City Opera comes home, looking reassuringly like its old self.

From the House of the Dead comes to life at the Met.

So Percussion tries to make music out of the city’s noise.

The Met’s new mess o’ Tosca.

John Adams and Peter Sellars turn seductive with The Flowering Tree.

Mostly Mozart has found its niche: buoyant good fun. (With a little Stockhausen on the side.)

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.