Who says a composer has to be dead to sell records?

The rise and rise of conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim, genius of spontaneity.

Terry Riley’s In C, the founding work of minimalism, finally makes it to Carnegie Hall.

Jessye Norman’s tribute to African-American music.

György and Márta Kurtág, joined in life and at Zankel Hall.

City Opera reminds us that Antony and Cleopatra doesn't deserve its bad rep.

Renée Fleming has reached that apex of divadom where she sings mostly the role of Renée Fleming.

Alisa Weilerstein, at 26, is too big a talent to be pigeonholed. Plus, Renée Fleming gives good diva in Thaïs.

Extraordinary staging gets the most out of La Damnation de Faust.

Douglas Cuomo draws on ethnic musics of every variety—with a mongrel result.