Costumes adorn Symphony Hall as musicians and audience wear their most frightful garb and try to guess Jere Flint’s surprise costume. The music is wicked good, and theatrical surprises keep the kids on the edge of their seats.

Larger than life puppets vividly recreate the fantastic tales of Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade (based on Arabian Nights).

The persnickety Snicket introduces young audiences to the instruments in the orchestra in the vein of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf and Britten’s A Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra. An enthralling premiere.