Performer: Eva-Maria Höckmayr

The Staatsoper's new L'incoronazione di Poppea is serious, intelligent but short on fire.

This Tosca had many good things in it but was ultimately over-intellectuallised and uninvolving

Eva-Maria Höckmayr's brilliantly unsettling double vision of Tannhäuser sees our hero both being, and watching himself being overwhelmed by psychic anguish, appalled at the futility of pleasure, and tortured by his savage envy of salvation.