"Audaciously Appropriated Late Romanticism" would do.

The 2½-hour work, a concert opera of sorts, was given its U.S. premiere Saturday night by Vladimir Jurowski and the London Philharmonic Orchestra as part of the unveiling of a $159 million remake of Alice Tully Hall. Even if it did nothing else, Vita Nuova could not have posed a better test for the new space. Both the young conductor - who will conduct at the Kimmel Center later this week - and the newly young Tully are likely to have implications for Philadelphia.

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