Blue lips and beards: The Rake's Progress at the Royal Academy of Music

Presenting a work like Carmen is a punchy move by a conservatoire. The Royal Academy of Music's production has conceptual weaknesses, but features some good singing. 

A lyrical yet zesty account of Mozart's' adorable score, in a production that is on the nose and off the wall. 

Jack Furness serves up an unappetising mess of Humperdinck's delicious masterpiece for Royal Academy Opera. 

With typical spirit, the students at the Royal Academy of Music did an excellent job in bringing Martinů’s Comedy on the Bridge and Alexandre bis to life – two lesser-known pre-war surrealist gems.

Frederic Wake-Walker's realisation of the Hogarth-inspired opera is visually bracing and assuredly sung. 

Students triumph in Tchaikovsky's Iolanta and Ravel's L'Enfant et les sortilèges.