Gustavo Dudamel steadily ups his commitments with the New York Philharmonic. Carnegie Hall celebrates the inimitable Arvo Pärt. And the Metropolitan Opera again begins its season with a score by a living composer.
Here are some of the highlights of a typically busy fall music calendar. (Locations are in Manhattan unless otherwise specified, and dates are subject to change.)
September
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL IN NEW YORK You can practically hear the New York Philharmonic counting down the days until Dudamel becomes its music and artistic director for real. The wait is nearly over — but not yet. (He takes over in fall 2026.) Still, Dudamel will open the Philharmonic’s season, leading two programs that look strong on paper: The electrifying young pianist Yunchan Lim joins him for the first one, playing Bartok’s Third Concerto on a bill that also includes a Leilehua Lanzilotti premiere and Ives’s Second Symphony; the second program is intellectually hefty, with Beethoven’s immortal Fifth Symphony preceding John Corigliano’s First, a shattering response to the AIDS epidemic. (Sept. 11-21; David Geffen Hall)
‘THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF KAVALIER & CLAY’ As increasingly seems the norm these days, the Metropolitan Opera opens the curtains on a new year with a work that is contemporary if not wholly a debut. Mason Bates’s adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, with a libretto by Gene Scheer, had its premiere at the Jacobs School of Music in Indiana last year. Expect a handsome staging from Bartlett Sher, with projections by 59 Studio. Miles Mykkanen and Andrzej Filonczyk play the comic book writers confronting the threat of fascism; the Met’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, conducts. (Sept. 21-Oct. 11; Metropolitan Opera)
GUSTAVO DUDAMEL IN LOS ANGELES As Dudamel conducts an extended hello at Lincoln Center, he continues his long goodbye at Walt Disney Concert Hall, where his tenure with the Los Angeles Philharmonic will end in spring after 17 transformative years. His first programs of the year have typical panache: Strauss’s vertiginous “An Alpine Symphony” is paired with the premiere of Ellen Reid’s “Earth Between Oceans”; Stravinsky’s pulverizing “Rite of Spring” follows a new piece by John Adams, “Frenzy”; and Mahler’s Second Symphony, the “Resurrection” — well, that stands alone. (Sept. 27-Oct. 12; Walt Disney Concert Hall, Los Angeles)
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