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’EMMELINE’ (Friday through Sunday) Dicapo Opera Theater, an enterprising company, is known for its thoughtful, interestingly staged performances, and for its commitment to showing how contemporary opera fits into the tradition of the standard canon. So engaging the composer Tobias Picker as its artistic adviser was an inspired move. The company’s first offering this season is Mr. Picker’s “Emmeline,” a Gothic New England Oedipal tale based on Judith Rossner’s novel, and couched in music that is by turns folksy and bitingly modern. Samuel Brill will conduct the work, with Kristin Sampson in the title role. Friday and Saturday at 8 p.m.; Sunday at 4 p.m.; Dicapo Opera Theater, 184 East 76th Street, Manhattan , (212) 868-4444, smarttix.com; $50. (Allan Kozinn)
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TREY ANASTASIO (Saturday) Rock performers have become increasingly interested in exploring classical forms and orchestral timbres. Oddly, very few have written full-fledged concertos for electric guitar and orchestra — a promising combination, given the timbral arsenal available to guitarists these days. Trey Anastasio, best known for his work with the band Phish, is filling that gap with “Time Turns Elastic.” The concerto will have its New York premiere in a New York Philharmonic concert, conducted by Asher Fisch. The program also includes other selections by Mr. Anastasio. At 8 p.m., Carnegie Hall , (212) 247-7800, carnegiehall.org; $50 to $225. (Kozinn)
★ NEW YORK PHILHARMONIC (Wednesday and Thursday) Alan Gilbert begins his tenure as music director of the New York Philharmonic with a program that — unusually for this orchestra — not only honors the ensemble’s mission as a conservator of the great 19th-century repertory, but also treats classical music as a vital, living and still growing enterprise. Moreover, new music is given pride of place: the opening-night gala begins with “Expo,” a work commissioned by the Philharmonic from the imaginative Finnish composer Magnus Lindberg, whom Mr. Gilbert has appointed as the orchestra’s composer in residence. The soprano Renée Fleming joins Mr. Gilbert and company for a performance of Messiaen’s alluring “Poèmes pour Mi,” and after the intermission, the orchestra performs Berlioz’s kaleidoscopic “Symphonie Fantastique.” For the orchestra’s first subscription week, Mr. Gilbert turns his attention to the Mahler Third Symphony, with the mezzo-soprano Petra Lang, the Women of the Westminster Symphonic Choir and the American Boychoir. At 7:30 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center , (212) 721-6500, nyphil.org; $71 to $242 on Wednesday; $39 to $114 on Thursday. (Kozinn)
SACRED MUSIC IN A SACRED PLACE (Wednesday) Most installments of this renowned series are choral concerts, directed by Kent Tritle. But for this year’s opening concert, Mr. Tritle — who in addition to being the director of music at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, is the organist of the New York Philharmonic — will play an organ recital. His program includes Buxtehude’s Prelude, Fugue and Chaconne in C; Bach’s “Wenn wir in höchsten Nothen sein” (BWV 641) and the Prelude and Fugue in E minor (BWV 548); Mendelssohn’s Prelude and Fugue in C minor (Op. 37); and Guilmant’s Sonata V in C minor (Op. 80). At 7:30 p.m., Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, 980 Park Avenue, at 84th Street , (212) 288-2520, stignatiusloyola.org; $20; $15 for students and 65+. (Kozinn)
★ WORDLESS MUSIC (Friday and Saturday) This inventive series from Ronen Givony draws on the worlds of indie rock and avant-garde contemporary music, and it often leaves you wondering which is which. Most of Mr. Givony’s concerts these days are at Le Poisson Rouge, but their success has drawn the interest of uptown organizations as well. On Friday the program brings together performances by three boundary-crossing experimentalists: Tim Hecker, Liz Harris (who performs under the name Grouper) and Julianna Barwick. The final installment of the series, on Saturday, includes performances by Dan Bejar (who records under the name Destroyer), the ambient composer Scott Morgan (who works as Loscil) and the Jack Quartet, a string quartet that specializes in new music. At 8 p.m., Miller Theater, Broadway at 116th Street, Morningside Heights , (212) 854-7799, millertheater.com; $15 on Friday; $20 on Saturday. (Kozinn)
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