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New York City's Metropolitan Opera restages its shorter, family-friendly version of Mozart's The Magic Flute with great music and delightful visuals.

The third in the composer’s “portrait” trilogy finally arrives at The Met in Phelim McDermott's spectacular production. 

Alessandro Talevi production for Festival O has sight gags and vaudeville tricks aplenty and features splendid voices in a fine cast. 

Davide Livermore's production of La bohème is inspired by the Impressionist troves at The Philadelphia Museum of Art and The Barnes Collection.

Fellow Travelers is shot through with darkness, making for a chilling performance by Lyric Opera of Chicago. 

“Leave your hoop skirts and swords at home,” the audience was advised, in order to avoid overcrowding when Handel’s Messiah premiered in Dublin in 1742.

Lawrence Brownlee gives a compelling performance that truly does the groundbreaking saxophonist justice. 

Great performances by Lawrence Brownlee and Angela Brown in a fantasia on Charlie Parker's life and death.