Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, London; Glyndebourne, east Sussex; Royal Festival Hall, LondonMen and supermen, aristocratic women and suicidal Trojan Wags, ancient Carthage, modern Venezuela, a pre-Columbian tropical jungle and a groovy 1960s-style conga: last w... more info

Guardian Music — Es Devlin has designed sets for Lady Gaga, Rihanna and Take That, and has just recreated Carthage for Les Troyens at Covent Garden. Now she is preparing for the biggest show of all – the London 2012 closing ceremonyWhat do Harold Pinter, Lady Gaga,... more info

Guardian Music — Royal Opera House, LondonThough Scottish Opera brought the fine staging it shared with Opera North and Welsh National Opera to Covent Garden in 1990, it is 40 years since the Royal Opera itself gave a complete staged performance of Berlioz's Les Troy... more info

Guardian Music — It's Lovebox's 10th anniversary this weekend. Will you be going? Here's our guide to the festival and how you can get involvedBilled as "London's biggest disco," Lovebox has been bringing glamour to London's live music calender since it was founded b... more info

Metalsucks — We’ve known for awhile now that The Human Abstract are not broken-up, and will be touring Europe this summer. What we haven’t known is who would be handling vocal duties — although we assumed it was gonna be Corelia’s Ryan Devlin, who fille... more info

The Hip Hop Chronicle — It’s been a while since I heard anything new from Devlin. I liked his album “Bud, Sweat and Beers” and I hear his second album is due in October. To tie us over until then, Devs has released a brand new mixtape called “The Director’s Cut”... more info

Guardian Music — The smooth Sian Williams was ill-suited to the quirky Saturday Live, while James O'Brien was charm personifiedSaturday Live: (Radio 4 | iPlayer)James O'Brien (LBC)Front Row (Radio 4 | iPlayer)Saturday Live is a strange programme; which is, of course,... more info

Guardian Music — An acoustic troubadour with one foot in the world of hip-hopHometown: Swindon.The lineup: Josh Kumra (voice, guitar).The background: Of all the acts appearing at our New Band of the Day night next Wednesday at the Barfly in Camden, Josh Kumra is, to ... more info

Guardian Music — Other acts to play show at Barfly in north London on 11 April include BIGKids, Michele Stodart and Pixie Geldof's band VioletRising R&B star Angel has been announced as the headline act for the Guardian's next New Band of the Day gig. He completes th... more info

ContactMusic — Flo Rida has joined the star-studded line up for BBC Radio 1s Hackney Weekend 2012 The US rapper is one of a number of urban music acts including Sean Paul Tinchy Stryder Mindless Behaviour Chip Devlin Boy Better Know Feat Skepta amp JME and... more info