After previously recommending tickets for concerts by pop, chanson and rap stars, here is a selection of classical, jazz and world music events.

Since its inception in 1983 and in keeping with the European dimension of its host city, Strasbourg, the Musica festival has traditionally fostered a strong bond with Germany. This year, however, it will broaden its horizons to the Netherlands by inviting prestigious ensembles (Asko, Schönberg, Klang) and scheduling the historic band De Staat (1972), helmed by leading minimalism figure Louis Andriessen, on its opening night. Musica's Netherland focus will make contemporary music and clubbing coexist by hosting Rewire, the Hague's "electro" festival. However, the festival's geographical roots – and even its national ones, as Musica 2024 is intended to be a political event – will not prevent it from supporting unusual creators like Jennifer Walshe (performance), Benjamin Dupé (in a duo with a neuroscience expert), Benjamin de la Fuente and Samuel Sighicelli (as part of the Caravaggio formation's confrontation with the Percussions de Strasbourg). Let's not forget about François Sarhan, a multi-disciplinary creator who is a bit like Musica 2024's common thread (exhibition, musical theater, concert).

Festival Musica, various venues in Strasbourg. From September 20 to October 2. From €7 to €25. €11 per concert for Carte Musica holders (€25).

Spotted on the opera stage a few years ago, this Anglo-Italian tenor boasts an authentic dramatic tenor voice with a dark, full-bodied timbre and powerful, natural projection. This impressive singer also knows how to use nuance, modulation and interpretation. He naturally embodies the passionate universe of his Italian ancestry, a lyrical heritage anchored in his vocal chords, particularly in the verismo repertoire. Scheduled in a recital as part of the Les Grandes Voix (The Great Voices) series, the winner of the Operalia Competition's prestigious Placido Domingo Prize in 2021, will share the stage with Guatemalan soprano Adriana Gonzalez, also First Prize winner at the 2019 Operalia Competition. Together, they will perform arias by Verdi, Puccini, Cilea and Mascagni, in addition to Bizet, Massenet and Charpentier.

Théâtre des Champs-Elysées, 15 avenue Montaigne, Paris 8th arrondissement. October 7. From €5 to €95.

Quickly praised for his art of purely musical provocation, Thomas Adès earned himself, at 24, a reputation as the enfant terrible of contemporary music with the scandalous opera Powder Her Face. A reputation he has fed from one creation to another, for better (the impressive Exterminating Angel, his third operatic work, revived in February at the Opéra de Paris) and for worse (the forgettable Märchentanze for piano). In October 2021, the Briton gave a disappointing concert as a composer and performer at the Fondation Louis-Vuitton. He will return for a 10-day residency in November when he will be playing the piano and conducting three concerts. This will be a chance to show himself in a better light, with five works (including three French premieres) covering the fields of chamber music (on the 8^th, with the participation of clarinetist Mark Simson and the Diotima quartet), vocal music (on the 12^th, with mezzo-soprano Katalin Karolyi) and orchestra (on the 16^th, with the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen). A public master class (on 9) on piano and composition will complete the portrait of the man who, at 53, remains a difficult creator to pin down

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