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The Royal Opera's season opener is a welcome return for Tchaikovsky's opera after nine years, and a house debut for American director Ted Huffman.

Evgeny Titov's new production is heavy on the jokes and light in substance, but delights anyway thanks to its high-class cast. 

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.

Substitute contralto Avery Amerau makes a fine Boston Symphony Orchestra debut in a top notch evening of (mostly) French music.

 Poul Ruders’ The Handmaid’s Tale comes home to English National Opera after 20 years in a powerful new production by Annilese Miskimmon.

A great cast of exciting singers seals a success in Lille, despite a new production which fails to convince.

An astonishing performance by Asmik Grigorian is central to the Italian director's disturbing reading of a disturbing opera.