The Impressionist Debussy is the Monet of music - he painted the score in Pelléas et Mélisande with fine brushstrokes and delicate shades of colour; his ethereal music charts the depth of the human soul. Pelléas et Mélisande is based on a play by Symbolist dramatist Maurice Maeterlinck and centres on a love triangle between the brothers Pelléas and Golaud and the mystical beauty Mélisande.

McVicar's acclaimed Mozart production returns to the Old Stage - One of the world's most accomplished opera directors - Scottish David McVicar - brought new life to the last of Mozart's serious operas when his production premiered in 2004. The much acclaimed performance now returns to the Old Stage. This year's recipient of the Léonie Sonning Prize, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, will again conduct Concerto Copenhagen from his cembalo in some of Mozart's most magnificent music.

Co-production with the KlangBogen Festival and Theater an der Wien. The Mozart Anniversary is celebrated with a new production of Don Giovanni.