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Triumphant Tavener opens the Edinburgh International Festival
John Tavener's epic, eight-hour all-night vigil opens the festival in monumental style, directed by Thomas Guthrie.
An enigmatic Pelléas et Mélisande at Glyndebourne
Stefan Herheim's dreamlike production of Debussy's opera sets it squarely in the Sussex manor house that gave birth to Glyndebourne's festival.
Nagasaki comes to Bedfordshire
Welsh National Opera brings its 1978 production of Madama Butterfly to Milton Keynes.
Savage and noble: Wozzeck at the Concertgebouw
A mesmerising Wozzeck, thanks to the trampled dignity of Florian Boesch’s antihero, Asmik Grigorian’s gloriously sung Marie, and a thrillingly savage Netherlands Radio Philharmonic.
WNO's Barber of Seville underwhelms
Welsh National Opera's new production of The Barber of Seville disappoints in an uncoordinated performance in Bristol.
Strong performances in WNO's Marriage of Figaro
Lothar Koenigs conducted a musically excellent and dramatically straightforward performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro in Cardiff.