Samuel Barber’s “Vanessa,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning first full-length opera, was commissioned by and premiered at the “old” Metropolitan Opera, in 1958. For all its virtues, a new, 2025 live ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) is one of the greatest classical American composers of the 20th century. His music is greatly loved for its rich complexity, depth of feeling, and beautiful craftsmanship.

In a 1949 CBS radio interview, Barber described the piece as expressing "a child's feeling of loneliness, wonder, and lack of identity in that marginal world between twilight and sleep." With Barber's ...

Samuel Barber (1910-1981) found his musical voice early on. From youth, his works were expertly wrought, sumptuously opulent but clearly of their time, and full of passion restrained somewhat by a ...

Every now and then, a little wheeling and dealing goes into a new piece of music. That's especially true in the case of Samuel Barber's Violin Concerto, performed in concert here by James Ehnes at the ...

Now that the music world has paid bicentennial tribute to Frederic Chopin and Robert Schumann, it's time to sing Happy 100th Birthday to Samuel Barber. The American composer of neo-Romantic music ...

On Feb. 28, the Metropolitan Wind Symphony performs a program including Samuel Barber’s 1943 “Commando March,” written shortly after Barber was drafted into World War II. With his burgeoning ...

The introduction of American composer Samuel Barber’s riveting first opera, “Vanessa,” was marked by uncommon splendor: It had its premiere by the venerable Metropolitan Opera in January 1958, won a ...

Keith Warner’s new production features a compelling performance by Emma Bell at its centre, with the London Philharmonic under Jakub Hrůša also very impressive ‘Somehow the opera itself has grown ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by By Johanna Keller SAMUEL BARBER’S Adagio for Strings begins softly, with a single note, a B flat, played by the violins. Two beats later the lower ...