Period: Classical

At the Prague State Opera, Calixto Brieito relocates Mozart's opera seria to modern times, with disastrous results. 

Opera lovers’ favorite roué is back at the Met, with the charismatic Ryan Speedo Green taking on the title role.

A perfect triple bill became a less perfect quadruple bill. Brilliant performances by dancers from Gibney, kNoname Artist, Paris Opera étoiles rarely seen in New York and – a rarity these days – live musicians. 

The Giocoso’s Enescu and Il Giardino Armonico’s Beethoven bookend an exhilarating day of rarities and classics.

Bringing the Philharmonia is the most ambitious thing the Lammermuir Festival has ever done, yet it felt like a natural next step for a festival that's growing in stature.

Welser-Möst and the Vienna Philharmonic give a masterclass in virtuosic elegance in Mozrt, but lack edge and passion in Tchaikovsky's Pathétique. 

Iván Fischer's reworking of his 2017 production of Don Giovanni is musically capable, but dramatically unconvincing.

An evening at the Seoul Arts Center in which clarity matters as much as volume and the most telling virtuosity comes from a refusal to grandstand.