Passionate about lost performances from the early 1900s, Ward Marston has made a mission of restoring and rereleasing them to a new audience of music lovers.

In 1984, Gerard Schwarz and Mostly Mozart botched Richard Strauss's reworking of Mozart's problem opera. This time around, they got it right.

In 1984, Gerard Schwarz and Mostly Mozart botched Richard Strauss's reworking of Mozart's problem opera. This time around, they got it right.

Caramoor's "Lucrezia Borgia" hits its mark.

Lincoln Center's tribute to Bernstein is wide-ranging but far less exuberant than the man it set out to honor.

Operas have dramatized almost every permutation of the love story, but until "Patience & Sarah," presented by Lincoln Center Festival 98, none had portrayed a lesbian romance.

One longs for a properly impassioned diva in Glimmerglass's "Tosca," but good packaging (and that plotline) carry the opera far.

Major orchestras (but not New York's) are eyeing the adventurous Simon Rattle; James Conlon, an American in Paris, briefly returns.

"Esther" is a miraculous merging of Handel and Racine.

The New York Festival of Song celebrates ten successful years of giving voice.