A toe into Chinese opera, not immersion: Shanghai Opera's Thunderstorm

Divorced from Cavalleria rusticana, English Touring Opera's contemporary take on Leoncavallo's masterpiece ticks all the boxes.

Mark Ravenhill directs a brutal, bloody Salome for Regents Opera at the spiritual home of British boxing, York Hall. 

Robert Carsen's staging of Handel's oratorio arrives, via Salzburg, in the city where Handel composed it in 1707. 

At the Metropolitan Opera, Innocence proves a gripping and perhaps divisive piece which feels real because it is a reflection of our reality, with no realistic hope of finding peace. 

A colourful, revue-style production dispels the clouds of mystique surrounding Wagner's last opera.

Alpine mountains and streams set the scene for an illuminating production of Wagner's 'play to consecrate a stage'.