Welcome to Opera at One Stop Arts

This revival of David McVicar's 2003 setting of Die Zauberflöte was familiar in many ways, but flooded with singing talent and with a Mozart specialist conducting. It was also a fitting tribute to conductor Sir Colin Davis, who sadly died this weekend.

An adaptation of Philip Pullman's novel, The Firework-Maker's Daughter by David Bruce and librettist Glyn Maxwell is currently playing in the Royal Opera House's Linbury Studio. Mixing puppetry and pyrotechnics, this vivid production brims with energy.

“Fly, my thoughts, on gilded wings; fly to rest on hills and mounts.” Va, pensiero, the Act 3 chorus of the Hebrew slaves, catapulted Giuseppe Verdi to lasting fame. It remains one of the biggest moments in any opera, and the Royal Opera Chorus performed it superbly last night. If you can afford the expensive tickets that are all that's left, go for it.

Michel van der Aa and David Mitchell's new 3D occult mystery opera Sunken Garden, an ENO–Barbican co-production, is a trippy, perplexing experience, brilliant on occasions. This may not quite be the future of opera, but it's still probably your only chance for a while to see a vertical pond.