Rufus Wainwright @ Glasgow Royal Concert Hall, 15 April

This time last year, a production called Sonette by avant-garde stage director Robert Wilson and the Berliner Ensemble was premiered, based on twenty four of Shakespeare's sonnets. The performance consisted of cross-dressing actors, outrageous costumes and 'puppet-like' dancing. In other words, it sounds just like the enigmatic Rufus Wainwright (composer of the musical accompaniment to a bulk of the sonnets) had a hand in the choreography too.

A Wainwright live exhibition is never short on grandeur, candour or indeed lipstick and the carousel rolls into town to promote the release of his sixth studio album All Days Are Nights: Songs For Lulu this month. Music from three of the sonnets make it on to the recording, the majority of which was conceived of whilst Wainwright's mother, folk singer Kate McGarrigle, battled in vain against cancer. But don't expect the tone to be downcast; Wainwright is more likely to celebrate a life than wallow in grief. After recent homages to Judy Garland and the composition of his own opera, Wainwright is very much an ouevre unto himself. Classical composition meeting pop instinct and consummate attention to detail means his live shows are never less than 'lavish' or mesmerising. [Wilbur Kane]