Classical Music and Opera Festivals,
Your guide

Will they come back? It’s the question on the lips of every UK opera festival director. A summer of drought – in which only a handful of operatic performances could be cobbled together – has given way to a winter of doubt: will reopening be permitted? At what capacity? Will performers be able to travel? And, most of all, will performances be filled with opera lovers desperate for a fix of the art they love?