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Amid the virus surge, the company is performing “Rigoletto,” “Le Nozze di Figaro,” “Tosca” and “La Bohème” in close succession.

As the orchestra searches for a new music director, Susanna Mälkki was given the distinction of leading it at Carnegie Hall.

“Voices of the Immaculate,” a new cantata by Kati Agocs performed on Thursday by Lucy Dhegrae, was entirely, word for word, lucid.

Classical music’s most storied annual event will return to prepandemic scale, with more than 200 events over six weeks.

Rolando Villazón, a onetime star plagued by vocal issues, is returning to the house after eight years for “The Magic Flute.”

Andy Akiho’s 11-part, 80-minute new work for percussion quartet is a lush, brooding celebration of noise.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin said a nearly four-week break from the podium would allow “time for me to re-energize” after a busy autumn.

Joshua Bell, playing Beethoven with the New York Philharmonic, is always enjoyable, though never intense or unexpected.

The composer Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl’s teeming, wearying adaptation of her play is a contemporary vision of the Orpheus myth.

Richard Jones’s bleak staging of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” in London offers a clean break from the extravagance of the Met’s most recent production.