Guardian Music — Philharmonic Hall, LiverpoolVasily Petrenko's Mahler cycle with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic has reached the Seventh Symphony, a work which, not so long ago, was considered imperfect by many. Petrenko is the latest in a growing number of conducto... more info

TMZ — Filed under: Justin Bieber, Justin Timberlake Justin Timberlake took aim at Justin Bieber during "SNL" rehearsals last week ... saying in an unaired sketch, "Why don't you put a wig on a chipmunk and tell it to act like a Black ma... more info

Guardian Music — Glyndebourne, LewesLike all productions of Mozart's Don Giovanni, Jonathan Kent's – new at Glyndebourne last year, and here revived by Lloyd Wood – has to negotiate a coherent path through a piece the composer labelled a comic opera but which beg... more info

Perez Hilton — LOLz! Check out this unaired SNL sketch from the finale, in which Justin Timberlake takes on his toughest, most unfamiliar and personally unrelatable role yet! JT plays a young musician who decides to branch out into an acting career, despite overwhe... more info

Guardian Music — Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThe early perception of Mozart's opera was that it was trivial; Benjamin Davis's new production for Welsh National Opera seems designed to prove it so. Transposed from 18th-century Naples to a 1950s British seaside pro... more info

Big Apple Music Scene — This sketch is pretty great, and we're not sure why it didn't air! Host Justin Timberlake plays a (laughably accented) Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart who has decided to give up music in favor of acting. We love JT, especially because he's so willing to laug... more info

Guardian Music — Information and lineups for the UK's best classical festivalsAldeburghWhen: 10–26 JuneWhere: Aldeburgh, SuffolkWho: Simon Rattle, Magdalena Kožená, Michael Schade, Ian Bostridge, Angelika Kirchschlager, Oliver Knussen, London Sinfonietta, Elliott... more info

Guardian Music — St David's Hall, CardiffPrior to opening the big music festival in their home city this week, the Dresden Staatskapelle whirled their way round Europe, with concerts in Cardiff and Birmingham as the last leg of the tour.The orchestra's German title, ... more info

Guardian Music — Bridgewater Hall, ManchesterThe Spring Symphony is perhaps the most overlooked of Benjamin Britten's major works, possibly because it is uncharacteristically joyous and untroubled, but more likely because this huge choral extravaganza, requiring, amo... more info

Guardian Music — Shepherd's Bush Empire, LondonIf you tried to imagine what an Everything Everything live show might look like, purely on the basis of what the band's lead singer Jonathan Higgs does with his voice, you'd be forgiven for picturing a scene from the mov... more info