Performer: Vanessa Bowers

Weather forecasters would have a meteorological field day with Rimsky-Korsakov’s opera The Snow Maiden. Freezing temperatures have prevailed for sixteen years, and the immediate outlook in the Prologue is for further isolated snow showers, before a warm front eventually sweeps in from the south during Act IV. 

Giornata Opera picked Puccini’s often-neglected personal favourite of his Trittico, Suor Angelica, to perform at St Paul’s Church, Covent Garden. The second half is well worth the wait.