Performer: Alexandria Moon

Opera Prelude’s emerging artists bring out both contrasts and similarities in Trouble in Tahiti and The Seven Deadly Sins.

Music Director Douglas Boyd conducts a performance of exceptional musical quality, and Louisa Muller's uncontroversial but passionate direction makes this Traviata one for the ages.

Presenting a work like Carmen is a punchy move by a conservatoire. The Royal Academy of Music's production has conceptual weaknesses, but features some good singing. 

Jack Furness directs a terrific new Queen of Spades at Garsington – haunting and harrowing.