With its enchanting setting and spellbinding score, the world’s most popular opera is as timeless as it is heartbreaking. Franco Zeffirelli’s picture-perfect production brings 19th-century Paris to the Met stage as Puccini’s young friends and lovers navigate the joy and struggle of bohemian life. Soprano Juliana Grigoryan is the feeble seamstress Mimì, opposite tenor Freddie De Tommaso as the ardent poet Rodolfo.

Can a work of art remain relevant 200 years after its creation? Ludwig van Beethoven’s last completed symphony proves it’s possible.

The Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra brings together refugee musicians and Ukrainian members of leading European orchestras. One day after the third anniversary of the Russian attack on Ukraine, they perform Beethoven's 9th Symphony - a masterpiece and symbol of freedom and humanity - under the direction of Keri-Lynn Wilson in Warsaw's Teatr Wielki.