This week at Lincoln Center, Maestro Alan Gilbert leads the New York Philharmonic with special guests Anne Sofie von Otter and Jean-Yves Thibaudet.

Alan Gilbert conducts The New York Philharmonic in "The Cunning Little Vixen," Czech composer Leoš Janácek's 1923 opera based on a comic strip, which follows a young vixen’s capture by a forester and her eventual escape.

Sometimes the end of the world is not the end of the world.  Gyorgy Ligeti’s 1978 opera Le Grand Macabre is set on the eve of the end of the world—or at least the end of the fictional dukedom of Breughelland.  The opera’s New York premiere last Thursday was hailed as the first “fully staged” [...]