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BirminghamKazuki conducts Harmonium
Copland, Tower, Price, Adams
City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra; Kazuki Yamada; Janai Brugger; CBSO Chorus
EdinburghMozart’s Don GiovanniKonzertante Aufführung
Mozart: Don Giovanni
Maxim Emelyanychev; Scottish Chamber Orchestra; Scottish Chamber Orchestra Chorus; Konstantin Krimmel; Michael Sumuel
New York CityLincoln in the BardoUraufführung
Mazzoli: Lincoln in the Bardo
Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Lileana Blain-Cruz; Metropolitan Opera; Steven Osgood; Adam Rigg; Montana Levi Blanco; Yi Zhao
PhiladelphiaCarmina burana
Coleridge-Taylor, Ortiz, Orff
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Jeffrey R. Smith; Janai Brugger; Jonah Hoskins; Will Liverman
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