Performer: Marius Vlad

The London Philharmonic’s concert performance of Enescu’s Oedipe proves an extravagant but triumphant way to launch the orchestra’s new Royal Festival Hall season.

A milestone event in the short life of Melbourne Opera has been a production of Tannhäuser in which soprano Lee Abrahmsen was outstanding as Elisabeth.

Eva-Maria Höckmayr's brilliantly unsettling double vision of Tannhäuser sees our hero both being, and watching himself being overwhelmed by psychic anguish, appalled at the futility of pleasure, and tortured by his savage envy of salvation.