Deborah Warner directs and Alexander Soddy conducts a new production of Benjamin Britten’s devastating breakthrough opera. Allan Clayton, recently in the news as the melancholy Dane of Brett Dean’s deconstructed Hamlet, now steps into the shoes of the misanthropic fisherman whose apprentices have a way of getting lost at sea. Maria Bengtsson sings Ellen Orford, the tender-hearted schoolteacher who deludes herself with dreams of domesticity with her improbable Mr. Snow, but Carousel this is not. —Matthew Gurewitsch