The week in classical: Falstaff; Hatfield House chamber music festival – review

Verdi’s late masterpiece ends on a riotous and sustainable high at Opera North. At the childhood home of Elizabeth I, a family affair and a memorable premiere

Solange review – deliciously witchy performance art poses questions for new Volume festival

The Art Gallery of NSW’s festival merges performance art and music – a disjunction the audience may not always be prepped for

Mahan Esfahani; Ibragimova/Osborne review – from electric dreams to muscular Prokofiev

Esfahani’s programme took the harpischord into the 21st century while the acclaimed partnership of Alina Ibragimova and Steven Osborne showcased the range of the festival and virtuosity of its performers

Supersonic festival – doom, earsplitting ecstasy and thousands of samosas

The Midlands experimental music institution celebrates 20 years of triumphant noise, from alt-rock stalwarts Deerfhoof to feminist punks Taqbir and folk stars Lankum

End of the Road festival review – all killer no filler in a truly magical setting

Wilco and Future Islands share the same zealous audiences as newcomers Fat Dog and the Last Dinner Party in a carefully curated weekend of constant surprises

Reading and Leeds festival review – Billie Eilish and the Killers thrill at bucket-hatted blowout

The post-GCSE audience is suitably boisterous at a festival that is keeping its remit admirably broad, from Foals’ intense rock to Bicep’s beautiful techno

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

Stormzy review – rapper’s bullish approach pays off with joyous performance

Slow lovelorn songs make way for a crowd-pleasing succession of hits that has the audience running to the stage

A Song on the End of World review – Pott’s powerful oratorio returns to Three Choirs festival

Francis Pott’s compelling 1999 work was voted audience’s favourite festival premiere and so won a second performance at this year’s event. Its emphasis on war and human destruction feels even more urgent

Penarth chamber music festival review – anticolonial poems and a moonstruck Pierrot

Unspoken harmony reigned among the group of chamber musicians who performed Ravel, Schönberg and Debussy at this delightful small festival

The week in classical: Manchester Classical; Alice Sara Ott and Friends: Quartet for the End of Time – review

The Hallé, BBC Philharmonic, Manchester Camerata and Manchester Collective join forces in an enticing new weekender for their home city. Elsewhere, breathless, barefoot revelations with Messiaen

Glastonbury 2023 review: giggly rap on Friday, Smiths covers on Saturday – and a mystery act that surprised no one

Arctic Monkeys, Fred Again, Raye, Lana Del Rey and Guns N’ Roses all astounded. And if everyone knew Foo Fighters would turn up, just who might share the stage with Elton John was the stuff of rumours

Elton John at Glastonbury review – bittersweet joy at the end of the yellow brick road

Could it really be his final ever UK concert? After this utterly vital performance, fans will be desperately hoping not

Blondie at Glastonbury review – Debbie Harry is an atomic charisma bomb

She can’t sing like she used to – but makes up for it with a riveting performance full of untamed theatrics and awesomely aloof cool

Yusuf/Cat Stevens at Glastonbury review – singer-songwriter’s ‘legends’ set is a lowkey triumph

The 74-year-old’s mellow but idiosyncratic pop and indelibly beautiful classic cuts provided a soothing balm for tired music fans on the final afternoon of the festival