Tom Service interviews versatile mezzo-soprano Felicity Palmer about her career, which has featured repertoire spanning more than 300 years, both in the concert hall and the opera house. She is to perform the role Mrs Sedley in a new production of Britten's Peter Grimes at English National Opera in 2009. Tom also visits the Brighton Festival 2009 to talk to artist Anish Kapoor, its guest artistic director, who has collaborated on a challenging music programme to go with the rest of the event. Is this the way forward for artistic festivals in the future?