Beloved RPO concertmaster Juliana Athayde takes center stage alongside Music Director Andreas Delfs to exhibit her artistry in Felix Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto – a seasoned staple of the repertoire that has frequented the concert stage for almost two centuries. Wagner’s colorful prelude to his romantic opera, Lohengrin, is just precursor to the operatic innovations that the composer would soon develop. Anton Bruckner’s dynamic, rhythmically inventive, sophisticated, and masterfully subtle 6th Symphony was described by the composer himself as “saucy.”