Performer: Dan Ettinger

Manfred Schweigkofler's production places the drama in a surreal, timeless atmosphere at the Teatro San Carlo. 

Dmitri Tcherniakov’s staging of Rusalka in Naples has a starkly modern visual style which occasionally dilutes the story’s emotional impact.

The Teatro di San Carlo opens its season with Vasily Barkhatov directing a Gen X mish-mash take on Puccini's final opera. 

Director Federico Tiezzi's production offered an intimate interpretation of the second opera in the Ring cycle.

An all-Russian programme from Alexander Malofeev and Dan Ettinger, held at the Teatro Politeama in Naples as the San Carlo is temporarily closed for refurbishment.

Argentinian film director Damián Szifron's production is lauded in Naples, as are star soloists Anita Rachvelishvili and Brian Jagde.

In Tokyo, a fleet of youthful soloists complement a range of big repertoire works – Rite of Spring, Turangalîla-Symphonie, Macbeth, Boléro – full of sex and violence and all things sensual.