The former Merola Program participant is back to sing Dai Yu in Dream of the Red Chamber.
The ensemble premieres a semistaged opera inspired by the diary of a young Filipina immigrant to California.
The all-American program includes William Grant Still’s First Symphony and Peter Lieberson’s stirring Neruda Songs.
Daniil Trifonov debuts the composer’s Piano Concerto, part of an off-the-beaten-path program conducted by Ruth Reinhardt.