The Metropolitan's production of "Samson et Dalila" is full of drama and suspense (not least of all when Plácido Domingo strives for those high notes).

At this year's Focus! Festival, the Juilliard School spotlights new music from Scandinavia -- and the results, not surprisingly, are rather cool.

Ned Rorem's "Evidence of Things Not Seen," a 36-song score, finds a distinctly American musical voice for poets from Yeats to Whitman.

Is Kiri Te Kanawa's performance in Strauss's lovely "Capriccio" her last at the Met? If so, she’ll be leaving on a high note.

New York's opera-light life is thriving with Symphony Space's "The Yeomen of the Guard."

James Levine is on "good behavior" in Munich; Valery Gergiev is good news for the Met.

Juilliard's "Hänsel und Gretel" can only be described as crumby.

Lincoln Center celebrates Jean Sibelius, Finland's greatest composer.