Performer: Alasdair Kent

Leonardo García-Alarcón's exhumation of Bembo's work proves a winner, in a hyper-quirky staging by Netia Jones with Julie Fuchs as the pick of the fine singers.

The intrepid company brings Damiano Michieletto’s well-traveled production of a Rossini rarity to the US for the first time. 

Martin G Berger exhaustively reworks the story and the libretto of Salieri's Cublai, gran kan de' Tartari and throws the kitchen sink at this new production, but not everything lands well. 

Carl Orff's bawdy choral work shares a program with the sweet and sincere Credo, a rediscovered work by the American composer and arranger Margaret Bonds.

The best-laid plans go astray when the noble Count Robinson falls for the wrong sister, setting up a lovely night of opera.