Performer: Constantinos Carydis

In this musical journey the Greek conductor Constantinos Carydis takes you to Athens and Crete, while Igor Levit explores Apollonian qualities in Mozart.

Paula Murrihy's role debut in Frankfurt not only proves to be infatuating, but also irresistibly cool.

It's the most spectacular entrance in opera: the giant stone statue bursts in to join Don Giovanni at the dinner table; a pair of sweeping downward octave swoops in D minor fills the audience (and the hapless Leporello) with terror at the rake's imminent descent into hell.OK, that was a spoiler, but then we all know the story: a production of Don Giovanni is all about how you tell it.

One of the questions this opera poses for any director is how to link the 'tales' of Hoffmann's three lost loves together and knit them satisfactorily into the Prologue and Epilogue.

In der zweiten Festspiel-Premiere fesselt eine turbulente Inszenierung von Mozarts vielschichtigem Meisterwerk.

In einer nüchternen Inszenierung hat Christof Loy versucht, in Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro vor allem musikalisch neue Akzente zu setzen.