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Conductor Valery Gergiev inspires passion in musicians and audiences alike.

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

When Massanet rescored "Werther" for a famed baritone, a tortured hero became a vagueness, as the Met demonstrates.

Another concert in the unfolding celebration of George Gershwin's music finds parallels in the works of Oscar Levant, Vernon Duke, and Maurice Ravel.

Thomas Adès takes the naughty Duchess of Argyll as the subject of his fine first opera.

Long on décor and devoid of feeling for the dying Violetta, Zeffirelli's production of "La Traviata" seems to have taken its design cue from "The Will Rogers Follies."

It would be churlish to suggest that Plácido Domingo, after a spectacular career studded with accomplishment, is doing middling work these days. Wouldn't it?