Gritty realism meets G&S fizz in this double bill of Pagliacci and The Gondoliers

The entertaining baritone brought Wigmore Hall an enchanting cycle of British and Irish works about travel, nature and the glories of spring

The BBC’s Symphony Orchestra gives young musicians a platform to call for action

London’s exceptional LGBTQ+ group transport us to Joyce’s Dublin in an evocative production

The former German capital’s concert hall reopened in gleaming style after nine years of painstaking restoration

Passenger pigeons, sparrows and the threat of extinction are the subject of elegiac concerts where voices swoop and soar

A rich collaboration between an acclaimed French ensemble and a young English choir is rewarding; plus, St Barts’s Great Hall returns to its full glory

Mob rule and a marauding bear feature in sparkling revivals of two of the composer’s lesser-known gems. Plus, a masterclass in high-speed Rossini

Wagner’s great work sails into the modern age in the strangest of venues: a massive working quarry near Vienna