Conductor Charles Dutoit is to conduct the New York Philharmonic on January 17–20, 2018 in an all-Ravel program featuring the famous Boléro, for sure and also the Piano Concerto for the Left Hand starring pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

An important new production in Prague, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro staged by Magdalena Svecová will be premiered at Stavovské divadlo in February 2018.

Major event this evening at the Wiener Staatsoper with the 999th performance of Richard Strauss’ masterpiece Der Rosenkavalier on Vienna’s and the world’s major opera stage.

The sun is probably shining on Sydney Opera House’s roofs ready to welcome the production of Lehár’s Die lustige Witwe (The Merry Widow) from January 02nd, starring soprano Danielle de Niese as Hanna Glavari.

So sad for the Met, Bryn Terfel has to withdraw from the new production of Puccini’s Tosca due to vocal fatigue. Zeljko Lucic replaces as Scarpia in December and January.

On 23 January 2018 at Paris’ Philharmonie Grande Salle Pierre Boulez, Natalie Dessay in recital joins Karine Deshayes, Werner Güra and Laurent Naouri with pianists Philippe Cassard and Cédric Pescia to perform Brahms’ Liebeslieder Walzer.

A classy and dark Don Giovanni is announced at the Wiener Staatsoper from 14 January… great baritone Ludovic Tézier!

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.

On 1-10 Feb at Sydney Opera House, Sydney Symphony Orchestra’s Chief Conductor David Robertson welcomes great pianist Emanuel Ax to celebrate Mozart by performing some of his Piano Concertos.

Great pianist Daniel Barenboim performs Debussy’s Préludes, first book on 15 January at Toulouse’s Halle aux Grains.