From string quartets to symphony orchestras,\u00a0the classic arts scene in New York is never quiet. Here is just a sampling of some of the classic arts events happening this week.<\/p>\n
Louis Langr\u00e9e will conduct the Orchestra of St. Luke’s in a performance of Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique at Carnegie Hall on November 5. The five-movement programmatic symphony will be the third piece on an all-Berlioz program which also includes the overture to Les francs-juges and the song cycle Les nuits d’\u00e9t\u00e9, with tenor Benjamin Bernheim.<\/p>\n
The Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble will perform at Carnegie Hall’s Weill Recital Hall on November 5, let by conductor Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin. The program will include Jan\u00e1\u010dek’s String Quartet No. 2, and Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden” quartet, as arranged for string orchestra by Mahler.<\/p>\n
Pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet will join the New York Philharmonic this week to perform Franz Liszt<\/a>‘s Piano Concerto No. 2, with performances November 4-7 at David Geffen Hall. Rafael Payare will conduct the program, which will also include Anton Bruckner’s Symphony No. 9.<\/p>\n Performances continue at the Metropolitan Opera this week of Cherubini’s Medea, Puccini’s Tosca, and Missy Mazzoli’s Lincoln in the Bardo. Mazzoli’s opera, based on the novel by George Saunders, had its world premiere October 19, opening to rave reviews. Baritone Peter Mattei stars as Abraham Lincoln in the Lileana Blain-Cruz<\/a> helmed production. Medea and Tosca are both presented in revivals of productions by David McVicar, and respectively star sopranos Sonya Yoncheva and Saioa Hern\u00e1ndez, the latter making her Met debut.<\/p>\n Collectio Musicorum will give a concert of operetta excerpts on November 6 at Christ and St. Stephen’s Church on the Upper West Side. The free concert will feature selections from Gilbert and Sullivan’s The Yeomen of the Guard; Franz Lehar’s The Merry Widow; Emmerich Kalman<\/a>‘s Gr\u00e4fin Mariza; Andre Messager<\/a>‘s La Basoche; Offenbach’s Orph\u00e9e aux Enfers and La P\u00e9richole; and Handel’s Imeneo.<\/p>\n Death of Classical presents Ellis Ludwig-Leone’s Quiet Hours at the Riverside Church’s Christ Chapel on November 7. Ludwig-Leone composed the cycle of nine nocturnes for nine pianist friends, each of whom will play their respective nocturn at the November 7 performances. The list includes Ludwig-Leone, Timo Andres<\/a>, Han Chen, Aaron Diehl, Simone Dinnerstein, David Kaplan, Lisa Kaplan, Dan Schlosberg, and Adam Tendler<\/p>\n