Performer: Eva Zaïcik

Rossini’s Petite messe solennelle, stripped to piano, harmonium and voices, unfolds like a musical sphinx in the Balthasar-Neumann’s performance at the Elbphilharmonie. 

In a concert performance at the Berlin Philharmonie, conductor René Jacobs gives his own – thrilling – take on Monteverdi's L'Orfeo.

Àlex Ollé directs a rare version of Idoménée in Berlin, in which the staging fares better than the singing.