Performer: Cody Quattlebaum

ENO's revival features a striking performance from Mary Bevan as bride-to-be Susanna, but elements of the staging continue to raise eyebrows. 

Laurence Cummings and the AAM serve up Messiah-shaped serenity at the Barbican. 

What does opera in the 21st century look and sound like? Streets removed from anything Mozart, Verdi or Wagner would have recognised. But Salvatore Sciarrino is his own man.

Andris Nelsons conducts a brisk, but pliant performance of Mozart’s dramma giocoso with a fine cast at Tanglewood. 

A uniformly excellent ensemble enlivens the Royal Opera House's latest Bohème revival.

Poor diction and lack of heft from some principals mar the composer's last great oratorio.