Opera Lafayette celebrated its 15th anniversary on Monday night with a gesture that, before the fact, seemed almost quixotic. The company, which usually performs in the Kennedy Center’s Terrace Theater — seating about 500 — rented out the Concert Hall, which holds more than 2,000 people, for a …

James Levine conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a characteristic selection of works by Berlioz, Ravel and Elliott Carter at Carnegie Hall on Monday.

Laura Wilde ‘08 recently earned the opportunity to compete at the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions in New York City. She shares how she’s preparing for the national contest, the one thing that makes her nervous for competitions, and how St

Charles M. Schulz, the creator of ”Peanuts,” the tender and sage comic strip starring Charlie Brown and Snoopy that is read by 355 million people around the world, died in his sleep on Saturday night at his home in Santa Rosa, Calif., just hours before his last cartoon ran in the Sunday newspapers.