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The long-awaited New York debut of Richard Strauss’s late, great, underappreciated (and finally back in vogue) Greek opera, Daphne.

A preview of this season’s Met roster.

From Indian improv to Glenn Gould footage, the once-moribund "Mostly Mozart" festival shows extremely encouraging signs of life.

Whiskey per tutti! Puccini’s wildly adventurous opera about the American frontier. Plus: Poe, Pirandello, and the plague.

Elvis Costello reads—and writes—symphonic scores better than other pop stars; plus an experimental opera starring Thomas Edison’s phonograph.

Someday, someone will get Candide right, but the latest reinvention, at the New York Philharmonic, reduces the characters to cartoon clichés.

The underappreciated Czech composer Martinu could write opera buffa like a native Italian; the return of Rusalka; an overexcited Yo-Yo Ma.

The much-swooned-over Aprile Millo swoons a bit too much herself in La Gioconda; rediscovering Rossini’s Ermione.

Fired by the “fattists” at Covent Garden, Deborah Voigt enjoys a triumphant reception at Carnegie Hall—but the concert itself is anticlimactic.

How does the Emerson String Quartet—winner of the Avery Fisher Prize—work so well as a group? By not really functioning as one.