Guardian Music — It's not quite Bayreuth, but Martin and Lizzie Graham's converted barn can still cope with the Ring Cycle. Tom Service travels to Longborough to find out moreThe village of Longborough in Gloucestershire is the epitome of Cotswolds sleepiness, a visi... more info

Guardian Music — Mellifluous tenor outstanding in the Passions of Bach and operas of BrittenOne of the most attractive and intelligent tenors from the 1970s onwards, Anthony Rolfe Johnson, who has died aged 69, tackled a very wide repertoire. Its twin peaks were his... more info

Guardian Music — Charles Mackerras loved the Proms and planned to conduct two this month. Tom Service speaks to the musicians now picking up his batonThe death last week of the conductor Charles Mackerras is a huge blow for music. It has also presented the Proms or... more info

Guardian Music — Llangennith Church, GowerThe Warsaw-based Royal Quartet have made their mark in Britain in recent years, notably as BBC Radio 3 Young Generation artists. Yet, in this opening concert of the Gower festival, the pressures of being such a busy and sough... more info

Guardian Music — David Nice writes: A year ago, I phoned to speak to Sir Charles Mackerras (obituary, 16 July), and Lady Mackerras told me candidly that he was receiving treatment for myeloma. So I prepared for the worst; and yet, what a year of vintage Mackerras per... more info

Guardian Music — Every July, audiences gather outside Buxton's miniature opera house for Britain's least pretentious annual opera festivalFrank Matcham, the architect of many opulent Edwardian theatres, designed what is now one of Britain's biggest opera houses, the ... more info

Buffalo News, New York — There is a moment in “Amadeus,” Peter Shaffer's drama about Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, that is simultaneously wrenching and enchanting. That is when Antonio Salieri, Mozart's less-talented rival composer, hears Mozart's music for the first time. ¶... more info

Buffalo News, New York — 7p.m. Wednesday: Cheektowaga Town Park. Paul Ferington conducts. Flutist Jilene VanOpdorp performs Mozart's Flute Concerto in G. Free. more info

Guardian Music — Tramlines Festival, SheffieldFollowing last year's success it's difficult to choose which admirable aspects of Sheffield's free, urban, Tramlines festival are most noteworthy. Perhaps it's the desire to eradicate the queuing, the only blight of 2009'... more info

Mercury News, California — Once a year, conductor George Wolfgang Cleve — that really is his middle name — convenes an orchestra to perform the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. more info