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Attractive music and delicious comedy abound in Scottish Opera's short film of Gian Carlo Menotti's 1947 comic opera, made for Edinburgh International Festival.

A reduced RSNO with Thomas Søndergård shows a brave arrangement of the Seventh Symphony in a filmed performance.

In a pandemic era of chamber reductions, the joy in this Mahler 6 was hearing an orchestra of 108 musicians let off the leash. 

Staged in the town’s quaint St Johann Church, the Davos Festival’s “Tiefsinn” concert featured a fine choir and soloists, saxophone quartet, chamber orchestra and a dauntless solo cellist.

Every August, the Hiroshima Symphony Orchestra gives a concert to commemorate and reflect on the tragedy of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima on 6th August 1945.

The two friends dedicate their recital to “the people we've lost”.

The annual Davos Festival offers a platform to gifted young musicians from around the world to explore and exchange musical genres in a stellar alpine landscape.

It's difficult to believe Salzburg could have cast a finer Così in Loy's Covid-reduced production in the Großes Festspielhaus.

An Elektra conducted like Mendelssohnian fairy music, sung not shouted, just as Strauss required.

In a reduced concert performance of Il trovatore the drama unfolds with the force of music alone.

Livermore's staging implies two different storylines – do we only see the result of Don Giovanni's hallucinations?

With their second open-air concert performance, Teatro di San Carlo scores another hit.

After urban Debussy and Adams, the duo settles for autumnal Brahms and a day in the countryside.

The percussion department of the Orchestre National de France took their turn in the spotlight for Rodion Shchedrin's ballet. 

Anna Netrebko, Yusif Eyvazov and Ludovic Tézier captivate the audience in the scenic square a few metres from the opera house

Charlie Drummond, Heather Ireson, Arthur Bruce and Mark Nathan shine in a truly live-streamed recital from Glasgow.

YellowBarn presents Davidosky's social distancing-friendly Synchronisms in a composer portrait concert. 

In this historic reopening, Lisette Oropesa offers a magnificent performance, dramatically overwhelming and vocally very unique.

The fil rouge of the performance is represented by two young dancers.

A complex plot with great music and great theatre where Strauss showcases his compositional mastery.

Simon Rattle continues his European travels, returning to the Philharmonie im Gasteig for a fine programme with the outstanding Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra. 

Beatrice Rana and Mario Brunello provide live music for seven internationally renowned dancers, including Paris Opéra Ballet’s Hugo Marchand and Spanish flamenco whizz Sergio Bernal, at the 15th-century Rocca Brancaleone.

A welcome return from the Philharmonia saw John Wilson exercising his passion for English music in a Vaughan Williams masterpiece and an impressive Sheku Kanneh-Mason in Saint-Saëns.

While Kalle Randalu proves an amiable soloist in the First Piano Concerto, it is Beethoven the firebrand who startles in Paavo Järvi's account of the First Symphony with the Tallinn Chamber Orchestra.

After four evenings and ten world premieres, Pierre Boulez Saal's A Festival of New Music comes to a haunting end.

The hour-long recital proved again what a wonderful Beethoven interpreter Emanuel Ax is.

How do you envisage spending your 93rd birthday? Herbert Blomstedt joined the Bamberg Symphony for a programme of Honegger and Brahms. 

The third concert of A Festival of New Music also suggests the conflicts and split personalities which may come from extended isolation. 

Daniel Barenboim, Emmanuel Pahud and select musicians continue their brief odyssey into new music with three striking and stimulating world premieres and a welcome touch of Boulez.

The lack of a curtain has forced the director to employ a new inventiveness, if only with partially success.

Not only was this the first time that Klaus Mäkelä had conducted the Orchestre de Paris since his appointment as Music Director Designate, it was the first time audiences returned to the Philharmonie. 

The Opernhaus Zurich offers a first-rate Baroque concert within the mini festival “Finale” to mark the end of the unfortunate 2019-20 season. 

The Italian pianist is joined by Gautier Capuçon and Paul Meyer for late Beethoven and autumnal Brahms.

Vittorio Ghielmi and his ll Suonar Parlante ensemble present a resonantly melancholy and reflective programme of music mourning loss as live performance returns to Italy.

The two French singers convince in a programme including French late Romantics, Richard Strauss and a Verdi world premiere!

From Isolation Rag to Bach, Tanglewood veteran Gil Shaham delights even on video.

The Paris-based Quatuor Modigliani are joined by special guests for an evening of Schubert quintets in Évian-les-Bains. 

After its Covid-19 “Quarantine soirées”, the Budapest Festival Orchestra celebrates the end of lockdown by taking on a two-concert international tour!

The Bayerische Staatsorchester saved the best for last with its season finale, a generous programme of Strauss, Schoenberg, Stravinsky and Mahler.

Beethoven à la Gergiev is measured and classically elegant, with precise playing from a thoughtful Beatrice Rana.

The Tokyo Symphony Orchestra reopened its doors to audiences with majestic Mendelssohn.

The British tenor, partnered by Mitsuko Uchida, closed Wigmore Hall’s three-week festival of lunchtime recitals with a peak of the vocal repertoire.

Christian Ihle Hadland’s piano sparkled in Ravel sandwiched by lively and joyful Rameau and Mozart.

Martha Argerich hadn't played Chopin's Third Piano Sonata in public for at least 25 years... so this performance at the Laeiszhalle Hamburg came as a huge surprise.

With Semyon Bychkov on the podium, the orchestra offers a stirring tribute and music fit for a king.

Thapelo Masita mad his own statement from Bach's music, interspersing it with more recent works.

Allan Clayton came to town and he brought his best voice with him.

The Narcissistic Fish is a dark tale bursting out, gleaming as brightly as the scales of the fish on the kitchen slab.

Dame Sarah Connolly and David Butt Philip prove that less really can be more.