Flora Willson

The National Youth Orchestra turned up the volume on Mahler’s First, a Wagner overture and premieres of Dani Howard and Missy Mazzoli … with a 100-strong choir joining in from the upper tiers and the aisles

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

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

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

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

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

In a space that usually rings with opera, a poignant and moving video installation examines the intimate connection between our voices and our selves

The exceptionally polished LGBTQ+ chamber choir teamed with Niamh Cusack for a beautifully paced production of Joyce’s short story

Vivaldi and Handel shadow-boxed with Caroline Shaw and Joanna Ward in this ambitious, punchy concert by the string ensemble Figure