Artiste: Troy Cook

The new opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek draws on cult mindsets and conspiracy theories but smartly avoids sensationalism. 

A two-week Ralph Vaughan Williams retrospective closed with his gentle, folksy spin on Shakespeare's Merry Wives of Windsor.

Yuval Sharon's La bohème for Opera Philadelphia proves a mix of great singing and disorienting navigation.