Mozart's The Magic Flute

Riccardo Muti, Pierre Audi – With Diana Damrau (Queen of the Night) and René Pape (Sarastro)...

Rossini's Il barbiere di Siviglia

Annabel Arden (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Danielle de Niese (Rosina), Alessandro Corbelli (Dr Bartolo), Taylor Stayton (Count Alma...

Handel's Rodelinda

Claus Guth (stage director), Ivor Bolton (musical director) – Lucy Crowe (Rodelinda), Bejun Mehta (Bertarido), Jeremy Ovenden (Grimoaldo), Sonia Prina (Edu...

Verdi's Don Carlos

Antonio Pappano, Nicholas Hytner – Rolando Villazón (Don Carlos), Robert Lloyd (Carlos V), Simon Keenlyside (Rodrigo, Marquis of Posa) – Royal Opera House,...

• Royal Opera House, Covent Garden (London, Great Britain)

Puccini's Turandot

Giuliano Carella, Franco Zeffirelli – Maria Guleghina (Princess Turandot), Salvatore Licitra (Calaf), Tamar Iveri (Liù) – Arena di Verona

• Arena di Verona (Verona, Italy)

Massenet's Werther

Michel Plasson, Benoît Jacquot – Jonas Kaufmann (Werther), Sophie Koch (Charlotte)

Handel's Alcina

Adrian Noble, Marc Minkowski – Anja Harteros (Alcina), Veronica Cangemi (Morgana), Vesselina Kasarova (Ruggiero)... – Wiener Staatsoper

• Wiener Staatsoper (Vienna)

Handel's Il Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno

Krzysztof Warlikowski, Emmanuelle Haïm – With Sabine Devieilhe (Bellezza), Franco Fagioli (Piacere), Sara Mingardo (Disinganno)...

Tchaikovsky's Queen of Spades

Michael Boder, Gilbert Deflo – With Misha Didyk (Hermann), Emily Magee (Liza) and Ludovic Tézier (Prince Yeletsky) – Gran Teatre del Liceu

• Gran Teatre del Liceu (Barcelona, Spain)

Mozart's Le Nozze di Figaro

Michael Grandage (stage director), Robin Ticciati (conductor) – With Vito Priante (Figaro), Lydia Teuscher (Suzanne)...

Dvořák's Rusalka

Ádám Fischer, Stefan Herheim – With Myrtò Papatanasiu (Rusalka) and Pavel Černoch (Prince)

Donizetti's Don Pasquale

Mariame Clément (stage director), Enrique Mazzola (conductor) – With Alessandro Corbelli (Don Pasquale), Danielle de Niese (Norina)...

Your year in classical music: a 2017 retrospective!

Martha Argerich at Carnegie Hall, Gustavo Dudamel conducts Beethoven's symphonies, Joyce DiDonato sings In War and Peace...