Performer: Werner Van Mechelen

Digital projections make Opera Ballet Vlaanderen’s Parsifal seem alienating and strange, but the singing is terrific and the orchestra sounds sensational.

Elīna Garanča's Kundry proves the star of Kirill Serebrennikov's prison staging of Parsifal, a powerful exploration of religion and violence. 

Powerful performances in Götz Friedrich's Deutsche Oper production. 

Joining Music Director Jaap van Zweden were some familiar faces who had appeared in Das Rheingold and Die Walküre in the same or different roles, and new faces appearing for the first time.

Sir Edward Elgar’s hugely sonorous choral work, The Dream of Gerontius is rarely performed in Switzerland, boosting the attraction of this, its seventh performance ever inside these borders.

The child-woman Lulu is a reflective receptacle for desire in Dutch National Opera’s extraordinary filmic production.