AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA This hardworking new-music ensemble, performed by Vimbayi Kaziboni, brings a program of premieres to Zankel Hall: works by Augusta Read Thomas, George Lewis, Jack Hughes, Guillermo Klein and Nina C. Young. (Nov. 9, Zankel Hall)
‘JENUFA’ Two reigning sopranos from two generations come collectively in Chicago for Janacek’s shattering opera about disgrace, betrayal and forgiveness: Lise Davidsen within the title position and Nina Stemme because the Kostelnicka. Jakub Hrusa conducts Claus Guth’s manufacturing from the Royal Opera in London. (Nov. 12-26, Lyric Opera of Chicago)
‘FLORENCIA EN EL AMAZONAS’ Infused with the spirit of magical realism, Daniel Catán’s 1996 opera has an opera diva as its predominant character, à la “Tosca” or “Bel Canto.” It’s not refined stuff, but it surely has ample lush lyricism for the riveting soprano Ailyn Pérez and the Met’s music director, Yannick Nézet-Séguin, to sink their enamel into; Mary Zimmerman, purveyor of fantastical whimsy, directs. (Opens Nov. 16 on the Metropolitan Opera)
‘HAMLET’ Louis Langrée’s remaining season as music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra overlaps along with his new job because the chief of the Opéra Comique in Paris, so naturally he’ll conduct a brand new touring manufacturing from the Comique, Ambroise Thomas’s “Hamlet,” in the case of Cincinnati. Cyril Teste’s staging will function a hybrid of the 2 establishments, with the May Festival Chorus performing alongside opera stars, together with the baritone Stéphane Degout within the title position. (Nov. 17 and 19 at Music Hall, Cincinnati)
JULIA PERRY’S ‘STABAT MATER’ Returning to the Philharmonic after a profitable debut in 2021, the conductor Dima Slobodeniouk leads the mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges in Julia Perry’s “Stabat Mater.” A Ligeti mini-fest continues with “Atmosphères,” made well-known by its inclusion in “2001: A Space Odyssey,” and this system ends with an viewers pleaser: Holst’s “The Planets.” (Nov. 22-25, David Geffen Hall)
JUAN DIEGO FLÓREZ This dashing tenor made his title dispatching the coloratura curlicues of Rossini, whose works might be featured on this recital at Carnegie Hall (rescheduled from January). The program additionally consists of songs and arias, some well-known and some hardly ever carried out, by Gluck, Donizetti, Verdi, Gounod, Puccini and others, with the pianist Vincenzo Scalera. (Nov. 29, Carnegie Hall)