Superb mezzo Joyce DiDonato is back at New York’s Carnegie Hall on 30 April to perform Handel’s Ariodante in a concert version conducted by Harry Bicket and co-starring also soprano Christiane Karg

Sold out! all tickets to attend Verdi’s Otello at London’s Royal Opera House in June-July 2017 are gone! Antonio Pappano and Keith Warner could be the reason why or maybe it is Maria Agresta, Ludovic Tézier or Jonas Kaufmann perhaps ! Consolation, the performances of June 24 & 28 are filmed.

From 2 April at Zurich Opera, Juan Diego Flórez performs on stage as Werther in Massenet’s opera directed by Tatjana Gürbaca with Anna Stéphany, Mélissa Petit and Audun Iversen

Great talent scout, conductor Jean-Claude Malgoire performs Vivaldi’s Orlando at Paris’ Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, on 19 avril with Amaya Domínguez and Samantha Louis-Jean as Orlando and Angelica