Artiste: Serafina Starke

The Baden-Baden Easter Festival presents an extraordinary performance of Elektra, with Nina Stemme in the title role and the Berliner Philharmoniker, led by Kirill Petrenko, in a stark and modern production. 

Sunday bells call the Salzburg Festival pilgrims to the Großes Festspielhaus for late choral Verdi and Bruckner's Seventh Symphony. 

Martin Kušej gives Mozart and Da Ponte's commedia per musica a sinister mafia setting, which is low on laughs but outstandingly performed, led by Lea Desandre's charismatic Cherubino.