If a requiem looms large among a composer's works, especially one written near the end of his or her life or in a morbid frame of mind, it inevitably becomes an unofficial, autobiographical epitaph.

In addition, the season of sniffles and coughs had felled 50 per cent of the solo line-up: Romanian soprano Iulia Maria Dan took over from Elza van den Heever, and ENO/Royal Opera stalwart Robert ...

For a time, Chicago Symphony music director emeritus Riccardo Muti planned to end the 2024/25 downtown season with Hector Berlioz’s “The Damnation of Faust,” not heard at Orchestra Hall since 2008.