Noye’s Fludde review – floods theatre with colour and a nervous moose

ENO’s first collaboration with Theatre Royal Stratford East and local schoolchildren is perfectly pitched and brings witty touches to Britten’s community opera

The Turn of the Screw review – a beautiful and unsettling piece of theatre

Louisa Muller’s production of Britten’s opera explores its ambiguities with great subtlety. Among a strong cast, Sophie Bevan is outstanding as the Governess

The Diary of One Who Disappeared review – Ivo van Hove gives Janáček a maverick update

The 1919 song cycle of illicit love is brought into the modern day with a beautifully sung and acted performance

Lagrime di San Pietro review – Sellars adds little to Lassus’s austerely beautiful madrigals

The Los Angeles Master Chorale’s performance is immaculate if sometimes self-consciously expressive in this staging by Peter Sellars of the Renaissance cycle

Jack the Ripper: The Women of Whitechapel review – murder victims refuse to come to life

ENO and composer Iain Bell’s reimagining of the lives and times of the Ripper’s victims is laudable and sincere but dramatically inert

La Forza del Destino review – guilt and obsession with opera’s biggest stars

Christof Loy cannot quite bring Verdi’s ungainly drama together but Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Antonio Pappano force their operatic flair to the fore

Ned Kelly review – new opera interrogates bushranger’s fierce but fragile masculinity

The Kelly gang’s rampages through rural Victoria are mellifluously evoked in this bushland production

Skydiving from a Dream review – Scottish Ensemble add interest, if not coherence, to Bach

The string orchestra reunite with Andersson Dance to delve into the subconscious, via the music of Bach, Beethoven and Lutosławski

The Silver Tassie review – superb, fiery outing for Turnage’s first world war masterpiece

This concert staging of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s opera based on Sean O’Casey’s play was forcefully conducted by Ryan Wigglesworth and sung by a consistently strong cast

Everything that Happened and Would Happen review – hermetic and unconvincing

Although presented immaculately, Heiner Goebbel’s slow-moving over-extended piece feels indulgent rather than original

Salome review – petals, porn and dead ponies give Strauss a feminist reboot

Adena Jacobs floods her stage with blood in an English National Opera re-imagining that does not quite live up to its early intrigue

Peter Grimes review: show goes on despite nightmare mishap

Cast rallies after star singer Stuart Skelton suffers pollen allergies during opera

Wysing Polyphonic review – explosions in the sonic inventing shed

Moor Mother and Paul Purgas curate an inspirational gathering where electronic artists, dancers and poets freely test the boundaries of expression

The Original Chinese Conjuror review – Northern Opera pull off witty magic trick

The strange case of magician Chung Ling Soo’s fatal encounter with a bullet is told with verve is this revival of Raymond Yiu’s music theatre gem

The Beggar’s Opera review – the original jukebox musical reimagined

An updated version of John Gay’s classic features gags about the royal wedding and Brexit, but the music has missed a trick