The Telegraph — Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, cond Antonio Pappano. Rating: * * * * * more info

Starpulse — Actress Amy Adams once became involved in a street brawl with a friend who attempted to drive after a booze binge. The Enchanted star plays Mark Wahlberg's onscreen love interest in new movie The... more info

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Guardian Music — Royal Festival Hall, LondonConcerts like this defy the starring system. The Philharmonia is a very fine orchestra and Tugan Sokhiev a musicianly conductor. They started with a grave and atmospheric performance of Liadov's The Enchanted Lake, and fini... more info

Guardian Music — BBCNOW/Fischer(Signum)The latest instalment in Thierry Fischer's series examining the music of the Ballets Russes juxtaposes Stravinsky's Petrushka with a sequence of tone poems by Liadov – Baba-Yaga, The Enchanted Lake and Kikimora – that was ... more info

The Telegraph — Mariinsky Soloists, Orchestra & Chorus, cond Valery Gergiev. Rating: * * more info

Guardian Music — Aleksashkin/Akimov/Kapustinskaya/Mariinsky O & Chorus/Gergiev (Mariinsky, two SACDs)Presumably at Valery Gergiev's behest, the London Symphony Orchestra is making a special feature of the music of Rodion Shchedrin in its concerts at the Barbican next... more info

Guardian Music — Linbury Studio, LondonJonathan Dove's musical tale, first staged in 2006 at the Young Vic, now comes to the Linbury for the festive season. It's a through-composed piece, suggesting opera, but much of its musical language fits more easily in the cate... more info

Guardian Music — Family-friendly opera must be nasty, brutish and short – and go easy on the slow passagesChildren love stories. Most enjoy singing, too: you could say that opera is a natural medium for them. But, of course, hardly any operas are actually aime... more info