Performer: Yannick Nézet-Séguin

The season's first subscription concert celebrated the broad diversity of American music, focusing on composers and artists often excluded from concert halls in the past.

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Celebratory Philadelphia Orchestra reopens Carnegie Hall

David Wolfson, 06 Oct

After 572 dark days, there was music on the stage of Carnegie Hall. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in a jubilant program, culminating in a blistering Beethoven’s Fifth.

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Opening night with the Philadelphia Orchestra and Yo-Yo Ma

Cameron Kelsall, 05 Oct

Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and soloist Yo-Yo Ma stuck to the tried and true while ushering in a season "transformed and informed" by the pandemic's impact.

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Fire Shut Up in My Bones: a new beginning for The Metropolitan Opera

Edward Sava-Segal, 27 Sep

The Metropolitan Opera finally reopens its doors on a new season, staging Terence Blanchard's powerful work for the first time.

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Yannick Nézet-Séguin's Beethoven cycle concludes

Alexander Hall, 10 Jul

Nézet-Séguin and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe bring to a triumphant end their Beethoven cycle in Baden-Baden with coruscating performances of the Second and Third Symphonies.

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Nézet-Séguin and the COE bring Beethoven to Baden-Baden

Cameron Kelsall, 04 Jul

The elegance of the First Symphony served as a perfect curtain raiser for the mammoth, exultant Ninth.

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