While still traveling on its first tour with music director Christoph Eschenbach, the National Symphony Orchestra has just added a stop to the next one.Word arrived Tuesday from Sao Paulo that the NSO will be visiting Oman next February, becoming the first major American orchestra to perform at the Royal Opera House Muscat. The soloist will be violinist Dan Zhu, performing Mozart's Concerto No. 5.
The Oman concert extends the previously announced winter 2013 tour that begins on Jan. 31 and includes stops in Paris, two cities in Spain, four in Germany. The NSO is currently wrapping up its Americas tour, which has involved visits to Trinidad, Tobago, Argentina, Uruguay, and Brazil.