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PhiladelphiaOpening Night | Beethoven 9

Hisaishi, Beethoven
The Philadelphia Orchestra; Yannick Nézet-Séguin; Leah Hawkins; J'Nai Bridges; Issachah Savage; Ryan Speedo Green
ChicagoOmarNew production

Giddens: Omar
Kazem Abdullah; Kaneza Schaal; Lyric Opera of Chicago; Amy Rubin; Micheline Russell-Brown; Pablo Santiago; Chicago Lyric Opera Orchestra
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Nézet-Séguin brings an idiosyncratic Beethoven 9 to Saratoga

Beethoven’s salvo for peace and brotherhood shares a Philadelphia Orchestra program with William Grant Still’s newly reorchestrated Wood Notes.
Old and new from the Danish National Symphony Orchestra

Fabio Luisi conducts the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in a programme that blends two modern works with Beethoven's Ninth.
The Philadelphia Orchestra discovers Florence Price once again

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.
Coloratura fireworks at the Met's Idomeneo

A luxuriously-cast revival takes a staid production of Mozart's Idomeneo to new, exciting heights.
Patricia Racette's mesmerizing power as Salome
In Los Angeles, Patricia Racette was an impressive Salome but the orchestra was, as it should, the main character.
Buffing the buffa in Ariadne
Seattle Opera closes its season with an Ariadne auf Naxos that highlights the comedy but only fitfully comes to life in the opera within the opera.
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Inside the mind of Peter Grimes: Issachah Savage

The American tenor talks about taking on Britten’s most archetypical tragic, flawed character, in a new production premiering at Dutch National Opera.
