At Zurich Opera from 25 February Wagner is at the top with the revival of Parsifal staring Nina Stemme as Kundry.

She was making her debut as an opera director, film maker Sofia Coppola’s production of Verdi’s La Traviata is back at Roma’s Teatro dell’Opera from 24 February.

Great event on 24 & 26 February at Berlin’s Deutsche Oper a concert version of Cilea’s rare opera, L’Arlesiana is performed by superb Maltese tenor Joseph Calleja as Federico.

From 24 February, the Wiener Staatsoper opens his stage to a new 100 % baroque production with Händel’s Ariodante staged by David McVicar and conducted by William Christie with Les Arts Florissants and a beautiful cast : Sarah Connolly, Chen Reiss, Christophe Dumaux…

An exceptional pianist in reciatl at Aix-en-Provence’s Grand Théâtre de Provence, on 4 February, Nikolaï Lugansky performs Schumann, Chopin and Rachmaninov, a recital not to be missed !

On 24, 26 & 29 March, great baritone Thomas Hampson performs as Don Alfonso in Mozart’s Così fan tutte de Mozart at Bayerische Staatsoper.

Hosted by soprano Natalie Dessay, the final of the great French Contest “Voix Nouvelles” who awarded the amazing Natalie, Karine Deshayes, Anne-Catherine Gillet or Stéphane Degout among others, will be hel on 10 February at Paris’ Opéra Comique and live on Facebook.

It is still time to party in Venezia where Lehár’s masterpiece Die lustige Witwe (or The Merry Widow or La vedova allegra) is performed from 2 February (promo) at gorgious Teatro La Fenice sateged by Damiano Michieletto and conducted by Stefano Montanari.

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).

A superb diptyc is announced at Brussel’s La Monnaie / De Munt from 6 March, Damiano Michieletto’s production of Cavalleria rusticana & Pagliacci is conducted by Evelino Pidò starring soprano Ainhoa Arteta as Nedda and Eva-Maria Westbroek & Alex Penda sharing the role of Santuzza.