— Renee Fleming returns to the Metropolitan Opera in “Rusalka.”
— Larry Blumenfeld reports from New Orleans, where musicians are trying to bury the noise ordinance.
— Patrick Pacheco takes a look at the Broadway League’s recent demographics report.
— Craig Hubert sits down with French director Alain Guiraudie to talk about his new film, “Stranger by the Lake,” which opens at Lincoln Center on January 24.
— The New York City Ballet celebrates the birthday of its co-founder, George Balanchine.
— Patrick Pacheco talks to actor Samuel Barnett, currently starring in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”
— Bradley Cooper will hit the Broadway stage in “The Elephant Man” this fall.
— Our Performing Arts Pick of the Week comes via Deutsche Grammophon: Rolando Villazon’s “Mozart: Concert Arias”
— We’re excited about the news that the New York Philharmonic will stage “Joan of Arc at the Stake” with actress Marion Cotillard.
