Performer: Yuri Kissin

Massenet’s take on Goethe’s blockbuster novella of unrequited love and suicide is handled with great subtlety by Christof Loy and Marc Leroy-Calatayud. Benjamin Bernheim and Marina Viotti lead a starry vocal cast.

Andrei Kymach and Yuri Kissin deliver standout Australian debuts in a revival of Sir David McVicar's dark, unshrinking Don Giovanni.

Conductor Alexander Vedernikov with the Radio Filharmonisch Orkest and a fine cast of soloists captivate the Concertgebouw’s audience with a too-little known opera by Tchaikovsky.

Puccini's Il Trittico, performed last night at the Opéra Bastille in Paris, is a unique item in the repertoire: a series of three one act operas with little to link them except the composer's conceit of what would work together in an evening. Each opera clocks in at something under an hour, and despite the relatively short duration, each has plenty of time to develop its characters.

La metteuse en scène florentine renforce la noirceur du drame de Verdi, bien secondée par un Roderick Cox actif dans la fosse, tandis que Ruzan Mantashyan se distingue dans le rôle-titre.

La scénographie de Pierre-André Weitz et la mise en scène d’Olivier Py font de l'œuvre de Poulenc un drame intemporel, universel, intérieur, porté par une réalisation musicale de haut vol.