Performer: Tadeusz Szlenkier

A chilly reception for director Kay Link's fresh take on a mythical Czech heroine mars an otherwise superb performance.

Nuremberg's opera house launches a new directorial era with an impressive staging of Prokofiev's adaptation of Tolstoy's great novel that incapsulates 200 years of Russian history.

Eine von Joana Mallwitz hoch motivierte Staatsphilharmonie und fulminante Leistungen der Solisten machten das sperrige Sujet zum Super-Saisonstart.