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…

Superb baroque conductor Leonardo Garcia Alarcón performs Carmina Latina (seen in 2016 at the Chapelle du Château de Versailles) is performed by Mariana Florès, Leandro Marziotte, Emiliano Gonzalez Toro et Matteo Bellotto, at the Opéra de Dijon on 7 January 2018.

Two great artists at Brussel’s Palais des Beaux-Arts on 12 December, Fazil Say and Nicolas Altstaedt performs works by Debussy, Janacek, Chostakovitch and Fazil Say himself.

Incredible ! On 24 January 2018 the Orchestra of La Scala Milan performs for the first time at London’s Barbican Hall, thanks to Maestro Riccardo Chailly brings the orchestra overseas to perfom Rossini, Tchaikovsky and Grieg’s famous Piano Concerto starring Benjamin Grosvenor.

Baritone Stéphane Degout is now a master of the mélodies and Lieder who will perform Fauré, Brahms and Schumann’s Kerner Lieder at the Opéra de Lyon on 3 December.

At Berlin’s Konzerthaus on 9 December, young russian violinist Alina Pogostkina performs for the first time with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by Osmo Vänskä to perform Nielsen’s concerto and Sibelius’ En Saga a Symphony No. 2.

Good news, Maestro Josep Pons did it again, his contract as music director of the Liceu until is extended till 2021-22 season.

Drama at Sydney Opera House from 29 November to 2 December where the doors of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle opens thanks to David Robertson who conducts the Sydney Symphony Orchestra with John Relyea and Michelle DeYoung.