Performer: musicAeterna

The pairing of controversial director and bad-boy conductor brings some thrills but the Salzburg Festival's new Don Giovanni proves disappointingly uninvolving. 

An all-day Beethoven experience European style with both highs and lows: much diversity revealed and exploited but of variable quality.

In Currentzis' vision, Verdi's Requiem was both a spectacle and a soul-searching exercise for the musicians, as well as for the listeners.