The rapturous playing and singing in the finale of Glyndebourne’s new Strauss production reminds us that you don’t need Christopher Nolan for an immersive Greek drama

The Proms celebrated the golden age of prog rock with new orchestral arrangements of songs by Jethro Tull, Yes, King Crimson, Pink Floyd and Emerson, Lake & Palmer

World’s greatest classical music festival gets underway at the Royal Albert Hall with nods to America, a superstar pianist — and a football anthem

The Derbyshire festival is casting a spell on audiences with rare works inspired by magic, and, in a staging of Handel’s Amadigi, reality TV

A round-up of the finest performances our critics have seen up and down the country in recent weeks

Garsington’s surreal staging of Gerald Barry’s opera, inspired by Oscar Wilde’s classic comedy, is full of blissful mayhem and brilliant music-making — and there’s a kangaroo

The charismatic Bulgarian soprano gathered together classic arias from her favourite roles in her Wigmore Hall debut

The actor will release his debut single Bracken Road on Friday, before a 12-track album inspired by his Welsh childhood next month

The star tenor was the big draw for this five-star revival, joined by the knockout debutante Sara Blanch singing Marie — and a great cameo by Tamsin Greig

Kathryn McDowell, outgoing boss of the London Symphony Orchestra, on masterminding Simon Rattle’s Olympics 2012 show and why the capital still needs a new concert hall