CLEVELAND, Ohio — Few pianists today elicit the kind of eager expectation, borne of star-power and reputation, that Evgeny Kissin does the moment he takes the stage. There is a quality to his presence ...

“Our present reality seems to be completely out of joint with universal bonds and perspectives,” the festival’s artistic director said. By Javier C. Hernández Teodor Currentzis and the ensemble ...

On the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra at Carnegie Hall. James Levine and Evgeny Kissin/Photo by Steve J. Sherman, courtesy Carnegie Hall Its opera season over, the orchestra of the Metropolitan Opera ...

But you certainly could argue that Kissin has been the world’s most enigmatic great pianist since the death of Sviatoslav Richter in 1997 — though, unlike the promiscuously gay Richter, his ...

"People will say I am Eusebius because I am so reserved, but I have some Florestan in me," says Evgeny Kissin. This is piano-speak, spoken by one of the greatest pianists of our time. Kissin, a ...