Best classical music for meditation: from Hildegard von Bingen to John Cage, we recommend six pieces that will aid serenity ...

Hildegard Knef would have celebrated her 100th birthday on December 28 just passed. Given the number of cigarettes she smoked ...

The "Symphonic Salon" concert on Jan. 16 will feature chamber music alongside "The CAP Show" exhibition of Cleveland Arts ...

Opera has housed a long and curious fetish for the convent. Around a century ago, composers couldn’t get enough of lustful, visionary nuns. Although relatively tame next to what was to follow, Puccini ...

Any composer's relationship to music is intense, but Sarah Kirkland Snider, whose debut opera, Hildegard, receives its world premiere at the LA Opera this week, ratchets that intensity up to a higher, ...

Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts... Any composer's relationship to music is intense, but ...

That force has been gaining strength ever since the 52-year-old's breakthrough piece, Penelope, appeared 15 years ago. The song cycle tells the story of a psychologically damaged husband returning ...