High: "Moby-Dick" (Oct. 10-Nov. 2): Composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer collaborated to produce the most thoughtful, probing and beautiful new opera in years, and Leonard Foglia's ...

Luminaries across the classical music spectrum — instrumental soloists, vocal soloists, conductors and composers — gave bold performances in new music, early music and canon staples. Thoughtful ...

This was the Year of Van Zweden, according to Musical America, which named Dallas’ intrepid maestro Conductor of the Year for 2012. JvZ made the most of his year in the spotlight by presenting ...

We were especially heartbroken this year in bidding adieu to far too many classical musicians. There were the deaths of such colossal figures as Elliott Carter and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But there ...

From Beethoven to Bach and a couple of contemporary superstars, San Antonio's classical music audience had plenty to like in 2012: The Beethoven Festival: From mid-January to mid-February, ...