Instrument: Period Instrumental Ensemble

Scotland's Dunedin Consort offers a radiant program of Purcell and his peers.

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.

James Conway's production for English Touring Opera returns in a trimmed-down, single-evening guise. 

It is clear that these women are already ripe for plucking even before Don Alfonso unleashes his dastardly plan.

The brainchild of opera director Monique Wagemakers, choreographer Nanine Linning and visual artist Lonneke Gordijn, this Orfeo by Nederlandse Reisopera is a thing of infinite beauty.

The Chaconne was the highlight of the evening, given the fluidity it wants by Tatiana Daubek, as if the walls in the house of time had grown soft.