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30 Classical-Music Performances We Can’t Wait to Hear This Fall


Enough to make you reassess classical music’s lineage.

The great soprano plays hooky from her usual home at the Met and, accompanied by pianist Ken Noda, gives a more intimate recital of Spanish and Spanish-ish music by Rossini, Delibes, Nin, and Lecuona. A program of well-buffed classics: Tenor Polenzani sings Schubert’s magnificently tragic song cycle, and members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center perform Schumann’s Piano Quintet. Liverman, who jumped to Met Opera stardom with starring roles in Fire Shut Up in My Bones and X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, brings his own new song cycle to this far more intimate Williamsburg venue, which is celebrating its tenth anniversary.

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