The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

This month features new music from Huw Watkins and Bernadette Harvey, old music by Dowland and Zelenka and blockbusters care of Alkan, Bizet and Lise Davidsen.

Watkins’ sparkling orchestral music celebrates a very special relationship.

The British mezzo on art song gold and the danger of first impressions.

Mysterious 18th-century Troll gets his just reward.

Luks, Zelenka’s champion par excellence, scores with a pair of dazzling Masses.

Sting not only wrote the book and lyrics for The Last Ship, he will also play the leading role when the show arrives in Brisbane. He tells us why he wanted to write a musical.

Once dismissed as “a brutal din”, Mahler’s Symphony No. 1 is now acknowledged as a monumental, groundbreaking work that expanded the symphonic genre.

This month mezzo-soprano Kitty Whately rediscovers the remarkable Madeleine Dring, plus contemporary works by Kalevi Aho, Daniel Bjarnason and Dan Walker, and operas by Lully and Vivaldi.

The editors of Limelight share their selection of the most exciting classical music, opera and theatre events coming soon.

There’s a new lightness and feeling of joy in the third opera in Barrie Kosky’s mesmerising Ring Cycle. Catch it at cinemas here.

A dazzling triptych of multicoloured works by one of Iceland’s finest.