Matthew Gurewitsch
The Eternal Quadrangle
From Rome, a sumptuous revival of Verdi’s early corker Ernani
Rehabilitating Mozart
When Peter Sellars and Teodora Currentzis shook up Salzburg with La Clemenza di Tito
Her Sixth Tony
The riveting Audra McDonald channels Billie Holiday in decline
Finnish Firecracker
Live from Helsinki: Karita Mattila, diva without borders
Beethoven in the Fjord
Norway’s superstar of the keyboard, Leif Ove Andsnes, directs a chamber-music festival in his own backyard
End of the Line
A Streetcar Named Desire rolls into the 21st century, starring Gillian Anderson and Ben Foster
The Noblest Roman of Them All
Ben Whishaw’s bespectacled Brutus dominates a Julius Caesar for our time
Love in the Heavens, Love on Earth
Live from San Francisco, Bright Sheng’s spacey Dream of the Red Chamber
Women Beware Women
Gillian Anderson and Lily James chew the scenery in All About Eve
The Steep and Thorny Way to Heaven
Brecht and Weill’s swan song, The Seven Deadly Sins
Is His Figure Less Than Greek?
Of Simon Russell Beale, London Assurance, and the joys of farce
Elsinore Revisited
A Cubist Hamlet from the Australian composer Brett Dean, with the original Glyndebourne cast
Double, Double, Toil and Trouble
Mean Girls meets the Bard in an encore of Red Bull Theater’s Mac Beth
A Knight Errant in Love
Boston Baroque makes a stellar case for Handel’s rarity Amadigi di Gaula
The Man in the Black Turtleneck
A hit at the Santa Fe Opera in 2017, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs has its video premiere in a new production from Atlanta
Irresistible Force, Immoveable Object
A tempestuous English-language Phèdre, starring Helen Mirren
The Tenor from Wakanda
Curtis Bannister crosses the line from opera to action movies
A Midsummer Night’s Meistersinger
From the Salzburg Festival, Stefan Herheim’s legendary staging of Wagner’s marathon comedy
Hallelujah!
From the National Theatre, London, a triumphant revival of Angels in America
Sun Worshipper
“Met on Demand” viewers adore Philip Glass’s Akhnaten
Attend the Tale of Sweeney Todd!
The inimitable, irrepressible Angela Lansbury, on the road as Mrs. Lovett
Genius at Play
Three decades on, the return of Mary Zimmerman’s breakout theater piece The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci
Ukraine Answers, “To Be!”
From the Lviv National Opera, the long-suppressed folkloric pageant When the Fern Blooms blazes with heroic national fervor
A Legend in the Making
An interview with the Chinese-American composer Huang Ruo about his timeless, timely new opera Book of Mountains & Seas
