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.

The famous Staatskapelle Dresden extended Christian Thielemann’s contract as Principal Conductor till 2024.

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.

Jean-Claude Malgoire and the Grande Écurie et la Chambre du Roy who turned 50 in 2016 are back at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysees on 22 January to perform Haydn’s Die Schöpfung performed by Sandrine Piau, Antoine Bélanger and Alain Buet.

On 7 December, talented conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla performs for the first time at the Philharmonie Berlin and conduts also for the first time the Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin.

From 23 March to 22 April 2018, the Autumn production on Sydney Harbour is Puccini’s La Bohème staged by Andy Morton.

Happy days at the Opéra de Lyon from 15 December with Rossini’s La Cenerentola especially starring Cyrille Dubois as Don Ramiro and Michèle Losier as Cenerentola…