Soprano Renée Fleming triumphs as the vengeful sorceress in the title role of Gioachino Rossini’s Armida.

Natalie Dessay’s “walks the walk” of Vincenzo Bellini’s quintessential character Amina, the woman sleepwalker, in Zimmerman’s production of the 1831 classic.

Soprano Anna Netrebko dazzles in the demanding title role, a young woman driven to madness by love and politics.