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

This behemoth strikes me as Mahler’s most ungainly and least persuasive symphonic work.

The Israel and New York Philharmonics have a whale of a time playing together; a minor-miracle performance of La Forza del Destino; notes from the Soviet musical underground.

Mark Morris and Isaac Mizrahi serve up a highly Baroque take on Rameau’s froggy satire Platée; Emily Dickinson at the Philharmonic.

Three operas return from deep storage, only to encounter modern-day problems.

"Poème Électronique" is beautifully revived

Chagall and Hockney have already had their way with Mozart’s Magic Flute. Now—cue the kite puppets —it’s Julie Taymor’s turn.

Someday, someone will get Candide right, but the latest reinvention, at the New York Philharmonic, reduces the characters to cartoon clichés.