BBC Phil/Seal: Bliss, Miracle in the Gorbals/Metamorphic Variations album review – much to enjoy

This is a fascinating chance to hear two contrasting pieces by the former master of the Queen’s music; the BBC Philharmonic unfurl the beauties of each work

Hugh Cutting: Refound album review – an idiosyncratic and profoundly satisfying collection

The Kathleen Ferrier award-winning countertenor’s debut recital album showcases his warm tone and effortless musical line – and his originality

Albert Herring review – ENO heralds new era with witty staging of Britten’s story of a mummy’s boy

English National Opera’s first shared production between London and Salford is a fluent and finely sung take on Britten’s 1947 comic opera. Antony McDonald’s lively staging gives the slender tale a sitcom feel

La Bohème review – noirish reframing of Puccini’s classic weepy

Floris Visser’s stylish bohemia recalls Brassaï’s Paris, while Puccini’s score is delivered with crispness and elasticity

The Magic Flute review – assured, atmospheric and a lot of fun

Revival of David McVicar’s production is full of kitsch turns and exquisite performances, not least from young French conductor Marie Jacquot

Carmen review – big on noise but short on chemistry

ENO’S fourth revival of Calixto Bieito’s classic production starts at an exhilarating gallop but is thrown off course by its ill-fitting translation and onstage clamour

Giustino review – sublime, and ridiculous, Handel rarity returns to Covent Garden

Joe Hill-Gibbins’ scaled-down staging is sensitive, and the music beautifully played and sung, but this is an uneven work dramatically

Susanna review – Opera North’s arresting take on Handel’s proto-#MeToo tale

Dance, sign language, outstanding singing and precise orchestral playing all illuminate this powerful tale of gendered violence and abuses of power

The Elixir of Love review – an intoxicating brush with a snake oil salesman

English Touring Opera’s witty production sets this Donizetti comedy at the seaside, complete with donkey rides, fish and chips and a persuasive conman

Cinderella review – fun-forward fairytale kicks off ENO makeover

Julia Burbach’s energetic staging of Rossini sets the tone for English National Opera’s new split-site era, bringing lashings of chorus comedy and a pacy conductor’s debut by Yi-Chen Lin

Chappell Roan review – pop’s patient princess triumphantly takes the throne in New York

The star claims she wasn’t ‘feeling 100’ for her Queens stadium show but it was hard to see any fatigue as she carried the crowd through her dazzling setlist

The Sicilian Vespers review – plot and theatrical panache collide in Verdi’s Parisian reinvention

Stefan Herheim’s production of this fascinating work battles with hollowness and ambiguities despite an impressive debut from Speranza Scappucci as principal guest conductor

Tosca review – Natalya Romaniw is riveting in WNO’s season-opener

The Welsh-Ukrainian singer was in ravishing voice, and the orchestra brought richness to a reduced score, while Edward Dick’s production seemed chillingly relevant

Mozart’s Women: A Musical Journey review – Lauren Laverne helms an insight-free night that goes out with a bang

Coliseum, LondonIf you wanted to learn about the composer’s female influences, you would have been disappointed – but the arias eventually built to an electric climax

Tosca review – punchy new Puccini rises above the ‘Shame on you’ Russian soprano protests

Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict directed by Oliver Mears