Sophie Bevan [Sussie Ahlburg]

IT’S no surprise that many star musicians are the offspring of musicians. Talent runs in families, and music history is full of dynasties – the Mozarts, Strausses, Bachs – who bear that out. But there aren’t many like the Bevans, an extraordinary family around now that produces singers by the bus-load. The best-known among them, with big international careers, are Mary Bevan and her sister Sophie. But with various siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles, they’ve now formed a Bevan Family Consort. And on June 4 there’s a concert to mark the launch of their first CD at St Mary’s Tower off Hornsey High Street: the churchyard venue where Mary organised a series of unforgettable open-air concerts during the nightmare of the Covid crisis. Many of us had our spirits lifted in those wretched months by Mary’s “Music at the Tower” events, so going back there will be like a party with old friends. Close to Hornsey station. Starts 5.45pm. Just turn up.

• Running a busy schedule right now, Sophie Bevan also stars at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on June 7-8 in concert performances of Princess Ida: the Gilbert & Sullivan satire on late 19th-century feminism in which the eponymous Ida leads a boycott against men and sets up a university from which they’re excluded. Heady stuff for 1884. With the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra stepping beyond its more usual period repertoire, and conductor John Wilson who always examines the text of what he does with revelatory care… expect something remarkable. southbankcentre.co.uk

• Verdi’s Il Trovatore is one of the blockbusters of 19th-century Italian opera: a bizarre, swashbuckling fantasy of rival love, absurd occurrences (like a woman who throws her own baby onto a bonfire by mistake) and old-time melodrama that looks vulgarity in the face and makes a virtue of it. A challenge for directors but a gift for glorious voices, there’s a new production running at the Royal Opera House June 2-July 2 that looks good. Conducted by Antonio Pappano in another of his farewells to the House before he leaves to take over from Simon Rattle at the LSO, the cast is heavyweight. And as the baby-burning Azucena it has the exuberant Jamie Barton, famous for her LGBT grandstand at the Last Night of the Proms. roh.org.uk

• With no shortage of opera in London this week, the Guildhall School has an odd but possibly effective double-bill of English works from opposite ends of the 20th century: Holst’s Indian-mystical Sāvitri (a tale of devotion in the face of death, composed in the Second World War but taken from an ancient Sanskrit epic), and Judith Weir’s Blond Eckbert (written 1993 but adapting a German Romantic tale of dark doings in the forest). Runs June 5-12. gsmd.ac.uk/whats-on

• Talking of Holst, that decidedly superior semi-pro choir named after him, the Holst Singers, has a choice programme of 20th-century English choral music at Temple Church, off the Strand, on June 6. There’s Howells, Britten, Finzi… and the William Walton Jubilate: a setting of rumbustious joyfulness that always makes me want to dance – though Stephen Layton, the conductor, may prefer his audience to be less abandoned. templemusic.org