Classical Music

Aching for Aiken

Delicious Debauchery

The Coronation of Poppea is one of HGO's most elegant productions

Endless Love

Don Pasquale is an evergreen comic opera filled with freshness

A New Cut

HGO has a ball with The Barber of Seville

Gockley and HGO

End of the affair?

Hail Caesar!

With Julius Caesar, HGO scores a knockout

Going Baroque

Musicians and management of the Houston Symphony battle over a budget that won’t stay in the black

Opera Light

The Merry Widow has impeccable timing

Bohemian Rhapsody

Divas vie for audience affection in HGO's excellent La Bohème

Forever Young

Oh, to be 335 again! Janácek's opera diva chases eternity.

Hitting the High Notes

Despite many hurdles, Opera in the Heights pulls off a polished Figaro

Onegin, Off Again

Tchaikovsky's opera follows a fickle aristocrat and the woman who loves him

Gone with the Wind

HGO's singers impress, despite getting blown away

Tears of a Clown

Verdi's Rigoletto may be the best medicine for the world-weary

Hans, Hans, He da Man

Hans Graf is filling some pretty big shoes

Full Steam Ahead

HGO's riverboat adventure Florencia navigates through some rough waters

A Beat Ahead

OrchestraX's quick success has been its blessing, and its curse

No Surtitles Required

Mozart's sublime music makes even the silly plot of Così sound noble

Vampire Music

The Kronos Quartet presents a Philip Glass score for the 1931 movie classic Dracula

The Artist Formerly Known as Nigel

More Johnny Rotten than Jascha Heifetz

Choking on the Pit?

Houston Symphony musicians rate the conductors who dare to replace Eschenbach on the podium

Can the Band Play On?

The Houston Symphony opens its new season without a music director, an executive director or a clear vision for the future. Only one thing appears certain: The post-Eschenbach era is going to look a lot different.

Beat of a Different Drummer

(Evelyn Glennie )

Aida Who?

HGO's production of Nabucco may make you forget about Verdi's other historical opera

Things Change

HGO's revival of Little Women reveals the work's dramatic strengths and musical weaknesses

That Verdi Magic

HGO's elegant Aida underscores that all's pharaoh in love and war

Wunderkind

Flutist Christina Jennings poised to shine

Shiner Bach

They cuss. They wear tattoos. They play the cello.

Hot-blooded

Opera in the Heights brings Italy to Houston with Puccini's Tosca

Beethoven, Schumann and... Carter?

Opera in the Heights brings Italy to Houston with Puccini's Tosca

Bohemian Rhapsody

Socratic life hits the Heights

Dynamic Duo

Socratic life hits the Heights

Kid Wonder

Socratic life hits the Heights

Made in the USA

Shaham shines in a salute to American Composers

Generation Exceptional

Pianist Orli Shaham rides the crest of classical's new wave

Arias for All

Ebony Guild excels for diverse opera fans

Perfect Pitch

John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

Static

John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

Static

John Axelrod has a plan to make classical music hip--and himself hot

Fit for a Fiddle

Classical? Country? In the hands of fiddler Mark O'Connor, it's one thing: music.

Piano Man

Can Leif Ove Andsnes be both a keyboard wizard and an average guy?

Guitar Goddess

Classical guitar is deadly serious, right? Not to Susan McDonald.

Amazon Arias

With Florencia, HGO heads south into unabashedly pretty territory

Static

With Florencia, HGO heads south into unabashedly pretty territory

Saints and the Surreal

With Florencia, HGO heads south into unabashedly pretty territory

An Artist's Life, and Love

HGO's updated La Boheme is as memorable as it is moving

For Strauss Lovers Only

Der Rosenkavalier will delight the faithful, but won't win any converts

Press Picks

Der Rosenkavalier will delight the faithful, but won't win any converts

Loopy Lucia

Der Rosenkavalier will delight the faithful, but won't win any converts

An American Conductor

Michael Tilson Thomas leads the Houston Symphony in a neglected Bernstein and an overlooked Gershwin