Riccardo Chailly speaks about the Leipzig Gewandhaus' residency at the Barbican, performing the Beethoven Symphonies

Rebecca Armstrong tunes into orchestral renditions of video game soundtracks

The tenor Andrea Bocelli will always be the voice of the people, says Jessica Duchen

Despite his success, the tenor Alfie Boe has upset many within the opera world. His latest collaboration will ruffle more feathers. He talks to Emily Dugan

As English National Opera found out last week with Elizabeth Llewellyn in Figaro, emergency stand-ins can be brilliantly successful. And so it may be with Egils Silins, who will stand in for Falk Struckmann in the Royal Opera's Der Fliegende Holländer on Tuesday. This 50-year-old Latvian may be a newcomer to Covent Garden, but he's got the most magnificently resonant voice and presence, and has sung the role opposite Anja Kampe (here playing his saviour Senta) twice before. "She's the best Senta in the world," he says. "And the chemistry between us is perfect."

Rapt audiences say that the young French-Canadian's ultra-physical conducting style actually helps them listen. He talks to Edward Seckerson about life lessons, honesty – and his four-orchestra family

Fiona Shaw is bringing her theatrical nous to Mozart's most famous opera. It could make for the most thrilling Figaro in years, says Jessica Duchen

In the studio music producers work with a variety of tools and technological equipment to build their tracks, bringing these largely artificial sounds together on a computer program. Many of the sound ...

As La Traviata returns to London, Jessica Duchen wonders why opera's routinely punished heroines get such a raw deal

Fiona Shaw talks to Edward Seckerson about her return to ENO with 'The Marriage of Figaro'

That was the task set for the London Philharmonic in time for next year's Games. Adam Sherwin hears the results

As a lost major opera about Nazi death camps comes to London, Jessica Duchen welcomes its composer to the limelight at last

Tonight's Prom will feature music chosen by the audience on the spot. Its conductor, Ivá* Fischer, tells Jessica Duchen about an invigorating leap into the unknown

As he brings the Israel Philharmonic to the Proms, the Indian conductor Zubin Mehta tells Nicola Christie how music has become a powerful agent for change in his adopted land

If you stand on Lucerne's covered bridge, blinking out at the ultimate in lake-and-mountains landscape, you're in good company. This rarified corner of Switzerland has long been a magnet for musical greats. Richard Wagner lived for six years at Tribschen, a gentle lakeside stroll away, where his house is now a museum. Later, in the 1930s, Sergei Rachmaninov, too, settled near Lake Lucerne.