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.

One of the highlights of the Baden-Baden Autumn Festival from 10 to 12 November 2017 no doubt is Puccini’s La Bohème conducted by amazing chef Teodor Currentzis.

A 7 years waiting and finally Berlin’s iconic Staatsoper unter den Linden opens its doos again on 3 Octobre with performances of Schumann’s Szenen aus Goethes Faust staged by Jürgen Flimm and conducted by Daniel Barenboim.

Great conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim performs for the first time with his West-Eastern Divan Orchestra at the London’s Royal Festival Hall for the first time on 28 and 29 October two concerts in tribute to cellist Jacqueline du Pré and in aid of Multiple Sclerosis Society.