Veranstaltungsort: Battersea Arts Centre, London

Strong performances and powerful direction in Gothic Opera's premiere UK staging of Donizetti's Maria de Rudenz at Battersea Arts Centre.

This Evangelist had just come straight from Golgotha, where he had witnessed events so momentous he was compelled to recount them at once.

Trying to rekindle the public’s interest for a rarely played work, Salonen and his collaborators took an unusual approach.

A welcome return from the Philharmonia saw John Wilson exercising his passion for English music in a Vaughan Williams masterpiece and an impressive Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Saint-Saëns.