Performer: Sharon Carty

Combining operatic grandeur with intimate grief, Markson, soloists, the NSO and NSC deliver a masterful performance of Charles Villiers Stanford's Requiem. 

Polly Graham's take on Mozart's Così fan tutte is full of humour and political commentary, while the singing is a joy to hear. 

Dinner at Eight, William Bolcom and librettist Mark Campbell's 2017 opera, had its European première at Wexford Festival Opera on Saturday under conductor David Agler. The opera is based on the 1932 play by George S Kaufman and Edna Ferber, in turn adapted into a movie by George Cukor (1933).