En direct, Vidéo: Rechercher des critiques de musique classique, opéra et ballet | Alyson Cummins

Some good singing performances can't overcome a dated feeling of Gilbert's humour: the evening improves as the storm clouds gather.

Bumble? Tinder? Who needs a dating app when you have Rabbi David setting up every singleton in sight. Opera Holland Park's new production of L'amico Fritz is a feel good rom-com that will warm the heart.

A good, honest staging and solid singing add up to an excellent new production – its third – at Opera Holland Park. 

Students triumph in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges.

As the two sisters, Eleanor Dennis and Kitty Whately ideally complemented and blended with each other.  

A convincing outing for Leoncavallo's rarely performed tale of adultery, populated by characters who are flesh and blood and are immediately recognisable today.

Iford's stone cloister makes a suitably eerie setting for a fine traditional account of Verdi's Macbeth, notable for its powerful male leads, from Iford Festival Opera and the CHROMA Ensemble.

The Royal Opera House get us in the mood for Halloween with a deliciously creepy, lean production of Sir Peter Maxwell Davies' The Lighthouse.