The indefatigable Gergiev conducts a splendid Romeo and Juliet (among many other things), while Maazel renders Shakespeare soulless.

Bach Cantatas, Nabucco

The Silver River
The Night Banquet
The Road of Friendship: Ravenna/New York

The Collegiate Chorale traces Kurt Weill’s brilliantly chameleonic career; Les Arts Florissants pays tribute to Charpentier.

In 1984, Gerard Schwarz and Mostly Mozart botched Richard Strauss's reworking of Mozart's problem opera. This time around, they got it right.

City Opera's pairing of Ravel's whimsical operas "L'Heure Espagnole" and "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is Sendak-inspired silliness.

Video-opera Three Tales warns of the perils of technology -- but might do well to heed its own lesson; András Schiff would make Bach proud; a young Russian tenor flunks Bizet.

For City Opera, Mark Morris takes Rameau's delectable, very un-p.c. farce "Platée" even further out of bounds, reconceiving the heroine as a chick with flippers.

Where have you gone, Leonard Bernstein? The composer’s current comeback is a reminder of his legacy as a master proselytizer.