Inside a New York opera star's Alabama passion project
"You see part of the orchestra and you see the conductor. And that's it," Phillips says. "You might see a person on the front row, but maybe not. The rest of it's dark so they can see the show, but when the lights come up it's pretty incredible. There are nearly 5,000 people there and that's a lot of people."
The startup concept for what became Twickenham Fest was to "bring some of those amazing musicians that we meet and regularly interact with to Huntsville, so people here can see and hear what they do," Phillips says.