Performer: Kühn Children's Choir

Under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, the Czech Philharmonic and a sprawling supporting cast lead listeners up a stairway to heaven. 

The National Theater opens the season with Rodion Shchedrin's searing version of Lolita, with spectacularly disturbing results.

A political makeover of Puccini's verismo classic backfires.

The fantasy characters prove to be more interesting than the real ones in a Czech treatment of Engelbert Humperdinck's fairy-tale classic.

The National Theatre in Prague should be the second-best place in the world to see Leoš Janáček's charming opera The Cunning Little Vixen. But its current production, new in the repertoire this season, is such a disappointment.