Guardian Music — Wigmore Hall, LondonThomas Zehetmair's last Wigmore concert this season was a recital of violin-viola duets with Ruth Killius, exploring a repertoire that is striking if often patchy. The Romantics, fazed, one suspects, by the inevitable austerities ... more info

Detroit Free Press — Mozart gave us many miracles, but "The Magic Flute," which opens Michigan Opera Theatre's spring season, is one of the most remarkable. It is a fantastic fairy tale, a lowbrow musical comedy, a morality play steeped in freemasonry and an example... more info

Guardian Music — West Road Concert Hall, CambridgeBritten Sinfonia's programme featured renowned Bach interpreter Angela Hewitt and one of the composer's greatest keyboard works, although there was a twist since Hewitt did not play the Goldberg Variations – rather ... more info

Guardian Music — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London; Theatre Royal, Glasgow; Royal Opera House, LondonRelativity: the opera? It's been done. Philip Glass put Einstein on a beach, and a German opera, C – the speed of light (2005), swirled us around multimedia universes to... more info

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Guardian Music — Barbican, LondonThe indefinite article in the title is significant: this is Peter Brook's very personal take on Mozart's supreme, unclassifiable work, rather than a definitive staging of Die Zauberflöte as seen in opera houses around the world. It's... more info