| Date and venue | Title |
|---|---|
| 29-Jan-2012 Lincoln Center: Avery Fisher Hall | The Opera Orchestra of New York's grand concert of Wagner's grand Rienzi |
 Early works by major composers can be fascinating. We try to see in them premonitions of the greatness to come, or hope they will cast light on a more familiar later work. The Opera Orchestra of New York’s concert presentation of Rienzi, Richard Wagner’s third opera, was fairly useless in this regard: most of Rienzi sounds nothing like mature Wagner. But it justifies itself on its own merits, a grand opera of impressive effect and achievement. This scrappy but exciting performance sometimes rose to the occasion.
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