★★★★☆Given its title and basic story a man obsessed with his dead wife Erich Korngold’s 1920 opera Die tote Stadt may not sound like a tempting night out. A
Annilese Miskimmon’s new production of Korngold’s hallucinatory 1920 work sacrifices some of its disturbing power but musically it is magnificently alert to the mood-shifts and beauty of its sound-world