Gustavo Dudamel makes an enormously charismatic New York debut.

Measha Brueggergosman ought to be headed to an opera house near you.

Barber’s Vanessa isn’t the forgotten marvel they say it is—but it’s a great vehicle for City Opera’s star soprano.

Verdi’s Macbeth returns to the Met, in awkward, stagy fashion.

Old-style luxury returns (or does it?) at Fifteen Central Park West and the Plaza.

Whether they’re built or not (and at least one will be), his designs imagine our city in gloriously exuberant terms.

Paul Jacobs can shake the rafters—and your soul.

The New York Philharmonic is as reliable and consistent as a metronome—and about as dull.

Natalie Dessay is a fabulous, if not exactly subtle, Lucia.

The architect who lost the battle over the Freedom Tower (though not, in his opinion, the war) may now build Manhattan’s tallest residential building. And he’s built a whole new career for himself by carefully mining the line between idealism and concession.