Joan (soprano Elana Gleason) and Lionel (baritone Powell Brumm) in Russian Opera Workshop’s Maid of Orleans. (Photo by Leonard Meirson)

The second summer session of the Russian Opera Workshop concludes this week with concert performances of Tchaikovsky’s Maid of Orleans. The program is led by Ghenady Meirson, a prominent vocal coach at Philadelphia’s Curtis Institute and Academy of Vocal Arts. (The latter’s grand Rittenhouse Square digs serve as the campus.)

As has been the case in the near-decade the workshop has been in existence, two constituencies are generously served here…

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