Performer: Alan Oke

Katie Mitchell wheels out her tired old tropes in The Makropulos Case, redeemed by its musical performances. 

Isabella Bywater directs an evocative new production of Britten’s ghost opera, well performed at the Coliseum. 

Margaret Atwood’s dystopic novel, masterfully adapted for the operatic stage, is strongly performed at ENO and rings even truer today than it did when it was written.