- 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.
- April 5, 1999
- Toy Stories
City Opera's pairing of Ravel's whimsical operas "L'Heure Espagnole" and "L'Enfant et les Sortileges" is Sendak-inspired silliness.
- November 4, 2002
- Technical Difficulties
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.
- May 1, 2000
- Toad You So
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.
- October 4, 2004
- Superconductor
Where have you gone, Leonard Bernstein? The composer’s current comeback is a reminder of his legacy as a master proselytizer.
- October 6, 2003
- That Phily Sound
Maestro Maazel shows he’s got his Philharmonic working in near-perfect harmony; Donizetti surely doesn’t deserve the City Opera’s new Lucia.
- February 1, 1999
- Fascinating Rhythms
Another concert in the unfolding celebration of George Gershwin's music finds parallels in the works of Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Maurice Ravel.

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