Performer: Thomas Cameron

Kaleena Burks impresses in her role as Odette/Odile in Kansas City Ballet's Swan Lake. 

Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream lacking a little magic at the RNCM.

If you’ve never been to a grand-scale choral work at the Royal Albert Hall, I’d urge you to do so at the earliest opportunity. This wasn’t my first visit to the Proms, and I’ve experienced oratorios, requiems and passions galore in other places, but to hear hundreds of accomplished singers filling this vast circular space was new territory for me. The hall seemed made for the occasion.