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Editor’s Picks

This week, don’t miss a biography of a pioneering classicist, a reissued novel about a secret World War II mission, and an account of the Russian Civil War

I Do! I Do!

Love finds a way in The Bartered Bride, starring Teresa Stratas

Theater Pick of the Week

From Shakespeare’s Globe, in London, an Elizabethan Twelfth Night for the ages

Opera Pick of the Week

The world-premiere telecast of Gian Carlo Menotti’s evergreen Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors resurfaces

Opera Pick of the Week

Tesla sings! Les Éclairs at the Opéra Comique, in Paris, takes liberties with the biography of the Serbian visionary, to electric effect

Opera Pick of the Week

From Adolphe Adam, composer of the tragic ballet Giselle, an operatic soap bubble starring a postman with a knockout high D

Opera Pick of the Week

Unseen at the Paris Opera since its premiere in 1936, Georges Enesco’s Œdipe returns in a heaven-sent staging by Wajdi Mouawad

Opera Pick of the Week

Der Zwerg (The Dwarf), Alexander von Zemlinsky’s decadent exploration of the female gaze, in rival productions from the transgressive hot spots of Amsterdam and Berlin

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco, an intriguing new take on Così fan tutte, Mozart’s politically scandalous, musically sublime comedy of deception

Opera Pick of the Week

With the recital album Baritenor, the singer-scholar Michael Spyres mines music history for sheer delight

Opera Pick of the Week

From Brussels, The Time of Our Singing, an operatic mixed-race American family saga, speaks to our historical moment with an eloquence that transcends it

Opera Pick of the Week

Love hurts in Jenůfa, Leoš Janáček’s tragedy from the hinterlands of Moravia, brought to thrilling life at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in London

Opera Pick of the Week

What’s better, sex or salvation? Tannhäuser, Wagner’s schizophrenic singer of courtly love songs, simply cannot decide

Opera Pick of the Week

If you liked The Bride of Frankenstein, you’ll love Charles Gounod’s Gothic thriller La Nonne Sanglante

Opera Pick of the Week

From San Francisco Opera, a bold new reading of Beethoven’s soul-stirring political thriller Fidelio

Opera Pick of the Week

Double déjà vu all over again: Il Trovatore, Verdi’s warhorse in excelsis, live from Los Angeles, with dueling heroes and two modern-day knights

Opera Pick of the Week

As the Metropolitan Opera returns to live performance, an easy fix for fans hooked on the company’s once-complimentary nightly streams

Opera Pick of the Week

More Verdi from Muti’s La Scala: the Spanish tragedy Il Trovatore

Opera Pick of the Week

From La Scala, a timeless account of Verdi’s Un Ballo In Maschera led by Riccardo Muti, his supreme living interpreter

Opera Pick of the Week

The certain something in this pandemic Don Giovanni from Prague is the unique aura of the theater in which it was filmed

Opera Pick of the Week

Yuval Sharon’s Twilight: Gods crunches Richard Wagner’s four-night “Ring” cycle into a 60-minute crawl through a parking garage

Opera Pick of the Week

Stone Age Mozarteans up in arms about Munich’s new-school Idomeneo will still surrender to the incandescent Emily D’Angelo

Opera Pick of the Week

Everest, Joby Talbot’s intimate epic, expands its already considerable reach as the world’s first (we think) graphic-novel opera

Opera Pick of the Week

From the Boston Lyric Opera, a never-before-released video of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos, starring American soprano Deborah Voigt