Intérprete: Niamh O'Sullivan

Bruno Ravella's splendid 2021 production of Strauss' opera of Viennese manners returns with a fine cast. 

David Pountney's vernacular translation and Ruth Knight's vivid staging lent a thrilling immediacy to Shostakovich's chilling opera.

Even locked behind a music stand, like a caged panther in a sleek black gown, Grigorian’s Salome bristles with dramatic energy in Barbican concert performance of Strauss’ “scherzo with a fatal conclusion”. 

Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 

Le metteur en scène polonais est à la tête d'une production de l'opéra de Strauss qui fera date, avec une distribution de rêve (dont Véronique Gens en Maréchale) et un orchestre au diapason.

Michael Chioldi, Soraya Mafi and Bekhzod Davronov shine in Julien Chavez’ energetic production in Dublin’s Bord Gais Theatre. 

BBC Radio 3 is celebrating 25 years of the New Generation Artists scheme with a special day of programming on Monday 3rd March.