OperaShots – review

Intricate … Aoi Nakamura in Home, part of OperaShots. Photograph: Tristram Kenton for the Guardian

Since 2010, the ROH2's OperaShots initiative has offered a range of composers working outside the operatic medium a chance to try their hand at the genre. It's a worthy idea, but it's fair to say that thus far the results have been disappointing; too many of those commissioned have turned out to lack a sufficiently strong set of technical skills to create something viable.