Performer: Anne-Carolyn Bird

A righteous, politically-relevant but musically questionable world premiere of Philip Glass' revised Appomattox.

In Michael Nyman's Facing Goya, the artist's head ends up in the worst possible hands.

Read our review of Bartlett Sher's production of Rossini's L'Elisir d'Amore in its 2012 broadcast from the Met Opera in New York.