Composer

Dutch-Argentinian soprano Ana-Carmen Balestra is known for her clear expressive voice and sparkling stage presence. A graduate of the Guildhall Opera Course, she has garnered attention for her talent as both an opera and lieder singer.

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Ana-Carmen Balestra soprano & Salome Jordania piano

The Bridgewater Hall

This will be a great joy, as we'll be igniting four sonic fireworks. Our energy will be further fueled by two Spaniards – the conductor Roberto González-Monjas and the pianist Javier Perianes. We'll begin with a humorous role-playing exercise: Manuel de Falla's ballet "El sombrero de tres picos" ("The Three-Cornered Hat") from 1919 is set in a small Andalusian town – and for this turbulent comedy of errors, we can create witty onomatopoeia and lively dances. Equally atmospheric is his piece "Nights in Spanish Gardens," completed in 1916: enchanting impressions for piano and orchestra with which the composer wanted to "evoke places, moods, and feelings." This also resonates with Debussy, who preferred to listen to the wind for his music, "which tells us the story of this world" – and who even initially wanted to become a sailor. 

Roberto González-Monjas, Javier Perianes

Bamberger Symphoniker

Latin Sizzle!

The Smith Center for the Performing Arts

Jason Vieaux, guitar with Zuill Bailey, cello

Dudamel / Abramović

San Carlo Theatre

Guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas is hailed as “the soul of the Spanish guitar.” His passionate performances, filled with flair and emotional depth, captivate audiences. Don’t miss this evocative evening showcasing the finest of classical guitar.

Guitar Romance

Frauenthal Center

The Spanish Galicia Symphony Orchestra, the first Spanish orchestra to grace the series for decades, brings with them a Mediterranean-inspired programme. Rapidly making a mark on the international scene, their Music Director, Roberto González-Monjas, will be joined by “the new face of classical guitar”, Thibaut Garcia, who will take the spotlight for Rodrigo’s exquisite Concierto de Aranjuez. The concert opens with the fiery elegance of Falla’s Three Dances from his ballet The Three-Cornered Hat. After the interval, journey through the enchanting world of Ravel’s whimsical Mother Goose Suite and soak up the lush, evocative portrait of Seville’s soul in Turina’s Sinfonia sevillana. The concert culminates in a mesmerizing crescendo with Ravel’s hypnotic Boléro.

Sheffield International Concert Season 2025/26 - Spanish Galicia SO

Sheffield City Hall

Our first visit from a Spanish orchestra in many a year brings this exciting young ensemble from the port city of A Coruña. They’re joined by Thibaut Garcia, who’s been hailed as ‘the new face of classical guitar’ after winning every major international guitar competition within the space of just a few months. His performance of Rodrigo’s evergreen Concierto de Aranjuez – so popular that it’s been recorded over a hundred times – is the centrepiece of a richly varied programme from Spain and France.

Spanish Galicia Symphony Orchestra

Royal Concert Hall Nottingham

A rhythm, a flute, and a melody you’ll never forget… it’s hard to say what exactly makes Ravel’s Boléro so irresistible. But this French composer had Spanish blood, and tonight’s concert is filled with the sunshine, the fragrance and the pure, intoxicating passion of Spain at its most seductive. Wild, whirling dances from Falla and Turina, delicate fairy tales from Ravel – it’s a fiesta in sound, even before Boléro strikes up that unstoppable beat.

But we couldn’t spend a night in Spain without hearing the classical guitar, and tonight the Coruña-based Spanish Galicia Symphony Orchestra is joined by dazzling young French guitarist Thibaut Garcia in that most Spanish of all guitar concertos: Rodrigo’s haunting and much-loved Concierto de Aranjuez.

Cadogan Hall 

Joaquín Rodrigo’s Concierto de Aranjuez is an icon in Spanish music, and surely the greatest guitar concerto ever written. It’s the centrepiece of a programme that also transports us to Andalucia with works by Joaquín Turina and Manuel de Falla. And then we’re in the company of Maurice Ravel, born to a Basque mother by the Spanish border, with two of his most enchanting pieces: the Mother Goose suite and the indelible Boléro.

Galicia Symphony Orchestra

Vivid orchestral colours and intense melodies abound in this programme from one of Spain's top orchestras.

The Anvil

Marin Symphony Concertmaster Ani Bukujian returns as soloist in two great pieces for violin, Bartok’s first Violin Concerto and Chausson’s lovely Poeme. The rest of the program is virtuoso orchestral writing at its finest, in works by Mason Bates, Ginastera, and de Falla.

Masterworks 3: Bartok & de Falla

College of Marin

Join circus artist Jordan Morton-Trowers, presenter Lucy Drever and musicians from Britten Sinfonia in this family concert featuring an adaptation of the book Leon and the Place Between, written by Angela McAllister and illustrated by Grahame Baker-Smith, with music by Paul Rissmann and animations by Victor Craven.

Family Concert: Tales From The Circus

arc Shopping Centre

University of Cambridge

Big Penny Social

WhenThe Prince's Music Corpsinvites you to a concert with the American-Swedish sopranoBarbara Hendricks, a world-class musical event is planned. Hendricks is one of the 20th century's most brilliant opera stars whose voice fascinates audiences to this day.

Barbara HendricksandThe Prince's Music Corps

Aarhus Music Hall

Avant Chamber Ballet and Orchestra of New Spain join forces for an innovative and electrifying performance that pushes the boundaries of storytelling through dance and live music with two 1920’s works – Igor Stravinsky’s “Pulcinella” and Manuel de Falla’s “El Amor Brujo” conducted by Grover Wilkins 3d.
With their shared passion for artistic excellence, creative exploration and interdisciplinary arts practice, Avant Chamber Ballet and Orchestra of New Spain create mesmerizing narratives that transports the audience to new realms of emotion and imagination with two famous operas.

Pulcinella Reimagined

Moody Performance Hall

True to its mission of promoting and raising awareness of classical music, the Opéra Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie travels across the Occitanie region in various formations.

Trio Soul and Voice

Église Saint-Paul de Frontignan

Join the Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra for a vibrant evening of music—featuring the world premiere of CHROMA by acclaimed composer Stacy Garrop, commissioned through the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation and the League of American Orchestras. (CHROMA lives up to its name—exploring a dazzling spectrum of musical hues in a piece that is both inventive and deeply resonant.)

Gardens of Spain Gabriela Martinez, Piano

Butler University

Rivers and landscapes shape the course of this programme, which has its source in Spain and flows to Bohemia. The story of Falla’s Three-Cornered Hat centres around a miller, his beautiful wife and the local magistrate, and the music is packed with references to Spanish folk music. Turia is named after the Spanish river that meets the Mediterranean near Valencia, and the solo guitar shimmers and sparkles like sun on the water. From here we move further east and join another river, the Vltava, as it wends its way through Smetana’s beautiful musical depiction of his Bohemian homeland.

Ulster Orchestra: Of Rivers and Mountains

Ulster Hall

Of Rivers & Mountains

Belfast

Axel Trolese in recital

Teatro La Fenice

Explore the realms of love, conflict, and tradition through three masterful works as we celebrate the enduring power of music and dance.

Stars of the Future: Tchaikovsky Romeo & Juliet Overture-Fantasy

Charles W. Eisemann Center for Performing Arts and Corporate Presentations

Based on the timeless, imaginative novel, Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote conjures the knight’s story with otherworldly tones and artistic narrative. Philadelphia Orchestra’s cellist Yumi Kendall “plays” the main character of the heroic Don Quixote’s fantastical adventures. Johann Strauss, Jr. praises Spain’s treasured musical traditions in Spanish March. Manuel de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat features a comedy of errors with frenzied and euphoric tones.

Strauss' Don Quixote

Appell Center for the Performing Arts

Spanish music has an atmosphere of its own which Manuel de Falla captured in concert works better than anyone else. His music for Serge Diaghilev’s ballet The Three Cornered Hat thrusts bright colours, crisp rhythms and harmonic panache up against one another and here sets up an evening of Spain-inspired works to include red-hot music by Falla, Rodrigo’s fragrant guitar concerto and pieces by French composers Bizet and Massenet who couldn’t resist the allures of the impassioned dances and folk songs south of the border. Guest conductor from Spain Antonio Méndez leads the orchestra with superstar guitarist MILOŠ for company.

Spanish Nights with MILOŠ

University of Oxford

The Copenhagen Phil's honorary guest conductor is on a musical mission. In his concert series ROOTS, Thomas Dausgaard traces symphonic music back to its folk music roots. Joining him on stage is the Amsterdam Andalusian Orchestra, which specializes in the distinctive folk music from Andalusia, which is so closely connected to the Arab musical tradition.

Dausgaard Roots #2: Spain

The Conservatory Concert Hall

Season ticket V13 - Thibaut García - Roberto González-Monjas

Opera House, A Coruña

Sometimes gently swaying, sometimes wildly stomping – this is how the successive waltzes in Carl Maria von Weber's "Invitation to the Dance" sound. With this piece, originally composed for piano, Weber created a depiction of the intoxicating love of dance of his time in 1819. The Spanish composer Manuel de Falla – the music world will celebrate his 150th birthday in 2026 – was so fascinated by a performance of the "Ballets Russes" in Paris that he wanted to create music for a ballet himself. Inspired by the dancer Pastore Imperio from his homeland, de Falla studied the tradition of Andalusian flamenco and the singing style of "cante jondo" and, on this basis, wrote the ballet "El amor brujo" (The Love Spell) for voice and orchestra in the winter of 1914/15, from which he transformed a year later into a symphonic suite with voice. The solo part is played by Ieva Prudnikovaite, who is currently delighting audiences as Carmen at the Lübeck Theater.

5th  Symphony Concert

Music and Congress Hall Lübeck

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, the Dearborn Symphony invites you to an evening of music made for falling in love—with rhythm, with movement, and maybe even with each other. Shall We Dance is a romantic, high-spirited night out designed for couples, friends, and anyone looking to celebrate the joy of connection through music and motion.

The concert itself flows with the charm and energy of a night on the town. Liszt’s Mephisto Waltz brings smoldering passion and drama, while Strauss’s Voices of Spring waltz enchants with its elegance—performed live with dancers from Downriver Dance Academy, under the artistic direction of Genrich. Later, tango-inspired rhythms and Latin flair take center stage in Piazzolla’s Libertango, performed in collaboration with the Dearborn Youth Symphony, adding a fresh, youthful spark to the evening.

Shall We Dance?

Ford Community & Performing Arts Center

Concertmaster David Kim steps into the spotlight in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto, a breathtaking, emotionally intense thrill ride. Rafael Payere, whose five-star reviews hail performances “ablaze with color, intensity and strength” (Cleveland Classical), leads this heart-pounding program.

Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

Music, like no other art form, reflects the true variety of Hispanic culture. Join the Owensboro Symphony for a celebration of the rich cultural impact of Latin American and Hispanic composers. This exciting concert features Grammy winning classical guitarist Sharon Isbin hailed by the Boston Globe as “One of the best guitarists in the world.” and the lively Espana by Chabrier, Marquez’s Danzón No. 2, Concierto de Aranjuez, El amor brujo: Ritual Fire Dance, Huapango, music from Coco, and Capriccio espagnol.

¡Vamos a la Sinfonía!

Kentucky Wesleyan College

A disciple of Alicia de Larrocha and Daniel Barenboim, the great Spanish pianist Javier Perianes returns to Liège for a program largely dedicated to Spain, at the initiative of EUROPALIA. First, he brings together Falla's early pieces with works by Chopin that seem to have inspired them. Second, he brings together Falla's Four Spanish Pieces , premiered in Paris in 1908, with four excerpts from Albéniz's formidable collection Iberia , an absolute masterpiece of piano literature whose colors and exuberance constitute a formidable homage to his native country.

Javier Perianes

Philharmonic Hall of Liege

With her deep knowledge of Nordic folk magic, Olga Ravn works to stage performances that reinterpret folk magic with inspiration from cultic ritual, the visual world of poetry and the concentration of performance art. It is this dialogue that now moves into the concert hall with a performance developed especially for the Copenhagen Phil.

Olga Ravn: Re-enchantment

This unparalleled concert event starts with Spanish Dance No. 1 by de Falla from his opera, La vida breve or "Life is Short". The opera tells the story of Salud, a gypsy girl who is passionately in love with a wealthy man named Paco. He is engaged to be married to someone else and has kept this secret from her. Once the truth is known, Salud and her uncle crash the wedding party and confront the man and his new bride. Paco rejects Salud and in grand opera fashion, she dies of broken heart and collapses at his feet. We promise, the Spanish Dance No. 1 his a happy rollicking  event that will absolutely please your ears.

The Brilliance of Rachel Barton Pine

Newport Performing Arts Center

Local dance students perform to waltzes, tangos, and other traditional dance pieces played by The Syracuse Orchestra.

Kids Dance!

Inspiration Hall

Experience a night where classical meets fusion. Miguel Espinoza Fusion blends jazz, flamenco, and world music in their captivating Camino Desconocido alongside other original works. Mezzo-soprano Laura Mercado-Wright lends her rich voice to selections from Falla’s El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat), while the evening opens with Copland’s lively Danzón Cubano, setting the tone for an unforgettable celebration of musical diversity.

Latin Flair

The Long Center for the Performing Arts

Guest conductor Josep Vicent leads the orchestra in a captivating concert starting with Falla’s Three Cornered Hat Suite and featuring Korngold’s emotionally rich Violin Concerto that will delight you and elevate the evening with its lyrical beauty. Falla’s El amor brujo and Márquez’s Danzón No. 2 completes the program in a lively homage to Flamenco, Latin dance and Spanish passion.

Latin Rhythms and Hollywood Drama

Ohio Theatre

Observe a working rehearsal as the musicians and conductor put the finishing touches on the weekend’s concert program on Friday, January 16 at 10AM. Doors open at 9AM. Tickets are $17.14; coffee and donuts are included!

Friday Coffee Dress – Latin Rhythms and Hollywood Drama

Between his performances of The Well-Tempered Clavier, this season’s curator Mahan Esfahani will make room to honour his reputation as a bold musical explorer. In a thoughtfully assembled programme, he brings together Czech and international works of the 20th-century — paying tribute to Viktor Kalabis and shining a light on the inventive, though lesser-known, Henry Cowell. The evening’s climax will be Falla’s Harpsichord Concerto, interpreted by some of the Czech Republic’s finest musicians.

Czech Chamber Music Society • Mahan Esfahani

Rudolfinum

As tradition dictates, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra rings in the New Year with a musical journey to Vienna. For 2026, the celebration begins in Spain, with guitarist Juan Manuel Cañizares performing Joaquín Rodrigo’s melancholic Concierto de Aranjuez, a jewel of the classical guitar repertoire. Manuel de Falla’s vibrant Spanish folk dances follow, setting the stage for a Viennese festivity. Then the Viennese party really erupts, because waltzes and polkas and Johann Strauss Jr.: this belongs to New Year as much as fireworks and bubbles!

New Year's Concert in Hasselt

Cultuurcentrum Hasselt

The Lush Guitar

Norton Museum of Art

Márquez Ortiz Falla Ravel

Gasteig HP8

Flute and Strings

Chamber Music Palisades

The earth is sweating, the poles are melting—and somewhere, a penguin is sitting on packed suitcases. Thousands of animals from all over the world are competing for a ticket on the luxury liner "Arche Boa." Twelve animal finalists will present their stories in a spectacular show. The audience decides: Which animal will be saved, will receive the last QuarTIER on board, and thus be saved from extinction?

1.  Children's concert Arche Boa

Theater Lübeck

Awarded the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights and Freedom in 2016, Say describes himself as ‘a bridge-builder between cultures.’

Santtu and Fazıl Say

Southbank Centre

Celebrated Turkish pianist-composer Fazıl Say performs his own new piano concerto, in an afternoon of music rooted in the earth of home.   

Awarded the International Beethoven Prize for Human Rights and Freedom in 2016, Say describes himself as ‘a bridge-builder between cultures.’ His music is a brilliantly effective blend of Western and Middle Eastern classical traditions, and his live performances are ‘one of a kind… full of energy and brilliance’ (Bachtrack).    

Piano virtuoso Javier Perianes, praised by Gramophone for his “infallible ear for style, atmosphere and colour” returns to perform Nights in the Gardens of Spain, evoking Falla’s beloved Andalusia with its mysterious, fragrant beauty, strumming guitars, flamenco rhythms and dancing melodies. Our rich, Spanish-flavored concert culminates in Rapsodie Espagnole, Ravel’s orchestral masterpiece, showing him as a master of instrumental color. Its four sections are vivid echoes of the sounds and dances of Spain, and its final movement, the sultry “Feria” (“The Fair”), punctuated by castanets, is ablaze in a riot of colors. In between, it’s the zesty suite from The Three-Cornered Hat, replete with sounds of stamping feet, timpani drumming and castanets clicking out infectious rhythms.

Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Chamber Concert 3 »Women's Love«

Oper Graz

This concert is curated by PhD candidate Jon Urdapilleta as part of his research on Manuel de Falla's music.

Visions on Cante Jondo

Royal Academy of Music

Guest Concert

Marktplatz

Ensemble 360 and Claire Booth, who have forged a dynamic partnership through their performances of Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire together, now turn their attention to Berio's quirky and intriguing Folk Songs in the composer's centenary year. Indeed, folk influences pervade the whole programme, from Rebecca Clarke's pastoral-tinged duo for clarinet and viola and Katherine Hoover’s evocation of the Hopi people to Ravel's sultry, sun-drenched pictures of Madagascar.

Claire Booth & Ensemble 360: Berio Folk Songs

Bute Park

BASF-Feierabendhaus

Journey through a night of vivid storytelling. Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari opens with mystical energy, inspired by the sacred blue deer of the Huichol people. The Chicago Tribune deems Karen Gomyo “a first-rate artist of vitality, brilliance, and intensity”, tackling Mendelssohn’s soaring Violin Concerto. De Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2 brims with fiery Spanish rhythms, while Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty Suite enchants with its fairy-tale splendor.

Tchaikovsky’s Sleeping Beauty

Eastman Theatre

The harp master returns to the magnificent Grand Hall with three of his most esteemed artistic companions: the wonderful flautist Magali Mosnier, castanet legend Lucero Tena, and the Artistic Director of the Mozarteum Foundation, star tenor Rolando Villazón. The magic and power of friendship make this shared musical expedition, which begins at the two small sources of the Vltava River and leads to southern Europe, a deeply felt and highly emotional evening.

Master Concert: De Maistre & Friends Villazón / Mosnier / Tena

Mozarteum Foundation

Rodrigo’s beloved complex yet elegant Concierto de Aranjuez finds new expression in the dazzling virtuosity of world-renowned guitarist Raphaël Feuillâtre. Manuel de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat is filled with Spanish dance rhythms and rich melodies. Rounding out the program is Clarice Assad’s Baião ‘N’ Blues, a lively fusion of Brazilian rhythms and American blues.

Spanish Fiesta

Green Music Center

Spain – that sounds like summer, sun, and sea. And music. KiKA presenter Juri Tetzlaff takes you on a journey to the land of flamenco, playful melodies, and spirited rhythms. Like a musical tapas bar, we serve you the most delicious sounds from Spain's regions: burning passion with Falla's fire dance, as well as vibrant city portraits and enchanting landscapes with Albéniz's "Suite española."

Classical olé!

Fürstenfeld Monastery

Based in the United States, the Hermitage Piano Trio has solidified its place as one of the world’s leading piano trios, garnering multiple Grammy-Award nominations and receiving audience and press accolades for their performances.

Subtle Connections Across the World - Hermitage Piano Trio

Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth

Composed during a vacation in Cairo, Saint-Saëns’s crowd-pleasing Piano Concerto No. 5, Egyptian runs the gamut from delicate grace to powerhouse virtuosity. Beloved for his captivating mix of dramatic flair and tour-de-force brilliance, Jean-Yves Thibaudet will leave you spellbound. And, castanets click, fiery flamenco rhythms blaze, and sensuous sonic colors saturate the stage in a rare complete performance of Manuel de Falla’s exuberant The Three-Cornered Hat.

Jean-Yves Thibaudet + The Three-Cornered Hat

Jones Hall

"In the great flowering of Spanish music at the start of the 20th century, first Albeniz, then Granados, and finally Falla, brought international sophistication to a musical world on the fringe of Europe.  They had the genius to make thoroughly contemporary pieces out of distinctively Spanish material, giving the world a fresh perspective on their nation's culture." - Deutsche Grammophon

Spanish Passion

Washington Pavilion

The 2025–2026 MasterWorks season begins in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month with a program rooted in cultural exchange, classical tradition, and artistic dialogue—an ideal starting point for Where Our Stories Meet.

MasterWorks I: Six Strings & A Symphony

Zimmermann Symphony Center

Rosa Donata Milton, Deputy First Concertmaster of the Jena Philharmonic, and pianist Tatiana Kachko unfold a colorful program of Spanish music full of rhythm, elegance, and virtuoso refinement. Works by Pablo de Sarasate, Isaac Albéniz, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla, and others paint a vibrant panorama of musical styles ranging from salon pieces to character dances. 

Chamber Concert № 1 »Viva la Vida!«

Town Hall Hall

Directed by Dudamel since 1999, Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela has established a reputation for high-energy, ferociously skilled performances.

Gustavo Dudamel & Simón Bolívar Symphony Orchestra

Between Wednesday 13 – Saturday 23 August, Chetham’s International Piano Summer School brings world class and legendary musicians to a vibrant, supportive community in central Manchester. Alongside lectures, open lessons and opportunities to develop new skills, you can discover a daily programme of recitals from world-class performers.

Chetham’s International Piano Summer School 2025 – Day Nine

The Stoller Hall

Your Spanish adventure starts here! After Turina’s evocation of the sun and the limitless blue sky, South Korean guitarist JIJI plays Rodrigo’s evergreen concerto, much loved for its ravishing slow movement.

Spanish Rhythms

Auckland Town Hall

Home orchestra Royal Northern Sinfonia, CBeebies presenters Chantelle Lindsay and Puja Panchkoty, and CBeebies friends are ready to take you on an epic wildlife adventure.

BBC Proms: CBeebies Wildlife Jamboree

The Glasshouse International Centre for Music

Pirouette into summer with this program featuring music inspired by dance, including pieces by Dvořák, Ginastera and many more. Composers are often inspired by dance and movement, from the percussive sound of tap shoes to elegant ballet combinations. This program will have you leaping out of your seats and onto the dance floor!

Rhythm in Motion

Orchestra Hall

Extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform audience favorites – from beloved melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs to pieces by Brahms, Liszt, and Schumann. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

Music of Gershwin, Britten, and more

Beebe Woods

Extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music perform audience favorites – from beloved melodies from Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess and Benjamin Britten’s Cabaret Songs to pieces by Brahms and de Falla. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

First Presbyterian Church of East Hampton

Composed of dozens of the world’s finest high school musicians, the Interlochen Philharmonic is one of Interlochen Arts Camp’s two exceptional high school orchestras. Join the Philharmonic for a selection of classical favorites and recent compositions

Chelsea Tipton conducts selections from Manuel de Falla's 3 Cornered Hat

Interlochen Center for the Arts

Where the emperor once strolled, we are preparing the large Kurpark stage for an evening with Spanish flair: In a beautiful atmosphere, tenor Rolando Villazón and mezzo-soprano Gaëlle Arquez, together with the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid under the direction of Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra, will present a classical night with a Spanish repertoire that can only be experienced in this form here. Of course, works by Manuel de Falla and parts from Georges Bizet's "Carmen" will be included – a dazzling work that has lost none of its popularity and expressive diversity to this day. But singing isn't the only thing that plays a role this evening: with Spanish orchestral works, the Orquesta de la Comunidad de Madrid will demonstrate all of its talent and transport the audience to Southern Europe with its sounds. Fans of Spanish music culture and all those who aspire to become fans of Spanish music culture should definitely not miss this open-air classical music event in Wiesbaden's Kurpark!

Spanish Classical Night

Kurpark

Spanish pianist Javier Perianes, able to “make the piano sing and glitter with alert, polished brilliance” (Sydney Morning Herald), joins us for two virtuoso masterworks.

Firebird

Christchurch Town Hall

Michael Fowler Centre

Curtis in Nantucket, the island’s highly anticipated annual week of classical music, returns to Nantucket Atheneum for an exciting performance featuring voice, strings, and piano performed by extraordinary alumni and faculty from the world-renowned Curtis Institute of Music. The program includes delightful and soulful Spanish folk songs by Manuel de Falla, virtuosic selections for solo violin and solo piano by Kreisler and Chopin, and gems from the opera and song repertoire. Don’t miss these thrilling performances by current and future leading artists – mezzo-soprano Katie Trigg, violinist Elissa Lee Koljonen, pianist Hanchien Lee, and Curtis President and violist Roberto Díaz.

Music of de Falla, Kreisler, and more

Nantucket Atheneum

St. Paul’s Church of Nantucket

In the opening classical concert, Allan Pollack will lead the musicians in Igor Stravinsky’s 1922 Pulcinella Suite, one of the ballets commissioned by Diaghilev. We’ll catch our breaths when the orchestra and pianist James D’León transport us to Nights in the Gardens of Spain, Manuel de Falla’s set of nocturnes for piano and orchestra. The evening will end on very high notes with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. Ever since its 1888 premiere, it has been a hit with audiences for its soaring melodies and dramatic composition.

Festival Orchestra 1, with soloist James D’León

Mendocino Music Festival

Spanish music is full of life. From Ravel’s heart-pounding conclusion to Bolero to Falla’s rousing The Three-Cornered Hat, this concert will thrill and transport you.

Ravel & Falla

Sydney Opera House

"Let's dance!" is the motto for the last symphony concert, which goes beyond the usual concert framework: instead of in the Kurhaus, the State Theater building will be used - on all stages, in the foyers and in all nooks and crannies that can offer surprises.

Composer

Manuel de Falla

Events

Upcoming events

May 8, 2026

Aranjuez · Beethoven Orchester Bonn

May 9, 2026

RPYO Spring Showcase · Reno Philharmonic Orchestra

May 14, 2026

Shawn Sung Ho Wui, Trumpet · The Juilliard School

6 - 7 Jun, 2026

Scheherazade · Orlando Philharmonic Orchestra

Jun 26, 2026

Guest performance in Bad Elster »Soundscapes of Classical Music« · Jenaer Philharmonie

Past events

May 6, 2026

Ana-Carmen Balestra soprano & Salome Jordania piano · The Bridgewater Hall

29 - 30 Apr, 2026

Roberto González-Monjas, Javier Perianes · Bamberger Symphoniker

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