Reimann‘s Lear opens at the Komische Oper Berlin on 16 September in a new production by Barrie Kosky, and three days later the Deutsche Oper Berlin presents Stockhausen‘s Mittwoch aus Licht in a production by Susanne Kennedy. The Staatsoper’s choice of Spontini’s La vestale, starring Sonya Yoncheva in a new production by Lydia Steier, seems conventional in comparison