Flora Willson

The UK premiere of Respighi’s 1937 work was paired with Ethel Smyth’s dark and dramatic Der Wald, both imaginatively staged by Stephen Barlow

‘I’m good at doing pain’: soprano Ausrine Stundyte on trauma, adrenaline and playing a 300-year-old woman

Revival of David McVicar’s production is full of kitsch turns and exquisite performances, not least from young French conductor Marie Jacquot

ENO’S fourth revival of Calixto Bieito’s classic production starts at an exhilarating gallop but is thrown off course by its ill-fitting translation and onstage clamour

Conductor John Wilson has made this orchestra one of the best in Britain, and violinist James Ehnes was the ideal soloist in a performance that took flight instantly

Outrage over the casting of Anna Netrebko didn’t make it to the inside of the auditorium – where roars of approval greeted this high-stakes game of blood-spattered conflict directed by Oliver Mears

The great soprano will be the first British singer to top the bill at the Last Night in over a decade. So why does she advise her younger colleagues to leave the country?

A Proms programme of the UK premiere of Gabriella Smith’s Breathing Forests, Sibelius, and Adès’s own music (Five Spells from The Tempest) was atmospheric and engaging

Memorising a piece on the scale of Shostakovich’s monumental Fifth means that every musician knows the work inside out – and is equally exposed

Switching between podium and piano, Joe Hisaishi’s suite from The Boy and the Heron sparked joy, but Reich’s demanding Desert Music was vibrant and hypnotic