Great soprano Angela Gheorghiu hopefully performs a song recital with orchestra at the Liège Royal Opera on 24 May.

From 2-11 May, Brussels’ Palais des Beaux-Arts gives a tribute to Bach with his Festival Bach Heritage conductor Philippe Herreweghe who turns 70 will be celebrated also. Artists such as Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Christoph Prégardien, Jean Rondeau, Herbert Schuch and Martin Helmchen or the Café Zimmermann ensemble conducted by Céline Frisch performs.

No Elisir d’amore for tenor Rolando Villazón who for medical reasons has withdrawn from singing the role of Nemorino on 27 and 30 May and 3 and 6 June, at the Royal Opera House – Covent Garden. Armenian tenor Liparit Avetisyan replaces in Laurent Pelly’s production starring wonderful soprano Pretty Yende as Adina.

No European Ariodante for Joyce DiDonato who has withdrawn from her European tour with Harry Bicket and the English Consort, Alice Coote replaces on May 18th.

When brother and sister join on stage… At Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 13 & 14 May Joshua Weilerstein conducts the Nederlands Philharmonisch Orkest in Shostakovich’s Cello concerto starring cellist Alisa Weilerstein, his older sister.

Rising star conductor Jakub Hrusa makes his New York Philharmonic debut on May 25–27 by performing a Dvorák and Janácek programme

Debut at the Met, AJ Glueckert performs as Erik in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer on April 25, 29 matinee, May 4, and 8, he replaces Jay Hunter Morris

On 7 May at Philharmonie Berlin, great violinist Gil Shaham performs Beethoven’s Violin Concerto with the Rundfunk-Sinfonieorchester Berlin conducted by John Storgårds.

Waiting for its reopening, the Paris’ Opéra Comique is now announcing the next opera production, a really rare opera from Camille Saint-Saëns, Le Timbre d’argent, (from 09 to 19 June) conducted by great French conductor François-Xavier Roth

Great American mezzo Joyce DiDonato is back on tour this May with baroque repertoire conducted by Maxim Emelyanychev and Il Pomo d’Oro, on 15/5 at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Berlin Philharmonie on 30/5, Madrid Teatro Real on 2/6, etc.