Calixto Bieito has become notorious for his provocative, revisionist stagings of classic plays and operas (e.g., oral sex in a brothel in Mozart, a row of men sitting on toilets in Verdi). “The tension between lurid incitement and passionate tenderness is a crucial element in [his] style, but until now” – this month at Chicago’s Goodman Theater – “American audiences have only heard the incendiary sound bites.”