Performer: Serena Malfi

A thoroughly enjoyable and brilliantly performed version of Rossini's great comic opera at the Sydney Opera House. 

Phelim McDermott’s Coney Island Così fan tutte returns to The Met, in sparkling vocal performances. 

The Met's spectators love Mozart’s opera, but they deserve an updated staging.

Everyone is in the know in Jan Philipp Gloger's “School for Lovers”, receiving its first revival at Covent Garden. 

Despite a great cast led by Marina Rebeka, La Fura dels Baus's unambitious approach to the myth of Faust and Dan Ettinger's noisy conducting prevent a brighter season opening at the Teatro Real.

Phelim McDermott’s new Met production is set in Brooklyn’s Coney Island in the late 1950s and is brilliantly vivid looking, but Mozart's music plays second fiddle. 

The Italian mezzo, whose voice has been compared with Cecilia Bartoli, prepares her return to the Covent Garden stage.