Artiste: Julie Anne Miller

A revival of Richard Jones’ production of Handel’s emotionally probing opera. 

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

Amid red carpets and canapés, the Lyric Opera’s 2013/14 season opened on Saturday night with a work that perfectly suited the storm gathering above as ball-gowned luminaries swept into the hall: Verdi’s Otello, that late masterpiece of mood and terraced intensities.