Antony McDonald’s staging is a vivid ensemble effort which moves from coming-of-age farce to something more profound

An often startling performance of the composer’s final three piano sonatas ended in a silence so absolute it took the pianist to break it

The Polish singer’s recital with the composer-pianist Aleksander Debicz put an adventurous spin on the 18th-century repertoire, but it was traditional Bach and Handel that really impressed

Marie Jacquot makes a splendid Royal Opera House debut conducting a wonderful cast in this delightful Mozart revival

Floris Visser’s surreal Puccini staging, in which Death is a character, is revived for Glyndebourne’s autumn season, but although the orchestra distinguishes itself the singers don’t

Calixto Bieito’s testosterone-fuelled production packs a punch, but a wide-open set swallows some of the voices

At a Barbican celebration of Arvo Pärt’s 90th, the composer’s work sounded as if it could have been written any time from last century to last week

Mireille Asselin glitters as an empress and a showgirl in Handel’s opera about a sea monster, vividly realised at the Linbury Theatre

The celebrity pianist played 12 Mazurkas in a row at the Barbican in London — a shame when he could introduce his army of fans to more challenging music

The annual festival set up by composer James Macmillan delivered glitz, pizzazz and enormous fun, despite the efforts of Storm Amy