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

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

Dominic Cooke’s Magritte-inspired production returns to Wales Millennium Centre to keep the audience giggling. 

Even given a routine revival, McVicar's staging has much to recommend it, returning the opera to its literary roots. 

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

The cavernous Mayflower pit eats singers for breakfast and only Natalya Romaniw’s full-blooded Tatyana escaped its jaws unmarked

Richard Ayres's Peter Pan, in a new WNO production, leaves J.M. Barrie's story dangling.