With the right cast, Bellini’s florid music of “I Puritani” makes for a compelling experience, and in the Metropolitan Opera’s current production we mostly have one.
This year, the Met brought back Julie Taymor’s 2004 production of “The Magic Flute”--a stripped-down, 100-minute version of the opera, performed in English.
While men may be the warriors in the epic opera, women clearly dominate the Met’s performance of Hector Berlioz’s “Les Troyens"—a revival of Francesca Zambello’s 2003 production.