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Alarm Will Sound turns the Beatles’ �Revolution 9��this is not a joke�into chamber music.

Mencken called opera in English �about as sensible as baseball in Italian.� But it does have its charms.

In a tough soprano role, Karita Mattila is a near miss. Plus: How to listen to Stalinist music without feeling guilty.

Carnegie Hall celebrates Berlin’s two great eras�one of which is just getting started.

Gustavo Dudamel makes an enormously charismatic New York debut.

Barber’s Vanessa isn’t the forgotten marvel they say it is�but it’s a great vehicle for City Opera’s star soprano.

Verdi’s Macbeth returns to the Met, in awkward, stagy fashion.

Paul Jacobs can shake the rafters�and your soul.

The New York Philharmonic is as reliable and consistent as a metronome�and about as dull.

Natalie Dessay is a fabulous, if not exactly subtle, Lucia.