Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich died in 1975 without completing his dream of setting Anton Chekhov’s short story, “The Black Monk,” as an opera. Thanks to playwright James Glossman and musician ...

The male soprano Samuel Mariño’s “Lumina,” a suite from Thomas Adès’s “The Tempest” and Ginastera’s string quartets are among the highlights. Brooklyn Rider’s exploration of the four elements, ...

For a composer who saw his popularity fluctuate more wildly than the Dow Jones averages while he was alive, Dmitri Shostakovich would have been astounded to find himself in the middle of a major ...

There’s a rare musical occurrence happening in San Diego this weekend. The La Jolla Music Society is presenting three concerts of chamber music by the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich. It’s part ...

Who never wrote a bad note? If Mozart springs to mind, you’re in good company. Boston Symphony Orchestra music director Andris Nelsons would agree with you. But next to Wolfgang Amadeus, Nelsons would ...

Maxim Shostakovich finds meaning in his father's Symphony No. 7 This week, Performance Today looks at the life and times of Russian composer Dmitry Shostakovich. He had his own personal wars with the ...

Dimitri Shostakovich. An example of what some argue is arts inability to flourish without freedom? Or was he a brilliant political rebel forced into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with Joseph ...

Rhein Main Airport, Germany, March 22, 1949: Russian composer and pianist Dimitri Shostakovich (center, with glasses) is surrounded by reporters and photographers at Rhein Main Airport. The famous ...

The 20th-century Soviet composer Dmitri Shostakovich might be best known for his conflicted but patriotic symphonies, his daring operas, including two takes on Nikolai Leskov’s novella “Lady Macbeth ...

When guns speak, the muses keep silent, says an old Russian proverb. Last winter, as he listened to the roar of German artillery and watched the sputtering of German incendiaries from the roof of ...

Banned for decades in the Soviet Union for its dissonance and bawdiness, the opera returns as La Scala’s season opener amid the 50th anniversary of Shostakovich’s death. By A.J. Goldmann The male ...