Quadrille on Themes from Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," Op. 272
| Johann Strauss II | Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado | New Year's Concert 1988 / Abbado, Vienna Philharmonic
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Quadrille on Themes from Verdi's "Un Ballo in Maschera," Op. 272
| Johann Strauss II | Vienna Phil/Claudio Abbado | New Year's Concert 1988 / Abbado, Vienna Philharmonic
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"I wanted to encourage young emerging LGBTQ+ composers to write pieces that tell their story in an authentic way... This concert series is both a celebration of how far we have come and how far we still have to go.”
This is the third major presentation of City Opera's LGBTQ series following Peter Eotvos' Angels in America in 2017 and Charles Wuorinen's Brokeback Mountain last year.
