Performer: Mark Milhofer

Lydia Steier's new production of Candide is a kaleidoscopic celebration of Leonard Bernstein's varied musical idioms. 

Given a new production by Evgeny Titov, Benjamin's second full-length opera is musically brilliant, but its examination of our inner darkness lacks heart. 

A series of ill-advised staging choices leads to a disappointingly drab performance of Monteverdi's Homeric epic.

The Staatsoper's new L'incoronazione di Poppea is serious, intelligent but short on fire.

Jacobs has found in the excellent musicians of this orchestra the perfect laboratory to explore his conception of Mozart.

John Joubert's opera setting of Charlotte Brontë's masterpiece received its long-awaited world premiere by the English Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Kenneth Woods, with a luminous central performance by soprano April Fredrick.