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Janowski's concept rang consistently true and the musicians did him proud.

For his new production of Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor in Basel, director Olivier Py underscored an emotive kaleidoscope of events with unparalleled creativity and imagination. 

Even forty years after its world première in Rotterdam, Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s new production of Philip Glass’s three-act opera in Basel has particularly timely relevance.

In Richard Jones' production of Don Giovanni at Theater Basel, it was the singers alone who stole the limelight.

 The recent première of Alejandro Cerrudo’s “Sleeping Beauty” in Basel made a brilliant case for reinventing an old and magical tale. 

Choreographer Richard Wherlock’s new ballet pays tribute to his Jewish roots, but also marks a first collaboration with composer Olivier Truan, whose contemporary klezmer music springs from the same tradition.

Dennis Russell Davies conducts the Basel Symphony Orchestra in idiosyncratic Les Six, and portentous Holst, while Alice Sara Ott provides exuberant Ravel. 

This superb concert deserved a full house, but there were more bodies on the platform for the Rite of Spring than listeners in the front stalls.

Dennis Russell Davies and the Basel Symphony orchestra, in their tour of the UK, have bravely chosen to take with them a generous selection of minimalist works by some of the leading composers in this genre, a brilliant programme of music by Philip Glass, Arvo Pärt and John Adams at Cadogan Hall.