Nicholas Jones

Outdoors and socially distanced, the company’s new production foretells a return to fully live opera, despite the burden of electronic mediation.

Juxtaposing real-time and recorded choral sections evokes a dreamlike atmosphere contrasting intimacy and isolation.

The Berlin-based ensemble performs hidden gems with extraordinary verve and precise musicality.

Three of the restored violins take the limelight in a Vivaldi concerto.

The great viol player leads a program of Baroque Spanish theater music at Cal Performances.

The violinist and orchestra are at their finest in Mozart’s “Turkish” Concerto.

Pianist Robert Mollicone accompanies the mezzo in a program of “Spanish” music filtered through composers from France, Russia, Italy, and even Spain.

The singers are superb, but the production’s temperature is curiously cool.

Contrasting works by Henry Purcell and Michael Nyman spark new sounds.

Soprano Christina Major brings power and fury to the role of Abigaile in an opera that remains surprisingly relevant.