BOSTON — This weekend’s Boston Symphony Orchestra performance is more than just a celebration of music — it’s a celebration of marital bliss.
Seventeen married couples are scheduled to perform Saturday at the BSO’s summer home at Tanglewood in western Massachusetts. It’s being touted as the most wedded pairs ever to perform together in the orchestra’s 134-year history.
The couples performing the first two acts of the Verdi opera “Aida” will include the orchestra’s music director, Andris Nelsons, and his soprano wife, Kristine Opolais, in the title role. Two members of the cast are also married.
Six of the couples perform with the orchestra, and eight are in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, the orchestra’s all-volunteer choir.
Nelsons says music is much better when it’s a family affair.