Director Nikolaus Lenhoff's acclaimed production of Richard Strauss's opera, staged at the Festspielhaus, Baden-Baden in 2011. Angela Denoke performs the title role alongside Kim Begley, Doris Soffel, Alan Held and Marcel Reijans. Stefan Soltesz leads the Deutsches Symphonie Orchester.

A controversial new production of Alban Berg's expressionistic masterpiece by Calixto Bieito with the Orchestra and Chorus of the Gran Teatre del Liceu, recorded in January 2006, under the baton of Sebastian Weigle.