Performer: Quentin Hayes

In two equally impressive performances, students from the RNCM star in these two one-act operas.

David Pountney's House of the Dead makes for high entertainment at Welsh National Opera.

Opportunities to see Mascagni's Guglielmo Ratcliff come few and far between, mainly because the title role is an absolute killer for any tenor mad enough to attempt it. Step forward, Angelo Villari...

With ENO having been in the news for all the wrong reasons last week,  it needed Richard Jones' The Mastersingers of Nuremberg to be a great production. Lit up by a towering performance by Iain Paterson, it is.