Classical Music

Doubleheader Sweep: With Il tabarro and Pagliacci, Opera Theatre registers a rout

Enter the Chamber

Party People

Don't Come Around Here No More: With Alice in Wonderland, Opera Theatre goes out on a limb and falls off

Beyond the Magical Mystery

Save Powell Hall: Concert Marketing Doesn't Get Any Better Than This

Destruction isn't something commonly associated with symphonies. But building-crushing sound is at the heart of a particularly eye-catching promotion for the St. Louis Symphony's performance of Sergei Prokofiev's Scythian Suite. The "Save Powell Hall" campaign has been the St. Louis Symphony's vehi ... More >>

Ben Folds with the St. Louis Symphony, 11/6/11: Review

Courtesy of the artist​Ben Folds with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra Powell Hall November 6, 2012 As he sat behind Powell Symphony Hall's grand piano and sang the phrase "Kiss my ass goodbye," the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra echoed his melody with trumpets and Ben Folds smiled the smile of ... More >>

Ben Folds on Making the Most of a Misunderstood Career

Courtesy of the artist.​This Sunday, Ben Folds performs a sold-out show at Powell Hall alongside the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. We talked to the versatile, potty-mouthed and misunderstood performer during a rare moment of rest between rehearsing for one of his many orchestral concerts and j ... More >>

The Italian Battalion: Opera Theatre attacks Donizetti's Daughter of the Regiment with all due delight

Turn of the Screwer: Opera Theatre whips out Don Giovanni

A Few Bars For Lunch

St. Louis Symphony Announces 2011-12 Season

image viaDavid Robertson and the St. Louis Symphony will be back for another season.​It's still only about halfway through the current orchestral season, but the St. Louis Symphony believes in planning ahead. And so, late last week, the orchestra announced its offerings for the 2011-12 season, ... More >>

Opera Theatre's Marriage of Figaro isn't quite ready for prime time

Zing Go Those Strings

Sad and Wonderful Love

Mousterpieces

St. Louis Stage Capsules

Dennis Brown, Lew Prince and Paul Friswold suss out the local theater scene

Bohèmian Rhapsody: Opera Theatre rings in 2009 with a spirited La Bohème

Papa, Can You Hear Them?

That's Entertainment

Interview: Composer Glenn Branca

With his spiky, greying mullet, Bob Dylan shades and hotel room drink in a plastic cup, Glenn Branca cuts a mean, iconic hipster figure, a pure punk aesthete who for 30 years has been taking music -- call it rock, call it classical, call it Post-Minimalist, call it Maximalist -- to places the most s ... More >>

Rach out with Your Baton Out

The SLSO is off and running

Night of the Viola

All you violinists can stay home

Miss Thing: Opera Theatre's new take on Una Cosa Rara features sweet singing — but not much else

Wicked Good: Opera Theatre pulls out all the bizarre stops in mounting The Tales of Hoffmann

Waxing Brazilian

Aria Ready?

Opera Theatre concludes its season with a bel canto bang.

Love in the Time of Tuberculosis

Conspicuous consumption: Opera Theatre of Saint Louis spins a smooth La traviata.

Download Mozart

The Saint Louis Symphony is ready to hit the high-tech notes.

Concerts

Unfinished Symphony

The arrival of a brilliant conductor was drowned out by labor discord. Now the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra begins a new season -- with some strings attached.

Festive Firearms

Rockets' red glare and a concert

Opening Nights

Cry, Cry Again

A devastatingly moving Opera Theatre double bill

Might Makes Flight

Opera Theatre of St. Louis sends an opera on its maiden voyage

Bard Bellowing

Opera Theatre of St. Louis tackles a tough adaptation of Hamlet and nails it

Lucia in the Sky

In Lucia di Lammermoor, Donizetti scores a trifecta: murder, madness and suicide

Honk If You Love Vonk

The maestro's tumultuous tenure with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra comes to a close

Surround Sound

"Night at the Oscars" juxtaposes the music of the St. Louis Symphony with clips from acclaimed films

Triple Threat

The Eroica Trio bring their lovely harmonies and visages to St. Louis

Stop the Music

If the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra does not raise $29 million by the end of this year, it's bankrupt

Carmen's Electric

Taking on the classic Georges Bizet tragedy is another step in Union Avenue Opera Theatre's ongoing success story

Farce Field

Opera Theatre's take on Offenbach's light comedy The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein is joyful and sure-handed

A Little Night Music

Opera Theatre opens its season with La Bohème and enchants an evening.

Bang the Drum Repeatedly

Composer Philip Glass and timpanist Jonathan Haas move the kettledrums to the front of the Powell Hall stage

Radiodead

The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra goes off the air

Facing the Music

"Great music, no red ink" is the new refrain of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra

Best Non-Western Classical Musician

Imrat Khan

Best Musical Theater Production

Radamisto, Opera Theatre of St. Louis