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Returning to the first work he officially conducted as the Philadelphia Orchestra's Music Director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin offers a powerful study in contrasts, supported by a superb quartet of opera soloists.

Bedřich Smetana’s patriotic opera Dalibor is given a rare outing at Bard College, directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini and conducted by Leon Botstein. 

John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra puts the composer's propulsive music at the service of both moments of riveting human drama and less effective scenes of battle and politics. 

As part of a festival considering the composer's oeuvre, Leon Botstein leads a concert performance of La Damnation de Faust lacking in French style. 

In the title role of Canadian Opera Company's Medea, soprano Sondra Radvanovsky offers the vocal and dramatic goods required by this flawed masterpiece. 

Angel Blue and Jonathan Tetelman star in a revival of Nicolas Joël’s 2008 production of the Italian master’s sole attempt at crossover. 

Benjamin Bernheim and Nadine Sierra are a must-see pairing in the Met's revival of Bartlett Sher's production of Roméo et Juliette. 

Conductor Leon Botstein and director Jean-Roumain Vesperini treat this Tudor soap opera with appropriate grandeur, while a top-notch cast deliver the vocal goods.

Peter Mattei's smooth-as-silk baritone leads a handsome cast in the Metropolitan Opera's bleak new production of Mozart's great dramma giocoso. 

Great vocal performances from Amina Edris and Gerald Finley grace John Adams' new opera, which opens San Francisco Opera’s centennial season.

James Robinson’s production allows the large cast of Catfish Row to interact like the old pals – almost family – that they are.

The Met’s new production is directed by James Robinson, who has the characters interacting and listening to one another as if in real life – the inhabitants of Catfish Row have known each other for all of their lives and love, pray and grieve like family.

Although Bard's production is only intermittently successful, the chance to hear this Korngold rarity live should be savored.

Seattle Opera's memorable Porgy and Bess excels with an exceptional cast who performed with utmost sympathy for their roles.

A thought-provoking production and killer cast make San Francisco Opera's Elektra top-notch music drama.

Soprano Amber Wagner debuts with a flair that reminds us that Verdi's Requiem has dramatic roots.

Calixto Bieito's production of Offenbach's The Tales of Hoffmann is astoundingly sung, but suffers from excessive cuts and occasionally odd direction.

When death takes away everyone you ever loved, acting cool and staying amiable might not be the easiest things to do. You start having thoughts you never dared think before. You start questioning the unquestionable. Chances are you will turn into an agnostic. Giuseppe Verdi did.

Warlikowski weitet die Zeit- und Realitätsebenen aus, und gestaltet ein Menschheitsdrama, das bis in die Gegenwart reicht.