Composer

Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5 was begun in 1937, a year after Stalin condemned the composer’s opera Lady Macbeth as ‘muddle instead of music’. On the surface, the Fifth falls back into Soviet line with its clear sense of structure and abundance of tunes. But there’s an underlying menace to the opening movement, a brooding darkness to the Largo, while the surging finale is surely nothing short of Shostakovich at his most bitingly ironic.

On Tour in Jiangsu

Jiangsu Grand Theatre

Kabalevsky’s witty and sparkling Colas Breugnon Overture bursts open the season with swagger and wit. Pianist Mackenzie Melemed brings grandeur and brilliance to Amy Beach’s richly romantic Piano Concerto. Prokofiev’s searing music from Romeo and Juliet closes the night, where love, violence, and heartbreak blaze across one of the orchestra’s most vivid scores.

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Romeo and Juliet

Martin Woldson Theater

Conducting the concert is Eduardo Strausser: this Brazilian conductor, music director of the Norrlandsoperan Symphony Orchestra in Sweden, has already collaborated with prestigious ensembles, including the Orchestre National Montpellier Occitanie. The concert opens with Lumina by Nina Shekhar, an American composer born in 1995, who explores the contrasts between light and darkness, between vibrant timbres and opaque textures – a tribute to light. Next comes the young South Korean prodigy Sarang Seohyun Kim, the youngest laureate, at 14 years old, of the Tibor Varga International Competition. She performs Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 3 , a luminous work of radiant classicism. Finally, Prokofiev's Symphony No. 7 (1952) offers a farewell imbued with gentle melancholy, in which the Russian composer tenderly revisits classical forms. From Mozart to the present day, a program that celebrates musical heritage in all its diversity.

Heritage Concert

Opéra Comédie

Lose yourself in Elgar’s dark yet lyrical Cello Concerto. Written in the aftermath of World War I, this melancholy piece will break your heart and leave you breathless—an “autumnal” meditation to welcome fall.

Elgar’s Cello Concerto & Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5

Salt Palace Convention Center

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra plays in Vara Konserthus together with conductor Jukka-Pekka Saraste and pianist Peter Jablonski.

Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra plays in Vara Konserthus

Vara Concert Hall

Liadov conjures magical landscapes while Tchaikovsky navigates anguish and triumph, plus Bruce Liu performs Prokofiev’s dazzling Piano Concerto No 3.

On Tour in Beijing

National Centre for the Performing Arts

An exceptional programme of flute music from the last century, from dreamy Dohnányi, to mysterious Liebermann, to Prokofiev at his most spirited.

Prokofiev Sonatas: Elizaveta Ivanova and Sanja Bizjak

LSO St Luke's

We are honored to return to the David Geffen Hall stage for a deeply meaningful performance of John Adams’ On the Transmigration of Souls. This marks a historic moment for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus: it is our first time performing this profound "memory space" in song since we won a Grammy Award for the world-premiere recording. Joined by the New York Philharmonic and led by Gustavo Dudamel, we invite you to experience this powerful tribute to the human spirit.

NY Philharmonic - Dudamel Conducts On the Transmigration of Souls

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Star pianist Peter Jablonski returns for a guest performance with the Gothenburg Symphony. This time, one of Prokofiev’s most demanding and playful piano concertos is in his brilliant hands. Beethoven's Eroica concludes. Conductor: Jukka-Pekka Saraste.

Prokofiev with Peter Jablonski

Göteborgs Konserthus

An Evening of Musical Stories celebrates the 90th anniversary of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf in a gala concert supporting Brass for Africa – the charity transforming young lives through music in Uganda, Rwanda, and Liberia.

Actor Hugh Bonneville* narrates this much-loved tale, bringing its characters to life with warmth, wit, and storytelling flair. The piece is conducted by Gabriel Prokofiev, the composer’s grandson, offering a unique personal connection to this timeless work.

The London Musici, under Mark Stephenson, also performs Prokofiev’s effervescent ‘Classical’ Symphony, brimming with elegance and charm.

Distinguished baritone Patrick Dow joins the programme, bringing expressive artistry and a fresh contemporary voice. Musicians from Brass for Africa share joyful musical stories, highlighting music’s power to inspire and uplift communities.

Gala Concert of Musical Stories

Cadogan Hall

Prokof’ev - Peter and the Wolf

Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Theatre

After its spectacular debut at the Musikfest Berlin in 2024, the Vienna Philharmonic returns in a new guest appearance, on this occasion with the conductor Tugan Sokhiev. The three-time Grammy award winner Hilary Hahn is the soloist in Antonín Dvořák’s brilliant Violin Concerto which guarantees a buoyant lightness not only in its thrilling final movement thanks to the influence of Czech folk dances. Sergei Prokofiev also selected the artistic form of dance for his musical depiction of the probably most famous love story of all time: the tragedy Romeo and Juliet based on William Shakespeare.

Wiener Philharmoniker

Berliner Philharmoniker

With one hand she snaps a three-beat rhythm, with the other a two-beat rhythm, and on top of that she sings the violin melody: when America’s top violinist Hilary Hahn explains Antonín Dvořák’s Violin Concerto “in a nutshell” on a YouTube video, it becomes instantly clear why she chose this very piece for her long-awaited Lucerne Festival debut. Mischief and joy leap out at you — she loves this concerto, and the spark catches immediately. Hilary Hahn combines lightness with seriousness, virtuosity with poetry. That’s why, many feel, she belongs to a class of her own. Just like the Vienna Philharmonic: the flagship orchestra from the metropolis on the Danube will show everything it can do — passionate drama, delicate nuance, and a melting, luminous sound — when it performs what may be the finest ballet score ever written. Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet recounts Shakespeare’s “most excellent and lamentable tragedy” with flair, wit, and sheer impact. The conductor Tugan Sokhiev has assembled his own selection of the most beautiful numbers. And we love and suffer along with the star-crossed couple, hoping until the last moment — and we may well shed a few tears.

Vienna Philharmonic | Tugan Sokhiev | Hilary Hahn

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Prokofiev remained hopeful about the future even as the Second World War raged. In his Symphony No. 5, he celebrates the strength of the human spirit through vibrant playfulness and ethereal melodies. But when Chief Conductor Martyn Brabbins first takes the podium to open the season, he does so in the company of the legendary Don Juan — the elegant bon vivant at the heart of a surging tone poem that became the 24-year-old Richard Strauss’s breakthrough as a composer.

Brabbins & Prokofiev

Malmo Live Concert AB

Shostakovich’s compositions faced pressure from the totalitarian Stalin regime, but he remained defiant and courageous. His piece Festive Overture, driven by thrilling brass fanfare, was written in three days to celebrate the anniversary of the October 1917 Russian Revolution. It is speculated that the work was influenced by the composer’s sense of relief and celebration after Stalin’s death. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 5, written for the same anniversary years prior, focuses on the transformation from emotional darkness to light, reflecting his struggles with the regime’s critics. The piece won massive praise, with a standing ovation for over thirty minutes after its premiere.

Prokofiev & Shostakovich

Buddy Holly Hall

In Verse of Light, the trumpet stands up for human creativity in the struggle between the analog and the digital. The work was written for MSO’s honorary artist Håkan Hardenberger by the orchestra’s Composer in Association, Karen Tanaka.

Season Opening – Brabbins & Prokofiev

Over their first six months as Sydney Symphony Orchestra Fellows, these aspiring musicians have experienced everything from vast symphonies to more intimate chamber concerts, all while getting to know each other’s playing styles.

Fellows Choice

St James' Church, Sydney

Finland has only 5,5 million inhabitants — a good third fewer than Switzerland — yet it keeps astonishing the music world with a steady stream of outstanding new talent. Central Europe can only marvel. The conductor leading the fabulous Concertgebouw Orchestra when it comes to Lucerne this summer is also a Finn: 40-year-old Santtu-Matias Rouvali, Chief Conductor of London’s Philharmonia Orchestra.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra | Santtu-Matias Rouvali | Víkingur Ólafsson

For his recital, our “artiste étoile” Augustin Hadelich has planned something special: he will appear with Seong-Jin Cho, South Korea’s superstar pianist, for the very first time — world-class meets world-class. The program could hardly be lovelier: the delicate, deeply romantic Violin Romance by the American composer Amy Beach; Leoš Janáček’s earthy, passionate Sonata with its wild dance rhythms that tear apart any sense of regular meter; and Sergei Prokofiev’s weightless D major Sonata, written in the midst of World War II yet sounding anything but apocalyptic. The evening opens with Johannes Brahms and his melody-rich G major Sonata, which contains a famous song quotation. Hadelich says he came to understand this composer anew after immersing himself in his chamber music, and in general he considers making music in small ensembles the best training for performing with orchestra and, more broadly, for engaging with people. As he puts it, this is how you learn to listen, to respond, to enter into dialogue. A school for life.

Augustin Hadelich | Seong-Jin Cho

Normally the roles are clear: the orchestra sits onstage, and the audience listens from the hall. That’s where the sound blends best, of course. But it raises an intriguing question: how does the orchestra itself experience a concert, and what does the conductor actually hear? “Mittendrin” gives you the answer. You take your seat right among the musicians, who are spread out a bit more widely than usual so that extra chairs can be positioned to accommodate you as guests. Iván Fischer, a master of imaginative ideas, invented this wonderfully offbeat format at the Konzerthaus Berlin and now brings it to Lucerne. He conducts a suite from Sergei Prokofiev’s enchanting ballet Cinderella, and you watch him from just a few feet away, as if you were part of the orchestra. “What you experience is simply fantastic,” Fischer says. “You notice countless new details — you hear some instruments right up close, others from farther away. And you feel the players right beside you. The balance isn’t as refined as it is in the hall, but the intensity is incomparable! You’ll never forget it.”

Budapest Festival Orchestra | Iván Fischer

Normally the roles are clear: the orchestra sits onstage, and the audience listens from the hall. That’s where the sound blends best, of course. But it raises an intriguing question: how does the orchestra itself experience a concert, and what does the conductor actually hear? “Mittendrin” gives you the answer. You take your seat right among the musicians, who are spread out a bit more widely than usual so that extra chairs can be positioned to accommodate you as guests. Iván Fischer, a master of imaginative ideas, is now bringing to Lucerne a daytime version of the Budapest Festival Orchestra’s much-loved Midnight Music series, already well known in Hungary. 

Tour: Lucerne Festival – Mittendrinn

KKL Luzern

Normally the roles are clear: the orchestra sits onstage, and the audience listens from the hall. That’s where the sound blends best, of course. But it raises an intriguing question: how does the orchestra itself experience a concert, and what does the conductor actually hear? “Mittendrin” gives you the answer.

Tour: Lucerne Festival – Middle Stage

Vivid, programmatic works by Sibelius and Prokofiev fill this heart-rending program. Sibelius’s stirring love letter to his homeland is paired with a suite from Prokofiev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, a musical retelling of Shakespeare’s tragic masterpiece. Making her Cleveland Orchestra debut, conductor Tabita Berglund pairs these works with Sibelius’s impassioned Violin Concerto, performed by Dutch violinist Simone Lamsma.

Prokofiev’s Romeo & Juliet

Blossom Music Center

Dreams of Childhood: The Musical Reflections of a New Father

Lincoln City Cultural Center

“Encountering Nature” turns our American Adventures season toward wide skies and untamed landscapes, exploring how composers translate the natural world into sound. Copland’s Quiet City opens in hushed stillness, its solitary trumpet and English horn unfolding a spare, haunting dialogue that evokes empty streets at dusk and the quiet vastness beyond them. Intimate and searching, it captures the feeling of standing alone beneath an open sky. Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, “Titan,” expands that perspective to monumental scale, moving from pastoral dawn to storm-tossed intensity and, ultimately, blazing affirmation. Rustic dances, birdsong-like figures, and sweeping climaxes create a journey through nature’s serenity and power.

Encountering Nature

Riverwalk Center

Violinist Njioma Grevious brings her "vibrant and compelling" artistry to the Music Room following her previous performances as a founding member of the Abeo Quartet (2023-24 Ernst Stiefel String Quartet-in-Residence).  She is a winner of both the Robert F. Smith First Prize and the Audience Choice Award at the 2023 Sphinx Competition and received a prestigious 2024 Avery Fisher Career Grant. She has an active solo career and has made recent debuts with the Chicago and National Symphony Orchestras.

Njioma Grevious, violin & Andrew Goodridge, piano

The Rosen House at Caramoor

Prokofiev’s merry klezmer romp sets the stage for Timo Andres’ imaginative reframing of a problematic Mozart concerto. Mozart didn’t notate large swaths of the left hand part. Mr. Andres filled in the missing parts as if a live performance was suddenly hijacked by a rogue left hand from the 21 st century, with strange and beautiful results

.Beethoven’s First Symphony, written when he was just 30, may seem traditional when compared to the eight ground-breaking symphonies that followed, but the First was conceived very calculatedly as a calling card to the Vienna establishment. The First was in the best tradition of the late Mozart and Beethoven’s current teacher, Haydn, while demonstrating just enough independence and slightly shocking “modernity” to attract key Viennese patronage. And it still delights, 226 years later!

Summer Classics 2026

Cañada College

Summer is blockbuster season! Join us for Hollywood Hits, where the silver screen comes to life on Capitol Square and we shine the light on emerging talent with the winner of our Young Artist Concerto Competition. From classics such as Ben-Hur and Casablanca to modern-day favorites like Jordan Peele’s Nope, Pirates of the Caribbean, The Lord of the Rings, and Star Wars—this cinematic concert delivers nonstop thrills. It’s a night for film fans, music lovers, and anyone who gets chills when the music swells. Learn more about YACC winner Angelina Chang.

Hollywood Hits

Capitol Square

Setting unfamiliar works alongside such repertoire landmarks as the three sonatas in this evening’s programme comes naturally to Maria Ioudenitch, who’s passionate about taking her audience on enriching musical journeys. The Russian-born American violinist, supported by rising star Roman Borisov, starts this evening from the perspective of two formidable miniatures by Lili Boulanger, whose creativity was ended all too soon by illness and her tragic early death.

Maria Ioudenitch violin; Roman Borisov piano

Wigmore Hall

WindSync brings Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf to life as a playful, participatory musical adventure. Families and young listeners are invited to experience a timeless story in Friends Field’s beautiful and spacious setting.

Dancing at Dusk: WindSync plays Peter and the Wolf

A colourful season finale with works of great imagination and formal diversity. The concert begins with a late Romantic masterwork in Paul Dukas’s »Sorcerer’s Apprentice«, a brilliantly orchestrated musical parable on power and its unintended consequences. »Puzzles and Games« features scenes from the opera »Alice in Wonderland« by Capell-Compositrice Unsuk Chin; at times poetic, grotesque and even playful, this is a veritable cosmos of sonic illusions and absurd humour. The programme is capped by Sergei Prokofiev’s thrilling suite from »Romeo and Juliet«. Here the great Russian composer created an enchanting score of ever shifting moods that marries classical dance with the sounds of the first half of the 20th century.

Symphony Concert N° 12

Semperoper Dresden

Join musicians from the Royal Academy of Music as they present an informal concert for people living with dementia and their friends, family and carers. You are warmly invited to join us for tea and coffee from 2.30pm.

Music for the Moment

Since its inception, the RCM Junior Department has offered advanced training at the highest level to young musicians aged 8–18, nurturing its students with individually tailored programmes of one-to-one instrumental, voice and composition lessons, supported by chamber music, orchestral, choral and musicianship classes.

Many former RCMJD students are now leading and influential figures in the music industry.

RCM Junior Dept Chamber & Symphony Orchestras

Two pinnacles of film music, both born in 1938. From his gilded exile in Hollywood, Korngold poured grand, ardent melodies into his sensual orchestrations and magnified the adventures of Errol Flynn, aka Robin Hood. Prokofiev, back in a locked-down USSR, signed with Sergei Eisenstein an epic monument of cinema, whose apotheosis would be the Battle on the Ice sealing the victory of Alexander, Prince of Novgorod. Layers of strings and torrents of lyricism in the West, sordid chords on a barbaric orchestra in the East.

Alexander Nevsky / Omer Meir Wellber

Maison de la Radio et de la Musique

June 2026 Concert

Reading Concert Hall

Edward Nesbit’s works have been performed by many of the UK’s leading orchestras and ensembles. His new piece has been specially commissioned by FSO, supported by the Nigel Blake Celebration Fund, and is dedicated to the memory of Stephen Hicks, fellow composer and the orchestra’s former principal trumpet.

Respighi, Prokofiev, Hicks and Nesbit

Smith Square Hall

His new piece has been specially commissioned by FSO, supported by the Nigel Blake Celebration Fund, and is dedicated to the memory of Stephen Hicks, fellow composer and the orchestra’s former principal trumpet. 

Stephen Hicks’s “Your boundaries are the sky” explores a vast musical space, from whispered heights to subterranean depths, balancing weight and lightness as musical fragments emerge, collide and drift away. 

Written for the legendary cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Prokofiev’s Symphony-Concerto is a virtuosic work that combines lyrical beauty and playful energy with moments of sardonic wit. 

Prokofiev, Nesbitt, Hicks, Respighi

Giancarlo Guerrero conducts Aaron Copland’s Symphony No. 3, a masterful synthesis of the composer’s expansive American musical style. Piano virtuoso Stewart Goodyear returns to the Festival for Prokofiev’s charming Piano Concerto No. 3, presented alongside Reena Esmail’s emotionally impactful Black Iris.

Copland Symphony No. 3

Millennium Park

What a fabulous luxury to have 4 of the brilliant Kanneh-Mason family in one concert! As well as all pursuing stellar international careers they are also firm Perth favourites. To hear wonderful chamber music played by star musicians like this will offer seriously intoxicating music-making. Not to be missed.

Classical Stars: The Kanneh Masons

Perth Concert Hall

All stops are pulled when organist Sebastian Heindl plays our Eule organ, demonstrating the versatility of his instrument with a virtuosic program. As a modern representative of the centuries-old Leipzig music tradition, Heindl opens his program with Bach. After warming up his fingers – and the audience – with the virtuosic cascades of the Toccata in F major, he leads through a mini-panorama of organ music, in which he also presents his own compositions. The thrilling conclusion is formed by Camille Saint-Saëns' "Danse macabre," arranged for organ by Heindl himself – dance-like, grotesque, and dizzyingly virtuosic.

Toccata

Palace of Culture

Music has long been a voice for resistance, remembrance and renewal.  In this striking and emotionally charged programme, the Sheffield Philharmonic Orchestra explores how composers have responded to injustice, conflict, and the call for change.

Protest Notes

Camellia Symphony Orchestra: Fire and Legends

C.K. McClatchy High School

A true legend will take the stage with the Budapest Festival Orchestra. The grande dame of the piano, the “priestess of art,” Elisabeth Leonskaja, who won the Lifetime Achievement Award of the International Classical Music Awards (ICMA) in 2020, has received the highest distinctions in both Austria and Georgia, and was the winner of a competition at the age of 19 before a jury led by Arthur Rubinstein. She later performed in duo with Sviatoslav Richter while conquering the world’s most prestigious concert halls. This time, she will perform one of Mozart’s most popular and grandiose piano concertos, and the only one concluding in a minor key. This piece will be framed in a special manner. The concert will open with the orchestral version of Prokofiev’s chamber overture written for original Hebrew themes and conclude with a Schumann symphony inspired by pleasant experiences and calling to mind a peaceful riverside excursion.

Tour: Prokofiev, Mozart, Schumann

Regentenbau

With Palm Beach Opera’s Story Time Series, young learners are whisked into the pages of some of opera’s most magical tales! Designed for children in PreK through 5th grade, these fun and interactive events invite children to sing, act, and follow along with our energetic Teaching Artists. Whether it’s their first time hearing an opera story or their tenth, each session promises a joyful introduction to the world of music and storytelling. All Story Time Series events are free to attend — registration required.

Story Time: The Love for Three Oranges

North Regional Branch

Belle Glade Library

Experience the conductors of tomorrow trying their hand at a full symphony orchestra and a challenging repertoire.
When you study music, you have your instrument to practice on. When you are a conducting student, you need an orchestra to practice on, which is why the regional orchestras always put on a show once a year for conducting students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

The new conductors

Aarhus Music Hall

When you study music, you have your instrument to practice on. When you are a conducting student, you need an orchestra to practice on, which is why the regional orchestras always put on a show once a year for conducting students from the Royal Danish Academy of Music.

The last concerts this season welcome back our dear friend Sebastian Weigle, long-standing chief conductor and artistic manager of the Museumsconcerts, conducting the Frankfurt Opern and Museumsorchesters for the first time as a guest.

10th Sunday & Monday Symphonic Concerts

Alte Oper

Ruth Kim, violin

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Rodgers + Hammerstein's Cinderella is the new Broadway adaptation of the classic musical. This contemporary take on the classic tale features Rodgers & Hammerstein's most beloved songs, including “In My Own Little Corner,” “Impossible/It's Possible” and “Ten Minutes Ago,” alongside an up-to-date, hilarious, and romantic libretto by Tony Award nominee Douglas Carter Beane.

Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella

Grosse Pointe Theatre

Ballet Idaho’s enchanting production of Cinderella is masterfully set to Prokofiev’s lush and evocative score. This timeless ballet, choreographed by Artistic Director Garrett Anderson and Associate Artistic Director Anne Mueller, promises to transport audiences on a truly beautiful and unforgettable fairytale journey.

Cinderella

Morrison Center for the Performing Arts

Jamie Barton was raised on her family’s farm in Georgia, where “pickin’ and grinnin’s” happened all the time. Friends showed up with their instruments, a potluck dish and a desire to make music. Although she began her musical journey with Bluegrass, Barton has become a musical omnivore. She’ll bring the Neruda Songs to life in her Minnesota Orchestra debut.

Søndergård, Barton and Prokofiev

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

The sixth and final part of Esa-Pekka Salonen’s Artist-in-Residence also concludes the 2025/2026 season at the Swedish Radio Concert Hall, Berwaldhallen. The Finnish conductor Susanna Mälkki initially leads the Radio Symphony Orchestra in Sibelius’s tone poem The Oceanides, followed by Salonen’s own cello concerto with the acclaimed cellist Nicolas Altstaedt. Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, one of the greatest symphonies of the 20th century, which the composer himself described as a tribute to the strength and beauty of the human spirit, concludes the concert.

Mälkki & Altstaedt interprets Salonen

Berwaldhallen

Dylan Halliday, bass trombone

Eytan Raviv, cello

Hannah Zhang, piano

Celebrated for their “multifaceted artistry” and “brilliantly idiomatic” programming (New York Times), the Poiesis Quartet is the winner of the 2026 Cleveland Quartet Award and the First Prize and Commission Prize recipients of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. They will perform works from the canon by Joseph Haydn and Sergei Prokofiev alongside contemporary works by Sky Macklay, Chickasaw classical composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate, and a newly commissioned work by Kevin Lau.

Poiesis Quartet

Fisher Center at Bard

Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Music, Florence

Laura Tillack, violin

Artist-in-Residence Sheku Kanneh-Mason joins conductor Elim Chan for the aching beauty of Elgar’s Cello Concerto. The Orchestra also performs selections from Prokofiev’s Cinderella — a harmonically rich, at times whimsical ballet not often heard in an orchestral setting — plus the New York Premiere of Noriko Koide’s Swaddling Silk and Gossamer Rain, with textures as delicate as the title suggests.

Sheku Kanneh-Mason Plays Elgar

David Geffen Hall

Classical Music at Pentecost - Orchestral Concert 2

Konzerthalle, Bad Salzuflen

Classical Music at Pentecost - Chamber Concert 2 / Matinee

In William Shakespeare’s drama «Romeo and Juliet», the power of love allows two young people to transcend ordinary human limitations. Thanks to Sergei Prokofiev’s music, the star-crossed lovers of Verona have conquered the ballet stage. He brilliantly captured the clashing of love and hate and the juxtaposition of tenderness and violence in his colorful, passionate score.

Zurich Opera House

Classical Music at Pentecost - Orchestral Concert 1

Paderhalle Paderborn

In this project, the Komische Oper Berlin is working with children from welcome classes at primary schools in Berlin. Over the course of a school term, we playfully explore the concert piece Peter and the Wolf by Sergei Prokofiev. Children who have recently arrived in Germany also learn the German language in an imaginative way through music. The highlight of the project is the bilingual performance (German/Arabic; German/Ukrainian) of Peter and the Wolf. A moving concert experience to which the children of the welcome classes are invited together with their parents and the whole school.

Peter and the Wolf

Schiller Theater

Classical Music at Pentecost - Chamber Concert 1

Alumni Concert Of Zürcher Hochschule Der Künste

Imperial Baths

A delightful musical tale and a masterful symphonic page that defies all superlatives: two contrasting works with one thing in common: a true declaration of love for the orchestra!

Orchestre de Paris / Daniel Harding

Philharmonie de Paris

Australian String Quartet: Interwoven

Queensland Conservatorium

Described by composer Sir James MacMillan as “one of the most astonishing and surprising young newcomers in Scottish music,” Glasgow-born accordionist and BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist (2022-24) Ryan Corbett is redefining expectations of his instrument. And in a concerto written especially for him, fellow Scot Jay Capperauld—praised for his “unbridled sonic imagination” (The Scotsman)—channels the crackling energy of electricity into music that dazzles.

Afternoon Performance: Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet

City Halls

Lucy Nemeth, violin

We are thrilled to announce our return to the Des Moines Civic Center with Tom Mattingly’s world premiere Cinderella. In the first ever collaboration between Ballet Des Moines and the Des Moines Symphony, audiences of all ages will be swept away by the timeless ballet classic set to Sergei Prokofiev's iconic score.

Ballet Des Moines – Cinderella

Des Moines Civic Center

Step into the magical world of Cinderella, live on stage!

The beloved fairy tale comes to life in a spectacular Broadway-style production that delights all ages, blending humor, romance, and the timeless majesty of classical ballet.

World Ballet Company’s Cinderella features a dazzling cast of 40 international dancers, over 150 radiant hand-sewn costumes, exquisite hand-crafted sets, and enchanting choreography by Marina Kesler. From the mischievous evil stepsisters to the breathtaking ballroom scenes, every moment is filled with charm, wonder and everything you’ve loved about this story for years.

The Flynn

Tchaikovsky’s deeply personal Symphony No. 4, based on a Russian folk tune, overflows with melodies and a thrilling brass finale. Prokofiev’s lyrical Violin Concerto No. 2, shedding his early sardonic style, is performed by Francesca Dego. Conductor Xian Zhang returns to conduct this final classics weekend, including Michael Abels’ Emerge.

Zhang Conducts Prokofiev & Tchaikovsky

Phoenix Convention Center

Ensley Kim, Violin

The Juilliard School

Fenice e Conservatorio

Teatro Malibran

Becca Harrison, piano

Den grimme ælling - en PixiOpera

Royal Danish Opera

Serbian-born cellist Maja Bogdanović makes her long-awaited Richardson Auditorium debut with Camille Saint-Saëns’ melodic first cello concerto, one of the most popular in the repertoire. Aaron Copland’s Letter from Home is an emotional wartime offering in Copland’s unmistakable voice. Sergei Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, one of his most beloved works, completes this program with its powerful message of hope and optimism.

Copland, Saint-Saëns & Prokofiev

Princeton University

NOBT Presents: Cincerella

Orpheum Theater

Once upon a time, in a world of shimmering melodies and wondrous dreams, a tale of transformation, love, and a missing slipper unfolds in Prokofiev’s ballet, Cinderella. We are joined once again by the Saint Louis Ballet under the direction of Gen Horiuchi in this audience-favorite fairy tale. From romantic duets and dizzying waltzes to the silly antics of the loathsome stepsisters, Cinderella is full of moments that charm and delight, and you’ll be swept away in a dream come true at our stunning season finale. Just remember to be home by midnight!

Missouri State University

Step into a world of magic and transformation with Cinderella, a heartwarming ballet that brings the beloved fairytale to life. Watch as the kind-hearted Cinderella is whisked away from her life of hardship to a magical evening at the royal ball, where dreams come true and love conquers all. This enchanting production features a talented children's cast, making it the perfect family-friendly experience. With stunning choreography and a story full of wonder, Cinderella promises to captivate audiences of all ages.

Brauntex Theatre

Elliot Quin Lippy, Cello

The word “epic” could have been invented to describe the music of Götterdämmerung, the heaven-and-earth-shaking culmination of Wagner’s four-part Ring cycle, complete with vengeance, magic fire, and the redemptive power of love beyond death. Orchestral excerpts from this operatic thrill ride meld with the instantly charming neoclassicism of Prokofiev’s First Symphony and the US premiere of Olga Neuwirth’s Zones of Blue, a clarinet concerto performed by its dedicatee and longtime friend of The Cleveland Orchestra, Jörg Widmann.

Composer

Sergey Prokofiev

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 22, 2026

On Tour in Shanghai · London Symphony Orchestra

Sep 24, 2026

Peter and the Wolf · The Cockpit

25 - 26 Sep, 2026

Søndergård Conducts Stravinsky’s Firebird · Minnesota Orchestra

Sep 26, 2026

Timeless stories and iconic composers · Oregon Symphony

Sep 26, 2026

On Tour in Kyoto · London Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Sep 20, 2026

On Tour in Jiangsu · London Symphony Orchestra

19 - 20 Sep, 2026

Romeo and Juliet · Spokane Symphony - Fox Theater Spokane

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