- April 6, 1998
- Sharing a Tenor Moment
A trio of tenors -- one romantic, one heroic, and one cerebral -- give individual performances that ring with originality.
- March 30, 1998
- Einstein on the Rocks
At the Met, Robert Wilson's minimalism meets Richard Wagner's maximalism, with catastrophic results.
- March 30, 1998
- In Brief: Yo-Yo Ma at Lincoln Center
- March 16, 1998
- Conduct Becoming
Budding maestros get a rare opportunity to practice with the real thing.
- March 16, 1998
- In Brief: "A Chekov Trilogy"
The Dicap Opera's young singers make the most of their material.
- March 9, 1998
- The Neutral Tone
Riccardo Chailly, the maestro of the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, can't quite conduct the same heat his predecessors did.
- March 2, 1998
- In Brief: "Barbe-bleue"
- March 2, 1998
- Good Hair Day
The Metropolitan's production of "Samson et Dalila" is full of drama and suspense (not least of all when Plácido Domingo strives for those high notes).
- February 23, 1998
- Nordic Tracks
At this year's Focus! Festival, the Juilliard School spotlights new music from Scandinavia -- and the results, not surprisingly, are rather cool.
- February 9, 1998
- A Rorem Success
Ned Rorem's "Evidence of Things Not Seen," a 36-song score, finds a distinctly American musical voice for poets from Yeats to Whitman.