Big Batons, Little Fox Beethoven, Bruckner, Brahms-and a clever vixen

摘要

Die-hard Wagnerians will flock to a new Ring cycle where they can see all four operas in the epic Ring of the Nibelung in one week with the same cast. Following up on last season's exciting, fully staged production of Ligeti's Le Grande Macabre, Alan Gilbert helms his final concert of his second season at the N.Y.C. Phil with Janacek's rarely performed opera, inspired by a 1920s Czech comic strip that tells the life-and-death tale of a forest fox named Vixen Sharpears.