Opera and Classical Music Listings for Jan. 3-9 Opera "La Descente d'Orphée aux Enfers" (Friday and Sunday) For Gotham Chamber Opera's second production of the season, Charpentier's shining opera on the Orpheus myth, the company teams with the experienced early-music forces of Trinity Wall Street - the Trinity Choir and Baroque Orchestra - on their home turf of St. Paul's Chapel as part of Trinity's Twelfth Night Festival. Gotham's artistic director, Neal Goren, conducts, and Andrew Eggert directs a cast that includes Daniel Curran, Jeff Beruan and Jamilyn Manning-White. Friday at 7 p.m., Saturday at 5 p.m., St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway and Fulton Street, Manhattan, (212) 279-4200, gothamchamberopera.org; $15 to $125. Zachary Woolfe "L'Elisir d'Amore" (Thursday) Anna Netrebko reprises her winning portrayal of Adina in Bartlett Sher's production of Donizetti's comedy, a lively new staging that opened the 2012 season. The cast, conducted by Maurizio Benini, also features Erwin Schrott as Dulcamara and Ramón Vargas as Nemorino. Through Feb. 1. At 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metoperafamily.org; $27 to $445. ★ "Falstaff" (Friday and Monday) Robert Carsen's insightful, affecting and hilarious new production of this Verdi opera shifts the setting from the time of Henry IV to England in the 1950s, which taps into the melancholic resonances of this comic masterpiece. For sheer theatrical flair and imagination, with its beautiful sets and costumes, it is one of the best shows in town. The great baritone Ambrogio Maestri brings his powerhouse voice and Falstaffian physique to the title role. Stephanie Blythe as Mistress Quickly, Angela Meade as Alice Ford and Lisette Oropesa as Nannetta are other standouts in the excellent cast. James Levine conducts a lithe and sensitive performance, though on opening night there were curious moments of shakiness between the singers and the orchestra. Through Jan. 11. At 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metoperafamily.org; $27 to $310. Anthony Tommasini "Die Fledermaus" (Saturday and Tuesday) The Met ushers in the new year with Strauss's operetta, performed with a revised libretto by the playwright Douglas Carter Beane and new English-language lyrics by the production's director, Jeremy Sams. Adam Fischer conducts a promising cast including Susanna Phillips, Paulo Szot, Anthony Roth Costanzo and Danny Burstein. Through Feb. 22. Saturday at 8 p.m., Tuesday at 7:30 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center, (212) 362-6000, metoperafamily.org; $27 to $445. ★ "The Magic Flute" (Saturday) With the revival of Julie Taymor's popular production of this Mozart opera, the excellent British conductor Jane Glover has become only the third woman to conduct at the Met. Ms. Glover draws a warm, nuanced and magisterial performance from the orchestra. This is the family-friendly "Magic Flute," with the score trimmed to 100 minutes, performed without an intermission, and presented in a snappy English translation by J. D. McClatchy. The winning cast is headed by Alek Shrader as Tamino and Heidi Stober as Pamina. Nathan Gunn's earthy, bungling Papageno seemed the favorite character of the giggling children in the audience on opening night. At 1 p.m., Metropolitan Opera House, (212) 362-6000, metoperafamily.org; $79 to $235 remaining. Tommasini "Patience" (Friday through Sunday) Albert Bergeret and his spirited New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players continue their holiday celebrations with this satirical take on the 19th-century aesthetic movement in which a simple and virtuous village milkmaid falls in love. Friday at 8 p.m., Saturday at 2 and 8 p.m., Sunday at 3 p.m., Symphony Space, 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street, (212) 864-5400, symphonyspace.org; $67 to $87, $59 to $79 for 65+. "Paul's Case" (Wednesday and Thursday) Prototype, the innovative annual festival of contemporary opera and performance, kicks off its second year with Gregory Spears's "Paul's Case," an adaptation of a Willa Cather short story with a libretto written by Mr. Spears and Kathryn Walat. Robert Wood conducts the American Modern Ensemble. Also Jan. 11 through 13. At 8:30 p.m., Here, 145 Avenue of the Americas, at Dominick Street, South Village, (212) 352-3101, here.org; $25. Classical Music Bargemusic (Friday through Sunday) The winter edition of the Here and Now Festival, a flood of new and recent music, hits Brooklyn's cozy floating concert hall this weekend, with works by David Del Tredici, Victoria Bond, Michel van der Aa, John Zorn and others. The performers include an ensemble of 17 or so that includes the violinists Miranda Cuckson and Mark Peskanov, who is also Bargemusic's director, as well as the pianists Steven Beck, Blair McMillen and Olga Vinokur. Friday and Saturday at 7 p.m., Sunday at 4 p.m., Bargemusic, Fulton Ferry Landing next to the Brooklyn Bridge, Brooklyn, (718) 624-2083, bargemusic.org; $35, $30 for 65+, $15 for students. Woolfe New York Philharmonic (Friday, Saturday, Tuesday and Thursday) Alan Gilbert and his orchestra are starting the year off with an ambitious program on Friday, Saturday (on the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University) and Tuesday. The pianist Yefim Bronfman, this season's artist in residence, joins them for Magnus Lindberg's Piano Concerto No. 2 (2012); also on the program are "Rapture," by Christopher Rouse, the Philharmonic's resident composer, and Tchaikovsky's Fifth Symphony. Thursday brings an even more eclectic program, with the violinist Lisa Batiashvili: the overture to Beethoven's "Fidelio" and his Symphony No. 1 alongside Gershwin's "An American in Paris" and Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. That program will be repeated on Jan. 10, 11 and 14. Friday at 8 p.m., Tuesday and Thursday at 7:30 p.m., Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center, (212) 875-5656, nyphil.org; $29 to $134. Saturday at 7:30 p.m., Tilles Center for the Performing Arts, C.W. Post campus of Long Island University, 720 Northern Boulevard, Brookville, N.Y., (516) 299-3100; $63 to $123. Twelfth Night Festival (Friday through Monday) Trinity Wall Street continues its ambitious music festival marking the 12 days of the Nativity while elegantly wrapping up its wide-ranging celebration of Britten. The church's choir, under its director, Julian Wachner, sings the Bach cantatas "Tritt auf die Glaubensbahn" and "Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit" at 1 p.m. on Friday; at the same time on Saturday it will be joined by the splendid Trinity Baroque Orchestra in the cantatas "Ach Gott, wie manches Herzeleid" and "Schau, lieber Gott, wie meine Feind." On Saturday at 7 p.m. the early-music ensemble Quicksilver will embark on "An Italian Journey" of double-violin sonatas. On Sunday at 2 p.m. a gala concert, with performances of Britten's "Saint Nicolas" and "A Boy Was Born," will be the culmination of Trinity's homage to him. Monday's "Bach at One" concert features the cantatas "Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen" and "Liebster Immanuel, Herzog der Frommen." "Sie werden aus Saba alle kommen" will be repeated on Monday at 6 p.m. as Trinity Church hosts the finale of the Twelfth Night Festival. Friday, Saturday and Monday lunchtime concerts at St. Paul's Chapel, Broadway at Fulton Street, Lower Manhattan, (212) 602-0800, trinitywallstreet.org, gemsny.org; free. Evening concerts and Sunday gala matinee: Trinity Church, Broadway at Wall Street, Lower Manhattan; $25.