Music Review | ‘Tristan und Isolde’: Tristan No. 3 Holds a Steady Course, Despite an Offstage Crash and Thump

Robert Dean Smith became the third singer to take the role of Tristan in the Metropolitan Opera’s run of six performances.

Music Review: Living for Art Gives You Arias to Resort to in Your Time of Need

Mark Lamos’s stark staging of "Tosca" for the New York City Opera updates the story to Fascist Rome.

Music Review: A Give and Take Between Experienced and Emerging

The public face of the Perlman Music Program is a series of concerts at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

Music Review: Elliott Carter Side by Side by Schumann and Haydn

When Musicians From Marlboro framed recent compositions by Elliott Carter with standard works by Haydn and Schumann, the juxtaposition was instructive.

Music Review: Selections for Two Vocalists in French, German, Italian

Michelle DeYoung shared a concert on Thursday at the Morgan Library & Museum with Bryan Hymel, a young tenor who won the George London Foundation's award last year.

Playlist: Lots of New Jazz: Some Eclectic, Some Restrained, Some Unrestricted

Releases by John Ellis, 2 Foot Yard, Jacob Garchik, Miguel Zenón and Adam Kolker.

Music: Great Expectations, and Versatility to Match

At 37, Thomas Adès has learned to handle the pressure of being the next big thing in British composition. It’s all in the breathing.

Perfect Tone, in a Key That’s Mostly Minor

Collegiate a cappella is an old tradition, and for some, it may be a gateway to a career in the performing arts — or a lingering embarrassment.

Pop and Rock Listings

POP.

Music: A Hybridist Jamming With the World

With his major-label debut, Lionel Loueke adds to jazz’s increasingly international flavor.

Classical Music/Opera Listings

CLASSICAL.

Mostly Mozart Festival Plans Lively Summer of Death

This summer Mostly Mozart will die. And transform. Again and again.

Music Review | Marian McPartland: Marking a Milestone With a Light Touch

Ms. McPartland presided over her own 90th-birthday party at Dizzy’s Club Coca-Cola with characteristic lightness and aplomb.

Music Review | 'Falstaff': Never Too Old to Play Love’s Fool

Jan Opalach conveyed both the buffoonish and fleetingly pensive aspects of Verdi’s Falstaff in Leon Major’s appealing staging at the New York State Theater on Wednesday.

Music Review | Brentano String Quartet: Late Style, Young Performers

The Brentano has a remarkable talent for highly focused nervous energy, as seen in their concert of works by Brahms and Shostakovich on Wednesday.

Music Review | New York Philharmonic: Kurt Masur, With Bach and a Choral Force

Mr. Masur took a proudly traditional approach to Bach’s “St. Matthew Passion” on Wednesday night at Avery Fisher Hall.

Music Review: Amanda McBroom Is Alive and Well and Singing About It

With a chin-up attitude and a cheerfully self-deprecating sense of humor, her songs observe the personal wear and tear of long-term relationships.

Music Review: Another British Invader Arrives, Guitar in Hand

Adele, a 19-year-old singer-songwriter from London, presented two distinct personalities on Monday night at Joe’s Pub.

Music Review: Tristan and the Furious Stage

A smooth-running production of “Tristan und Isolde” — devoid of illness, injury, cancellation or insufficient singing in key roles — would be somehow unauthentic.

Music Review: Small Group, Big Sound

Pat Metheny’s sold-out trio concert on Tuesday night at Town Hall was hardly a sparse proposition.