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Pelléas et Mélisande review – luminous semi-staging but Debussy’s elusive opera keeps its secrets

This year’s Aldeburgh festival opened with a stripped-back concert staging by Rory Kinnear with Ryan Wigglesworth conducting the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra

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Mentors, muses and new music: conductor and composer Ryan Wigglesworth

The musician first visited Aldeburgh as a teenage fanboy. Now, he is at the centre of this year’s festival as its featured artist – and he’s opening with his favourite opera

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Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

Combining words devised for Shakespeare’s female characters with music from composers old and new this was a Bardic treat with teeth

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The Kingdom: Oxford Bach Choir, BSO/Nicholas review – Elgar’s unloved oratorio sounds expansive and convincing

The Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, the Oxford Bach Choir and a fine quartet of soloists made the case for Elgar’s oratorio

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Così fan Tutte review – beautifully sung hard lessons in the cash-strapped school of love

Welsh National Opera’s production maxes out on farce in the bet on female infidelity, but the absurdly lovely music antidotes any excess wackiness

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Bevan/BBCSO/Wigglesworth review – intensely personal and panoramic Magnificat from husband and wife team

Conducting his own setting, dedicated to wife and soloist Sophie Bevan, Ryan Wigglesworth captured the scale and scope of a text that spans ‘the history and future of humanity’. Bevan was also glorious in a tantalising fragment of Monteverdi

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Hallé/Wigglesworth review – British composer debuts an outstanding Magnificat

Ryan Wigglesworth composes a finessed Monteverdi Magnificat with the elegant, expansive assistance of wife and soprano Sophie Bevan and a virtuosic choir

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BBCSO/Watts/Wigglesworth review – a striking song cycle that finds divine in the everyday

Elizabeth Watts’s buoyant soprano drew us in to this poignant performance of Ryan Wigglesworth’s work Till Dawning, based on the poetry of George Herbert

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Classical home listening: Roderick Williams; Mother, Sister, Daughter; and BBC concerts from Wigmore Hall

A rich democracy of talent soars on a voice and string quartet album; Mother, Sister, Daughter’s vespers from Italian convents; plus lunchtime piano recitals

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Tamerlano review – Handel’s sadistic psychopath gains deadly charisma in stylish update

Two superb countertenors enact the love-hate relationship between the emperor and his rival in Daniel Slater’s superbly acted and sung production

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