Performer: Gabriele Rossmanith

From stylised 16th-century dress to a 1970s sitcom ballet, Konwitschny's Staatsoper staging is full of brilliantly inventive touches, splendidly realised in this excellently sung revival. 

Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.

Strauss' mix of bedroom farce, comedy of manners and bittersweet musing about aging is acted and sung superbly in this revival of Richard Jones' production.

Willy Decker's production, presented in Zürich in 2014, is revived at the Hamburgische Staatsoper with most of the same cast

At least the colour-coded characters in Andreas Homoki’s farcical production made it easy to know which team to barrack for.

Leider scheitern die guten Ideen des Regisseurs, Philipp Himmelmann, an der Umsetzung.