From Prague to the fantasy land of Pa'gæn, the classic arts scene in New York is never quiet. Here is just a sampling of some of the classic arts events happening this week.

Utopia Opera presents a fantasy-set production of Gilbert and Sullivan's The Mikado October 3-5 at Hunter College's Lang Recital Hall. The co-production with London-based company Forbear! Theatre reimagines Gilbert and Sullivan’s 1885 operetta in a high fantasy-inspired setting, with the characters an assortment of elves, satyrs, and anthropomorphic beasts. In the plot of the opera, Æthel-Rún, secretly the son of the Emperor, is in love with M'na Yum, who is in turn engaged to Klók-Cow, a lowly tailor. Klók-Cow is under sentence of death, but through a remarkable circumstance has also attained the rank of Lord High Executioner. When word comes down from the Emperor that an execution must take place within a month, the characters scramble to find a willing victim.

New York City Ballet presents Masters at Work I, opening September 30. The program features two ballets by the company’s two co-founding choreographers: Jerome Robbins’ The Goldberg Variations, and Georga Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky Suite No. 3. The two ballets are set to the musical works of the same names by J.S. Bach and P.I. Tschaikovsky respectively.

Esa-Pekka Salonen leads the New York Philharmonic this week in a concert of Boulez and Debussy, featuring piano soloist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. The program includes selections from Boulez’ Notations for piano and orchestra, Debussy’s Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra, as well selections from Images, and La Mer. The program will be performed October 3-5 at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall.

Performances continue at the Metropolitan Opera this week of Mason Bates’ The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, which opened last week. Based on Michael Chabon's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name, the opera follows Josef Kavalier and Samuel Klayman, two Jewish cousins who break into the burgeoning comic book industry of the 1930s with the creation of an anti-fascist superhero called The Escapist, inspired by Josef's escape from Nazi-occupied Prague. Baritone Andrzej Filończyk and tenor Miles Mykkanen star as the titular Kavalier and Clay. Performances also continue of Mozart’s Don Giovanni and Puccini’s Turandot. Don Giovanni stars bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the infamous Don Juan whose rakish ways finally catch up to him, while soprano Angela Meade stars in Turandot as the titular princess, opposite tenor Michael Fabiano as the mysterious prince who risks his head to win her hand.

Clarinettist Romie de Guise-Langois will perform Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto at the Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Hall September 29, with the Manhattan School of Music Camerata Nova. The performance will be paired with a conversation between the soloist and host Rob Kapilow diving into the score. The performance and discussion are part of the Kaufman Music Center’s “What Makes It Great?” series.

The Joyce Theater hosts the Arpino Dance Festival this week and next, celebrating choreographer Gerald Arpino. The festival features artists from the Joffrey Ballet, Dance Theatre of Harlem, San Francisco Ballet, Houston Ballet, Ballet West, Oklahoma City Ballet, and the Artistic Ventures in Dance performing a range of Arpino’s signature works.

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