From Bernard Herrmann to Bizet's Carmen, 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.

Carmen returns to the Metropolitan Opera beginning October 28, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard making her house role debut as the titular cigarette-factory-worker-turned-smuggler. Tenor Michael Fabiano, who just concluded a run as Calaf in Turandot, will play Don Jose, the soldier whom Carmen induces to join her life of crime. Adam Plachetka plays the bullfighter Escamillo, with soprano Kristina Mkhitaryan rounding out the principal cast as Don Jose's former sweetheart Micaëla. Fabien Gabel makes his Met debut conducting the revival of Carrie Cracknell's production, which reimagines the classic opera in a modern setting.

This week at the Met also sees the season's final performances of La Sonnambula. The new production by Rolando Villazón opened earlier this month to positive reviews. Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as Amina, the titular somnambulist, with tenor Xabier Anduaga as her fiance Elvino.

The New York Philharmonic's popular Art of the Score series kicks off this week with three performances of Psycho in concert, October 30–November 1. Stephen Mulligan will conduct the orchestra in Bernard Herrmann's iconic film score, performed live to a screening of the Hitchcock thriller.

American Ballet Theatre's fall season at the David H. Koch Theatre concludes this week with a program titled ABT@85: Innovations Past and Present. The program will include the world premiere of Juliano Nunes' Have We Met?!, a time-bending love story set to a score by Luke Howard. The program will also include Alexei Ratmansky's Serenade after Plato's Symposium, set to the violin concerto of the same name by Leonard Bernstein. ABD will also present a special Halloween program October 31, which will include Agnes de Mille's Rodeo, Frederick Ashton's Rhapsody pas de deux, and George Balanchine's Theme and Variations.

Works & Process at the Guggenheim will showcase a preview of Tobias Picker's opera Lili Elbe October 27, which is set to have its American premiere at Santa Fe Opera in 2026. The opera, with a libretto by Aryeh Lev Stollman, tells the true story of Lili Elbe, a Danish painter who became one of the first people to receive gender-affirming surgery. The Works & Process presentation will include a conversation with members of the production's creative team, and performances of selections from the opera.

The American Composers Orchestra presents an evening of new works, including four world premieres, at Carnegie Hall October 29. Mélisse Brunet will conduct the orchestra in the world premieres of Aaron Israel Levin's Lear in the Storm, Mazz Swift's Memory FIVE: Freedom Initiate for Conductrix and Orchestra, Elijah Daniel Smith's The Fall of Ideals, and Tamar Muskal's Square Of for Voice, Interactive Kinetic Sculpture, and Orchestra, with soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon and an interactive kinetic sculpture by Daniel Rozin. The concert will also include the New York premiere of Raven Chacon's Inscription.

The Philadelphia Orchestra kicks off its 2025-2026 Carnegie Hall season October 31 with pianist Emanuel Ax performing Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the concert, which will also include Brahms' Symphony No. 4 and William Grant Still's Wood Notes. Carnegie Hall will also host performances this week from the Seoul Philharmonic Orchestra (October 27), Ensemble Connect (October 28), and London's Philharmonia Orchestra (October 28 and 29).

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