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Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus World Premiere

September 25, 2025, 10:00 pm

Composer Kate Soper at Sunbeam Vintage in Los Angeles, California. (Photo: Maggie Shannon)

The world premiere of a piece commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, with the composer as soloist! Soprano Kate Soper stars in a piece of her own creation: Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus. Also on the program is one of Stravinsky’s shorter symphonies, plus Symphony No. 11 by Philip Glass.

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Igor Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements

Kate Soper: Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Commission)
Kate Soper, soprano

Philip Glass: Symphony No. 11

Meet the Host

Alec Baldwin is the Radio Host of the New York Philharmonic. Since 1980 Mr. Baldwin has appeared in numerous productions on stage, in films, and on television. He has received a Tony nomination (A Streetcar Named Desire, 1992), an Oscar nomination (The Cooler, 2004), and has won two Emmy Awards, three Golden Globes, and seven consecutive Screen Actors Guild Awards for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Comedy Series for his role on NBC’s 30 Rock. His films include The Hunt for Red October, Glengarry Glen Ross, Malice, The Edge, It's Complicated, Blue Jasmine, Still Alice, and Mission: Impossible — Rogue Nation, among many others. Alec Baldwin earned a bachelor of fine arts degree from New York University’s Tisch School of the Arts in 1994, and received an honorary doctorate in 2010. He is co-chairman of the Board of the Hamptons International Film Festival.

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff

Orpheus Orchestra Opus Onus World Premiere

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