classical musicians reflects the country’s deep-rooted musical heritage. In the United States, the presence of distinguished artists from China, such as pianist Xiyu Deng, ...

On video, soprano Noël Archambeault stood before her audience to perform a short classical piece drawn from a poem and set to music accompanied by piano. It’s a genre called art song, widely used as a ...

Orchestras are seeing a remarkable surge in younger audiences, and the strategies bringing Gen Z to the genre are reshaping ...

The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Classical KC have come together to create “Sonic Sights,” a multi-sensory experience that visitors can activate on their phone while viewing artwork in the ...

The composer is an undeniable part of the classical music canon. Does that change the meaning of his radical early work? Opening night of the Metropolitan Opera’s 2014 production of The Death of ...

In a move that has sent ripples through cultural circles, Deutsche Grammophon (DG) China recently announced the signing of ...