Performer: Stuart Nunn

Michele Mariotti triumphs in Rossini’s masterpiece with a good cast led by Salome Jicia and a new production, only partially successful.

The wealth of visual images displayed by director Graham Vick goes with the extraordinary richness of Korngold's music.

The Magic Flute's roots in popular theatre come through most strongly throughout Vick's production, which sparkles with a wealth of witty detail. But treatment of the work's socio-political undercurrents doesn't work nearly as well.

The advantage of staging a rare opera such as Cavalli's Hipermestra at Glyndebourne this year is that the director can work with a blank canvas without audience’s preconceptions.

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

In seiner neuen Inszenierung schafft Sam Brown mit naturalistischem Bühnenbild einen librettotreuen Kostüm- und Kulissenschinken, der die Zeiten transzendiert. Dabei heraus sticht Doris Soffel mit extravaganter Bühnenpräsenz.