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

This month we feature Samuel Hasselhorn in a Rolls-Royce Schubert recital, Mendelssohn from Leipzig, new music by Paul Stanhope and Carl Vine, and a Ring Cycle from Dallas.

Judicious potpourri paints arresting portrait of extraordinary composer.

Russia’s underrated quartet cycle gets off to a flying start.

The conductor talks about completing one of the most challenging of all symphonic cycles.

Immaculate quintet go on a journey from Hildegard to Kate Bush.

At this year’s Australian Festival of Chamber Music, a concert inspired by Horrible Histories will explore the demise of several composers.

A new album uses period instruments and imaginative arrangements to explore the songs of Sir Arthur Sullivan as they might have been heard in their day. Clive Paget talks with its conductor John Andrews.

This month features Mahler from Bychkov and Runnicles, Pappano’s Planets, a Beethoven project completed, and choral discoveries from a distant branch of the Bach family tree.

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

Flanders and North Africa collide in an emperor’s fantasy funeral.

Pappano saddles up a British warhorse and rides triumphantly into battle.