Richard Bratby

The BBC Singers Centenary Concert was toe-curling

Plus: English Touring Opera demonstrates why Judith Weir's opera Blond Eckbert deserves to be better known

William Morgan (Walther), Flora McIntosh (Berthe), Aoife Miskelly (the bird) and Alex Otterburn (Eckbert) in Judith Weir's haunted, oddly unsettling Blond Eckbert. Image: Richard Hubert Smith
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  • Blond Eckbert: Double Bill

    Hackney Empire, and touring, until 15 November

  • The Snowmaiden

    Hackney Empire, and touring, until 16 November

  • BBC Singers Centenary Concert

    Barbican Hall

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