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

A reissue of "The Ballad of Baby Doe" reveals Beverly Sill's early greatness.

With Plácido Domingo onstage and James Levine in the pit, the Met opened its season with a heavy dose of the tried and the true -- a sound decision, as it turned out.

More Messiaen at Lincoln Center, including his "Turangalîla-symphonie," failed to reveal the transcriber of warbles as more than a cult composer.

"A Child of Our Time"

Doktor Faust

City Opera’s Sweeney Todd revival could win over even a Sondheim detractor; an unpretentious Don Giovanni; Monteverdi with puppets.

The Met repackages the Three Tenors into opera even lighter, but the trill is gone; the once-great Carlo Bergonzi takes on "Otello" -- and murders Verdi.