Performer: Daisy Brown

Despite the excellent playing of the Britten Sinfonia, Anna Morrissey’s flawed production disappoints. 

As the Governess Alison Rose was the ideal suffering soprano, her eyes an imbroglio of psychological disturbances.

Directing Entführung at the grand old age of 85, John Copley gives us plenty of fun in the Pasha's palace. 

Tchaikovsky's High Gothic opera about gambling obsessions is worth seeing for a first class staging, albeit with a mixed musical performance.

Opera North's captivating production of Janáček’s Jenůfa directed by Tom Cairns at the Grand Theatre Leeds

An updated Orfeo and Eurydice at Buxton sees Orpheus as an ageing rocker, too distracted by adoring groupies to notice Eurydice. However, one piece of casting was an unsolvable conundrum.