Tim Ashley

Musical responses to Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream are among the themes of this year's Proms.

Lahav Shani played and conducted Prokofiev’s Third Piano Concerto with a devil-may-care brilliance while his finesse with the baton brought out the detailed beauty of the orchestra’s playing in works by Debussy and Ravel

David McVicar’s detailed staging of Mozart’s comedy opens Covent Garden’s new season, with conductor Julia Jones bringing energy and drive and Ying Fang, making her house debut, as an exquisite Susanna

Chief conductor’s kicks off his first season with the London Symphony Orchestra with energy and thrilling drama in beguiling Sibelius and a new work from James MacMillan

A Magdalene laundry in 1960s Ireland is the setting for ENO’s semi-staged production, which conveys quiet anger and deep sadness

Tom Cairns’s naturalistic production of Verdi’s tragedy is revived for the autumn season with Elisa Verzier’s Violetta and Christian Federici’s Germont standouts

The complex relationship between Gustav and Alma Mahler was the subject of Marin Alsop 's latest concert with the Philharmonia, offering us “a

Set among land girls and flying aces Harry Fehr’s new staging is a lot of fun, with Thomas Atkins making a fine ENO debut and Rhian Lois a terrific lady of the manor

The singers were on wonderfully expressive form for this performance of Hugo Wolf’s song cycle – one of music’s great disquisitions on the nature of love

· 2-min read American soprano Erin Morley and British baritone Huw Montague Rendall, great artists both, were last heard together