There is plenty of music left in the 2004-05 season, as it makes its home stretch. I will give my sense of some highlights, beginning with opera.

At the Met, you still have time to see an excellent “Rosenkavalier” and an excellent “Don Carlo.” (Both are ongoing.) Also, starting on April 8, the company will resume its “Magic Flute,” in Julie Taymor’s enchanting production.

On April 4, the Met will launch “Un Ballo in Maschera,” featuring the soprano Deborah Voigt. On April 21, it will unveil a new production of “Faust,” which James Levine will conduct. The cast includes Roberto Alagna, Dmitri Hvorostovsky, and Rene Pape. On April 29, “La Clemenza di Tito” comes in, with Mr. Levine again conducting, and a cast boasting Heidi Grant Murphy and Anne Sofie von Otter. Finally, on May 13, the Met will give its first-ever performance of Alfano’s “Cyrano de Bergerac,” starring Placido Domingo. I wager you have heard of him (and Cyrano).

City Opera is now staging “Orlando,” the Handel opera, and on April 3 it will begin “The Girl of the Golden West,” a Puccini winner (yet another, I should say). Starting on April 10, we will have Bizet’s “Pearl Fishers,” from which you may know the famous tenor-baritone duet, but which has more than that up its sleeve.

From the Opera Orchestra of New York comes a relative rarity: Thomas’s “Mignon.” Singers include Stephanie Blythe, mezzo-soprano, and John Relyea, bass-baritone. The performance will occur at Carnegie Hall on April 7.

The New York Philharmonic should close interestingly, with conductor Riccardo Muti visiting for a subscription series beginning April 14. The program includes Liszt’s “Faust Symphony.” Starting April 27, Mstislav Rostropovich will lead a concert whose guest soloist is the pianist Martha Argerich. But it would be safer to say that she is scheduled to be the soloist – she is the most notorious canceler in music.

On June 9, music director Lorin Maazel will begin a series whose guest is the aforementioned Deborah Voigt. And from June 22 to June 25, he will conduct the Philharmonic in Mahler’s Sixth Symphony. It has become his habit to make the final subscription concert a Mahler symphony.

Carnegie Hall, on April 4, 5, and 6, will give us the Kirov Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev. Among their guest soloists are the pianist Yefim Bronfman and the mezzo-soprano Olga Borodina. Pianist Evgeny Kissin plays a recital on April 11, and on April 13 the Dresden Staatskapelle, under Bernard Haitink, moves in for two concerts. On April 15, violinist Viktoria Mullova will play a recital, with pianist Katia Labeque (who is usually heard with her sister and duo-piano partner, Marielle). On April 18, the recitalist will be pianist Krystian Zimerman.

May begins unusually at Carnegie Hall: Mr. Kissin and James Levine will play what promises to be an old-fashioned four-hands recital. Three days later, on May 4, violinist Christian Tetzlaff and pianist Leif Ove Andsnes will team up, and on May 13 the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will take over for three concerts. Two of them will be conducted by Daniel Barenboim, and the other by Pierre Boulez. On the Boulez-conducted concert, Mr. Barenboim will play a piano concerto.

The Carnegie season will end on June 9, with “South Pacific.” Reba McEntire is Nellie Forbush; the Orchestra of St. Luke’s will handle instrumental honors.

On April 10, Great Performers at Lincoln Center will present pianist Stephen Hough in recital. A week later, the recital will be a duo one: performed by the soprano Felicity Lott and the mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager. There should be plenty of vocal and interpretive warmth taking place. And on May 4, the recitalist will be Itzhak Perlman, no longer a hotshot, but a senior statesman of the violin. How, and when, did that happen?

The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will give a concert on April 3 that will include Heidi Grant Murphy – she will sing Schubert songs. And on April 17, CMS will present a tribute concert to David Shifrin, the clarinetist. On that program – which will be repeated April 19 – will be a new piece, written for him: by Lalo Schifrin (a distant relation, but a different spelling).

At the 92nd St. Y, you can hear the niftiest wind group going, the Ensemble Wien-Berlin, which plays two all-Czech concerts on April 16 and 17. The Y bills these concerts as a “Czech Winds Weekend.” You mean, you weren’t planning to spend the weekend that way?

The Metropolitan Museum of Art gives us composer Steve Reich and his crew (April 2), Olga Borodina (April 9), the 12-man a cappella singing group Chanticleer (April 22), and an “illustrated talk” by pianist Andre Watts (April 30).

Finally, you don’t hear Handel’s oratorio “Israel in Egypt” every day. You can hear it in St. Bartholomew’s Church on April 13. A nice opportunity.