The ever-enterprising Renée Fleming, accompanied by the Emerson String Quartet, takes on her second world premiere in a single week: Penelope, by Tom Stoppard and the late André Previn. Based on the Odyssey, this concise “opera of sorts” stands as one of the composer’s final utterances. Uma Thurman narrates. —M.G.
The Arts Intel Report
Renée Fleming and the Emerson String Quartet: Walker, Wernick, Barber, and Previn
When
July 24, 2019