Rosie Aldridge and Simon O’Neill shine, and André de Ridder conducts superbly, but Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht’s satire outstays its welcome at the Coliseum

A brief tour of the line-up for this year’s “only black-tie music and arts festival”

Rinaldo Alessandrini directs Concerto Italiano in a selection of Monteverdi’s madrigals and canti amorosi for a historically highbrow celebration of St Valentine’s Day

Opera North brings the fishing community of The Borough to Leeds in Benjamin Britten's tragic tale

Thrillingly modern while staying true to its source material, the soundtrack to Emerald Fennell's Brontë adaptation is a huge about-turn from Brat

This Brighton quartet's debut feels like a big day-glo shot of adrenaline

Lucy Crowe delivers a peerless Fiordiligi while Dinis Sousa conducts a fizzing account of Mozart’s opera about fidelity at the Coliseum

Reuniting for the first time in over a decade, the Australian trio's sound still packs a punch Twelve years have passed since we heard from Howling Bells – a lifetime in pop music, let alone in the world. The band, having toured themselves into the ground, took a self-enforced break after the release of Heartstrings in 2014, and this marks their first music together since that decision. Singer Juanita Stein has been busy in the interim, releasing four well-received solo albums, and the reunion with brother Joel (guitar) and fellow founding member Glenn Moule (drums) appears to have been an easy one.

The First Lady of Philly soul sounds totally refreshed by her decade-plus hiatus

The Cartlidge siblings replicate the style, sounds, lyrical conceits and feel of early punk and new wave bands on their debut. And for the most part, they’re successful

On a piano-packed stage, Mariam Batsashvili and Martin James Bartlett play music for four hands by Bach, Mozart, Schubert, Debussy, Ravel, Tailleferre and Lutosławski

The intensity is turned up to 10 on this exhilarating, almighty jab to the senses

Hugh Cutting and Sergio Bucheli tug on our heartstrings with a cleverly crafted programme

Benjamin Grosvenor sparkles in Beethoven, while the RPO delivers a blistering account of Shostakovich’s 10th under the inspired baton of Vasily Petrenko

Intensely personal yet relatable, the Big Deal star's solo debut sports a lightness of touch that often belies the intensity of the subject matter

Dan Snaith's latest is the music equivalent of a Painted Lady, with black round the edges dominated by riots of colour and invention

The knowledge that mortality is drawing close gives these beautifully tender, life-affirming songs extra weight

American alt-country trailblazer delivers songs that continue to strike a chord

The debut album from the Animal Collective member is built around an instrument that's over a thousand years old: the hurdy-gurdy

Leeds Song unites Schubert and Britten with an outstanding young baritone

Louisa Muller's new production opens Opera North's 2026 season

From 20th century classics to new cross-genre writing, Chineke! Orchestra delivers a confident and stylistically alert evening of music-making under Harish Shankar’s direction

The voices of Crouch End Festival Chorus, augmented by those of Hertfordshire Chorus are joined by London Orchestra da Camera and soloists for a rare performance of Elgar’s magnificent oratorio

The experimental rap duo are sharp and engaging on (technically) their debut album

The Californian trio's exhilarating, bittersweet seventh album marks a vital evolution