If not every hour I spent in the Bayreuth Festspielhaus this year felt entirely worthwhile, every minute of Olivier Messiaen’s four-and-a-half-hour Saint François d’Assise in…
With Opéra-Comique’s new production of Lucie de Lammermoor—the little-known French version of Donizetti’s most famous work—a rarity has returned to the Parisian stage not as…