Sarah Tynan will make her role debut singing Sophie in David McVicar’s production of Der Rosenkavalier for English National Opera. The premiere on 22 May will be conducted by Edward Gardner and the rest of the cast includes Sarah Connolly, John Tomlinson and Janice Watson.

On 25 May Susan Bickley will appear at the Brighton Festival singing Mahler’s Symphony No.2 with the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Sir Andrew Davis.

Jane Dutton returns to the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcleona this month to sing Waltraute in Wagner’s Die Walküre alongside Placido Domingo, Waltraud Meier, Rene Pape and Alan Held. Sebastian Weigle will conduct and the premiere is on 28 May.

On 18 May Simona Mihai will make her Glyndebourne Festival debut singing Virtu in a new production of L’incoronazione di Poppea directed by Robert Carsen and conducted by Emmanuelle Haim. Danielle de Niese and Alice Coote also star.

Andrew Kennedy will premiere works from his new “Dark Pastoral” disc in a recital on 23 May at the Brighton Festival. Julius Drake will accompany him at the piano in the programme of English Song which includes works by Ivor Gurney, William Denis Browne and Eugene Goosens.

Chris Gillett will sing Louis Andreissens De Materie with the Schoenberg Ensemble in Rotterdam on 29 May and at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam on 4 June. Reinbert de Leeuw will conduct the performances.

On 13 May Leigh Melrose will make his debut at the Gran Teatre del Liceu, Barcelona, in Willyl Decker’s new production of Britten’s Death in Venice conducted by Sebastian Weigle.

On 29 and 30 May, Michael Colvin will sing Beethoven’s ninth symphony with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra conducted by Peter Oundjian.

Following his great success in the world premiere of Detlev Galnert’s Caligula, Ashley Holland returns to Frankfurt this month to sing in another contemporary piece, Matthias Pintscher’s L’espace dernier. Paolo Carignani will conduct concert performances in Frankfurt (17 May) and in Cologne (18 May).

On 4 May David Alden's production of Simon Boccanegra will open in Athens for the Greek National Opera.

Russell Braun returns to the Canadian Opera Company on 6 May to sing Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. Jan Latham-Koenig will conduct and Isabel Bayrakdarian will star opposite Russell in the role of Mélisande.

Sarah-Jane Davies will make her European opera debut singing Second Lady in Die Zauberflöte for the Nationale Reisopera. The premiere will be on 25 May.

On 16 May Matthew Best will take part in a concert of Wagner extracts with the RTÉ National Symphony Orchestra of Ireland conducted by Patrik Ringborg. Irene Theorin will join Matthew for the programme which includes extracts from Der Ring des Nibelungen.