Now in his second season as music director, Thomas Sondergard will begin the season in September with two weeks of concerts that include three new-to-the-orchestra works by Andrea Tarrodi and Thomas Ades.
Jonas Kaufmann, Anna Netrebko and Antonio Pappano pull off a buoyant La Gioconda; elsewhere, a fresh Verdi Requiem and a Byronic septuagenarian viola soloist made this a festival to remember
Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater is reimagined for the stage; the South African soprano scales the heights from Strauss to The Sound of Music; and Asmik Grigorian is a shattering Butterfly
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