Guardian Music — Fictionalised account of animator's life, one of nine new productions and six revivals to be staged by the company, will depict Walt Disney as racist and misogynistA new work by Philip Glass about Walt Disney will have its UK premiere at English Nati... more info

Mercury News, California — Despite some attractive singing, much of the cast performed as if it couldn't comprehend the alleged battle between good and evil that unfolds in Gounod's version of the Goethe epic. more info

Guardian Music — Tenor Jonas Kaufmann has everything: the looks, the voice and the ambition. Now he's coming to London to spread what he calls 'the opera virus'With his matinee idol looks, unruly dark curls and come-to-bed eyes, he's won the hearts of legions of fans... more info

Guardian Music — This year's EIF offers plenty to look forward to, from a glow-in-the-dark race up Arthur's Seat to a Polish Macbeth and the Mariinsky Ballet. What will you be booking for?You've got to admire Jonathan Mills's sense of mischief. While politicians nort... more info

Discobelle.net — You might not have heard of Picture Book before, but Justin Faust‘s remix of their track “Sunshine” will get you curious enough to check them out. The duo from Manchester put out a four track EP featuring Grammy nominated vocalist Greta Svabo B... more info

Guardian Music — Faust/Orchestra Mozart/Abbado(Harmonia Mundi)The Berg and Beethoven violin concertos are not very often paired on disc, and apparently it was Claudio Abbado's idea that Isabelle Faust should record them together, with the orchestra of young professio... more info

Guardian Music — A homage to love, Shakespeare and the symphonic form, Berlioz's symphony should be recognised as a triumph of drama, formal coherence and lyric beautyAt a time when Hector Berlioz's music is played more often than ever before, when performances of th... more info

Guardian Music — Melnikov/Faust/Berwaerts/MCO/Currentzis (Harmonia Mundi)Alexander Melnikov's groundbreaking recording of Shostakovich's Preludes and Fugues recently established him as the interpreter of choice for the composer's piano works, making a disc of the Co... more info

Guardian Music — The Maccabees, On tourOnce an appealingly eccentric indie band, the Maccabees have since signed a major deal and streamlined their sound. No one would begrudge them that, especially since theirs so far has been a slightly difficult journey. On their ... more info

Guardian Music — 'Opera can be a difficult thing to understand: shouting, albeit in a musical way, is an odd way to express oneself'What got you started?School and church choirs. I had a growing sense that my voice was different from the others around me.What was you... more info