It was a sign of her generosity that her program this weekend was almost all work by her associates.

The tenure of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Metropolitan Opera’s music director, can be difficult to assess. That much was evident over two concerts.

A master of the ancient and exacting art of carving into rock, he was 25 when he began his first major commission, at Arlington National Cemetery.

Whitney White will direct the first Broadway production of Jason Robert Brown’s popular musical, which plans to open next spring.

To help honor 100 years of James Joyce’s “Ulysses,” an all-women Irish festival refocuses the annual re-enactment of the novel’s wanderings around the character of Molly Bloom.

The sequel was expected to collect at least $155 million in the United States and Canada over the weekend, about 70 percent more than anticipated.