Search for the Nation's Favourite Aria launched on Radio 3

Radio highlights

Performance on 3: Mahler Symphony Orchestra
Monday 17 May, 7pm

Two seventh symphonies for the price of one in this week's Mahler in Manchester concert, as the BBC Philharmonic performs orchestral masterpieces by Mahler and David Matthews. Gianandrea Noseda conducts. Find out more about this concert on our blog.

Breakfast on 3: The Nation's Favourite Aria
From Monday 17 May, 7am

What's your favourite opera aria? Puccini's 'Nessun Dorma'? Or maybe the Queen of the Night hitting the high notes in The Magic Flute gets your vote? Have your say as Radio 3 searches for the Nation's Favourite Aria. Starting this week, listeners to Breakfast can text and email their choices to the station; the winner will be announced on 14 June.

Opera on 3: The Gambler
Saturday 22 May, 6pm

Prokofiev’s rarely heard operatic take on Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel is broadcast on Radio 3 this Saturday evening. Soprano Angela Denoke, tenor Roberto Saccà and bass John Tomlinson are conducted by Antonio Pappano in this production from London’s Royal Opera House.

TV highlights

Eurovision Young Musician 2010
Friday 21 May, 6pm (tbc) on BBC Four

Peter Moore, the 14-year-old trombonist who won BBC Young Musician of the Year in 2008, becoming the event's youngest ever winner, is representing the UK in this year’s Eurovision Young Musician competition. Moore will compete against candidates from 14 European countries to win the title of the biennial competition.

Doctor Atomic
Wednesday 19 May, 8pm on Sky Arts 2 and Sky Arts 2 HD

Penny Woolcock directs the Metropolitan Opera’s 2008 premiere of John Adams’s masterpiece about the 'father of the atomic bomb', J Robert Oppenheimer.