The week in classical at the Edinburgh festival, from Salome to Madame Chandelier

The striptease is all Strauss’s in the Bergen Philharmonic’s expertly revealing Salome. Plus, the new-ish Takács Quartet, a theorbo moment and a sock-throwing night at the opera

Bergen Phil/Gardner/Ólafsson review – crowd-pleasing but never dangerous

Edward Gardner led the orchestra in a controlled performance, with an exquisite but tentative Víkingur Ólafsson on piano

RSNO/Gergiev review – all-Russian programme offers much to admire

In a socially distanced grand marquee, Valery Gergiev and the string players of the Royal Scottish National Orchestra were joined by pianist Steven Osborne

Cate Le Bon review – a private storm of poised emotion

The Welsh musician keeps her distance but enthrals her audience with a gently staccato voice and unsettling new music

The week in classical: Breaking the Waves; Eugene Onegin – review

Missy Mazzoli’s opera based on Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves triumphs in its European premiere

Home listening: Scriabin, Chopin and Liszt piano works

New releases from Chen Yunjie and Mariam Batsashvili; and Radio 3 in Edinburgh

Eugene Onegin review – Grigorian’s riveting Tatyana steals the show

Barrie Kosky’s verdant production is illuminated by an astonishing central performance from the Lithuanian soprano Asmik Grigorian

West Side Story review – Bernstein’s musical is out of step in concert hall

John Eliot Gardiner fulfilled his ambition to conduct Bernstein’s work, but this concert performance should have been staged

Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra/Harding review – joyous and radiant Mahler

In the international festival’s closing concert, Daniel Harding explored the light and shade of Mahler’s huge eighth symphony in an unforced and uplifting reading

La Cenerentola review – Cinderella has a ball with exuberant panto kitsch

Stefan Herheim’s Lyon Opera production is hyperactively camp – even the conductor has a cameo – but the singing is warm and rich

The Beggar’s Opera review – the original jukebox musical reimagined

An updated version of John Gay’s classic features gags about the royal wedding and Brexit, but the music has missed a trick

The week in classical: Il barbiere di Siviglia; Siegfried; Vanessa review – a tale of two Barbers

Rossini leaps off the actual page, the Hallé and Mark Elder are on fire in epic Wagner, and Samuel Barber’s Vanessa proves more than the sum of its parts

The Magnetic Fields review – a double dose of life as Stephin Merritt

Splitting his 50 Song Memoir over two nights scrutinises all the ripe detail, heartbreak and humour of the songwriter’s journey from boy to hipster man

Macbeth; The Rite of Spring review – from Dunsinane to Peckham

Gianandrea Noseda and Turin’s Teatro Regio convey the full force of Verdi’s first Shakespeare opera. Plus, Stravinsky’s great work, four hands, one piano…

Peter Grimes; Bergen Philharmonic/ Gardner; René Pape & Camillo Radicke – review

A superb cast and huge forces thrilled in Bergen Opera’s minimalist staging of Britten’s masterpiece