[Read about the events that our other critics have chosen for the week ahead.]

ORPHEUS CHAMBER ORCHESTRA at Carnegie Hall (Sept. 26, 8 p.m.). The Canadian pianist Jan Lisiecki joins the Orpheus players for Mendelssohn’s Piano Concerto No. 2, a piece that they released on record, to some effect, in February. Also on the bill are Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony and the premiere of “Shift, Change, Turn and Variations” by Jessie Montgomery, a work in a long line of music that dwells on the turning of the seasons.

212-247-7800, carnegiehall.org

‘PORGY AND BESS’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Sept. 23, 6 p.m.; through Oct. 16). The Met’s season opens with a gala performance of this Gershwin classic, in a new and reportedly strong production by James Robinson. David Robertson conducts a cast that includes Angel Blue as Bess, Eric Owens as Porgy, Golda Schultz as Clara and Latonia Moore as Serena. After its initial run, the production returns in January with a similar cast. Elsewhere in the Met’s first week, Massenet’s “Manon” returns (Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., through Oct. 26), with Lisette Oropesa in the title role and Michael Fabiano as the Chevalier des Grieux; and Anna Netrebko strides the stage she rules in Verdi’s “Macbeth” (Wednesday at 8 p.m., through Oct. 12), opposite Matthew Polenzani, Ildar Abdrazakov and Plácido Domingo, who will continue to sing at the house while it awaits the results of the Los Angeles Opera’s investigation into accusations of sexual harassment against him.

212-362-6000, metopera.org

ADAM TENDLER AND JENNY LIN at the Catacombs of the Green-Wood Cemetery (Sept. 24-27, 7:30 p.m.). Liszt’s “Harmonies Poétiques et Religieuses” is hardly ever heard in its entirety, and makes such demands of its players that two pianists will be on hand here. They’ll find themselves plentifully employed. A massive cycle of 10 piano pieces, “Harmonies” includes some of the composer’s most famous and pyrotechnic music, not least “Funérailles,” but also some of his most tender and gentle, including “Bénédiction de Dieu dans la Solitude.” The performance begins at 7:30 p.m., but there’s a whiskey tasting before that, starting at 6 p.m.

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