Two operas in concert version opens the new 2017-2018 of the Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor as Jessica Pratt (on 12 September) and Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito conducted by Teodor Currentzis (on 15).

From 15 September in Gent and then in Antwerpen, the Opera Ballet Vlaanderen performs a new production the other Erich Korngold’s masterpiece, Das Wunder der Heliane conducted by Alexander Joel and directed by David Bösch

In Geneva, the firts event of the new season is the Figaro/Beaumarchais trilogy with from 12 to 26 September at the Opéra des Nations, the performance of Il Barbiere di Siviglia (Rossini), Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart) and Figaro Gets a Divorce (Elena Langer).

A new success of Bel Canto is performed at Montpellier’s Opéra Comédie from 26 September, Rossini’s L’italiana in Algeri is conducted by Michael Schønwandt and directed by David Hermann.

Good job! The Wiener Staatsoper’s subtitles already available in German and English are now available in Italian, French, Russian and Japanese.

The Brussel’s Théâtre de la Monnaie refurbished reopens its doors on 5 September to perform Philippe Boesmans seventh opera Pinocchio, worldpremiered this summer during the Aix Festival

The new season of NYC’s Carnegie Hall begins on 4 October with a Gala concert with Philadelphia Orchestra conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin and starring piano superstar Lang Lang performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.

The autumn season of the Teatro alla Scala begins on 2 September with a masterpiece of German opera, Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel staged by Sven-Eric Bechtolf and conducted by Marc Albrecht

At Wiener Staatsoper in January 2018, soprano Sabine Devieilhe performs as Marie in Donizetti’s La Fille du Régiment but announced tenor Javier Camarena as Tonio canceled, John Tessier replaces.

Before the highly anticipated Don Carlos, the Paris National Opera opens his new season with two revivals productions, in Bastille Opera Die lustige witwe starring Véronique Gens and Thomas Hampson and in Palais Garnier, Mozart’s Così fan tutte staged by choreographer Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker performed by Jacquelyn Wagner and Cyrille Dubois