Performer: Krešimir Stražanac

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

In the hands of B'Rock Orchestra and conductor René Jacobs, Telemann's polyglot opera, once thought lost to time, becomes more than just a curiosity.

There are multiple ways of approaching Bach's Mass in B minor, from the one-to-a-part advocated by Joshua Rifkin to a more conventional large choral approach, and everything in between.