Nicholas Kenyon

Tchaikovsky's great 1877 opera, based on Pushkin's verse novel, breathes the spirit of Russia yet deals with universal themes – the loss of a love

Barcelona’s Gran Teatre de Liceu is marking the 25th anniversary of its reopening with a powerful staging of Shostakovich’s dark masterpiece

Like an old friend coming round the corner with a reassuring greeting and a warm wave, Jonathan Miller's production of Puccini's La bohème is back

Pity the neglected middle child. In Puccini's 1918 trilogy of one-act operas − designed to be performed together in a single, long evening − the

This shattering staging of Puccini’s rarely performed masterpiece is a tense reimagining via Ireland’s notorious Magdalene Laundries scandal

If one mark of a great masterpiece is its ability to withstand continual reinterpretations, then Benjamin Britten's 1954 chamber opera The Turn of the Screw is up there with the greatest.

In this strong performance of Benjamin Britten’s opera, Ailish Tynan brings passion and anguish to the role of the troubled Governess

Scottish Opera’s 1980s-inflected take on the gender-flipping comedy is cheekily transgressive – and a whole company success

Arnold Scoenberg’s music can be madly excessive and thorny but this wonderful concert revealed its beauty and titanic force

Jo Davies’s super 2010 staging of this Gilbert and Sullivan oddity makes a welcome return, but not all the performances are up to scratch