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Lincoln Center's tribute to Bernstein is wide-ranging but far less exuberant than the man it set out to honor.

Operas have dramatized almost every permutation of the love story, but until "Patience & Sarah," presented by Lincoln Center Festival 98, none had portrayed a lesbian romance.

One longs for a properly impassioned diva in Glimmerglass's "Tosca," but good packaging (and that plotline) carry the opera far.

Major orchestras (but not New York's) are eyeing the adventurous Simon Rattle; James Conlon, an American in Paris, briefly returns.

"Esther" is a miraculous merging of Handel and Racine.

The New York Festival of Song celebrates ten successful years of giving voice.

The Kirov Opera's influence looms large, which makes Met Kremlin ologists nervous -- especially in light of so-so performances.

The Met's new guest conductor, Valery Gergiev, is already the toast of the town, but his visiting Kirov Opera turns out to be a mixed bag.

With no great period-instrument ensemble to call their own, Baroque-hearted New Yorkers must depend on the kindness of strangers.