Performer: Yann Beuron

The new production of Les Contes d’Hoffmann explores the gothic, magical nature of the story, with a solid cast led by Chaslin’s somewhat heavy baton.

Ludovic Morlot conducts Berlioz’s Roméo et Juliette with The Hallé.

If I wrote that I loved Philippe Boesmans' Pinocchio, my nose may grow a little. The 81-year old composer in collaboration with Joël Pommerat, shifts the tale far away from any cutesy Disney fantasy, returning it to the harsh reality of Carlo Collodi's original fable.

Le Roi Carrotte, simmered by Laurent Pelly in the cooking pots of the Opéra de Lyon

Despite its failings, La Monnaie turn Gaspare Spontini's 1805 La vestale into a fascinating evening's opera.

I Musici di Montréal join forces with the Studio de musique ancienne de Montréal to present Mozart's Requiem in Robert Levin's revised arrangement of the unfinished masterpiece.