Music
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The Italian tenor used a bundle of his new album with concert tickets to achieve his first chart-topper on the all-genre Billboard 200. Source
The English National Opera’s first-ever production of the Gershwin opera brings emotional depth to characters that can too easily become caricatures. Source
A new generation of players is challenging the genre’s stuffy reputation. Ezra Collective, a five-piece band, is one of the scene’s breakout acts. Source
Two years ago, the Columbus band unexpectedly broke out big with the anxiety anthems of “Blurryface.” Can they keep doing things their own way in the face of mass success? Source
Olga Neuwirth’s instrumental work, drawn from her 2003 opera, shows off the impressive capabilities of the experimental art center Empac. Source
Renegade broadcasters fostered styles from rave to grime. But competition from online and community FM stations means pirate radio is dying out. Source
The rising soprano opened her season-long residency at the Metropolitan Museum of Art with slave songs and settings of the words of black artists. Source
Miles Okazaki, on guitar, and Jed Distler, on piano, take divergent approaches to the most referenced body of work in jazz. Source
Writers and editors share 40 years’ worth of memories about helping invent a language to talk about music, and the artists they critiqued — some grateful, some not. Source
