![]() ![]() ![]() YOU WILL NOT PLAY WAGNER A young Israeli conductor ignites a storm of controversy when he opts to perform a piece by antisemitic composer Richard Wagner in an international competition held in Israel. Presented by Broadway In Boston at Citizens Bank Opera House. The unified artistic vision of Vermont native Anaïs Mitchell (music, lyrics, and book) and director Rachel Chavkin, combined with a topnotch cast, adds up to an entrancing evening. HADESTOWN Songcraft and stagecraft meet and marry, with each element exquisitely reinforcing and enlarging the other, in this Tony-winning, folk- and jazz-infused retelling of the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice, entwined with the tale of King Hades and his restless wife Persephone. 61, ASHMONT HILL CHAMBER MUSIC Cellist Sterling Elliott and pianist Wynona Yinuo Wang grace Peabody Hall with music by Cesar Franck, Robert Schumann, Brian Raphael Nabors, and more. 1 and the American premiere of Jörg Widmann’s “Towards Paradise (Labyrinth VI),” a BSO co-commission (Nov. ![]() Next week, music director Andris Nelsons returns to Symphony Hall to conduct Mahler’s Symphony No. 61, BOSTON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Conductor Roderick Cox makes his BSO debut this week in lieu of Ton Koopman as principal clarinet William Hudgins takes center stage in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto (Nov. 61, KEVIN LOWENTHALīROOKLYN RIDER The forward-thinking string quartet continues its Celebrity Series of Boston residency and welcomes tenor Nicholas Phan to the stage for the Boston premieres of Rufus Wainwright’s “Trois valses anglaises” and Nico Muhly’s “Stranger ” the program concludes with Schubert’s thrilling “Death and the Maiden” string quartet. DAYMÉ AROCENA MEETS BERKLEE The Havana-born Afro-Cuban jazz diva, whose voice has drawn comparisons to Celia Cruz and Aretha Franklin, will perform with Berklee students in a concert directed by faculty members Oscar Stagnaro and Matthew Nicholl. The Lilypad, 1353 Cambridge St., Cambridge. 61, STAN STRICKLAND & JOSH ROSEN QUARTET The playful to profound quartet of saxophonist-vocalist Strickland and pianist Rosen, with bassist Bruno Råberg and drummer Dave Fox, will play new compositions, reworked classics, and their “Be Here Now Suite.” Nov. First Parish Church, 75 Great Road, Bedford. With pianist Connor accompanying singers Sears, Michelle Deluise, Wes Hunter, Caryn May, Cynthia Mork, Julia Zerbinetta Nelson, Nate Ramsayer, and Ethan Sagin. STUART MUNROĪMERICAN CLASSICS: HIGH HOPES Helmed by musician/scholars Benjamin Sears and Bradford Connor, the American Songbook specialists return to in-person performance with an evening of numbers from Lerner and Loewe to Sheryl Crow, Irving Berlin to Jimmy Buffett. Don’t miss the Mastersons, who open Thursday’s show. THE JAYHAWKS Is it remarkable that a band has put out something as strong as “XOXO” 11 albums into their recording career? Maybe, maybe not, but with the album’s change-up - for the first time, all four band members contributing on both the songwriting and the vocal fronts - “XOXO” maintains the band’s vintage rusticized-Beatles sound while roaming as wide, and rocking as hard, as it ever has.
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