Daniel Barenboim, Itzhak Perlman, and Yo-Yo Ma in an all-Beethoven concert

Berliner Philharmoniker

• Berlin Philharmonie (Berlin, Germany)

The Ninth Symphony by Maurice Béjart, music by Beethoven

With the Béjart Ballet Lausanne and the Tokyo Ballet

• NHK Hall (Tokyo, Japan)

Lully's Atys

Jean-Marie Villégier (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Bernard Richter (Atys), Emmanuelle de Negri (Sangaride), Paul Agnew (Dieu du Som...

• Opéra-comique (Paris, France)

Giordano's Andrea Chénier

Lamberto Puggelli (stage director), Riccardo Chailly (conductor) – With José Carreras (Andrea Chénier), Eva Marton (Maddalena di Coigny)...

• Teatro alla Scala (Milan, Italy)

George Benjamin's Written On Skin

George Benjamin (conductor), Katie Mitchell (stage director) – With Christopher Purves (The Protector), Barbara Hannigan (Agnès)...

Sir András Schiff conducts and performs Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven

Verbier Festival 2016

Verdi's Don Carlos

Luc Bondy (stage director), Sir Antonio Pappano (conductor) – With Roberto Alagna (Don Carlos), Thomas Hampson (Rodrigo)...

• Théâtre du Châtelet (Paris, France)

Puccini's Manon Lescaut

Götz Friedrich (stage director), Giuseppe Sinopoli (conductor) – With Plácido Domingo (Chevalier des Grieux), Kiri Te Kanawa (Manon Lescaut)...

Daphnis et Chloé by Benjamin Millepied, music by Maurice Ravel

Aurélie Dupont (Chloé), Hervé Moreau (Daphnis), Eleonora Abbagnato (Lycénion)... – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris

Purcell's Dido and Æneas

Deborah Warner (stage director), William Christie (conductor) – With Malena Ernman (Dido), Christopher Maltman (Aeneas)...

• Opéra-comique (Paris, France)

Monteverdi's L’Orfeo

Paul Agnew (conductor and stage director) – Cyril Auvity (Orfeo), Hannah Morrison (Euridice/La Musica)...

• Théâtre de Caen (Caen, France)

Janáček's The Makropulos Case

Andrew Davis (conductor), Nikolaus Lehnhoff (stage director) – With Anja Silja (Emilia Marty), Kim Begley (Albert Gregor)...

Cinderella by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Prokofiev

With Aurélia Schaefer (Cinderella), Francesco Nappa (Prince), Bernice Coppieters (Fairy/Mother) – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

Verdi's Aida

Sam Wanamaker (stage director), Garcia Navarro (conductor) – With Margaret Price (Aida), Luciano Pavarotti (Radamès), Simon Estes (Amonsaro)...

• San Francisco Opera (San Francisco, California, USA)

Scheherazade by Jean-Christophe Maillot, music by Rimsky-Korsakov

Bernice Coppieters (Zobéïde), Jérôme Marchand (The Sultan Shariar), Oliviers Lucea (The big Eunuch)... – Les Ballets de Monte-Carlo

La Sylphide by August Bournonville, music by Herman Løvenskiold

Lis Jeppesen (La Sylphide), Nikolaj Hübbe (James), Sorella Englund (Madge) – Royal Danish Ballet

• Royal Danish Theatre (Copenhagen, Denmark)

Kent Nagano conducts Bruckner's Symphony No. 4

Orchestre symphonique de Montréal

Tugan Sokhiev conducts Beethoven and Berlioz – With Christian Zacharias

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Lionel Bringuier conducts Dean and Beethoven

Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich

• Tonhalle Zürich (Zürich, Switzerland)

Leonidas Kavakos, Gautier Capuçon, and Daniil Trifonov perform Schumann, Rachmaninov, and Smetana

Verbier Festival 2016

Joshua Weilerstein conducts Saint-Saëns and Bizet – With George Li

Verbier Festival 2016

Exhibition by Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and Ma mère l'Oye by Jeroen Verbruggen, music by Ravel

Royal Ballet of Flanders

• Flanders Opera (Andwerp, Belgium)

The Goat Rodeo Sessions Live

With Yo-Yo Ma, Stuart Duncan, Edgar Meyer, Chris Thile, and Aoife O'Donovan

• Seji Ozawa Hall (Tanglewood, Massachusetts, USA)

Julien Chauvin plays and conducts Haydn, Sarti, Guénin, and Bach – With Sandrine Piau

Le Concert de la Loge

Tugan Sokhiev conducts Brahms' Piano Concerto No. 2 and Symphony No. 1 – With Kotaro Fukuma

Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse

Matthias Goerne and Markus Hinterhäuser perform Schubert's Winterreise

William Kentridge (stage direction and visual creation)

Zoltán Kocsis conducts Liszt and Dvořák – With Denis Matsuev

Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra

La Source by Jean-Guillaume Bart after Ludwig Minkus, music by Léo Delibes

Ludmila Pagliero (Naïla), Karl Paquette (Djémil), Isabelle Ciaravola (Nouredda)... – Opéra national de Paris

Les Enfants du paradis by José Martinez, music by Marc-Olivier Dupin

Isabelle Ciaravola (Garance), Mathieu Ganio (Baptiste), Karl Paquette (Frédérick Lemaître)... – Corps de Ballet de l'Opéra national de Paris