ContactMusic — Rock legend Robert Plant has found a new singing partner in British tenor Alfie Boe The odd couple has recorded a version of Tim Buckleys Song To A Siren and now the former Led Zeppelin frontman who recorded hit 2007 album Raising Sand with country s... more info

Guardian Music — Singer nominated for Classic Brit honour after recording track on hit album by The PriestsFormer Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan is in the running to land a Classic Brit award.The singer features on a hit album by The Priests, performing a version of ... more info

Pop Justice — This morning we went to HMV to see what Mother's Day CDs might be on offer, but HMV was shut so we went to Sainsbury's instead. Here's what we found in the chart rack. JESSIE J - 'WHO YOU ARE' It's by a lady, so it's a great present for a lady. W... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonJonathan Miller's 1930s English hotel version of Gilbert and Sullivan's Japanese opera celebrates its 25th anniversary with this latest revival. An iconoclastic visual approach to a 100-year-old classic when it was devised back in 198... more info

The Telegraph — Footage of Matt Lucas and his friend Alfie Boe, the Tony Award-winning tenor, singing Nessun Dorma in the Little Britain star's kitchen has become a YouTube hit. more info

Guardian Music — Observer classical music critic Fiona Maddocks picks the releases that deserved far greater attention in the past yearClassical CDsElgar The Kingdom. Hallé Orchestra and Choir, soloists, Sir Mark Elder (conductor) (Hallé)This live recording of Elga... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Barbican, London; Holywell Music Room, OxfordBy the final act of Roméo et Juliette, revived at the Royal Opera House for only the second time in 16 years, I felt quite apologetic towards Gounod. His particular Gallic blend... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonThough it's a mere 16 years old, Nicolas Joël's staging of Gounod's opera looks far more ancient. Nothing in it would have seemed advanced, or even modern, 50 years ago. The medieval architecture of Carlo Tommasi's designs ... more info

Guardian Music — Team games and the performing arts could not survive without them and nor could aspiring young talentsIt is in the nature of being an understudy that yours is not a place in the spotlight. Yet team games and the performing arts could not survive with... more info

Guardian Music — With both the lead tenor and his understudy off sick, was it wrong for the ENO production to carry on regardless?How disabled does a production have to be before the theatre brings the curtain down on it? John Berry, the artistic director of the Engl... more info