Erica Jeal

The woodland outside Longborough's theatre, deep in the Cotswolds, sneaks inside and on to the stage for its season-opening production of Orlando.

This year’s Aldeburgh festival got underway with a stripped-back but ambitious staging by Rory Kinnear, distinguished by glorious playing and singing, and many inventive lighting effects

Trying to unlock the secrets of Debussy's opera Pelléas et Mélisande, based on Maeterlinck's symbolist play, is a slippery task at the best of times.

Alice gets a musical-theatre belter, the ‘Drink Me’ Bottle performs soprano acrobatics and the Caterpillar smokes his hookah like Audrey Hepburn

Will Todd's family-opera version of the Alice in Wonderland stories, premiered at Opera Holland Park in 2013 and well travelled since, has been something of a signature show for the company.

The welcome rediscovery of Mel Bonis continues, and the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and conductor Rumon Gamba do full justice to her finely

"Who is not at heart a globetrotter?" asked the Lithuanian-born US piano virtuoso and composer Leopold Godowsky in the foreword to his Java

The Indonesian musician impresses in his debut solo recording of Godowsky’s Java Suite and Stravinsky’s piano arrangement of Petrushka

Bellini's tale of Roundheads vs Cavaliers requires vocal gymnastics on an Olympic scale. Lisette Oropesa rises effortlessly to the challenge in Richard Jones's detailed new production

Erica Jeal The tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist Sean Shibe together bring a microcosm of world heritage to the concert platform: English, Japanese, Scottish, Lebanese and American.