Performer: Glimmerglass Opera

Mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught anchors a fluid and appealingly staged new production of Kevin Puts' penny dreadful.

Director Louisa Proske refracts Handel's tale of warlords and witches through the prism of a juvenile dream world, aided by a game cast headed by Anthony Roth Costanzo.

The English theatre directs turns his hand to opera with a staging of Gounod's take on Shakespeare's star-crossed lovers.