Instrument: Vocals

Thanks to Barrie Kosky's flamboyant imagination and a solid cast, the Komische Oper's new production of La Cage aux Folles glitters, but could be more gay.

Jennifer Peedom's 75-minute documentary about rivers suffers from a greyscale narration and greyscale musical elements. 

The collaboration of Opera North and South Asian Arts is a thrilling celebration of renaissance opera and Indian classical music.

Singer Daisy Press performs a set of songs by the German abbess and composer, accompanying herself on a range of tuned bowls, harmonium, chimes and gong. 

Anthony Roth Costanzo's multidisciplinary project arrives at the BBC Proms in the grungy, industrial space of Printworks London, but music seems a long way down the pecking order. 

Walshe’s quirky The Site of an Investigation, in its London premiere, and Brahms A German Requiem look at the heavens and the earth.