Performer: Sami Luttinen

Stefan Herheim's eagerly awaited production of Berg's Wozzeck distances us from the emotional heart of the tragedy by portraying the story as a hallucinatory death-room experience.

Animated characters are the real stars of an imaginative production of The Magic Flute. 

Dmitry Bertman's simple, stylish production of Rimsky-Korsakov's final opera finds a more recent satirical target. 

A German-Taiwanese co-production of Puccini's final opera plays out the drama as a modern-day nightmare.

Hitchcock's Spellbound meets One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest in Deutsche Oper am Rhein's retelling of Prokofiev's tale of obsession and demonic possesion.

Elisabeth Stöppler inszeniert Tschaikowsky-Rarität als Charakterstudie statt Kriegstableau.