Performer: Eberhard Friedrich

Jay Scheib spices up the visual experience with digital content in his production of Parsifal. Sounds good. But is it?

Despite many perceptive details, Bayreuth's new Ring culminates in a rather damp squib of an ending.

Kent Nagano and the forces of Staatsoper Hamburg launch their new season with a production of Shostakovich's very first opera in which the ears are beguiled but the eyes are not.