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.

Rare pianist Jeffrey Kahane return to the New York Philharmonic to conduct Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 17, on January 4–6 and 9, 2018.

New Music Director designate Jaap van Zweden will opens the New York Philharmonic new season with a gala concert on 19 September and on 22-23, with the NY premiere of Philip Glass’s Concerto for Two Pianos starring Katia and Marielle Labèque.

The Berliner Philharmoniker will perform Haydn’s Die Schöpfung in Lucerne (30/8, KKL Luzern, Concert Hall) and Paris (3/9, Philharmonie Grande salle Pierre Boulez) conducted by Sir Simon Rattle but soprano Genia Kühmeier is ill, Elsa Dreisig replaces.

Riccardo Muti conducting the Berliner Philharmoniker is such an event in Berlin on 24-27 May especially on 27th starring violonist Anne-Sophie Mutter performing Tchaikovsky’s Concerto!

The last concerts with Alan Gilbert conducting the New York Philharmonic are opera performances with the semi-staged performances of Wagner’s Das Rheingold on June 1, 3, and 6, at Lincoln Center (David Geffen Hall) starring Eric Owens as Wotan, Jamie Barton as Fricka and Christopher Purves as Alberich.