Guardian Music — As Halloween casts its shadow over us, what better time to delve into the darker side of classical musicMusic, it is often said, is a force for good, for the positive sides of human bonding, joy, society, and emotional expression. But if it has that ... more info

Guardian Music — The former Simply Red frontman on the Beatles, Buzzcocks and MozartMick Hucknall, he of the unmistakably smooth pop-soul voice, achieved enormous success in the 80s and 90s fronting Simply Red. The band sold 50 million albums with hits including Hold... more info

Guardian Music — Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Leeds Grand; Holywell Music Room, OxfordIn 1969, when man first walked on the moon, the Beatles said goodbye to live performance and a newborn Ed Miliband said hello, an unknown young man from County Durham made his operatic d... more info

Guardian Music — Coliseum, LondonFirst seen in 2010, ENO's current production of Mozart's Don Giovanni marked Rufus Norris's directorial debut in opera. Indifferently received when it was new, it remains an oddly chilly experience, hampered by moments of theatrical i... more info

Guardian Music — Theatre Royal, GlasgowTamino sits in the audience, an ordinary punter ready for a night out. But by the end of the overture he's been dragged up on stage by the impresario of a Victorian music hall called Sarastro's and set to playing an amorous prin... more info

Said the Gramophone — Karneef - "Got Money". Like Mozart's Sister or Pat Jordache (where he was a member), Karneef is an act from Montreal's new bedroom school: damaged, funky, full of appetite and desire. None of Grimes' childish hexes; this is older... more info

Guardian Music — Glyndebourne Touring OperaMichael Grandage's Glyndebourne production of Le Nozze di Figaro, first seen at this year's main festival and now revived by Ian Rutherford for the autumn tour, updates Mozart's great comedy to the early 1970s. Some of its m... more info

Guardian Music — 'The snake started to slowly wrap itself around my neck. I managed to squeak: "Help!"'Ivan Fischer, conductorWhen English National Opera asked me to conduct Mozart's Magic Flute in 1988, I said I'd do it with [director] Nick Hytner but nobody else. I... more info

Guardian Music — Widmann's essential project is to reveal the continuing vitality of Mozart or Schubert – and he brings it kicking and screaming into the present dayListen to this. Sound familiar? It both should – and shouldn't. Jörg Widmann's Third String Quart... more info

Guardian Music — Millennium Centre, CardiffIt's just 16 months since Welsh National Opera premiered this staging of Mozart's opera buffa, so its revival has come about with unseemly haste. Since the company opened its 2012/13 season with the La Bohème – albeit ve... more info