Sing extracts from Tannhäuser with Mary King.

Acclaimed Wagnerian Donald Runnicles continues the Proms Wagner bicentenary celebrations with Wagner’s Tannhäuser. Robert Dean Smith sings the role of the titular troubadour who tires of sensual pleasure and longs for spiritual redemption

Two works by Gustav Holst, and two from the Polish composer Witold Lutosławski. Edward Gardner directs the BBC Symphony Orchestra in Holst’s Egdon Heath and The Planets and Lutosławski’s Symphonic Variations. Louis Lortie is the soloist in Lutosławski’s Piano Concerto.

In their second BBC Proms appearance this season, Mariss Jansons and the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra are joined by Genia Kühmeier, Anna Larsson and the Bavarian Radio Chorus for Mahler’s epic Symphony No. 2, ‘Resurrection’, bringing a vision of life after death.

A late-night feast of sinfonias, arias and chorales as Sir John Eliot Gardiner, 70 this year, conducts the singers and players of the Monteverdi Choir and English Baroque Soloists in Bach’s Easter Oratorio and Ascension Oratorio.

Mary King explores Britten's mastery of word-setting in his vocal writing.

Vasily Petrenko conducts the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain and young singers from across the British Isles in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Vaughan Williams’s Walt Whitman setting Towards the Unknown Region and the world premiere of Mark-Anthony Turnage’s Frieze.

Late-15th-century motets from the Eton Choirbook alternate with music by Gustav Holst and his daughter Imogen and the UK premiere of Sir Harrison Birtwistle’s The Moth Requiem in an alluring programme from the BBC Singers and the Nash Ensemble under Nicholas Kok.

Celebrating their 40th anniversary, the Tallis Scholars return to the BBC Proms in a Late Night Prom interweaving the movements of John Taverner’s Missa Gloria tibi Trinitas with motets by the infamous aristocratic madrigalist Carlo Gesualdo.

Last heard at the Proms in 1977, The Midsummer Marriage is Tippett’s The Magic Flute, an opera rich in trials and transformations. Sir Andrew Davis conducts the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers, with Paul Groves and Erin Wall singing the roles of Mark and Jenifer.

Explore the vocal writing in Brahms's A German Requiem with Mary King. Suitable for singers familiar with the work who want to get some vocal tips!

The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra plays Dvořák last ‘Old World’ Symphony, No. 8, under Andris Nelsons. Soprano Kristīne Opolais sings arias by Verdi and Tchaikovsky in a matinee that ends with a flurry of Viennese waltzes and polkas by Johann Strauss II.

Marin Alsop conducts the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment and the Choir of the Enlightenment in a rare performance of Brahms’s A German Requiem on period instruments. Brahms’s Tragic Overture and Schumann’s Fourth Symphony complete a powerful programme of mourning and consolation.

Sir Mark Elder conducts the Hallé in Wagner’s final opera of sensual temptation and spiritual redemption, Parsifal. Lars Cleveman is the Holy Fool of the title, Katarina Dalayman the Magdalen figure Kundry, Detlef Roth the wounded Amfortas and Sir John Tomlinson Gurnemanz.

Sir Andrew Davis conducts the London Philharmonic Orchestra and the Glyndebourne Festival Opera cast in Britten’s predatory tragedy. Jacques Imbrailo sings the title-role, Brindley Sherratt is Claggart, Mark Padmore the spineless Captain Vere.

Josep Pons conducts the BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Orchestra in the world premiere of Charlotte Seither’s Language of Leaving. Frank Peter Zimmermann plays Brahms’s Violin Concerto in a concert that contrasts Stravinsky’s ballet Petrushka with a cappella motets.