Bay Area audiences can find out for themselves, as the composer himself conducts the San Francisco Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in the American premiere performances. Jessica Rivera, Russell Thomas and Eric Owens are the soloists in a semi-staged version of the work directed by Peter Sellars, who did the full production in Vienna.
That complete staging will be presented this summer, August 10-12 at London's Barbican Centre with Adams conducting once again.
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Michael Mayer directs John Monsky's historical symphonic work April 7 and 8.
Nine Metropolitan Opera productions will air on television.
The director-choreographer is partnering with the Institute for American Musical Theatre for the three-night limited engagement.
