Intérprete: Szymon Mechliński

After more than 40 years, Szymanowski's Król Roger returned to Berlin with the Poznań Opera Orchestra and Jacek Kaspszyk on the podium - but the result was not exactly ecstatic. 

Amy Lane's scattered borrowings from Tim Burton to Stanley Kubrick fail to cohere in the Canadian Opera Company's new Faust.

Extraordinary performances from Kristina Mkhitaryan and Aigul Akhmetshina turn Donizetti's take on Schiller into an intense psychological portrait of power struggle.