Contemporary opera (9)

World premiere of Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain

Tribute: work commissioned by Gérard Mortier (1943-2014)

George Benjamin's Lessons in Love and Violence

George Benjamin (music), Martin Crimp (text) – With Stéphane Degout (King), Barbara Hannigan (Isabel), Gyula Orendt (Gaveston/Stranger)...

Adams' Doctor Atomic

Lawrence Renes, Peter Sellars – Gerald Finley (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Thomas Glenn (Robert Wilson), Jessica Rivera (Kitty Oppenheimer) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Messiaen's Saint François d'Assise

Ingo Metzmacher, Pierre Audi – Rod Gilfry (Saint François), Camilla Tilling (The Angel) – De Nederlandse Opera

• De Nederlandse Opera (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

Unsuk Chin's Alice in Wonderland

Kent Nagano, Achim Freyer, Unsuk Chin – With Sally Matthews and Dietrich Henschel – Nationaltheater München

• Nationaltheater München (Munich, Germany)

George Benjamin's Written on Skin

George Benjamin (conductor), Katie Mitchell (stage director) – With Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès)...

Doctor Atomic by Adams

Patrick Davin, Lucinda Childs – Dietrich Henschel (J. Robert Oppenheimer), Robert Bork (Edward Teller)...

Zhu Shaoyu's You And Me

Zhang Yimou (stage director) – National Center for the Performing Arts, Beijing

• National Centre for the Performing Arts (NCPA) (Beijing, China)

Louie's Mulroney, The Opera

A comedy imagined by Dan Redican and Larry Weinstein