The Met Orchestra

James Levine is recovering from a fall so the Met's newly crowned principal conductor Fabio Luisi takes over the world-class orchestra in its first opera-less concert of the season. Mozart's lively Overture to The Marriage of Figaro starts things off, with Richard Goode sitting in for Mozart's Piano Cocnerto No. 25. Soprano Christina Rice premieres a new John Harbison piece based on text by Alice Munro, and then the orchestra shines on Richard Strauss's merrymaking tone poem Till Eulenspiegels lustige Streiche.