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DG’s new single destination for watching, listening and exploring classical music proves that streaming is changing for the better

A new production of Tod Machover's “VALIS,” an innovative opera based on the Philip K. Dick novel, was directed by Jay Scheib and featured baritone Davóne Tines and mezzo-soprano Anaïs Reno. Co-presented by MIT Media Lab / MIT Theater Arts / Opera Of The Future.

From intimate to grandiose, arts critic Lloyd Schwartz rounded up a list of the most notable events on the classical calendar from just after Labor Day through just before Christmas.

Paul du Quenoy on an “augmented” production of “Parsifal” at the Bayreuth Festival.

At MIT, Tod Machover’s ‘VALIS’ receives its first staged production in over two decades.

Looking for something to do this weekend? Here are a few recommendations from Globe writers and critics, covering music, theater, comedy, museums, family events, and more.

The opera world is split in two: European regietheater productions reinvent works in ways composers never imagined, while traditional stagings favored in the U.S. and parts of Italy are condemned by some cognoscenti as passé. Martin Kušej’s vision of Mozart’s “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Salzburg Festival includes cocaine-fueled fights, a predator priest, a nearly naked hooker and a basement garage rave. Damiano Michieletto transforms Verdi’s &#x201...

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Director and MIT Professor Jay Schieb speaks about his widely heralded production of Wagner’s “Parsifal” opera at the Bayreuth Festival, which features an apocalyptic theme and augmented reality headsets for the audience.

At the festival that Wagner founded, a new “Parsifal” looks different depending on how you see it, and a workshop model refreshes revivals.