Performer: Marcin Bronikowski

This production brought the work into the 21st century, at least visually, with a more modernised and digitally-stylised telling than their recent attempts.

A fascinating programme of opera and dance to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Baltic Opera House. 

A high-flying, zip-wire staging of Haydn's The Creation in Tallinn. 

Scottish Opera revives Sir David McVicar's Madama Butterfly. It still looks wonderful. The music, players and singers tell the harrowing story magnificently.

The set for this Faust is a series of blank screens, which slide about quickly and frequently, tall canvases for constantly changing images provided by Berlin-based video artist Lillevan.