Sherezade Panthaki “soared” and Jonathon Adams “impressed with a barrel-round sound” in NY Phil Messiah

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“Soprano Sherezade Panthaki soared in her Part III air (“If God be for us, who can be against us?”)…

“Cree-Métis baritone Jonathon Adams, who identifies as two-spirit (a nonbinary identifier used within some Indigenous communities), impressed with a barrel-round sound and an arresting presence—espeically in their Part III dialogue with Matthew Muckey’s pristine trumpet.”