Anthony Roth Costanzo, who introduced $11 tickets, brings opera with a difference to Philadelphia

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Anthony Roth Costanzo, the man who hopes to keep surprising audiences during the company’s new season.

“It is very much opera. It’s dramatic, it’s cathartic, it’s collaborative in interdisciplinary ways,” Costanzo said of Opera Philadelphia’s 50th anniversary season — the first he’s been able to plan since taking charge of the financially teetering company last year. “But it’s different from what your perception of opera might be.”