Performer: Richard Croft

A grimly dark setting for Mozart's final opera, Sesto and Tito haunted by childhood memories. 

Benjamin Britten's Death in Venice at the Deutsche Oper Berlin in an outstanding new production by Graham Vick and Donald Runnicles.

Concerto Köln, honed to perfection, and an accomplished cast star in Claus Guth's tense, dark staging of Handel's Jephtha.