Following up on the exciting, fully staged production of Ligeti's Le Grande Macabre last season, 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. 6/226/25
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