City Opera's enthralling production of "Lizzie Borden" suggests that Jack Beeson's 1965 meditation on murder in Massachusetts is ready for the repertory.

Avant-garde director Robert Lepage builds an enigmatic scene around Mahler's heartbreaking "Kindertotenlieder," and the results are truly mortifying.

Mounting "Moses und Aron" at the Met was a long-cherished dream of James Levine's. So why did he hire Philistines when he finally got the chance?

Conductor Valery Gergiev inspires passion in musicians and audiences alike.

Juilliard's fifteenth Focus! festival surveyed the broad range of contemporary American composition and found a scene driven by diversity, if not passion.

When Massanet rescored "Werther" for a famed baritone, a tortured hero became a vagueness, as the Met demonstrates.

Another concert in the unfolding celebration of George Gershwin's music finds parallels in the works of Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Maurice Ravel.