The rest of the classical-music season – stretching to June – is packed with promising events, and I will give you my sense of the highlights. Bear in mind: I could be wrong (as I have been before – once or twice).

Since I am honest about these matters – not going for “balance,” etc. – I’m going to give you a lot of James Levine. In fact, do you want to get him out of the way, right up top?

He will lead the Metropolitan Opera orchestra in three concerts at Carnegie Hall (January 8, January 29, and May 14). He will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in that same hall on March 6; that program includes Beethoven’s Ninth.At the Metropolitan Opera, he will lead “Fidelio” (starting on March 20), “Don Pasquale” (March 31),”Lohengrin” (April 17), and “Parsifal” (May 12).That “Don Pasquale” is a new production. And if you haven’t heard Mr. Levine’s “Fidelio,” you have an edifying experience in store.

Of course, his “Parsifal” isn’t exactly a dog either.

Continuing with opera: Angela Gheorghiu will star in the Met’s “Traviata” (beginning on February 4). Placido Domingo will give us his Samson, in “Samson et Dalila” (February 10). Valery Gergiev will lead a rarely seen Tchaikovsky opera, “Mazeppa” (March 6).And on May 20, the Met will stage “A Gala Performance Honoring Joseph Volpe” (the retiring general manager) (“retiring” in one sense). That should be interesting. It may even be great.

At City Opera, we will have a new Mark Adamo work, “Lysistrata” (March 21).And the Brooklyn Academy of Music will bring us Handel’s “Hercules,” conducted by William Christie, with a cast including Joyce DiDonato, the sensational young American mezzo-soprano (February 14).

Back to Carnegie Hall? If you have not seen Marilyn Horne conduct a master class, do so on January 24. On February 7, we will have a recital by Emmanuel Pahud, the superb flutist, and Yefim Bronfman, the superb pianist. On February 13,Dame Felicity Lott will sing a recital, accompanied by Graham Johnson. On Valentine’s Day, Mariss Jansons will lead the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, the “Leningrad.”

This is a stranger work for Valentine’s Day than “Hercules”!

On March 15, the pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will play a recital.When he’s good, he’s unsurpassed. When he’s not good, he’s still good. On March 18, the bass-baritone Thomas Quasthoff will sing a recital. On April 25, Midori will present a violin recital, with her (excellent) pianist, Robert McDonald. That same evening – different stage within Carnegie Hall – Olga Borodina will sing a recital with her bass husband, Ildar Abdrazakov. The next night, Lang Lang will play a piano recital. Who knows, with that quirky kid?

And on May 20, the violinist Maxim Vengerov will give a program of Mozart, Beethoven, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich.That shouldn’t miss.

The offerings of Great Performers at Lincoln Center are nearly mouth-watering. Here’s a sampling: Sir John Eliot Gardiner will lead the Orchestre Revolutionnaire et Romantique and the Monteverdi Choir in two immortal Mozart works: the C-minor Mass and the Requiem (January 22). Stephen Hough will play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 14 in E flat with I Musici (February 26). Yefim Bronfman will play the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Russian National Orchestra (March 5). The Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir will sing a program including two works of Arvo Part and the Vespers of Rachmaninoff. (That concert is at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, on March 19.)

And, starting April 27, the Emerson String Quartet will play the complete string quartets of Shostakovich. It’s his centenary, you know.

Sticking with Lincoln Center, the Chamber Music Society will give us David Finckel, cello, and Wu Han, piano, in recital, on February 28. Perhaps the chief interest in this is that they are husband and wife, and recently appointed co-artistic directors of CMS.

The Metropolitan Museum has arranged for a couple of enticing vocal recitals: the tenor Rolando Villazon on February 3, and, jointly, the mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe and the bassbaritone John Relyea on March 17. (No Irish music, as far as I know. Although they might think about a “Danny Boy” duet. Or maybe not.)

And the New York Philharmonic? Music director Lorin Maazel, in my opinion, is underrated in Mozart – certainly when he is on (Mr. Maazel, that is, not Mozart) – and he is conducting his share of all-Mozart programs. In the subscription concert starting February 9, he is leading the last three symphonies.

A guest conductor, Christoph von Dohnanyi, will lead the Philharmonic in Bartok’s “Bluebeard’s Castle” – with Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano, and Matthias Goerne, baritone (March 9). Extraordinary sounds guaranteed. Mr. Maazel will direct the Verdi Requiem (March 29). Mstislav Rostropovich comes to conduct Shostakovich (April 19). On that program is the Violin Concerto No. 1, with Maxim Vengerov.

And Sir Colin Davis will give us his Sibelius: the Symphony No. 3, a great, and greatly underrated, symphony (May 3).

Some of the events I have named could be duds, but I doubt it.And if you spend your money on one thing, let me suggest James Levine’s “Fidelio.” The Finnish soprano Karita Mattila happens to be in the opera, and she is one of the great Leonores of today. But, really: no conductor, no “Fidelio.” And I will tell you frankly that one Levine “Fidelio,” in particular, stands as one of the great and unforgettable musical experiences of my life.

Now watch him lay an egg.