Performer: Roland Kluttig

Comprised of some 60 musicians from 16 countries, the Ostrava New Orchestra paint pictures of prisons and caves, gardens and machines, in works by students and 20th-century masters.

Hamburg's revival of a 2015 production is a musical success, but the director's concepts are sometimes too dense to tell a straightforward story.

Director Kirill Serebrennikov gives us a frightening new reality of the modern world beset by war and terrorism in his reimagining of Strauss's Salome