Performer: Edgaras Montvidas

Opera North’s The Flying Dutchman, directed by Annabel Arden, conjures up frightening storms and links the production to the plight of asylum seekers. 

Marlene Monteiro Freitas directs her first opera, in which Lulu, if not buried alive, is certainly left completely unrecognizable. 

Thomas Adès conducts music from his own ballet score to The Dante Project and Stravinsky's Persephone.