Natalie Katsou’s spare production of this opera by the late Gian Carlo Menotti is no magnum opus, but it's an intriguing oddity nonetheless

OperaUpClose's production of Verdi's La Traviata punches well above its weight, with a reshaped plot which switches the action from 1850s Paris to 1920s New York

Robin Norton-Hale’s new staging of Verdi’s La Traviata, sung in the director’s own breezy translation, locates the action in a Gatsbyish New York, circa 1920

Vasily Petrenko led a fine orchestra in a powerful performance of eloquent virtuosity

Juanjo Mena led this elegant performance by the BBC Philharmonic, which consisted of terrific sounds of Mahler and Birtwistle

The Nash Ensemble offered a mix of works, including Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet and Brahms’s Piano Quintet

Daniel Harding led the LSO in this graceful performance as part of City of London Festival

Director Penny Woolcock offers little to counter the opera’s sentimental perspective on love, religion and poverty, and she can’t do anything to make the music better than it is

The Fateful Voyage unearthed a generous handful of pieces, yet the most moving passage was non-musical

This intense performance featured nearly four hours of exuberant musicianship

The young, classically trained singers are energetic, engaging and only occasionally strained in this rare performance of Georges Bizet's work

Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances was played with slithering sensuality by the London Symphony Orchestra under Daniel Harding

For his first Wigmore Hall recital for 20 years, cellist Yo-Yo Ma delivered a glorious performance with his regular pianist partner Kathryn Stott

Francesco Cavalli's delightful opera offers cross-dressing, a hint of same-sex snogging, a randy god, his jealous wife, and a fair maid on the verge of losing her virginity

Led by Kirill Karabits, the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra delivered a performance with emotion of every colour

A day dedicated to Brazil’s most celebrated composer, Heitor Villa-Lobos, showed ample evidence of vivid imagination