Performer: Richard Hetherington

Two individual works worth seeking out with outstanding performances in each.

Incest, family secrets, murder… this is a fiercely compelling evening of dance, drama and song.

Christine Rice gives an astonishingly performance in an evening of four powerful chamber pieces.

Even us Verdi enthusiasts experience something of a heavy tread as we wend our way to yet another Traviata at the Royal Opera House.

Hampstead Garden Opera’s new staging of Xerxes is slick and contemporary with a well thought-out re-interpretation of the plot, offering a fresh perspective to the opera.

22 November 2012 would have been Benjamin Britten’s 99th birthday. Wigmore Hall marked the occasion with the first concert in a series of nine events in November and December. However, rather than focusing exclusively on Britten’s music, it built towards the climax that saw Britten’s angst-ridden late masterpiece Phaedra searingly performed.