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The iconic composer-conductor paired two recent works with a suite from the beloved Spirited Away in a performance with the Philadelphia Orchestra. 

The Philadelphia Orchestra offers a musically and dramatically urgent performance of Wagner’s complete opera, buoyed by world-class soloists.

Lara Downes and Yannick Nézet-Séguin offer the subscription debut of Price's Piano Concerto in One Movement, followed by the ultimate crowd pleaser, Beethoven's Ninth.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin presents the composer's "Tragic" Symphony without an ounce of fat on the bone, a relentless and exhilarating journey. 

First Associate Concertmaster Juliette Kang dispatches the perilous demands of Bartók's Second Violin Concerto with practiced ease, on a program that also featured a complete Firebird.

Stutzmann's program also features the Orchestra's premiere of Missy Mazzoli's arresting tone poem, Orpheus Undone. 

The Philadelphia Orchestra's concert also served as a tribute to Michael Tilson Thomas, who was to have conducted the performance before withdrawing for cancer treatment.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin smartly surrounds a guaranteed crowd-pleaser – Brahms’ First Piano Concerto – with less familiar works by Julia Wolfe and Louise Farrenc. 

A fully produced performance of Brahms' Die schӧne Magelone in Philadelphia, complete with on-stage narrator and bespoke drawings, proved less than the sum of its parts.

Gustav Holst's perennial audience favorite provides pure comfort food, paired here with Ravel and an organ rarity by Alfredo Casella.

Yuja Wang's performance of Tchaikovsky's First Piano Concerto may have been the main draw, but Yannick Nézet-Séguin paired the familiar centerpiece with two neglected works by 20th-century American composers.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin pairs Mahler's weighty Ninth Symphony with Jake Heggie's Songs for Murdered Sisters, which considers the scourge of domestic violence against women.

The Canadian soprano and her accomplished accompanist, Bertrand Chamayou, offer a thoughtful and eclectic program of Messiaen, Scriabin and John Zorn.

The British pianist reveals new ideas in the most familiar of music in this recital program, which concludes a multi-year return to Schubert's keyboard literature.

After a 19-year absence, the legendary conductor returned to the podium of the Philadelphia Orchestra, leading an inconsistent performance of a signature work.

Alongside works by Bernstein and Copland, conductor David Robertson and pianist Nicolas Hodges give the US premiere of Jolas's cheeky concerto bTunes.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin brings surprising intimacy to Bruckner's Seventh Symphony, which contrasts his Romantic approach to Beethoven's Second Piano Concerto.

The new opera by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek draws on cult mindsets and conspiracy theories but smartly avoids sensationalism. 

In his second week of local performances, the Finnish composer-conductor offers a lush performance of music by a beloved collaborator, the late Kaija Saariaho.

Beginning a two-week residency, Esa-Pekka Salonen juxtaposed a work of his own with selections from two composers with which he is deeply identified: Sibelius and Steven Stucky.

After an eight-year absence, Rattle returned to deliver the kind of Mahler performance only he can offer: probingly intelligent and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra's repertoire after a 15-year absence, Gustav Mahler's Seventh Symphony shares a program with songs by the composer's wife, Alma. 

Prokofiev's Symphony no. 5 in B flat major and Guillaume Connesson's Concerto da Requiem, both composed in moments of international tragedy, form a thoughtful bill that also includes serene languor of Debussy’s Prelude à l’après-midi d’un faune. 

For his performance of Mozart's C major Concerto, Emanuel Ax plays a new concert grand designed by the late architect Rafael Viñoly.

Fine solo playing from cellist-composer Cris Derksen and pianist Tony Siqi Yun lift a somewhat disappointing program centered on Sibelius and Rachmaninov.

After recording all five of Beethoven's piano concertos together, Stutzmann and Haochen Zhang joined together for a rousing interpretation of the Emperor, followed by a lively Seventh Symphony. 

A modern framing device drives home the sad timelessness of Britten's 1946 opera.

Joshua Bell brings virtuosic fireworks and generous tone to works by Chausson and Vieuxtemps, while Christoph Eschenbach delivers a Brahms 1 devoid of fresh insight.

Tugan Sokhiev leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in a powerful performance of Shostakovich’s haunting Fourth Symphony. Shorter pieces by Gabrieli and Britten offer an enjoyable prelude.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin invites the Marcus Roberts Trio in place of a traditional soloist, and the group brings a freewheeling, improvisatory touch to Gershwin's masterpiece. 

The classical singer's repertoire encompasses showtunes, spirituals and folk songs, alongside a more traditional selection of Lieder.

A conductor-less concert of Violin Concertos and bagatelles fails to show orchestra and soloist off to their full potential.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the Philadelphia Orchestra give the world premiere of Esteban Benzecry’s MUYUY, The circle of life before a performance of Florence Price's Fourth Symphony. 

The US premiere of Jimmy López Bellido's Ephemerae, a Philadelphia Orchestra co-commission, leads the listener by the nose through a world of olfactory sensations.

Guest conductor David Robertson led ponderous accounts of the "Pastoral" Symphony and Haydn's Cello Concerto no. 1, alongside a new work by the promising American composer Reena Esmail.

The gifted cellist offers a generous program that spans from JS Bach to Bob Marley, anchored by musical intelligence and brilliant technique.

After a five-year absence, Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla returns to the Philadelphia Orchestra for a rare performance of Anton Bruckner's commanding Sixth Symphony.

A new work by Clarice Assad, featuring Principal Bassoon Daniel Matsukawa and Yannick Nézet-Séguin, comes sandwiched between impish Berio and complex Rachmaninov.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin premieres a new edition of William Grant Still's Fourth Symphony and joins Daniil Trifonov for Gershwin's rousing Concerto in F.

With a potential strike looming, Yo-Yo Ma joins Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin for a surprisingly tame performance of Shostakovich's psychologically dense Cello Concerto no. 1.

Arab-American tenor Karim Sulayman devises a thoughtful pastiche that centers the perspective omitted from Early Modern depictions of the Middle East in music.

In his role debut as the Genoan Doge, the American baritone continues to burnish his bona fides as the premier Verdi baritone of his generation.

In this world-premiere work, which opens Opera Philadelphia's Festival O23, composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch dramatize and deconstruct the true story of Nellie Bly's commitment to a mental asylum.

The Philadelphia Orchestra closed its season by pairing Berlioz's epic Symphonie Fantastique with Walkabout, a concerto for orchestra that investigates composer-in-residence Frank's Peruvian heritage.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin combines the composer's unfinished Ninth Symphony, Te Deum and the motet Christus factus est to create an ultimate realization of religious faith and artistic expression.

Yuval Sharon's La bohème for Opera Philadelphia proves a mix of great singing and disorienting navigation. 

Guest conductor Matthias Pintscher pairs Webern's "idyll for large orchestra" with Richard Strauss' Oboe Concerto, featuring an elegant Philippe Tondre as soloist.

Personnel changes plague the world premiere of Vespers of a Blessed Earth, which sounds an urgent musical alarm on the harms of climate changes.

The Ukrainian-Finnish conductor finds fresh insight in Sibelius' Fifth Symphony and introduces local audiences to the living Swedish composer Andrea Tarrodi.

Dame Mitsuko Uchida reveals insights into Beethoven's final three piano sonatas that can only come from a lifetime of contemplation.