Performer: Brigitte Heuser

Wonderful singing, orchestral playing and staging make for a successful performance of Tchaikovsky's opera, with some reservations about the production.

A wonderful staged pairing of Telemann's cantata for a dead canary and Bach's coffee cantata, with sundry other creatures, from Australian Baroque.

Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking represents Freeze Frame Opera's best production to date, with a powerhouse performance by founder soprano Hattie Marshall.