Instrument: Choirmaster / chorus director

Peter Eötvös' 13th opera – the first in his native Hungarian – premieres at the Eiffel Art Studios in Budapest. 

After its Met Opera debut earlier in the year, Simon McBurney's popular staging returns to Amsterdam. 

Orpha Phelan directs a terrific cast of singers in an inventive and faithful production making for an evening to remember. 

Reuniting two old friends and collaborators, the Staatsoper Berlin presents a new production of Marc-Antoine Charpentier's Médée, with mixed results. 

Stricken by illness, the French version of Donizetti’s masterpiece is somewhat disappointing.

Artistic duo MASBEDO turn Donizetti’s tale of the Great Flood into a climate change polemic. Their unrelenting video overwhelms impressive singing from a cast led by bass Nahuel Di Pierro.