With a uniformly excellent cast, this bracing version of Gotthold Lessing's German Enlightenment play hits home with its then (and still) controversial view of religion: that no faith has the uniquely true message of God.

One of the long-running Jim Cullum Jazz Band's great achievements is its jazz-band version of 'Porgy and Bess,' now available on a two-CD set, including narration by William Warfield, who played Porgy on stage many times.

'Troll' plunges headlong into the hyper-modern. Are our online selves our true selves at all? If not, what are they? What do their actions say about us? The questions are vividly relevant.

The impressive (and overdue) New York City debut of a wonderfully accomplished professional ensemble took place in the amenable space of Christ Church United Methodist and featured works for double chorus by Brahms, Gabrieli, and Randall Thompson.

Carpenter has always been a master of setting imagistic, earthy, poetic lyrics to deceptively simple melodies that carry emotional meaning of their own.

For three decades, Italian musician Francesco Lotoro has traveled the world collecting manuscripts of music written in concentration camps and the Jewish ghettoes during World War II by victims and survivors of the Holocaust.

Clad in golden or pure white robes and with curly hair flowing down his back, Tennant's King Richard II is an arresting figure, oozing nervous faery-king charisma.

The French Early Music ensemble's easy virtuosity frees it to inject plenty of fun into its concerts, enlivening the music with dramatic flair.

The Al Jazeera news network described its recently announced layoffs as "a workforce optimisation initiative," trying to smooth over the sting with fancy-sounding words.

Turkey's biggest palace, a Genoese tower, dinner with new friends, a cruise up the Bosphorus to the Black Sea, two continents, even a synagogue – all on our last two action-packed days in Istanbul.