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Lisette Oropesa leads a strong cast in an engaging revival of Richard Jones’ eye-catching account of a Handel masterpiece. Thomas Mayes' performance as Oberto marks him out as a talent to watch.

The beautiful setting of Southwark Cathedral elevates the atmosphere of this moving memorial to the thousands who died on 9/11.

Absolutely first rate production with outstanding performances. The McRae/Vassilev Project was a masterclass in resilience and major talent.

An attempt to recover Mahler's original sound world yields compelling, not always convincing results at the BBC Proms. 

With its busy videography, Kasper Holten's 2014 production returns, vibrantly conducted by Stefano Montanari. 

At just 50 singers, the choir of Arcangelo produce a remarkable feat of choral singing to bring Bach's masterpiece to life at a packed Royal Albert Hall.

Don your VR headsets and enter a small bunker in the basement of the Royal Festival Hall to experience an immersive odyssey featuring an avatar of the superstar pianist. 

Paweł Kapuła and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra make hay with a variegated Proms, opening with Hans Werner Henze's orchestral fantasy on Schubert’s Erlkönig.

Isabelle Faust joins the FBO for a performance of Schumann's Violin Concerto, a work embargoed by the composer's friends after his death. 

Making his BBC Proms debut, Lahav Shani brings the Munich Philharmonic, days before becoming its new Chief Conductor. 

Simone Lamsma is the soloist in Britten’s Violin Concerto, holding the Proms audience in the palm of her hands.

She came, she saw, she conquered. Serbian soprano Radoslava Vorgić steals the show as a radiant Cleopatra in Grimeborn Opera Festival's Giulio Cesare in Egitto. 

Moving Elgar and gripping Tchaikovsky from the Berliner Philharmoniker and their Chief Conductor Kirill Petrenko, effortlessly at the top of their game.

Les Siècles and Jakob Lehmann are joined by four fine soloists for Berlioz’s “dramatic legend” on Goethe's Faust. 

The New Yorkers show their qualities in a blissful Mahler Fourth, with soloist Joyce DiDonato also wowing the Royal Albert Hall.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin returns to the Proms with an all-Strauss programme, bringing his charges from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, and soprano Elza van den Heever for a slice of Salome.

Gautier Capuçon's devotional performance of Dvořák’s Cello Concerto shares the limelight with Alain Altinoglu's pulsating performance of Varèse’s Amériques. 

Intriguing Bushra El-Turk and stylish Haydn precede Mahler’s epic symphonic song cycle from the BBC Philharmonic and Anja Bihlmaier, with expressive and dramatic solo singing.

Opera Prelude’s emerging artists bring out both contrasts and similarities in Trouble in Tahiti and The Seven Deadly Sins.

Sir Antonio Pappano conducts the London Symphony Orchestra a shattering – but also moving – account of the Grande Messe des morts at the Royal Albert Hall

James Gaffigan's programme ranges from Wynton Marsalis’s fizzing but elusive new work for orchestra, Gershwin’s stylish Piano Concerto to a compelling account of Barber’s First Symphony.

Gustavo Dudamel and the Los Angeles Philharmonic achieve lift-off in Beethoven – just – but miss the landing in Gabriela Ortiz's political drama.

The LA Phil take two journeys – to the countryside and through the nine Circle of Hell – on their long overdue return to the BBC Proms... with variable results. 

At the Royal Albert Hall Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts joyful and convivial performances of Stravinsky and Bartók, and Vilda Frang gives a rapturous reading of Berg's violin concerto.

Works of religious stimulus are given outstanding performances under the baton of rising star Nil Venditti.

The composer’s final opera is virtually impossible to stage comfortably, but Sir Mark Elder makes a convincing case for more regular outings of its beautiful music.

Alexandra Dariescu makes a compelling Proms debut in Nadia Boulanger's unjustly neglected Fantaisie variée, which bridges late Romanticism and Impressionism.

Carlos Acosta has lost none of his brilliance and in a carefully curated programme with Acosta Danza and Birmingham Royal Ballet, he still thrills audiences.

Soloist and orchestra seem out of sync in a Proms programme that also features solid Dvořák and a Zimmermann curiosity.

A musical and dramatic exploration of Mahler’s First Symphony by Nicholas Collon and Aurora Orchestra. 

Between energetic Haydn and Schumann, Daniel Lozakovich brings freshness to Max Bruch's evergreen First Violin Concerto as Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen concludes a European tour at the BBC Proms.

A totally absorbing production, Matthew Bourne’s The Car Man at Sadler’s Wells will leave you emotionally drained, in a positive way.

Konstantin Krimmel and Ammiel Bushakevitz deliver a tense and emotional account of Schubert's late masterpiece to mark the end of Wigmore Hall's season. 

Alena Baeva is the soloist in a performance of Erich Korngold's Violin Concerto lacking a little kitsch. 

Seven years after its world premiere at the Manchester International Festival, Tao of Glass arrives at @sohoplace in London's West End.

It's New Year’s Eve 1929-style, but the Champagne is a touch warm in OHP's first production of Strauss’ most popular operetta, Die Fledermaus. 

Celebrating a prima ballerina still in her prime, Marianela – Timeless, is a programme of excellence and true artistry from all quarters.

New songs and an old symphony revive happy memories under Ryan Wigglesworth at the BBC Proms.

Cellist Guy Johnston joins Sakari Oramo and the BBC Symphony for a Prom journeying from humanity's darkest shadows to radiant optimism.

Strauss is a Proms favourite, but it was some songs from Canteloube, beautifully delivered by Louise Alder, that make the greatest impression at the LPO's Prom. 

Pianist brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen spar with the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra in Poulenc before John Adams’ epic Harmonium.

Elin Pritchard’s Amelia lights up an evening which is superb musically, easy on the eye and eventually overcomes the shortcomings of Antonio Somma's libretto.

John Wilson embraces Respighi's panoramic impressions of Rome in an action-packed Italian day trip at the BBC Proms. 

A rare outing for Szymanowski's Stabat Mater forms the highlight of an imaginatively 'spiritual' Prom at the Royal Albert Hall.

Storgårds and the BBC Philharmonic are persuasive in Also sprach Zarathustra, less so in Sibelius. Thomas Dunford soothes with Dowland and Purcell.

Iain Mackay is the best person to lead the Royal Ballet School into the future and presented a rich and diverse programme of legacy and new works.

Dalia Stasevska conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra in a nod to #America250 and Yunchan Lim plays Ravel's jazzy Piano Concerto in G. 

An interesting edit on tradition but the press night was marred by a number of on and off stage incidents and a lack of chemistry between the principals.

Extra time and penalties beckon as Julia Lezhneva displays rapidfire coloratura and endless stamina in an evening capped with seven encores.