Opera Gallery 2014: A year in pictures

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