Live performances in New York: what classic productions to watch this spring

This spring, New Yorkers and visitors alike are in for a host of cultural and musical events. Including for lovers of the classics, writes New York Times. We offer you a list of the most interesting of them. This is the first part of the material about interesting events this spring, tomorrow and later this week you will find the following parts with Broadway, off-Broadway shows, as well as dance and pop events. Do not miss!

Carnegie Hall

Last year, a Vienna Philharmonic concert at Carnegie Hall was derailed by Russia's invasion of Ukraine and the last-minute removal of guest conductor Valery Gergiev. This year the orchestra will still perform in New York under the direction of Christian Thielemann. He will be in the city for three days with works by Schoenberg, Strauss, Mendelssohn, Brahms and Bruckner (buy tickets for the concert of the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra at Carnegie Hall - March 3-5).

Another major Carnegie ensemble, The English Concert, will bring Handel's oratorio "Solomon" (March 12). Later, the Les Arts Florissants ensemble, under the direction of William Christie, will perform Charpentier's program during Holy Week (26 April).

Guest pianists at Carnegie Hall will include:

• Alexander Taro, who will perform various works including his transcription of Adagietto from Mahler's Fifth Symphony (March 26);
• Song Jin Cho, famous South Korean pianist (12 April);
• Beatrice Ranawho will perform Beethoven's sonata "The Hammer of the Clavier" (20 April).

Other concerts at Carnegie Hall include Bach's multimedia show "Fragments" by cellist Alisa Weilerstein (1 April); the continuation of the project of the Danish String Quartet “Double”, inspired by Schubert, with the premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir will take place 20 April. She also wrote the latest installment of flutist Claire Chase's extensive, multi-decade initiative, "Density 2036" (25 May). Chase also appears as a soloist in Kaja Saariaho's "Aile du songe" with Susanna Mälkki and the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra (9 May).

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Local premieres at Carnegie Hall:

• Philadelphia Orchestra will present John Luther Adams' Blessed Land Vespers with vocal group Crossing (March 31);
• Boston Symphony Orchestra for two evenings he will perform Thierry Escaish's Cello Concerto with Gauthier Capuçon and Thomas Ades' "Air" for violin and orchestra with Anna-Sophie Mutter (April 24 and 25);
• Metropolitan Orchestra will continue the tradition of post-season performances at Carnegie Hall under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin in Brahms' German Requiem and in a program that includes René Fleming and Russell Thomas in Verdi's Otello Act IV, as well as the world premiere of Lear's Sketches by Matthew Auquin (15 22 and June).

New York Philharmonic

Conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, whose career continues to take off despite being diagnosed with brain cancer, returns to the Philharmonic to lead the local premiere of his Meditations on Rilke and Schubert's Grand Symphony (9-12 March).

Then Jaap van Zveden, music director of the Philharmonic Orchestra, will lead Messiaen's grandiose "Turangalila Symphony" with solo pianist Jean-Yves Thibault (17-19 March). It will be followed by Bach's equally massive Passion of St. Matthew with vocalists Nicholas Fan, Davon Thines, Paul Appleby, Tamara Mumford and Philip Sly (23-25 March).

Next, New Yorkers will see the premiere of Felipe Lara's Double Concerto featuring Claire Chase on flute and Esperanza Spalding on bass conducted by Susanna Mälkka (29-31 March). As well as the debut of the winner of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition Yunchan Lim in Rachmaninov's Third Piano Concerto with James Gaffigan (10-12 May). This will be followed by the U.S. premiere of Chick Corea's Trombone Concerto conducted by Marin Alsop, featuring orchestra principal trombone Joseph Alessi (25-27 May) and the world premiere of Julia Wolfe's massive work "UnEarth" (1-3 June).

Metropolitan Opera

At the start of this season, the Met Opera announced that it would be devoting more resources and time to contemporary works as well as new productions. But classical works are still the bread and butter of the theatre. And this spring, lovers of the classics have something to look forward to.

Directed by Robert Carsen "Falstaff" (March 12 - 1 April) will feature German baritone Michael Wolle as the decadent title character. Equally clean and sobering "Rosenkavalier" Carsen (March 27 - 20 April) will open soprano Lisa Davidsen, diva of the Metropolitan Opera, who will make her debut as Marchaline.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin to take the stage in Puccini's La bohèmeApril 21-28 and then May 2-14). And conductor Thomas Guggeis, as chief musical director of the Frankfurt Opera, will make his debut at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. He will head a production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman (30 May - 10 Jun).

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Here French baritone Stéphane Degus, accompanied by pianist Cédric Tibergien, will present an evening of art songs by composers such as Fauré, Schubert, Debussy and Lily Boulanger (April 3 and 5).

Tenor Allan Clayton will perform a program of works by Schumann and Niko Muhly, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten (April 27 and 29).

Later, young pianist Pavel Kolesnikov will present his version of Bach's Goldberg Variations, which he performed with choreographer Anna Teresa de Keersmaeker, as well as an eclectic mix of pieces inspired by Joseph Cornell's Sky Navigation (22 and 24 may).