Over three nights, the Czech Philharmonic presented Dvorak’s concertos and more, including a rare performance of Janacek’s “Glagolitic Mass.” By Joshua Barone Our critics and writers have selected ...

Boston has largely ignored one of the great opera composers of the 20th century: Leos Janácek. In 1985, Sarah Caldwell staged for her Opera Company of Boston one of Janácek’s masterpieces, “The ...

The operas of the great Czech master Leos Janácek — taut, driven, colorful — keep strengthening their hold on the performing repertoire, for reasons that were evident in June’s magnificent San ...

The Czech master Leos Janácek (1854-1928) was recently the focus of Houston Grand Opera's production of The Makropulos Case, the haunting story of a centuries-old diva who tries to seize the potion ...

Julia Bullock (standing, center) charms as the Vixen, and Karen Vuong (far right) plays the male Fox — surrounded by their cubs — in the Juilliard School’s “The Cunning Little Vixen.” Nan Melville In ...

Katya Kabanova is a lush, compelling three-act opera with an alluring backstory. The story is only creepy and misogynistic if you take it out of its early-20th-century context. Composer Leos Janacek ...

The towering late operas of Leos Janacek (1854-1928) have a capacity to thunder from the stage in ways that are hard to describe with language. But when performed with skill and conviction, works such ...

He developed the Vixen story out of his interest in a serialised ­illustrated newspaper story, the rights to which he acquired from the surprised author before ­preparing his own libretto. Like many ...

Leos Janácek's Sinfonietta and Glagolitic Mass and operas ranging from "Jenufa" to "The Makropoulos Case" are well established in the classical repertoire. But his piano music needs more advocates. On ...

In May 1916 Czech composer Leos Janacek was preparing to go to a spa for some well-deserved R&R when he happened to read a group of anonymous poems published in a local newspaper. The verses told the ...

Sir Charles Mackerras, a renowned conductor acknowledged as the leading exponent of Leos Janacek’s operas, has died of cancer. He was 84. Mackerras died Wednesday night in London, according to the ...

Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience virtually and in person in New York City. Our critics and writers have selected noteworthy cultural events to experience ...