Performer: Pretty Yende

In Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven's Missa solemnis for the first time... and it proves worth the wait. 

Superb Handelian singing and intense character acting light up Handel’s Semele, staged as a stark, uncompromising indictment of the rich and powerful. 

This production focuses on the psychological and human aspects of the central characters, rather than on their political conflict, with Elizabeth playing a pivotal role.

It's been a long wait since Cardiff Singer 2015, but the Mongolian baritone gives an outstanding vocal portrayal of Verdi’s doomed jester at the Royal Opera House.

The South African soprano wows the audience with astonishing vocal and dramatic qualities – but do they stretch to a programme of art song?

The new curtains feature the personal cipher of King Charles III and reflect a longstanding relationship between the monarchy and the performing arts.