Performer: Andrés Orozco-Estrada

By the close of the performance, one sensed that the audience’s exhilaration stemmed less from polished execution and more from a shared immersion in the music’s dramatic arc—elements that lingered as the defining memory of this eventful evening.

The Ukrainian director's “revisioning” of Beethoven's only opera plunges it into an incoherent underworld in Amsterdam.

A Colombian conductor and French cellist shine in a crowd-pleasing program ranging from Haydn to Bartók.

Born in the small town of La Unión, the young Colombian is the newly appointed assistant conductor at Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – and is going places at speed.