Performer: Ivan Sharpe

Richard Farnes returns to Opera North to conduct and Sam Brown directs a concert staging of Wagner's final opera, Parsifal. 

Femi Elufowju's new staging of Verdi's classic is innovative, provocative and closely connected with the modern world.

As the UK continues to emerge from lockdown, Leeds Playhouse and Opera North stage Sondheim. 

If you had received an invitation to a masked ball at which there turned out to be no masks and no dancing, it's understandable you'd feel disappointed.