Christian Senn appears as Achilla in Handel’s Giulio Cesare in a production conducted by Giovanni Antonini and staged by Robert Carsen.
Dates: 18 October – 2 November

Guillaume Tourniaire returns to Sydney to conduct Le Nozze di Figaro.
Dates: from 18 October to 2 November

Diego Fasolis conducts Die Zauberflöte and La Scala’s production of La Finta giardiniera with Roberta Mameli (Arminda) and Lucia Cirillo (Ramiro) for the Shanghai Grand Theatre.
The Orchestra led by Maestro Fasolis consists of his own period-instrument ensemble I Barocchisti and members of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala.
La Finta giardiniera: 18, 20, 22 October
Die Zauberflöte: 25, 27, 28 October

Julien and Cécile direct and design the set, costumes and lighting of a new production of Les Pêcheurs de perles by Georges Bizet at Teatro Regio Turin.
Ugo Guagliardo is to be heard in the role of Nourabad.
Dates: 3, 6, 8, 17, 20 October

Diego Godoy returns to the Bolshoi Theatre to reprise the role of Il Conte di Libenskof in Rossini’s Viaggio a Reims conducted by Tugan Sokhiev.
Dates: 10, 12, 13 October

Raffaele Pe is Acrimante, Raffaella Milanesi appears as Atamira and Roberta Invernizzi as Ipomene in Alessandro Melani’s Empio punito conducted by Carlo Ipata and staged by Jacopo Spirei at the Teatro Verdi in Pisa.
Dates: 12, 13 October

Discover Stefano Poda’s mise-en-scène encompassing direction, set design, costume, lighting and choreography of Jacques Offenbach’s Contes d’Hoffmann at the Lausanne Opera.
Dates: 29 September; 2, 4, 6, 9 October

We discover Riccardo Novaro as Bartolo in Il Barbiere di Siviglia in a production staged by Pierre-Emmanuel Rousseau. Antonello Allemandi takes he helm of the Orchestre de l’Opéra de Rouen Normandie.
Dates: 27, 29 September; 1, 3, 5 October

The Autumn Festival of Festspielhaus Baden-Baden opens with Gluck’s Orphée et Eurydice featuring Arianna Vendittelli as Eurydice.
Alessandro De Marchi leads the Freiburger Barockorchester and choreographer John Neumeier introduces himself to his Baden-Baden audience for the first time as an opera director.
Dates: 27, 28, 29 September

Accompanied by Les Talens Lyriques conducted by Christophe Rousset, Karina brings to life the Handel roles of Poppea (Agrippina) and Cleopatra (Giulio Cesare):
George Enescu Festival, Bucharest: 20, 21 September
Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, Paris: 24 September
Festival de musique baroque d’Ambronay: 28 September