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The last opera by Janáček and a first for the Royal Opera

The WhatsOnStage opera critic chooses his top ten operas of the past 12 months

Moody, magnificent and terrible, OHP's 2009 production of Janáček's opera returns.

Grange Park Opera revives WNO's long-lived Katie Mitchell production

ENO revives one of its greatest successes to close a troubled season in triumph

Katie Mitchell's conceptually interesting production is a mitigated success

English National Opera launches its season with Shostakovich's operatic shocker

Covent Garden revives its jolly '50s production of Verdi's farewell to opera

Edward Gardner ends his tenure at ENO with Tchaikovsky's tuneful chiller

Kurt Weill's operatic collaboration with Bertolt Brecht makes it to Covent Garden at last

Giordano's opera of the French Revolution returns to Covent Garden in a conventional new staging