A super choir sounded glorious in this hour-long a cappella concert, conducted in a relaxed manner by the group’s musical director Pedro Teixeira, available on BBC Sounds

The director’s disruptive staging of Handel’s dark classic, complete with giant severed head and a spinning organist, returns with two of its original stars

Nevill Holt Festival’s new Mozart staging may be too fussy to begin with, but the Opera North orchestra produces plenty of musical magic throughout under Chris Hopkins’s direction

The genteel sounds of Louis XV meet the movement of the streets of Los Angeles in a hit French adaptation of a Rameau masterpiece. We went backstage

The novelist reveals why it was ‘constant sunshine’ to set the Russian master’s love story to music with the composer Colin Matthews

The revived production may be showing its age, but the knighted baritone holds the attention as Grange Park Opera’s season starts

Grace-Evangeline Mason, who has been championed by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, makes a huge leap forward with her new work performed by Sophie Bevan

This bumper concert featured the violinist’s latest spin through Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons — and a lot more

Jack Furness’s production for Garsington Opera brings rococo spice to a score that throbs with anguish and ardour

Garsington’s summer festival opens with a show that exceeds the sum of its parts thanks to delightful character interactions and Christopher Luscombe’s detailed direction