Performer: Frances Pappas

Romeo Castellucci's intense production of Bartók's opera reaps its rewards in the performance under Teodor Currentzis, but Carl Orff's opera-oratorio De temporum fine comoedia feels little more than a drab filler. 

The Salzburg Festival's production of Offenbach's Orpheus in the Underworld is another classic in the making from Barrie Kosky.

A skilfully constructed production, and one that plays with the our perspectives. Whether the images are flashbacks from a war-troubled Wozzeck or a Büchner-esque portent of the horrors to come is left for the audience to decide.

The Salzburg Festival audience warmly applauded Thomas Adès, Tom Cairns and all musicians for a rounded and gripping première.

Die Ereignisse überschlagen sich und ebenso die Intervalle. Die Uraufführung von Hossam Mahmouds Tahrir zieht das Publikum mitten ins Geschehen und lässt es in eine Mischung aus Klangexperimenten, tonalen und atonalen Melodien fallen.