MILAN (AP) — Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag's long-awaited, first-ever opera was hailed as "astonishing" and "a masterpiece" as it made its debut Thursday at the famed La Scala opera house, winning ...

Hungarian composer Gyorgy Kurtag will be 95 years young during the American premiere of his first and only opera. “Fin de Partie,” based on Irish playwright Samuel Beckett’s tragicomic play “Endgame,” ...

On October 15th, the University of Rochester Press will publish “György Kurtág: Three Interviews and Ligeti Homages”, a tribute to the 83-year-old Hungarian Jewish composer with many charming details ...

The bleakness of György Kurtág’s opera “Fin de partie” (“Endgame”), now playing at the Paris Opera’s Palais Garnier, could be a commentary on that theater’s ornamental excess: The opera’s four aged ...

She worked closely with her husband, the composer Gyorgy Kurtag, as a performer, muse and critic and was also deeply involved in his writing. By David Allen Marta Kurtag, a pianist and teacher who ...

Way-out Italian pianist Marino Formenti began his extraordinary recital Monday at the Los Angeles County of Museum of Art with a short, meditative minimal melody piece by the influential 14th century ...

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart news every morning. At the end of this recital György Kurtág was presented with the Royal Philharmonic Society ...