In a rare return to the pit of an opera house, Riccardo Muti reanimates Mozart’s Rake’s Progress as only he can. The director on this occasion is the maestro’s daughter Chiara Muti, with whom he first worked up this production last year at the Teatro Regio, in Torino. The multitalented Luca Micheletti, fourth-generation scion of a family of strolling players, again takes the title role. The other names in the predominantly Italian cast are less familiar than in Muti’s prior realizations of the sulfur-dusted score (including such avatars of the antihero as Thomas Allen, Samuel Ramey, and Carlos Álvarez). One worth singling out is the tenor Giovanni Sala, a lyrical marvel in the Mutis’ previous Torino Così Fan Tutte. This time Sala appears as Don Ottavio, a character often dismissed as a limp noodle with pretty tunes but more accurately a lover and a warrior constrained by iron Spanish decorum. —Matthew Gurewitsch