Venue: Lauderdale House, London

HGO's production of Holst's Sāvitri is a smart choice for a socially distant era. But why mess with a winning formula?

Contemporary opera is a genre that strikes fear into the hearts of many: visions of singers throwing themselves around the stage, incomprehensible atonal music, avant-garde costumes and weird and wonderful story-lines abound in the classical concertgoer’s expectations.