Samson et Dalila review – their two voices combine as if made to measure

As the central couple, SeokJong Baek and Aigul Akhmetshina are dramatically persuasive and expressive in this revival of Richard Jones’s staging that works hard to make Saint-Saëns’ often dramatically inert opera zing

Kevin Morby: Little Wide Open review – midwestern elegist mulls over the mystery of life’s big questions

With help from Aaron Dessner, Bon Iver and Lucinda Williams, the Americana artist shares his uncertainties around his roots and relationships in unhurried, subtly melancholic songs

Angel’s Bone review – frenetic and unsettling allegory of human trafficking marks ENO’s Manchester debut

Kip Williams’ in-the-round staging, with the action live-projected onto enormous screens, can be disorientating, but Du Yun’s Pulitzer-winning work is compelling and kaleidoscopic

Shakespeare’s Sisters review: brilliantly unexpected songs and prose give voice to the voiceless

Combining words devised for Shakespeare’s female characters with music from composers old and new this was a Bardic treat with teeth

Angine de Poitrine review – alien rock duo’s UK debut is hypnotic, harebrained and 100% worth the hype

The polka-dotted phenomenon land their spaceship in Leeds for an ecstatic show that balances supremely complex musicianship with ridiculous good fun

Super Furry Animals review – stirring reunion showcases immaculate songcraft

The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voice

PinkPantheress review – singer proves she’s ready for pop’s A-list at sensational New York show

The viral star electrified Brooklyn with winking visuals, self-aware humor and a slew of special guests

Darkness Visible: Âme x Lawrence Power review – violist and guests reimagine the concert for the digital age

This ambitious and imaginative concert experience blended live and filmed performance. Not all its experiments felt successful, but at its best this was mesmerising

Charli xcx: Rock Music review – is she really pivoting from pop? Don’t be so sure …

The lyrics may argue the dancefloor is dead, but this funny, wilfully plasticky new single isn’t the total about-turn from Brat that fans expected

Paul Simon review – at 84, back on stage after hearing loss, his resolute artistry is inspiring

What Simon has lost in vocal power he has added in intimacy and authority – and this hushed performance makes for an arena concert like no other

Olof Dreijer: Loud Bloom review – the Knife star’s debut solo album is a garden of earthly delights

On a floral-themed LP, squiggling melodies and quizzical distortion banish the winter gloom Dreijer brought to the Knife and his tracks with Fever Ray

Ana Roxanne: Poem 1 review – ​a stunning pop balladeer emerges from the haze

​Essaying a broken heart, the New Yorker puts her voice front and centre for her most accessible work yet, though still with unexpected details – and a Schumann cover

Helen Charlston: A Poet’s Love album review – original and absorbing

Schumann’s Dichterliebe is at the heart of this disc from the mezzo-soprano and pianist Sholto Kynoch; Heloise Werner’s new work Knight’s Dream is a rich and intriguing companion piece

Billie Eilish – Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour review – style trumps substance in James Cameron’s 3D oddity

Eilish and Cameron are mismatched in flashy pop documentary that misses the subtlety of her music

Arcadi Volodos: Schubert piano sonata D850, Schumann Kinderszenen op15 – playfulness, longing and elegance

The pianist binds Schubert’s D850 with Schumann’s Kinderszenen with playing of warmth and crystalline technique