2014 has seen more opera reviews than ever on Bachtrack - 517 at the current count! It may or may not have been a year for great productions and performances, but the quality of photography from the various houses around the world frequently stuns. Enjoy some of our picture highlights below.
L’Opéra de Dijon met Castor et Pollux en boîte Macbeth at The Met: Netrebko and Lučić reign in New York
Send in the clowns: Stefan Herheim’s Lulu in Copenhagen
Chabrier’s L’étoile: a delightful mix of surreal, farce and poetry in Pelly's production
Terry Gilliam strikes gold for ENO with a riotous Benvenuto Cellini
Ariadne in Naxos in New York update at Glimmerglass Festival
Dresden's Daphne relocated into Nazi Germany
"One that lov'd not wisely but too well": a visceral Otello at ENO
Falstaff in Melbourne: a high-calibre, cavorting, colour-coded comedy
Opera's dead parrot sketch: Offenbach's Vert-Vert delights at Garsington
A fabulous Figaro from Fiona Shaw for English National Opera
Revelatory playing in the Royal Opera's Die Frau ohne Schatten
Stunning new production ofThe Death of Klinghoffer at the Met
Vienna is the true heroine in Kupfer's new Salzburg staging of Der Rosenkavalier
Don Quichotte enchants with luscious singing and whimsical design
Rossini's William Tell in fifty shades of grey
Martin Kušej's Idomeneo cast as gripping political power struggle
Fish, sex and marching bands: Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District
From silver screen to golden hall: Die Entführung aus dem Serail at Palais Garnier
An heroic and harrowing Prince Igor at the Met Opera
A fairy tale finale: Otto Schenk's The Cunning Little Vixen in Vienna
Premier opéra de la saison toulousaine : un Bal masqué bien sobre
Handling Handel's Partenope at the War Memorial Opera House
Die Soldaten in Munich is uncomfortable, ugly, violent... and perfect
