Performer: Rihab Chaieb

Drawing on her long history with the work as both singer and conductor, Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Atlanta Symphony in a deeply felt account of Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony.

Alexander Shelley tackles Schumann’s sprawling Das Paradies und die Peri with conviction, shaping real momentum and drama, even if balance issues and Thomas Moore’s cloying libretto sometimes distract.

Lara Downes and Yannick Nézet-Séguin offer the subscription debut of Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement, followed by the ultimate crowd pleaser, Beethoven's Ninth.

 Michael Cavanagh's sleek new production, designed by Erhard Rom and conducted by James Conlon, transforms the 18th-century opera into a Broadway musical, score by Mozart.

The Canadian Opera Company’s season opening production is musically excellent, but the dated, dull production adds little. 

Diane Paulus' staging is remarkably true to the original while making it feel like the work was written yesterday.