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Set in the sinister backstreets of Venice, this production from 2013 boasts strong singing all around and brisk, bright conducting by Stuart Stratford.

BBCSSO bids a fitting farewell to outgoing Chief Conductor Thomas Dausgaard with two epic Nielsen symphonies and memorable Mozart from clarinettist Jörg Widmann.

Brett Dean’s Hamlet at the Met is a worthy addition to the operatic canon, and the production is a treat. 

The LSO’s Conductor Laureate, Michael Tilson Thomas, takes his time over Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, while Lukás Vondráček seeks out the extremes in Liszt’s First Piano Concerto.

With two very well-known pieces, could Gabriela Montero, Gražintyė-Tyla and the CBSO find ways of keeping them interesting? The answer was a resounding ‘Yes’. 

A light, amiable touch predominates in the Peter Kazaras production of Le nozze di Figaro, with a focus on the opera's impeccable comic pacing.