Performer: Thomas Cilluffo

Thanks to a vibrant clutch of performances and abetted by designer Vicki Mortimer‘s detailed, exotic sets, director Sir David McVicar tells it straight.

The Berliner Philharmoniker’s much-anticipated return to Salzburg gets off to an impressive musical start. Kirill Serebrennikov’s staging raises numerous questions, but answers few of them. 

Tobias Kratzer gives his third Strauss production in three seasons at Deutsche Oper Berlin another contemporary spin. 

When does opera direction go too far? Marie-Ève Signeyrole provides the answers in her tasteless, explicit staging of Verdi's Macbeth in Berlin. 

Echt brechtig: Zum Ereignis wird es für all jene, die das Erlebnis vor den Hörgenuss stellen.