Performer: Adela Zaharia

As Zaharia inhabited her role, the opera became almost entirely about her, to the extent that one wanted to watch her every movement and hear her every syllable.

Plácido Domingo makes a dramatic recovery for a spirited celebration of the composer's birthday in Prague.

Vasily Petrenko and the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra offer a stunning palette of orchestral colours in Elgar, Bell, Strauss, and Bartók.

Axel Ranisch's production makes heavy use of film to tell a comic story of a medieval knight in love.

Animated characters are the real stars of an imaginative production of The Magic Flute. 

A well-sung revival of a witty and supremely theatrical production of Strauss’ operatic exposé.