Femmes fatales dominated the operatic scene of the 1995 Salzburg Festival under the directorship of Gerard Mortier. Alongside Berg’s Lulu, he invited Robert Wilson and Christoph von Dohnányi to stage a double-bill of Schoenberg’s Erwartung and Bartok’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle, in which Le Soir noted that ‘Dohnanyi presents a casket of delicate sumptuousness, conducting the Vienna Philharmonic with colours of rare subtlety.’