Here's the lineup on Philly stages tonight and in the coming week

Afro-Cuban All-Stars: Juan de Marcos González is best known for assembling the members of the Buena Vista Social Club, some of whom return for his latest project. The All-Stars feature Cuban musicians from around the world performing classics as well as new material. World Cafe Live, 3025 Walnut St., 8 p.m. tomorrow, $40-$65, 215-222-1400, www.worldcafelive.com.

CLASSICAL

 

Peter Nero and the Philly Pops: Nero's Pops and the Voices of the Pops celebrate America's birthday with a "POPS on Independence" show of American music - stirring patriotic anthems, rousing marches and the quintessentially American sounds of big band, Broadway, and film scores. Independence Hall lawn, 5th and Chestnut Streets, 8 tonight, free. Bring blankets, lawn chairs and picnic baskets. 215-683-2070, www.phillypops.org.

Metropolitan Opera: Tchaikovsky's moving "Eugene Onegin" received the dream cast of soprano Renee Fleming as Tatiana, Russian baritone Dmitri Hvorostovsky in the title role and tenor Ramon Vargas as Lenski. Valery Gergiev, who has this music in his DNA, is on the podium. At eight area movie theaters, 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, $15, www.fathomevents.com.

Carnegie Ensemble: 11-member string group performs Rossini's Sonata No. 1, the famous Adagio by Albinoni for organ and strings, two Brahms Hungarian Dances and Piazzolla's "Verano Perteno" with violin soloist Christine Kwak. Movements from Tchaikovsky's "Souvenir de Florence," Shostakovich's Third Quartet and Mozart's "Eine Kleine Nachtmusik" fill the bill. Great Auditorium, Pilgrim and Ocean pathways, Ocean Grove, N.J., 7:30 p.m. Thursday, $13, 800-590-4064, www.oceangrove.org.