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Andrea Geyer started to photograph the German woods of her childhood over the recent years. Listening to the trees, the moss, branches, leaves, recounting her first queered feelings as a teenager alongside stolen time with other like–minded seekers.

John Andrews has gained a well-earned reputation for brilliant recordings of unknown operas and operettas. As he turns his attention to Ethel Smyth’s Der Wald, Richard Bratby listens in

Smyth’s opera was the first by a woman to be performed at New York’s Met. One hundred and twenty years later this is its first recording

Raphaël Pichon: the conductor on Monteverdi, Mozart & finding his own path | Beethoven’s Symphony No 6: the best recordings of the Pastoral

Composer and educator Liza Lim delves into the music of the late Finnish composer, and shares stories from when they met.

The Finnish composer passed away Friday at the age of 70. She was someone of immense generosity, incisive knowledge and integrity.

Her L’Amour de Loin became the first staged work by a female composer at the Metropolitan Opera since 1903.

Kaija Saariaho, who wrote acclaimed works that made her the among the most prominent composers of the 21st century, died Friday. She was 70.

For Women's History Month, we're sharing the stories of women who have changed the face of classical music. Learn more in ‘Distinguished Rebels,’ featuring voices from behind the mic and behind the scenes at YourClassical MPR.

A welcome celebration of four brilliant and colourful contributors to the 20th-century classical scene