Performer: Michael Smallwood

Weill and Brecht's excoriating satire is brilliantly executed; after such an intense opener, Mahagonny-Songspiel is less convincing.

The Staatsoper revives a confused production by Hans Neuenfels, under the baton of Thomas Guggeis.

Excellent musical performances are confounded by clumsy, unimaginative staging in Rameau's explosive first opera.

Hans Neuenfels new Salome proves a strangely non-committal affair at the Staatsoper, but Thomas Guggeis conducts impressively.

Magisterial playing and conducting underpin an outstanding, engrossing evening of Wagner at the Schiller Theater.

The Nederlandse Reisopera celebrates Ariadne auf Naxos’centennial with a superb new production directed by Laurence Dale which looks as laving as it is pleasing to the ear.