Hot on the heels of his phenomenal success at the Royal Opera House, Semyon Bychkov joins forces with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment for the first time tomorrow evening at The Anvil in Basingstoke. They play Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 and Schubert’s Symphony No. 9 ‘Great’ from 7.45pm. The proigramme is repeated at London’s Southbank Centre on Tuesday 8th April. See http://www.oae.co.uk/ for further details.

On Saturday, 29th March, The BBC will broadcast the opera live from 17:50 on Radio 3. Audiences around the world can listen on bbc.co.uk and hear why the critics have outdone themselves in reaching for the superlatives: “Richard Strauss’s big year won’t get any better than this…the evening belongs primarily...