Riccardo Chailly, the maestro of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, can't quite conduct the same heat his predecessors did.

Or medium. Or big . . . The new, endlessly transformable Zankel Hall is a space savior; the City Opera loses its handle on Handel’s Alcina.

At the Met, the ageless Plácido Domingo leads Alfano’s Cyrano back from undeserved obscurity.

Conductor David Robertson draws brilliance and passion from the Philharmonic; an offbeat troupe reveals the unknown Mascagni.

Long on décor and devoid of feeling for the dying Violetta, Zeffirelli's production of "La Traviata" seems to have taken its design cue from "The Will Rogers Follies."

Just before his death, California composer Lou Harrison gets a loving tribute from Juilliard; a new baton at the Cleveland.

After 29 years leading the Boston Symphony, Seiji Ozawa finds new life with the Vienna Philharmonic—even among the classics.

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