Thursday evening’s bravura production was a major event in Muti’s penultimate season as the CSO’s music director. And it was a grand homage to both the composer whose work he has long cherished, and the orchestra he has embraced and nurtured since becoming its music director in 2010.
The recent entirely homegrown Israeli Opera production of Handel’s Alcina, named after a sorceress queen, is at the same time periodically musically enchanting, yet on the whole more bewildering than bewitching