- September 27, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- You Grow, Girl
The long-awaited New York debut of Richard Strauss’s late, great, underappreciated (and finally back in vogue) Greek opera, Daphne.
- September 20, 2004 | Intelligencer
- The Five Tenors
A preview of this season’s Met roster.
- August 23, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Amadeus Unbound
From Indian improv to Glenn Gould footage, the once-moribund "Mostly Mozart" festival shows extremely encouraging signs of life.
- August 16, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Spaghetti Western
Whiskey per tutti! Puccini’s wildly adventurous opera about the American frontier. Plus: Poe, Pirandello, and the plague.
- August 9, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- High Fidelity
Elvis Costello reads—and writes—symphonic scores better than other pop stars; plus an experimental opera starring Thomas Edison’s phonograph.
- May 24, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Garden Variety
Someday, someone will get Candide right, but the latest reinvention, at the New York Philharmonic, reduces the characters to cartoon clichés.
- May 17, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- European Union
The underappreciated Czech composer Martinu could write opera buffa like a native Italian; the return of Rusalka; an overexcited Yo-Yo Ma.
- May 10, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Diva In Extremis
The much-swooned-over Aprile Millo swoons a bit too much herself in La Gioconda; rediscovering Rossini’s Ermione.
- April 26, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- Heavy Applause
Fired by the “fattists” at Covent Garden, Deborah Voigt enjoys a triumphant reception at Carnegie Hall—but the concert itself is anticlimactic.
- April 19, 2004 | Classical Music Review
- String Theory
How does the Emerson String Quartet—winner of the Avery Fisher Prize—work so well as a group? By not really functioning as one.