Bernard Labadie conducts a program that features several of the composer’s alternate arias, sung radiantly by soprano Lucy Crowe.
An Argentine-inspired program, with music by Pablo E. Furman and Astor Piazzolla, comes off successfully despite an unexpected podium shuffle.
The famous film composer conducts his own work on a program that also includes Pictures at an Exhibition.
Shelley is only the third leader on the podium in the orchestra’s five-decade history, succeeding the long-serving Carl St. Clair.