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Each summer, the small German spa town of Bad Kissingen hosts Kissinger Sommer, a classical music festival that brings international artists to an otherwise quiet corner of Franconia. Jonathan Whiting caught a cross-section of this year’s varied programme – from lesser performed oratorios to symphonic mobs

'I don’t believe I’ve ever enjoyed the text of an opera more than the music before!'

This summer, John Joubert’s final opera is fully staged for the first time. Director Eleanor Burke tells us how memory, music, and sustainability converge in a radical reimagining of Brontë’s classic – and how a labour of love finally reaches the stage

The 'dystopian ballad' by Klangforum Wien and Needcompany is a multimedia meta-opera exploring love through the medium of 20th and 21st-century works

Every production of Carmen lives and dies by its leading lady, and Aigul Akhmetshina is certainly key to this production’s success

This week – Brahms Piano Quartets, Ravel’s complete piano works, Adès’s orchestral suites, Bach’s Mass in B Minor and piano works from the Belle Époque

To mark the 200th anniversary of the UK premiere of Beethoven’s Symphony No 9, we chart some of the greatest works commissioned by the RPS from its inception in 1813 to today