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Ahead of a new orchestral suite from Festen presented at the BBC Proms this month, Mark-Anthony Turnage talks about returning to this opera of secrets and revelations, and discovering things about his own family too.

We preview nine major new operas on stage this season in Europe, from composers including Unsuk Chin, Rebecca Saunders, Mark-Anthony Turnage, Philip Venables and Toshio Hosokawa.

Ahead of a programme celebrating the Philharmonia's "horn sound", former principal Richard Watkins talks about the orchestra's debt to Dennis Brain, Britten's Serenade and a new concerto composed for him by Mark-Anthony Turnage. 

Mark Anthony Turnage's Coraline has just received its world première. We catch up with its conductor, Sian Edwards, to discuss the score and wider contemporary opera.