The production of Alban Berg's opera Lulu directed by acclaimed South African visual artist William Kentridge received its English National Opera premiere at the London Coliseum last night, with Brenda Rae in the title role. Performances continue this Saturday night and into next week. "A show you have to go and see again," exclaims The Arts Desk in a five-star review. "Works brilliantly. Inspired," says the Independent in another five-star review. 'A superb staging,'" says the Daily Telegraph, "performed with high musical distinction."

Nonesuch released a Blu-ray/DVD of the 2015 Metropolitan Opera production of Lulu last month. The Met's production, also directed by Kentridge, starred Marlis Petersen in her final performances as Lulu. "A stunning and searing production," said the New York Times.

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Pianist Jeremy Denk gives a solo recital at the Chicago Symphony Center on Sunday afternoon, performing Mozart’s Sonata in A Minor, Beethoven’s Sonata in D Minor, Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major, and John Adams’s Phrygian Gates. He returns to New York to perform his Medieval to Modern program, which the Telegraph calls “exhilarating,” at Lincoln Center’s White Light Festival next week.

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Rhiannon Giddens, who unveiled her recording of "Freedom Highway," from her forthcoming album, yesterday, performs at the Highlands Food & Wine Festival in the town of Highlands in her home state of North Carolina on Saturday. The New Yorker writes: “Giddens is of her time. Her syntax and harmonic strength are part of a tradition of American music: storytellers who joyfully preach the truth from a woman’s point of view—sometimes with trouble in mind, too.”

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Shye Ben Tzur, Jonny Greenwood, and the Rajasthan Express conclude their European Junun tour with performances at Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome tonight and Funkhaus in Berlin on Saturday, and culminating in a set at Le Guess Who? Festival in Utrecht on Sunday. Ben Tzur and the band take the music to the Wonderfruit Festival in Thailand next month and the Big Ears Festival in Tennessee in March.

The musicians first reunited to play Junun, the album they recorded in India in 2015, at Barbican Hall in London earlier this year. The Financial Times gave the show four stars, praising the music’s “uncomplicated exuberance … this was music that transported the listener, not just to the state of Rajasthan but to a state of mesmeric bliss.”

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Kronos Quartet is in Paris this weekend, performing two shows at the Philharmonie. The first is a sold-out “Around the World with Kronos” Family Concert, featuring works from Geeshie Wiley, Omar Souleyman, and more, as well as works from Fodé Lassana Diabaté and Wu Man, whom Kronos has commissioned as part of its Fifty for the Future project, at Salle de répétition 1 on Saturday afternoon. The quartet continues with an all–Steve Reich program, in honor of the composer’s recent 80th birthday, performing his Triple Quartet, WTC 9/11, and Different Trains, all of which were written for Kronos, as well as selections from The Cave, at Salle des concerts on Sunday afternoon.

Also this weekend, Reich’s newest work, Pulse, is being given its German premiere by Ensemble Modern, conducted by Brad Lubman, at Philharmonie in Köln on Sunday, following a performance at Philharmonie de Paris on Saturday. The European premiere of Pulse was part of the Barbican’s celebration of Reich at 80 in London last weekend. The Guardian, in its four-star review of the concert, calls the piece “joyous.”

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Lake Street Dive continues its tour of the UK and Ireland, featuring music from its new album, Side Pony, with a show at SWX in Bristol on Saturday, and the Old Market in Brighton on Sunday.

Lake Street Dive 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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Saxophonist Joshua Redman and pianist Brad Mehldau bring their world tour, featuring music from their new duo album, Nearness, toward its conclusion with a show at Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam tonight, followed by a sold-out date at the Barbican in London, as part of the London Jazz Festival, on Saturday, as well as a set at Auditorium de Lyon in Lyon, France, on Sunday. The tour concludes with a show at Philharmonie de Paris on Monday.

The Australian, reviewing a recent show in Sydney, writes: "This particular format, the duo, enables them to perform with effortless virtuosity in the quiet formality of the concert hall ... With lightning communication, theirs was empathy at a high level."

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Chris Thile continues his inaugural season as host of A Prairie Home Companion with a show at the Academy of Music in Philadelphia on Saturday. Joining him as special guests for the episode are Angélique Kidjo, Jason Isbell, and poet Billy Collins. Folks in the US can tune in on their favorite public radio station this weekend, and fans around the world can watch the live broadcast online at prairiehome.org starting at 5:45 PM CT.

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Caetano Veloso and Teresa Cristina return to Rio de Janeiro with two shows at Vivo Rio, tonight and Saturday. Cristina’s new live album and DVD, Canta Cartola, was recorded at Theatro NET Rio late last year. Veloso, who was at that performance, says: “"With Cartola's songs, Teresa's artistry really shows. Her elegance on stage, the simultaneous spontaneity and decorum of every gesture, the humor, the tone, impeccable intonation—all combine in this true creator-singer, a genuine artist."