Delightful feast of vocal virtuosity and comic verve as part of the Grimeborn Opera Festival at Arcola Theatre, London

Startlingly modern and troubling production with spectacular imagery and stagecraft

Musical and dramatic integrity spiced with invention

Soprano Natalia Lemercier takes Poulenc and Cocteau’s distressed Elle on an emotional rollercoaster

Engaging production of Janáček’s opera, directed by Eleanor Burke, is mischievous and poignant

This glowing production puts emphasis on lively ensembles for the colourful characters of the classic opera

The cast of Longborough Festival Opera’s Emerging Artist double bill celebrating womanhood and witchcraft sings with commitment but the production fails to cast its spell

Bampton Classical Opera’s Gilly French brings a pithy new translation of Joseph Haydn’s Il mondo della luna

A provocative embodiment of harm and healing

This fascinating opera draws impressive performances and exhilarating rhapsodies from the BBC Concert Orchestra

Spirited, sincere and unsentimental, James Conway’s production of ETO’s opera hit all the right notes at Hackney Empire

The Engender Festival concludes with a programme of disparate voices, projecting power and hope, curated by Pegasus Opera’s Alison Buchanan

Director Sam Brown’s carefree production of Mozart’s opera, conducted by Lesley Anne Sammons, is rewardingly reinvented

Grange Park Opera’s compelling production of Puccini’s opera encompasses larkiness and loneliness

Glyndebourne’s Offenbach adaptation, In the Market for Love, moves indoors for October, bringing some brightness into the prevailing gloom