Performer: Galina Averina

Tchaikovsky stipulated that a staging of Eugene Onegin need not be lavish but should be kept in period. He would have been satisfied with the results here.

James Hurley directs a new production of Puccini's neglected opera to close Opera North's Green Season. 

Peter Mumford's intelligent staging concept and a knockout performance by a reduced Philharmonia Orchestra made this a night to remember.

A direct and expressive new production of one of Mozart's most adventurous operas enthrals at the Hackney Empire. 

Another masterful, sprightly and unstuffily fun production of Handel at Iford: Christopher Cowell's Partenope is erotically charged, well cast and comically compelling. 

A great return appearance for English Touring Opera's Puccini double bill opening its spring tour at the Hackney Empire.