| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 25-May-2012 The London Coliseum | Caligula slain in the Coliseum: A triumph for ENO |
 Where could be more appropriate to see the story of Caligula, Rome’s most notorious emperor/self-proclaimed God, than in the Coliseum! Its purple SPQR livery made the opening to this performance all the more striking as Caligula, dishevelled, unhinged and not a little scary, crept on stage through the curtain in dead silence. So the decidedly menacing tone of the opera was set before the curtain had even been raised or a sound heard. When the curtain rises we see his sister collapse, dead, and he releases a primal scream to spark up the orchestra.
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| 11-Feb-2011 Barbican Centre: Hall | BBC Symphony Orchestra with David Robertson conducting, playing Sibelius and Glanert |
| The program opened with Tapiola, Sibelius' symphonic poem and his last major work. Tapio is the Finnish god of the forests and Sibelius' score is prefaced with these lines:
Wide-spread they stand, the Northland's dusky forests,
Ancient, mysterious, brooding savage dreams,
Within them dwells the Forest's mighty God,
And wood-sprites in the gloom weave magic secrets.
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