Performer: Johannes Kalitzke

The German premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Orlando at the Komische Oper cements it as a postmodern grand opéra – for better or for worse.

Donatienne Michel-Dansac is great in the lead at the Ostrava Days new music festival, leering, boasting and swaggering convincingly as the former US President. 

Comprised of some 60 musicians from 16 countries, the Ostrava New Orchestra paint pictures of prisons and caves, gardens and machines, in works by students and 20th-century masters.

Heart Chamber explores how small outer events often correspond to tectonic inner changes.

Requiring trained opera singers to focus primarily on acting and asking actors to sing in a renowned opera house puts everyone out of their comfort zone, which is not necessarily a bad thing.

The Klangforum Wien has had its own row of subscription concerts at the Konzerthaus for the past 22 seasons, and a constant during that time has been the regular programming of Austrian composers.