Breaking Bach review – breakdancing thrillingly animates 300-year-old music
In an exhilarating performance choreographer Kim Brandstrup collaborates with the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment to make Bach feel new
Book of Mountains and Seas review – puppets and percussion, Mandarin and a monkish chorus
Visually arresting moments in lanterns and silk, and Huang Ruo’s haunting soundscapes, bring to life ancient Chinese creation myths in Basil Twist’s production
La Clemenza di Tito review – Emelyanychev and SCO spark magic with enthralling Mozart
With a luxury cast bringing anguish, believability and vocal perfection to Mozart’s opera of love and divided loyalty, this concert performance was flawless
The Veil of the Temple – powerful expressive talents on display in eight-hour choral epic
The opening concert of this year’s Edinburgh international festival saw conductor Sofi Jeannin put in a remarkable shift marshalling combined choirs
Philharmonia/Soddy review – Strauss’s Nazi-tainted last opera ends Edinburgh international festival
Soprano Malin Byström stole the show in Capriccio, programmed as a celebration of EIF partnership with the late Sir Andrew Davis
São Paulo Symphony Orchestra/Fischer review – a rich and colourful library of music
In Europe for the orchestra’s 70th anniversary, Thierry Fischer leavens an epic Alpine Symphony and a taxing Ginastera Violin Concerto with a showstopping Carmen Fantasie
The week in classical: Carmen; Yuja Wang; Leonore Piano Trio; Tristan und Isolde – review
Paris’s Opéra-Comique joins forces with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra in louche yet explosive Bizet; Yuja Wang thrills with eight encores; and Stuart Skelton leads a classic Wagner revival
Carmen review: magnetic performances ramp up the showstoppers
Andreas Homoki’s clever ideas don’t quite survive the leap to Scotland but the singing is rich and the acting full of swagger
La Pasión Según San Marcos review – Golijov’s riot of rhythm and colour gets Edinburgh off to a thrilling start
Osvaldo Golijov’s remarkable take on Bach’s St Matthew Passion exhilarates with its singular mix of textures, styles and movement, brought together into a triumphant mass by conductor Joana Carneiro
Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra/Dudamel review – technicolour exuberance
Music by Venezuelan composers made for an exciting and lively first half; in the second, Dudamel brought fresh light to Mahler’s first symphony in a performance that showcased the strengths of this young orchestra
Tannhäuser review – Runnicles’ semi-staged Wagner sounds celestial
The festival’s concert staging with Donald Runnicles conducting the Deutsche Oper brought Wagner’s score to life, with Clay Hilley in command of the lead role’s technical challenges
The week in classical: Oslo Philharmonic/Mäkelä; Leif Ove Andsnes and Bertrand Chamayou – review
Usher Hall; The Queen’s Hall, EdinburghKlaus Mäkelä leads skilled versions of Sibelius and Mahler, while Yuja Wang brings warmth and Ravel and Andsnes and Chamayou tackle Schubert and Kurtág
Lankum review – eerie, overwhelming radical Irish folk already feels centuries old
The Mercury-nominated four-piece play every song as if they’re fighting with it, gasping for air before verses
The Threepenny Opera review – slippery antihero is effortlessly seductive in adventurous staging
Gabriel Schneider plays Macheath with swagger in Barrie Kosky’s dazzling Berliner Ensemble production
Buddha Passion review – Tan Dun’s message of love and compassion opens EIF in spectacular style
The massed ranks of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, its junior chorus and the Edinburgh festival chorus rose to the occasion to create an uplifting and joyous opening festival concert