Performer: Tölzer Boys Choir

Robert Dean Smith replacing an ailing tenor as Lohengrin was merely adequate but the rest of the cast and the superb orchestra made the modern production of Lohengrin in Munich memorable.

Die Zauberflöte may well tell us something about the Human Condition, but its staging in Zurich serves more to distract from the music and the messages than it does to support them.

Technisch perfekt führte Robin Ticciati mit den Münchner Philharmonikern Mahlers Dritte Symphonie in Baden-Baden auf. Doch leider kam Mahlers musikalischer Humor etwas zu kurz.