Our guide to the city’s best classical music and opera happening this weekend and in the week ahead.

‘AKHNATEN’ at the Metropolitan Opera (Nov. 8, 8 p.m.; Nov. 12, 7:30 p.m.; through Dec. 7). Phelim McDermott’s take on Philip Glass’s opera, originally produced by the English National Opera and the L.A. Opera, arrives in New York, with the superlative countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in the title role. He is joined by J’Nai Bridges as Nefertiti, Disella Larusdottir as Queen Tye, Aaron Blake as the High Priest of Amon, Will Liverman as Horemhab, Richard Bernstein as Aye, Zachary James as Amenhotep III, and a troupe of acrobats and jugglers. Karen Kamensek conducts.

212-362-6000, metopera.org

ATTACCA QUARTET AND CAROLINE SHAW at the David Rubenstein Atrium (Nov. 14, 7:30 p.m.). In a free concert that echoes the popular Nonesuch and New Amsterdam recording they released in April, the Attacca Quartet plays Shaw’s “Entr’acte,” “Valencia,” “Plan and Elevation,” and supplies backing for Shaw, singing some of her own compositions for strings and voice. This weekend, another string quartet joins a vocalist: The soprano Tony Arnold performs Berg’s “Lyric Suite” with the Schumann Quartet at Alice Tully Hall (Friday, 7:30 p.m.).

212-721-6500, lincolncenter.org