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SUNDAY FEBRUARY 2

  critic Alex Ross might be lamenting “the creative stasis at international opera houses, where a few dozen canonical pieces are heard with numbing frequency”, but this was, according to reviews, a triumph, from its updated pre-World War I setting to its contemplation of toxic masculinity. It was also an impressive Met debut for Finnish soprano Camilla Nylund as Marschallin and the “formidable bass” Günther Groissböck was “a revelation as the boorish, entitled Baron Ochs”, said the . The was also very much in favour of Sir Simon Rattle’s third appearance at the Met.