Artiste: Idunnu Münch

Director Milos Rau, composer Hèctor Parra and librettist Fiston Mwanza Mujila put the operatic spotlight on the fight for justice after a mining disaster in the DRC, with mixed results.

Two short choral works and a Bach double violin concerto introduce Schubert’s neglected masterpiece, his Mass in A flat major. 

Blue could hardly have been better rendered than here. Indeed, I wish every opera I see could be staged with such grace and finesse.