How is Simon Rattle making the Berlin Philharmonic post his own? A New York visit offers a snapshot.

Lincoln Center opens a monthlong festival devoted to Osvaldo Golijov with Ainadamar, his transcendent opera of the Spanish Civil War.

Does anyone do this specialized repertory better than the New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players?

'An American Tragedy' is yet another contemporary-opera-by-the-numbers rehash.

Dance companies leapt to meet new audiences, opera embraced unorthodox source material, the Philharmonic had an opening night to remember, and Strunk & White was . . . set to music?

The Met’s weird new production bleeds the delicate chemistry out of Roméo et Juliette.

Skip The Little Prince and take your kids to a real opera instead. They’ll thank you later.

Audiences appreciated her joy, as well as a quality she was blissfully unaware of: that poignant nobility often projected by harmless figures who take impossible chances and hilariously fail.

If pop acts go on tour to plug their albums, why shouldn’t Cecilia Bartoli or Renée fleming?

Sheer musical excellence is what drives this 'Cosi,' one of those now-I-can-die-happy performances that comes along rarely.