This is the end, Marc Minkowski conducting the Musiciens du Louvre and Ivan Alexandre directing ends the Mozart/Da Ponte trilogy at the Opéra Royal de Versailles from 8 to 12 November with Cosi fan tutte.

Radu Lupu’s piano recital scheduled on 1 June at Paris’ Philharmonie Grande salle Pierre Boulez is potsponed to 11 June.

In Montpellier, the next concert conducted by Michael Schønwandt whose contract as Principal conductor of the Opéra Orchestre national Montpellier Occitanie has been extended till 2021, will be held on 10 November at Le Corum starring great pianist Nelson Freire.

At Paris’ Palais Garnier from 15 November to 25 December 2017, the perfect revival of Willy Decker’s production of Mozart’s La Clemenza di Tito is performed by sharing the roles: Ramón Vargas & Michael Spyres (Tito), Stéphanie d’Oustrac & Marianne Crebassa (Sesto), Amanda Majeski & Aleksandra Kurzak (Vitellia), etc.

To succeed Jirí Belohlávek as Chief Conductor and Music Director of the Czech Philharmonic, it’s not Jakub Hrusa as we hoped (he has been named Principal Guest Conductor) but Semyon Bychkov.

A great grand is announced, fantastic pianist Daniil Trifonov performs in perfect Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw on 3 December a piano récital with works by Chopin, Rachmaninov & Tchaikovsky… To book urgently!

The Teatro Regio Torino performs a superb concert version of Verdi’s Macbeth at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées on 24 October dark as it should conducted by Maestro Gianandrea Noseda starring Dalibor Jenis and Anna Pirozzi, the new verdian voice…

Opera Australia in residence at Capitol Theatre from October 24 to November 4, 2017 performs Puccini’s overwhelming Madama Butterfly with Karah Son and Hyeseoung Kwon sharing the role of Cio-Cio-San.

A superb song recital is announced at Brussels La Monnaie-De Munt on 6 November 2017, splendid mezzo Karine Deshayes performs an original programme of Lierder by Mozart and Schubert but also également Weber, Spohr, Kreisler and Kreutzer.