MKAM's Paul Hoskins, music director of Rambert Dance, conducts the LPO at 6pm at the Royal Festival Hall on Saturday 7th December as part of the Foyle Future Firsts Programme, with music by Judith Weir, Julian Anderson and Martin Butler.

This winter Richard Wiegold (shown here singing Gurnemanz in Tallinn) is preparing to sing Banquo in Macbeth in his debut at Palm Beach Opera, Timur in Puccini's Turandot in Utah, as well as covering Claggart with Glyndebourne at BAM.

Christian Immler, fresh from performing and recording Niobe with the Boston Early Music Festival in Bremen, performances of Bach's B-Minor Mass with Les Musiciens du Louvre (cone. Marc Minkowski) and the Mozart Requiem with the Bergen Philharmonic Orchestra, will be singing Mozart and Handel during December with Bach Collegium Japan (cond. Masaaki ...