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The Metropolitan Opera kicks off this season’s revival of Umberto Giordano’s tempestuous melodrama with standout performances from a resplendent cast.

Ivor Bolton leads a great cast in a superb musical production of Mozart’s last masterpiece, in a lukewarm new production by Paul Curran.

Terfel’s charismatic account of Schubert songs orchestrated by a variety of composers, Sofia Gubaidulina’s meditation on his Impromtu and the composer’s own longest symphony make a varied and rewarding evening at The Glasshouse, Gateshead.  

Martyn Brabbins conducts MacMillan’s Confession of Isobel Gowdie, BBCSSO founder Ian Whyte’s forgotten Violin Concerto with Stephanie Gonley, and a memorable Rachmaninov 2.

Leonardo Garcia-Alarcón leads a crisp, charismatic account of Rameau's Les Indes galantes, where a superb cast shines and the Cappella Mediterranea thoroughly convinces.

The pianist concluded her US tour performing a formidable program of Prokofiev, Debussy and Tchaikovsky.

The LPO tackled California wildfires and star-crossed lovers in a theatrical evening at the Royal Festival Hall.