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Yannick Nezet-Seguin Conducts His First Full Wagner Opera

Philadelphians don’t often envy their neighbors in the north. But it was hard not to, when Yannick Nezet- Seguin conducted his Orchestre Metropolitain de Montreal in an all-star concert performance of Wagner's Lohengrin at Festival Lanaudiere outside of Montreal on August 11th.

Even a significant diva cliffhanger didn't stop it, reports The Philadelphia Inquirer’s David Patrick Stearns.