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Welcome to April’s Bachtrack Edition, where we put the spotlight on a selection of our reviews, stories and images from the past month.
Eyes wide shut for Berlin’s new Ballo in maschera
© Stephan Rabold
Trolley songs: Rameau’s Castor et Pollux in Geneva
© Magali Dougados
Baroque confectionery with a serious core: Handel’s Belshazzar at Komische Oper Berlin
© Jan Windszus
Sad shanties from Manchester Collective and Sean Shibe
© Pete Woodhead
Freudian slip: Tamerlano recast as Trumpian tantrums at the London Handel Festival
© Craig Fuller
Mark Morris’ luminous, whimsical Moon lands in Brooklyn
© Julieta Cervantes
Sir Mark Elder leads a riveting Rigoletto revival at the Royal Opera House
© RBO 2026 | Marc Brenner
Billy Budd, or the Triumph of Beauty at the Opéra de Lyon
© Jean-Louis Fernandez
Darkness and denial: The Turn of the Screw at the Royal Opera House
© RBO | Mihaela Bodlovic
Magnifying Glass: a magnificent Les Enfants terribles in Lille
© Simon Gosselin
A vocally perplexing economics assignment from David Lang with the New York Philharmonic
© Chris Lee
© Stephan Rabold
© Magali Dougados
© Jan Windszus
© Pete Woodhead
© Craig Fuller
© Julieta Cervantes
© RBO 2026 | Marc Brenner
© Jean-Louis Fernandez
© RBO | Mihaela Bodlovic
© Simon Gosselin
© Chris Lee
US composer Jessie Montgomery is among the most performed living composers by orchestras worldwide. She talks ahead of a new cello concerto for Abel Selaocoe.
Photo of the month
Exquisite chiaroscuro as Johan Persson captures Daniel Proietto in Russell Maliphant’s Afterlight at Sadler’s Wells East.
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