Hannah Edgar

If Jessie Montgomery's music sounds familiar, it's not just you. Any attempts to gracefully describe the 39-year-old New Yorker's work tear classical music's hackneyed binaries — between novelty and tradition,...

When Georges Bizet's opera "Carmen" premiered in 1875, scandalized Parisian audiences couldn't wrap their minds around the story of a woman who brawled, smoked like a chimney and refused to...

The pandemic woes faced by Haymarket Opera Company — one of the city's leading period-performance outfits, and the only one focusing on opera — could have been stomach-dropping, even by...