Satoshi Miyagi’s hieratic, gold-on-gold samurai staging of the 14-year-old Mozart’s regressive but blazingly alive Baroque tragedy Mitridate, Re da Ponto returns, once again with Marc Minkowski at the helm of the Musiciens du Louvre. Since the show last appeared on this stage in December 2022, four of the five phenomenally showy principal roles have been recast. The South African tenor Siyabonga Maqungo replaces his Samoan colleague Pene Pati as the manipulative eponymous king of remote Pontus. Elsa Dreisig and Carlo Vistoli face off as his warring sons Sifare (bad) and Farnace (good). Caroline Jestaedt sings Ismene, a consolation-prize princess Daddy has brought home from abroad. Ana Maria Labin, the lone holdover from the previous cast, is Aspasia, courted by the two princes. —Matthew Gurewitsch