Hugo Shirley

Opera’s fallen women

No room for morals in Mariusz Trelinski's bleak new production of Henze's Boulevard Solitude for WNO; plenty of room for levity in Royal Opera's La Fille du regiment

Smitten: Jason Bridges (Armand) and Sarah Tynan (Manon) in ‘Boulevard Solitude’ [Getty Images/Shutterstock/iStock/Alamy]

  • Boulevard Solitude

    Welsh National Opera, on tour until 3 April

  • La Fille du régiment

    Royal Opera House, in rep until 18 March

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