The Telegraph — Tautness and leanness characterises Jonathan Kent's staging of Mozart's masterpiece. Rating: * * * * more info

Guardian Music — One of the most revealing classical music resources on the internet is up and runningIt's not just the saving of 6 Music – there's another good news story from the BBC today. The Proms Archive went live earlier today. OK, that may not sound like a ... more info

Guardian Music — The music director of Glyndebourne on his greenhouse of talent, the genius of Don Giovanni, and the beer and crisps brigadeHas Glyndebourne still got a point? Isn't it just picnics, champagne and outmoded dinner jackets on the Sussex Downs?For me, Gl... more info

Guardian Music — Former US secretary of state is a celebrated amateur pianist who performed for the Queen in 2008The "Queen of Soul" is to team up with the former queen of the US state department at a concert in Philadelphia next month. Aretha Franklin will duet with... more info

Guardian Music — Crail Church, FifeMusic on a grand scale is a recurring theme at this year's East Neuk festival. The event that has built its name programming chamber music in intimate, interesting venues throughout this corner of Fife is exploring the boundaries of... more info

Guardian Music — Jonathan Kent was one of the country's top theatre directors before chalking up a series of successes in opera. Tom Service talks to him ahead of taking on Don GiovanniJust above where director Jonathan Kent is sitting in the artists' café at Glynde... more info

Guardian Music — Queen of Soul and former US secretary of state join forces for fundraiser. In other news: Solomon Burke to team up with Colin PowellThe "Queen of Soul" is to team up with the, er, former queen of the US state department at a concert in Philadelphia n... more info

All About Jazz — Aretha Franklin will take the stage next month with an accomplished accompanist more famous for diplomacy: Condoleezza Rice. The pair will play at Philadelphia's Mann Center for the Performing Arts on July 27 in show that will feature Franklin's m... more info

Guardian Music — Holland Park, LondonStephen Barlow's new production of Don Giovanni relocates Mozart's great examination of sexual licence to late Victorian London and reworks it as a supernatural thriller after the fashion of Wilde's Dorian Gray or Stevenson's Jeky... more info

Guardian Music — Gottlieb Wallisch (piano)(Linn)Mozart's final, intensively creative years in Vienna produced all manner of wonders – operas, symphonies, concerti and several works for the keyboard. "Sonata No 17 in B flat major" and "Sonata No 18 in D major" date ... more info