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I heard the Philadelphia Orchestra on Feb 7, 2026. I'd heard them two or three times at Carnegie Hall but never on their home turf. And what a beautiful concert hall. The woman next to me (a longtime Phil Orch audience member) said that they have amazing acoustics, "like being in the middle of a violin." I don't have an ear for acoustics, it always sounds fine to me, but I'll take her word for it. The concert was conducted by Rafael Payare. They opened with Louis Ballard's *D

I saw a brand new opera, *Complications In Sue,* at Opera Philadelphia on Feb 7, 2026. There are three bold-face names involved in this project: Anthony Roth Costanzo, Michael R. Jackson, and Justin Vivian Bond. CONSTANZO Anthony Roth Costanzo is a hot shot young counter tenor, an opera singer with world wide cred. Not quite A list but a strong B plus - - which is impressive, he had to climb over the dead bodies of hundreds of other counter tenors to get where he is, kudos t