Playing in the rafters
Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.
Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.
It may have taken 28 years to see Robert Carsen’s production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream in the U. S., but it was worth waiting for.
Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s “Music of Faith” with the Philadelphia Orchestra was a sensational concert, perhaps the best I’ve heard in more than a season.
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