Performer: Christian Oldenburg

Mit ausgezeichneten sängerischen Leistungen und vorzüglichem Orchester der Staatsoper zeigte Strauss' heiter-rasantes Konversationsstück seinen musikalischen Esprit.

Jürgen Flimm bowed out of his role as Intendant of the Berlin State Opera with the German premiere of Salvatore Sciarrino's Ti vedo, ti sento, mi perdo.

The work takes its inspiration from the life of the little known Italian composer Alessandro Stradella who ended his life stabbed by killers sent by the husbands of his innumerable mistresses.