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A Jean-Philippe Rameau opera, left unfinished at time of his death and recently completed by a musicologist, gets its premiere 280 years later, with extravagant costumes.

NPR's annual list of the year's best albums is full of work by musicians who hit career peaks, discovered their voices or willed something new into reality.

As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

We ranked our 50 favorite records of the year, from hip-hop to classical and everything in between.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s contract at The Philadelphia Orchestra has been extended through 2030. He talked with WRTI's Susan Lewis about the news, and his bond with a city that loves him back.

After a year defined by emergence and creative combination, our critics zoom in on their own listening to choose one inescapable album and song each.

In an era when some classical musicians are struggling, New York-based flutist Claire Chase, the founder of the International Contemporary Ensemble, is keeping very busy.

In Jim White's drumming, there's a restless wonder. On this 8 Tracks, we lead off with a sprawling rocker by his band Dirty Three, but also feature new music by Chappell Roan and Amber Mark.

Pianist and adopted Philadelphian Luke Carlos O'Reilly suffered a concussion after a fall last month. But he has recovered enough to play an album-release show this week, for his breakthrough trio release 'Leave the Gate Open.'

Like Jeremy Lin, Wat Misaka is an Asian-American who became an unlikely basketball star; he also played for the Knicks. But he did it in the 1940s.