Performer: Gareth Dafydd Morris

Jude Christian's indulgent reinvention of Puccini's opera does not serve English Touring Opera well as it embarks on its spring tour. 

Deborah Colker's production, seen last season at Scottish Opera, moves to the Wales Millennium Centre for an autumn tour. 

It’s a small miracle that the production has been recreated so well in such a short time frame.

Musically, WNO gets it right. Straightforward brilliance is the order of the day, and plenty of it.

WNO make a compelling case for Prokofiev's gargantuan War and Peace.

Frank Martin’s Le Vin herbé is as anti-Wagnerian a work as you could imagine. It is also the odd one out in Welsh National Opera’s “Love’s Poisoned Chalice” spring season.