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Melbourne-born soprano Sioghan Stagg returns for a one night stand with Kristian Bezuidenhout and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra as part of their Australian tour.

"Expect the unexpected" is a useful maxim for reviewers. Major last-minute changes to the advertised La Scala programme, with Chen Reiss in Mozart and Zubin Mehta in Beethoven and Schubert.

At the Barbican, Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón entertained a festive audience in a concert of bel canto highlights, determined not to let a cold put a chill on the evening.

The Mozart and bel canto program that Cecilia Bartoli and Rolando Villazón have concocted for their European tour this December is so packed with greatest hits that it feels like a festive gift. 

Pieter Jan Leusink and the Bach Choir and Orchestra of the Netherlands give an exuberant and warm-hearted perofrmance of Mozart's Coronation Mass and Requiem.

François-Xavier Roth conducted the BBC National Orchestra of Wales in a varied programme of Mozart, Webern and Strauss, concluding with a powerful performance of Also Sprach Zarathustra at St David’s Hall in Cardiff.It was hard to spot a linking factor between the programmed works, but they seemed to complement each other nicely.