- July 24, 2000
- Les Misérables
Glimmerglass returns to "La Bohème" 25 years after its inaugural staging (this time with a darker vision), and excavates a forgotten operetta by John Philip Sousa.
- June 18, 2001
- Too Darn Hot
Diary of One Who Vanished
- December 9, 2002
- Mass Appeal
Why Bernstein’s roundly hated Mass is actually quite lovable; La Wally— bellissimo verismo; an homage-gone-awry to a legendary French chanteuse.
- March 15, 2004
- Talent in Spades
A young soprano makes a splashing Met debut in The Queen of Spades; Cecilia Bartoli rescues Antonio Salieri from obscurity—and blandness.
- October 27, 2003
- Baton-a-Thon
The indefatigable Gergiev conducts a splendid Romeo and Juliet (among many other things), while Maazel renders Shakespeare soulless.
- December 20, 1999
- Cecilia Bartoli
- March 26, 2001
- Best Sellars
Bach Cantatas, Nabucco
- August 12, 2002
- Cultural Revolution
The Silver River
The Night Banquet
The Road of Friendship: Ravenna/New York
- February 23, 2004
- Immigrant Songs
The Collegiate Chorale traces Kurt Weill’s brilliantly chameleonic career; Les Arts Florissants pays tribute to Charpentier.
- August 17, 1998
- Idomeneo Theory
In 1984, Gerard Schwarz and Mostly Mozart botched Richard Strauss's reworking of Mozart's problem opera. This time around, they got it right.
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