Performer: Ying Fang

A committed cast struggles to lend a spark of life to Kasper Holten's static staging of Mozart's first mature opera.

Exceptional singing enlivens a flawed production, which takes liberties with the tone and tenor of Beethoven's sole opera.

Lyric Opera of Chicago revives its diverting and divisive 2015 original production by Barbara Gaines, who does it like a Shakespearean sex farce.