Bulgarian conductor Delyana Lazarova returns to Orchestra Hall — after last joining the Minnesota Orchestra in the summer of 2024 — to lead a riveting interpretation of Antonin Dvorak’s “New World” Symphony. Along with works by Caroline Shaw and Joseph Haydn, the concert highlighted inventive works from three centuries.

Principal guest conductor for the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra and the Utah Symphony, Lazarova brings a fiery presence and taut precision that recalls conductor laureate Osmo Vanska. With forceful, clean movements, she leads the orchestra with bold articulation.

To begin the concert, the orchestra performs “Entr’acte,” written by Shaw in 2011. It’s an exploration of liminality, where shifting states create disorientation. Named after the interval between acts of a play

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