Performer: Francesco Landolfi

As the culmination of Muti's Italian Opera Academy in Tokyo, the maestro conducted a model performance of selected excerpts from Rigoletto in the main hall of Tokyo Bunka Kaikan.

Without recourse to virtual reality or hallucinogens, Vick has created a suggestive, vividly surreal world where one's reference points are lost to the wind.

Leo Muscato's new production of Rigoletto was the first in Rome since conductor Riccardo Muti resigned in September, denouncing a lack of "serenity".