Major event on 08-11 March, at Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw a Shostakovich and Stravinsky concert is conducted by great Italian conductor Riccardo Chailly leading the famous Koninklijk Concertgebouworkest he used to run as Director from 1988 to 2004.

Major event at Stavovské divadlo, the Prague State Theatre, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro always presented since January 1787 is about to be performed in a new production by Magdalena Svecová, who will be the first woman in the history of the Národní divadlo to direct a production of Le nozze di Figaro!

After Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui’s choreography, another splendid Boléro is performed at Paris’ Opéra Bastille from 24 February, by great master of choreography Maurice Béjart who shares this Ravel evening with Daphnis et Chloé and choreography by Benjamin Millepied. Young and talented conducter Maxime Pascal conducts.

On 25, 28 February and 3 March at Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Ludovic Tézier performs as Alphonse XI in Donizetti’s La Favorite with a beautiful cast : Clémentine Margaine and Matthew Polenzani.

From 24 February to 17 March, Juan Diego Flórez is the king of la Scala de Milano where he performed as Orphée in the French version of Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice.

At Munich’s Bayerische Staatsoper, Anja Harteros is unfaithful to Jonas Kaufmann she might prefer French tenor Jean-François Borras to lead the dance in Verdi’s Un ballo in maschera, on 24 February, 1 & 4 March.

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.

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…

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