With a Stravinsky & Tchaikovsky programme, great conductor Riccardo Chailly is on tour with his Filarmonica della Scala at Müpa Budapest (on 25 January), Paris Philharmonie (on 26) or Luxembourg Philharmonie (on 27).

After the Zurich Opera, soprano Sabine Devieilhe performs as Marie from Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment in perfect Laurent Pelly’s production at Wiener Staatsoper, from 11 January.

Soprano Sabine Devieilhe performs as Marie from Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment in a version concert conducted by Speranza Capucci at the Zurich Opera on 16, 19 & 22 December.

At London’s Royal Festival Hall, on 16 December (on 17 December at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées), Bach’s Weihnachtsoratorium (Christmas Oratorio) will be performed by London Philharmonic Orchestra and Principal Conductor and Artistic Director Vladimir Jurowski.

Great conductor Zubin Mehta will have a shoulder operation and must cancel the La Scala de Milano and San Carlo di Napoli’s concert in January.

Unfortunate Metropolitan Opera who just suspended his former music director and director emeritus, the famous James Levine after sexual assault allegations.

After Edgardo at Bayerische Staatsoper, Rodolfo at Staatsoper unter den Linden in December, on 23, 26, 29 January at Wiener Staatsoper, superb tenor Piotr Beczala performs as Don José in Carmen.

At Aix, an exceptional piano recital is announced at Grand Théâtre de Provence on Friday 1 December 2017, fantastic painist Daniil Trifonov performs Chopin and variations on his works by Schumann, Grieg Tchaïkovski or Rachmaninov.

We are very sad to learn the death of baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky, at age 55, R.I.P.

Let’s go! Mezzo Cecilia Bartoli & cellist Sol Gabetta are on tour in Europe thanks to their new album Dolce duello in Baden-Baden (23 November) and among other dates in Amsterdam (27 November), Brussels (29 November), London (1 December), Paris (4 December), Munich (10 December), Vienna (12 December) and Berlin (17 December).