Louis Andriessen's new work, Theatre of the World, receives its European premiere in performances by the Dutch National Opera, led by conductor Reinbert de Leeuw, at Theater Carré in Amsterdam starting tonight and continuing next week. The multimedia production, which explores the life of 17th-century Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher, is directed by Pierre Audi and was given its world premiere by the Los Angeles Philharmonic, also led by de Leeuw, at Walt Disney Concert Hall in May.

"While eclecticism is now the compositional norm (much more so than when he was first experimenting with bold stylistic mixtures in the 1960s and '70s)," said the New York Times in its review of the premiere, "Mr. Andriessen was there first, and he still does it best."

Nonesuch Records released a CD/DVD of Andriessen's Grawemeyer Award–winning opera La Commedia in 2014.

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The Bad Plus Joshua Redman plays the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles as part of the Playboy Jazz Festival on Saturday afternoon. The debut album from the eponymous quartet, released last year on Nonesuch, was called “a knockout" by the New York Times and "a roaring and beautiful summit meeting" by NPR.

Next week, Redman embarks on a six-city US tour with his own quartet, featuring Aaron Goldberg, Reuben Rogers & Gregory Hutchinson.

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Olivia Chaney joins producer Joe Boyd (Nick Drake, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Billy Bragg, REM, etc.) for a performance at the Reardon Smith Theatre, as part of the Gŵyl y Llais Festival of Voice, in Cardiff, Wales, on Saturday.

Next week, Chaney starts a six-show run as special guest of Ben Folds on his tour of England with the New York City–based yMusic ensemble.

“Live, Chaney has a casual yet commanding presence,” says the New Yorker. “[I]t’s as if a mystical spirit has entered the room. With an earthiness to her expressive soprano, Chaney is bringing the grand tradition of British folk music into the twenty-first century.”

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Michael Daves gives three trio performances, with Punch Brothers banjoist Noam Pikelny and fiddler Brittany Haas, in Massachusetts this weekend: a show at the Red Room at Café 939 in Boston tonight, which Boston NPR member station WBUR names one of "10 Boston Concerts Not to Miss This Summer," and two sets (the first sold out) at The Parlor Room in Northampton on Saturday. Both Pikelny and Haas play on the bluegrass half of Daves’s two-disc album Orchids and Violence, released earlier this year on Nonesuch. It's "a roots-music master class, a brilliant example of old modes reinhabited with flair," says the New York Times. "To his credit, it can be hard to pick which version of a tune is best."

Pikelny, following his performances with Daves this weekend, heads to the West Coast to join his fellow Punch Brothers in a headlining set at the 40th annual Huck Finn Jubilee Bluegrass Music Festival, at the Cucamonga-Guasti Regional Park in Ontario, California, on Sunday night.

Later this month, Daves, Punch Brothers, Sara Watkins, and others take part in American Acoustic, a four-day festival curated by Chris Thile at The Kennedy Center in Washington, DC.

Coincidentally, Nickel Creek—Chris Thile, Sara Watkins, and Sean Watkins—can be seen on PBS stations across the country this weekend, as that trio’s latest Austin City Limits performance, featuring songs from its Nonesuch debut album, A Dotted Line, will be rebroadcast this Saturday. The episode, which first aired in January 2015, marked the trio's third appearance on the series. Thile also visited the show with Punch Brothers, and Sara Watkins appeared on the show with the Decemberists.

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Lake Street Dive continues its US Side Pony tour, playing the North Carolina Museum of Art in Raleigh tonight, the Sprint Pavilion in Charlottesville, Virginia, on Saturday, and the Three Rivers Arts Festival in Pittsburgh on Sunday.

The band released Side Pony in February to critical acclaim, with the Boston Globe praising it as an "exuberant, harmony-rich blend of pop, soul, and jazz,” and Paste stating that the band’s “experimentation reaps triumphant results.”

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Conor Oberst kicked off a small run of Northeast US dates with the Felice Brothers, which culminates with a show at the College Street Music Hall in New Haven, Connecticut, tonight, and a co-headlining performance with Kacey Musgraves at McCarren Park in Brooklyn, as part of Northside Festival, on Saturday.

Oberst made his Nonesuch Records debut with the release of his album Upside Down Mountain in 2014. “All of Mr. Oberst’s gifts align on Upside Down Mountain,” said the New York Times: “his empathy, his unassumingly natural melodies, the quavery sincerity in his voice, the plain-spoken but telling lyrics that he’s now careful to deliver clearly.”

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The Staves, currently on a 19-city North American tour, with music from their new EP, Sleeping In A Car, and 2015 Nonesuch debut album, If I Was, play a sold-out show at Bar Le Ritz PDB in Montreal tonight. The Sun gives Sleeping In A Car opening track “Outlaw” four stars, writing that it is a “masterclass of arrangement and harmony. Bewitching stuff...”