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Tchaikovsky's final opera and ballet were always intended to be paired; at the Royal Albert Hall Petrenko and the RPO present them together in a rewarding double-bill, marred by microphones.

Sir David Pountney directs a satirical take on dictatorship and the climate crisis inventively set to the music of Purcell. 

A solid Figaro in Cardiff, in which individual performances are a joy, and humour abounds. 

Welsh National Opera brought a cast of strong voices to Birmingham for a production of Rigoletto intriguingly set in the White House of the 1960s.