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A pasticcio of superb musicianship is the main event at the Venice-themed Whitsun Festival.

Cecilia Bartoli leads a stellar cast in a silly, but fun divertissement where Mozart’s music shines supreme.

The Opernhaus Zurich revives Jan Philipp Gloger’s production, for a performance with mixed results: a solid cast of singers under Christoph König’s heavy baton.

A great performance of a nearly-forgotten 18th-century oratorio in Salzburg celebrates the castrati’s “Heavenly Voices”, the theme of the Whitsun festival.