The 2015 ROH production with Mariusz Kwiecien, Georgia Jarman and Saimir Pirgu, conducted by Antonio Pappano.
Kobbe describes the opera as a conflict between Christian and pagan ideals, or the Dionysian and Apollonian. The setting is the autocratic King Roger's Palermo. A young shepherd arrives with a vision of a world of individual freedom and self-fulfilment...