Recital singing is a serious business with Matthias Goerne, and he insists on serious listening from his audience. At his superb recital of Robert Schumann lieder Thursday in Ravinia’s Martin Theatre, ...

Tania León’s piano music, John Cage’s choral works and Beethoven’s symphonies conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin are among recent notable recordings. Bach, Brahms and new works by George Lewis are ...

Matthias Goerne makes his 10th appearance at Chicago’s Ravinia Festival. The Martin Theatre acoustic is not quite as serene as that of London’s Wigmore Hall or Amsterdam’s Musikgebouw, but it is ...

Baritone Matthias Goerne has been a regular visitor to Herbst Theatre since San Francisco Performances presented his recital debut in 1998. But his singing has rarely sounded so easy or so warmly ...

Baritone Matthias Goerne was perhaps 20 minutes away from the end of his remarkable two-night lieder marathon Thursday when a burgeoning infection made him call a halt. To which the only imaginable ...

“Do you not see how necessary a World of Pains and troubles is to school an Intelligence and and make it a soul? A Place where the heart must feel and suffer in a thousand diverse ways!” (John Keats, ...

I was probably in a minority, because this Wigmore Hall recital, with the 23-year old South Korean-born pianist Seong-Jin Cho, was loudly applauded at the end of each half. But I found the evening ...

Matthias Goerne looks less like a classical musician than a blue-collar worker — although there was no collar at all on the T-shirt he wore under his suit at the Terrace Theater on Monday night. He ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Most recitalists treat programme-making as a secondary art: a bit of light and dark, fast and slow, to point up ...

Matthias Goerne is stepping into the title role in tonight's opening night performance of Berg's Wozzeck, replacing Thomas Hampson, who has withdrawn due to illness. The Met approached Goerne, who was ...

A nonpareil, nerd-cool presence with a sometimes internally focused stage energy, German baritone Matthias Goerne seems to be attracted to only a few operatic roles. The Metropolitan Opera has hosted ...