Playing in the rafters
Opera took center stage on the final weekend of the Philadelphia Orchestra season.
Philadelphia Orchestra
40 pieces since 2014.
40
pieces
13
years
Work La bohème
Work Messiah
Cradle song
While seasonally-awkward streams of Messiah abound, Trove Thursday turns instead to Berlioz’s exquisite L’Enfance du Christ from francophone forces including Stéphanie d’ Oustrac, Bernard Richter, Edwin Crossley-Mercer and Nicolas Testé (for once, sans sa femme).