Name: Pride Night with Orville Peck
Start: 2025-06-05T19:30:00
Location: Boston Symphony Orchestra

Keith Lockhart

Orville Peck

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons leads some of the most acclaimed stars of opera today in performances of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, a work considered by many the greatest American opera. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Vanessa premiered at the Metropolitan Opera that year. Barber wrote the opera on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti; they aimed for a cosmopolitan, nostalgic work on lost love and the consequences of self-delusion. Barber’s romantic lyricism is ever-present in this powerfully affecting work, a centerpiece of this season’s E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One focus.

Vanessa | E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One

Featuring country music star Orville Peck as a special guest on the second half of the program, this year is even bigger and bolder — serving fabulous performances, moments of queer joy, and new ways to celebrate Boston Pride!