And not forgetting ...

In concert performances in the Usher Hall, Sir John Eliot Gardiner brings his celebratory survey of Monteverdi’s three surviving operas –

and

– while the second part of the International Festival’s Ring cycle, Wagner’s

comes from the RSNO under Sir Andrew Davis (plus star singers Bryn Terfel and Christine Goerke, inset), and there’s Britten’s epoch-defining from Edward Gardner and the Bergen Philharmonic.