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.

From stylised 16th-century dress to a 1970s sitcom ballet, Konwitschny's Staatsoper staging is full of brilliantly inventive touches, splendidly realised in this excellently sung revival. 

Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.

Hamburg State Opera launches its new season with a visually overpowering but musically satisfying Così fan tutte.