Performer: Franz Tscheck

Herheim’s Fledermaus is a risky experiment that, miraculously, works – at least in a city that knows it so intimately.

At MusikTheater an der Wien, Miroslav Srnka’s new opera provess a deeply compelling, meticulously crafted work. It may not uplift, but it sears itself into the memory.

“Lima darf nicht Österreich werden!” Offenbach's operetta is set in Lima, but really it’s Vienna in director Nikolaus Habjan uproarious production. 

Salzburg's new staging of Enescu's operatic epic Oedipe is a visual and musical triumph.

Osborn absolutely lives the part; he negotiated formidable heights, intricate passage work and the sheer volume of notes with style and clarity as well as colour and nuance. 

Kay Link's new production of Handel's pasticcio Oreste is surprisingly strong theatrically, often musically too.