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We can do better than figures on plinths to celebrate women’s achievements | Statues | The Guardian
<strong>Letters: </strong>Replacing figurative statues of colonists and enslavers with more figurative statues is timid – let’s embrace new art forms instead, says <strong>Dr Wendy Osmond. </strong>Plus letters from <strong>Jean Calder, Mary Fitzpatrick</strong>,<strong> </strong>and<strong> Peter Corkill</strong>
The all-female rescue mission to Mars: my opera about a toxic tech bro takeover of the red planet | Opera | The Guardian
Four women travel 140m miles across the heavens – only to find their new world in hostile corporate hands. Composer Jennifer Walshe reveals what fed into her epic opera, from low-gravity procreation to Shrek in space
Budapest Festival Orchestra / Fischer review – palpable joy in a vivid Prom pairing of Beethoven and Bluebeard | Proms 2025 | The Guardian
Conductor Iván Fischer and his players teased out the tiny details in a stirring Seventh Symphony, while Bartók’s Duke Bluebeard’s Castle was full of grisly Hungarian intensity
BBCPhil/Weilerstein/Fröst; Arvo Pärt at 90 review – star clarinettist captivates and delights | Proms 2025 | The Guardian
The evening’s two proms brought wildly contrasting energies. The BBC Phil were on blistering form and, late-night, the Estonian Philharmonic Choir were immaculate even if the programme felt a little bland
BBCNOW/Otaka/Kholodenko review – Rachmaninov fills seats but magic is missing | Classical music | The Guardian
Soloist Vadym Kholodekno brought little subtlety to the ever popular second piano concerto, works by two Polish composers, Lutoslawsi and Grażyna Bacewicz fared better in this BBC National Orchestra of Wales concert
Eight hours, 250 singers… and as many bananas as it takes: Tavener’s Veil of the Temple | Classical music | The Guardian
Who’d be brave enough to programme John Tavener’s choral epic? We talk to the team behind the staging that’s opening this year’s Edinburgh international festival, and veterans of its 2003 premiere remember the challenges and rewards
Roger Norrington: a maverick, an irresistible firebrand and a musical visionary | Classical music | The Guardian
The conductor, whose historically informed evangelism helped transform the classical music world, has died. Tom Service remembers a man who looked to the past to find a fresh and thrilling present.
Ensemble Intercontemporain/ Bleuse review – from a clown to a clarinet and Cathy Berberian | Proms 2025 | The Guardian
<strong>Royal Albert Hall, London</strong><br>A late-night Prom devoted to the music of Berio and Boulez (both born 100 years ago) demonstrated the intricacy, zaniness and sheer imagination of the two composers
King of Kings: Orchestral Transcriptions of Bach by Andrew Davis album review – the late conductor’s first love | Classical music | The Guardian
Davis’s fastidious and thoroughly musical orchestrations of Bach’s organ works become a touching memorial as Martyn Brabbins steps in to finish the recordings
The Traitors Prom review – iconic show’s greatest hits turn the melodrama up to 11 | Classical music | The Guardian
Claudia Winkleman hosted while the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra expertly negotiated orchestrated covers including Billie Eilish and Olivia Rodrigo alongside a smattering of Saint-Saëns and Puccini
Julieth Lozano Rolong – Alma: Ibero-American Songs album review – Colombian soprano’s captivating debut | Classical music | The Guardian
Supported beautifully by pianist João Araújo, and with songs by composers from seven countries, this recording offers a wealth of colour from a hugely promising performer