Every so often, a performance hits you right in the solar plexus. That’s how it was for me with Sunday afternoon’s performance of Schubert’s great song cycle Winterreise. Presented in the Dallas Opera ...

Baritone Benjamin Appl is celebrated by audiences and critics alike for a voice that ‘belongs to the last of the old great masters of song’ with ‘an almost infinite range of colours’ (Suddeutsche ...

Alice Sara Ott’s account of John Field Nocturnes, a tribute to Glenn Gould and a program of songs by Schubert and Kurtag are among the highlights. Alice Sara Ott, piano (Deutsche Grammophon) The Irish ...

There were passages of seriousness: Gustav Mahler’s dolorous opener, leavened by the sunny and saucy Alma Mahler that followed, and Reynaldo Hahn’s touchingly ingenuous take on Bach, “À Chloris”.

Young German-English baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Baillieu were a sensation of San Francisco Performances' 2022-23 season. "Dynamic contrasts, from stormy fortissimos to whispery ...

The usual audience response at the end of Franz Schubert’s hourlong song cycle Winterreise (Winter Journey) is stunned silence — then amazement at having experienced something special. Setting 24 ...