The Telegraph — Choreographed to Philip Glass, this is a relentless, breathless work, a delicious commedia dell'arte silliness, which just about saves it from becoming twee. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — Linbury Studio, LondonWith Satyagraha and Einstein on the Beach to his name, Philip Glass has participated in some excellent operatic projects. In the Penal Colony, his 2000 adaptation of Franz Kafka's well-known story to a libretto by Rudolph Wurlit... more info

Guardian Music — Linbury studio; Royal Opera House; Peacock theatre; Kings Place, all LondonA string quintet, two singers, one actor plus a wooden table to suggest an apparatus for torture: you can shape an opera out of anything. These were the sparse elements, tight... more info

The Telegraph — Philip Glass talks to Ivan Hewett about his decision to compose an opera based on one of the author's terrifying tales. more info

Guardian Music — Arcola, LondonIn the 1990s, Philip Glass composed a trilogy of music-theatre pieces based on films by Jean Cocteau. His remarkable reworking of La Belle et la Bête was brought to London by the composer's own ensemble soon after the premiere, while t... more info

Guardian Music — Limited-edition box set featuring late Beatle planned for Indian sitar master's 90th birthdayLong out of print, a collection of George Harrison's work with Ravi Shankar will be reissued this October, in honour of Shankar's 90th birthday. The limited-... more info

Mercury News, California — Sunday at Mission San Juan Bautista, Wendy Sutter performed the piece, which in its best moments suggests the balance, logic and all-knowing essential-Ness of J.S. Bach. more info

Guardian Music — Matteo Pericoli found fame with his 22ft fold-out drawing of Manhattan's skyline. His new book shows the city through the windows of New York's artists and writers, from Annie Leibovitz to Philip Glass, David Byrne to Nora Ephron, with their thoughts... more info

Guardian Music — Hackney Empire, London"No, it wasn't scary at all," the girl said as she chatted to her friend on her mobile. "The old horror films are so funny." Much of the packed house at Hackney Empire thought the same of Tod Browning's 1931 movie Dracula, scree... more info

Guardian Music — Theatre Royal Stratford East, London; Royal Festival Hall, London; Glyndebourne Opera House, East SussexYou don't need to be a theoretical physicist to go to the opera but it helps. Black holes, big bangs, general relativity and gravitational collaps... more info