Performer: Kerem Hasan

Anneliese Miskimmon's ENO production of Jake Heggie and Terence McNally's tale of crime, repentance, compassion and redemption compels from start to finish.

James Hurley directs a new production of Puccini's neglected opera to close Opera North's Green Season. 

Exciting Tchaikovsky from the Yomiuri Nippon Symphony Orchestra, while Leeds winner Eric Lu is the sensitive soloist in Chopin's Second Concerto.

They may have come out for the Mozart, but it is the boldly programmed Britten and Mazzoli that make this midwinter concert stand out. 

Bieito’s vivid production of Bizet's most famous work is a classic; his attack on toxic masculinity is visceral, made more potent by an excellent leading pair of singers.

A standard programme of overture, concerto and symphonic suite, but with mixed results: Kerem Hasan and the RPO bring out all the vibrancy in Rimsky-Korsakov whereas Fumiya Koido disappoints in Beethoven.

The day has arrived… the moment of truth when the final three conductors left standing after two grueling days of competition at the Guildhall School of Music & Drama finally face the London Symphony Orchestra in a battle to win the coveted title of Assistant Conductor of the LSO and a £15,000 bursary.