Venue: Bristol Hippodrome

Lindy Hume's new production works reasonably well in allowing the story to be told with sufficient emotional weight.

ENB performs Nureyev's Romeo ad Juliet, a production preoccupied with death, which lurks in every corner.

Elena Langer and David Pountney's new WNO opera Figaro Gets a Divorce did not disappoint. Langer's new refreshing score had flair and imagination in a memorable performance.

Welsh National Opera's new production of The Barber of Seville disappoints in an uncoordinated performance in Bristol. 

The Welsh National Opera took to the Hippodrome stage for the Bristol leg of their UK tour ofCarmen. This was a revival of Welsh National Opera’s production in the late 1990s, co-produced with Scottish Opera.