- March 15, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Talent in Spades
A young soprano makes a splashing Met debut in The Queen of Spades; Cecilia Bartoli rescues Antonio Salieri from obscurity—and blandness.
- October 27, 2003 | Classical Music Review
- Baton-a-Thon
The indefatigable Gergiev conducts a splendid Romeo and Juliet (among many other things), while Maazel renders Shakespeare soulless.
- December 20, 1999 | Classical Music Review
- Cecilia Bartoli
- March 26, 2001 | Classical Music Review
- Best Sellars
Bach Cantatas, Nabucco
- August 12, 2002 | Classical Music Review
- Cultural Revolution
The Silver River
The Night Banquet
The Road of Friendship: Ravenna/New York
- February 23, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Immigrant Songs
The Collegiate Chorale traces Kurt Weill’s brilliantly chameleonic career; Les Arts Florissants pays tribute to Charpentier.
- August 17, 1998 | Classical Music Review
- Idomeneo Theory
In 1984, Gerard Schwarz and Mostly Mozart botched Richard Strauss's reworking of Mozart's problem opera. This time around, they got it right.
- April 5, 1999 | Classical Music Review
- Toy Stories
City Opera's pairing of Ravel's whimsical operas "L'Heure Espagnole" and "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is Sendak-inspired silliness.
- November 4, 2002 | Classical Music Review
- Technical Difficulties
Video-opera Three Tales warns of the perils of technology -- but might do well to heed its own lesson; András Schiff would make Bach proud; a young Russian tenor flunks Bizet.
- May 1, 2000 | Classical Music Review
- Toad You So
For City Opera, Mark Morris takes Rameau's delectable, very un-p.c. farce "Platée" even further out of bounds, reconceiving the heroine as a chick with flippers.
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