Music

But the Met faces acute challenges. Mounting live opera is expensive, requiring lavish sets, star singers and a much larger orchestra and chorus than the biggest Broadway shows can boast. Inflation has...

As Taylor Swift’s N.F.L. adventure began in earnest at a Kansas City Chiefs game against the Chicago Bears on Sept. 24, the reaction of the Fox broadcast crew — and much of...

Melanie, the husky-voiced singer and songwriter who was one of the surprise stars of the Woodstock music festival in 1969 and two years later had a No. 1 single with the disarmingly...

The primary sound of “Polaroid Lovers” is rich and glossy, hinting at 1970s Laurel Canyon folk-pop and the commercial peak of Fleetwood Mac, who placed sparkling acoustic instruments in the foreground of...

With the music website’s future uncertain, Ryan Schreiber and Chris Kaskie look back at its start.

Nicki Minaj gave birth in 2020 amid a five-year break between albums and kept mostly out of the spotlight during her son’s infancy. Though she has shared photos of her son, affectionately...

Rayshawn Bennett, a rapper known as YFN Lucci, pleaded guilty on Tuesday to one gang-related charge in Atlanta, his lawyers said, as part of a deal with prosecutors in a case interconnected...

“It’s from the first gay club in Nashville,” Howard said. “I’m just borrowing it because the person who owns it doesn’t have tall enough ceilings.”Howard bought the home from the singer-songwriter Vanessa...

Following is an overview of some of Callas’s career highlights at La Scala.“Aida” (Verdi): April 12, 1950Callas’s very first performance onstage at La Scala was as a substitute for the much-adored Renata...

Nearly 20 years ago, when Sleater-Kinney released its towering seventh album, “The Woods,” there was a convincing case to be made that the trio was the most vital, and underrated, working American...