Chicago Latino Music Festival: An evening of zarzuela highlights and Jose Serrano’s “La Dolorosa”; 7 p.m. Friday, Instituto Cervantes, 31 W. Ohio St.; $18-$20. Guitarist Fareed Haque and Kaia String Quartet; 2 p.m. Saturday, Fullerton Hall, Art Institute of Chicago, 111 S. Michigan Ave.; $14-$20; tickets.artic.edu. Adam Levin, classical guitar; 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Instituto Cervantes; $10 suggested donation. chicago.cervantes.es
Chicago Opera Theater: The company presents the local premiere of “Macbeth” — not Giuseppe Verdi’s familiar opera based on the Bard’s tragedy, but the Swiss-American composer Ernest Bloch’s 1906 version, in its Chicago premiere. Andreas Mitisek’s production is conducted by Francesco Milioto. 7:30 p.m. Friday and 3 p.m. Sunday, Harris Theater for Music and Dance, 205 E. Randolph St.; $35-$125; 312-704-8414, chicagooperatheater.org
Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra: Danish musical rarities and a Danish soloist make for an unusual season opener. Artistic director Scott Speck is joined by violinist Christina Astrand for Niels Gade’s Romantic-era Violin Concerto. Tchaikovsky’s “Hamlet” and Carl Nielsen’s First Symphony complete the program. 7:30 p.m. Sunday, Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Northwestern University, 50 Arts Circle Drive, Evanston; $25-$75; 312-957-0000, chicagophilharmonic.org
Chicago Symphony Orchestra: Riccardo Muti directs the season’s second subscription program, which holds Berlioz’s “Waverley” Overture, Debussy’s “La Mer” and the Tchaikovsky Fourth Symphony. 8:30 p.m. Thursday (repeated Sept. 26-30), Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $33-$244; 312-294-3000, cso.org
Chicago Symphony Orchestra — free concert in Millennium Park: The orchestra and Riccardo Muti’s annual gift to the city is an all-Tchaikovsky program: the symphonic poem “The Tempest,” a suite from “The Sleeping Beauty” ballet and Symphony No. 4. 6:30 p.m. Friday, Pritzker Pavilion, Michigan Avenue and Randolph Street; 312-294-3000, cso.org
CSO Symphony Ball: A limited number of tickets remain for Riccardo Muti’s performance of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, with the Chicago Symphony Chorus and vocal soloists Camilla Nylund, Ekaterina Gubanova, Christopher Ventris and Eric Owens. 7 p.m. Saturday (Sunday and Tuesday subscription concerts are sold out), Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave.; $60-$185; 312-294-3000, cso.org
New Philharmonic: The west suburban orchestra under music director Kirk Muspratt launches its fall season with concert performances of Puccini’s ever-popular opera, “Tosca,” with Karen Slack in the title role, Dominic Armstrong as Cavaradossi and Corey Crider as Scarpia. 8 p.m. Saturday and 3 p.m. Sunday, McAninch Arts Center, College of DuPage, 425 Fawell Blvd., Glen Ellyn; $55; 630-942-4000, atthemac.org
