| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 23-Jan-2013 Theater an der Wien | Come dine with Trimalchio: Maderna's Satyricon at the Theater an der Wien |
 Born in 1920 to a Venetian bandmaster, Bruno Maderna became famous during his formative years as a violin prodigy and was told by his grandfather that he could gravitate to the mafia later in life and God would still look kindly on one who played the violin so wonderfully. As Maderna later became closely associated with the Darmstadt International Summer Courses for New Music, which have been spoofed in musicological discourse as the militant wing of the Euro-serialist tradition, the story carries a certain irony.
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| 22-Oct-2011 Staatsoper | Salome in Vienna |
 When Richard Strauss first wrote Salome, he was unable to get it performed in his home city of Vienna, so shocking was the material with its heavy eroticism and necrophiliac ending (the première was in Dresden). A century on, times are more permissive, and Salome features in the seasons both of Vienna's Volksoper and of the Staatsoper, where we saw it last night.
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