Performer: Nicholas Masters

Mozart's messy monster of an opera gets a brutalist tidy-up at Garsington, but the determinedly straightforward reading only makes this work's innate problems more obvious. 

Despite some fine singing, Benedict Andrew's production of La bohème for English National Opera is devoid of heart. 

Keri-Lynn Wilson produces an outstanding UK conducting debut in Richard Jones' faithful production of Puccini's Girl of the Golden West for ENO.