Flora Willson

Damiano Michieletto’s production of Offenbach’s opéra fantastique is full of warped wit and devilish touches with a fine cast bringing this colourful fever-dream to life

From the breathtakingly intimate dynamics during Berio’s Wasserklavier to the astonishingly crisp articulation of Schubert’s Fantasia in F minor, this concert was a masterclass in clarity and poise

The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment celebrated the composer’s 200th birthday with a revelatory performance of his Fifth Symphony

Henry Neill and Wallis Giunta captivate as the miserable married couple of Bernstein’s unsettling 1952 opera, but even clear orchestration, sumptuous vocals and compelling acting can’t make the later A Quiet Place a convincing work

The ambitious Saffron Opera Group’s concert performance of Wagner’s opera had lost its leading man, but the orchestra proved more of a problem

Over two evenings of music by Schumann, Smetana and Bruckner, the Berlin orchestra and their chief conductor Kirill Petrenko played with sumptuous mastery

Their soothing tones and hypnotic arpeggios amass gigantic listening figures on ‘chill’ Spotify playlists, but composers such as Nils Frahm are shunned by the classical world

Wynton Marsalis’s brass and percussion fanfare lit up the Albert Hall, with the phenomenal Sinfonia adding extravagant sparkle

The men prance about in fake moustaches while the women roll their eyes in this turbo-charged revival of Jan Philipp Gloger’s riotous take on Mozart’s opera

The Only Way is Ancient Rome in this retelling of Rameau’s 1745 opera with Samuel Boden captivating in the title role