The replacements The replacements

Second casts in Don Giovanni and Turandot at the Metropolitan Opera offer mixed blessings.

The Aix factor The Aix factor

This summer’s festival, taking place amid record high temperatures and in the wake of its artistic director, Pierre Audi, featured a disquietingly zeigeisty focus on sexual violence.

Don Giovanni Don Giovanni

A live broadcast from the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence

Don Giovanni Don Giovanni

Konstantin Krimmel plays the title role in a live broadcast from Munich

Momentum mori Momentum mori

A fine Don Giovanni at Opera Philadelphia rounds out the company’s inaugural season under Anthony Roth Costanzo