1 MONKEY: JOURNEY TO THE WEST

Damon Albarn’s and Chen Shi-Zheng’s pop opera has been reworked for its London premiere.
Royal Opera House, Bow Street, WC2 (www.royalopera house.org 020-7304 4000), Sat

2 LA GIOCONDA

Holland Park Opera continues to tackle some of the trickiest operas in the canon. This time Ponchielli’s lurid melodrama, starring Gweneth-Ann Jeffers as the beautiful street singer.
Holland Park Theatre, Holland Park, W8 (http://rbkc.gov.uk/ohphollandpark 0845 2309769), Sat, Wed & Fri

3 L’INCORONAZIONE DI POPPEA

Glyndebourne pays its annual visit to SW7 with a semi-staged performance of Monteverdi’s opera, starring Danielle de Niese as Poppea and Alice Coote as Nero.
Albert Hall, Kensington Gore, SW7 (www.bbc.co.uk/proms, 020-7589 8212), Thur

4 IOLANTA

Tchaikovsky’s oddly underrated final opera might be dramatically flabby, but is set to a sublime score. Orla Boylan sings the title role.
Holland Park Theatre, details above, Tues, Thur

5 TÊTE À TÊTE: THE OPERA FESTIVAL

Highlights include Johnny’s Midnight Goggles, a genre-bending one-man thriller (Thur, Fri) and Very Present Tense, Christopher Simpson’s song-cycle inspired by the loss of his mother (Fri).
Riverside Studios, Crisp Road, W6 (www.riversidestudios.co.uk 020-8237 1111)

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