Deborah Warner’s detailed new production sets Britten’s opera in a decayed coastal town in post-Brexit Britain. Allan Clayton – on top form – leads an outstanding cast; conductor Mark Elder emphasises the score’s beauty and well as its violence

Less is more as Glenda Jackson exudes command in Deborah Warner’s fitfully brilliant production

Barbican, London
The best moments in Tansy Davies’s new 9/11-set opera are the simplest, but there’s no real sense that this is about what librettist Nick Drake calls the ‘most important event of our time’