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I Puritani at Royal Opera: Lisette Oropesa is astounding

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Tosca at Glyndebourne: Adds a few shocking twists of the knife
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The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera: commanding and unsettling

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Ariodante at Royal Opera: glorious first staging in 300 years
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Dead Man Walking at London Coliseum: 'worth the 25-year wait'

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The Sicilian Vespers at the Royal Ballet and Opera House: enthralling

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Katya Kabanova at Glyndebourne: 'admirable, but doesn't quite deliver'

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Lucia di Lammermoor at Opera Holland Park review: the leads soar
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Eugene Onegin at the Royal Opera review: spine-tingling

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Carmen at the Royal Opera: where was the explosive chemistry?

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Jephtha at the Royal Opera House: a powerful indictment of puritanism

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La Traviata at London Coliseum review: simply tremendous

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Das Rheingold at the Royal Opera: this could become a Ring to savour

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Trouble in Tahiti at Arcola Theatre: riddled with irony

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La Bohème at Opera Holland Park: a fresh take on a perennial favourite

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Werther at the Royal Opera House: superstar Jonas Kaufmann is eclipsed

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Rigoletto at Opera Holland Park: busting convention with a female gaze

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The Dead City at the London Coliseum: almost unbearably poignant

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Tannhäuser at the Royal Opera House: well-sung, but sadly inert

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La Bohème at the ROH: Juan Diego Flórez is still kicking to score

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Last Days at the Royal Opera House Linbury Studio review: exemplary

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Margot La Rouge at Le Villi: Slender but convincing stories

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Otello at ROH: Covent Garden fields its first black singer in the role

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La Bohème at Glyndebourne review: Bracing and deeply affecting

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Eugene Onegin, Opera Holland Park: tricky staging undermines intensity

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The Wreckers at Glyndebourne: A thrilling, epoch-making production

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La Bohème, the King’s Head: opera on a shoestring but affectingly sung

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Lohengrin review: an evening of acute theatrical potency

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Peter Grimes at the ROH: Deborah Warner brings Kent to Covent Garden

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