NY Phil To Give NY Premiere Of Messiaen’s St.-Francois d’Assise

The Philharmonic presents its first fully-staged opera, Ligeti’s Grand Macabre, next month. And it’snot stopping there: “Though it hasn’t yet been announced, [Alan] Gilbert is planning to bring to the Phil the first complete New York production of Olivier Messiaen’s five-hour opera St. Francis of Assisi, … tentatively planned for 2013.”