Finally in Paris! the exceptional baritone Bryn Terfel performs as Falstaff at Opéra Bastille from 26 October ; Dominique Pitoiset’s production is conducted by Maestro Fabio Luisi!

Legendary Franco Zeffirelli’s production of Puccini’s Turandot returns to the Metropolitan Opera from October 12 starring Oksana Dyka and Aleksandrs Antonenko, and from March 21 starring Martina Serafin and Marcelo Álvarez.

A rare pianist is to perform at Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts on 25 October, young and very talented pianist Igor Levit is performing a new concert from his all-Beethoven Sonatas cycle.

The first opera on stage of the 2017-2018 season at the Opéra de Nice is Donizetti’s L’Elisir d’amore staged by Eric Chevalier from 22 November.

Thomas Jolly’s production of Offenbach’s Fantasio is performed at Geneva’s Théâtre des Nations from 3 to 20 November with Katija Dragojevic as Fantasio.

Philippe Maillard Productions performs from October 2017 to May 2018, at Paris’ Salle Gaveau the best Beethoven’s piano sonatas performed by Alexander Paley (19/10), Emmanuelle Swiercz (17/11), Jean-Marc Luisada (14/12), David Lively (26/1), Ludmila Berlinskaïa (2/2), Olivier Cavé (8/2), Denis Pascal (23/3) and Vardan Mamikonian (25/5).

On 25 October, in the Grande salle Pierre Boulez at Paris’ Philharmonie, famous pianist Hélène Grimaud performs a Woodlands and beyond recital… with Mat Hennek’s pictures to illustrate music from Berio, Ravel, Takemitsu, Berg, Debussy…

Great artists Peter Sellars and Simon Rattle meet again for the lovely Janáček’s opera The Cunning Little Vixen this time, at Berlin’s Philharmonie on 12-14 October (starring Gerald Finley, Lucy Crowe, Angela Denoke, etc.).

The Grands Interprètes serie at Toulouse’s la Halle aux Grains invites superb German violinist Isabelle Faust to perform Mozart’s concertos Nos. 1 & 5 with Giovanni Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico, on 20 October 2017.

Congrats to the Opéra national de Lyon whos has been named Opernhaus der Jahres (Opera of the Year) by the German magazine Opernwelt.