Claire Moses    Politics isn’t supposed to influence the international song contest, but some people wanted relationships between countries to hold more sway in this...

Hannah Edgar and Nick Hagen    Apartment House 1776, written for the United States’ bicentennial, is getting an immersive new production with a skeptical twist.

Gabrielle Ferrari    New works, The Post Office and Constance: A Confession, and a revival of Barber’s Vanessa show companies attempting to capture these nebulous times.

Lindsay Zoladz    Listen to Kurt Vile’s poetic rock, Nia Archives’s electric earworm and a new tune from Mike D.

Tim Page    Tall and self-possessed, with an air of wit and sophistication, she was superb in works by Mozart and Strauss, and was also a wide-ranging recitalist.

Seth Colter Walls    The Philadelphia Orchestra paired Sorey’s For Marilyn Crispell with Bruckner’s Third Symphony, an unusual bill that flattered both composers.

Will Hermes    The guitarist mined the scholar Harry Smith’s LP collection, recording her takes on songs rooted in regions the United States has been in conflict...

Claire Moses and Carlos Barragán    A Spanish court ruled that the pop star was not a tax resident of Spain in 2011 and ordered the country’s tax authorities to return tens of millions...

Michael Paulson    Just in Time, which for a year starred Jonathan Groff, is the first new musical from last season to make money for investors.

Amelia Nierenberg and Boryana Dzhambazova    Recent months have brought a series of changes in the Eastern European nation, which has just adopted the euro and forced the resignation of a...

Jon Caramanica, Joe Coscarelli, Kate LoPresti, Sophie Erickson, Jack Belisle, Bernardo Garcia Elguezabal and Nick Pitman    Our hosts react to Iceman, Habibti and Maid of Honour.

Alexis Soloski    The composer Cinco Paul discusses the clever references to classic musicals everywhere you look (and hear) in his new Broadway show.

Alex Traub    As a rising star of the 1960s, she dated Paul Simon, brooded with Nick Drake and drew Barbra Streisand’s envy. Then she sank into an abusive marriage.

Elisabeth Vincentelli    The performers of a Met Opera production about Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera have been promoting the show in decidedly unoperatic places, including a...