Description: With lush, sumptuous music, Franz Schreker’s opera The Distant Sound explores the complexities of love, eroticism, and art-for-art’s-sake idealism. It tells the tragic story of Fritz, a composer who forsakes Grete, his beloved, for the sound that is a distant echo of her presence. The opera has never been professionally staged in this country — until now. Reservations required.When Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra gave the American concert premiere of The Distant Sound in 2007, the New York Times said, “Mr. Botstein brought sure dramatic pacing and fiery commitment to his account of this thick and complex score for a huge orchestra, sizable chorus, and large cast.”