Performer: Axel Kober

Considering the very abrupt transition to dance-on-film that most companies are contending with today, Mahler, live chooses to examine the beginnings of this genre. 

Stefan Herheim's eagerly awaited production of Berg's Wozzeck distances us from the emotional heart of the tragedy by portraying the story as a hallucinatory death-room experience.

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.

Visually inconsistant but some mesmerising perfromances in Kirsten Harms' production. 

A fascinating, psychologically penetrating reading of Verdi’s penultimate opera, performed to the highest standards, promises much for the new season at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein.