Performer: Peter Morgan

Denyce Graves, once the reigning Carmen of her day, directs a new production full of interesting choices that rarely cohere.

Rising mezzo-soprano Raehann Bryce-Davis offers a gorgeously sung and grippingly acted portrait of Verdi's gypsy. 

Set in New Orleans during the Jazz Age, this riff on Offenbach's La Périchole captures the festive spirit of the summer, despite some tired jokes.

Francesca Zambello sets the whole opera as a flashback, showing, during the prelude, the heroine surrounded by doctors and nurses in a sanatorium for patients dying from tuberculosis.

Musically and dramatically, Jay Lesenger's production makes a strong case for John Corigliano's sole opera.