Artiste: Jacek Laszczkowski

Polish director Mariusz Treliński puts a contemporary spin on Salome by retelling the story from a victim's point of view. 

In 2008, conductor Thomas Hengelbrock rediscovered Niobe, Regina di Tebe, written in 1687 by the Venetian-born, German-based composer Agostino Steffani. Although now little remembered, Steffani was a world-famous composer in his day and a man of many talents who became a diplomat and bishop as well as being a musician.