Elsa of Brabant is suspected of having killed her younger brother Gottfried in the forest. When King Henry the Fowler asks Elsa to defend herself, she pleads for an imaginary knight to come to her aid. Suddenly, Lohengrin, the Knight of the Swan, appears. He promises to fight for Elsa, but makes her promise beforehand never to question him about his identity or provenance.

Lohengrin

Hamburg State Opera

Richard Wagner revolutionised music with his version of theTristan story, popular since the Middle Ages. His opening Tristan chord paved the way for modern music and encapsulates the core of this tragic love story – an insatiable longing, ceaselessly striving for relief. »Only in the face of death are the lovers able to give themselves unrestrainedly to each other«, said Katharina Thoma, focussing on the subconscious, their past lives, loss and the meaning for life of both protagonists. She explores the reasons for loneliness, which go beyond societal difficulties and external influences in Johannes Leiacker’s clear, focussed space.

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Tristan und Isolde

Oper Frankfurt

Did Richard Wagner already know when, in The Flying Dutchman, he first explored the notion of redemption, that this would end up being the central concern of his art? In his final opera, Parsifal, which was first performed in Bayreuth in 1882, it is not just a single person but society as a whole that awaits a saviour – buoyed by the hope of one day meeting the One who will fulfil this role. Parsifal’s qualification for this tremendous task is that he has become “knowing through compassion” – a process that takes many years, perhaps an entire lifetime. But there are forces trying to hinder him on his path. Will Parsifal be willing to place himself at the service of the community? Parsifal, which has been called a “stage consecration festival”, is still an overwhelming experience today. Can art truly help us find redemption?

Parsifal

Semperoper Dresden

Since 2010, chamber music ensembles of the Staatskapelle have been performing at the Bode Museum, a jewel of Berlin's museum landscape. Matinee concerts lasting just over an hour in the Gobelin Hall, with diverse programs that include music from the Baroque and Classical periods as well as works from the Romantic and Modern periods, can easily lead into further hours in the museum—for example, with a guided tour of the exhibition and the "Artwork of the Day," a private tour, or a culinary finale in the stylish museum café.

Museum Concert VI

UNESCO Weltkulturerbe Museumsinsel

Wagner's masterpiece about love and death.

After many years of waiting, Lise Davidsen makes her debut in one of the opera world's most demanding roles: Isolde in Wagner's masterpiece about love and death. 

Volumes have been written about the influential music of Tristan und Isolde. The music is based on the idea of ​​an insatiable longing that can never be fulfilled in this life. The prelude sweeps the listener into an ecstatic but agonizing world of desire, and the vocal parts are of unique dignity. The opera culminates in Isolde's famous closing aria, Mild und leise, with a final octave leap that concludes this unique musical-dramatic journey.

Live at the cinema - Tristan and Isolde

The Theatre, Nyköping

Volumes have been written about the influential music of Tristan und Isolde . The music is based on the idea of ​​an insatiable longing that can never be fulfilled in this life. The prelude sweeps the listener into an ecstatic but agonizing world of desire, and the vocal parts are of unique dignity. The opera culminates in Isolde's famous closing aria, Mild und leise, with a final octave leap that concludes this unique musical-dramatic journey.

Opera (live) at the cinema: Tristan and Isolde

Umeå Folkets Hus

WALTON AND RACHMANINOV with ROSALIND VENTRIS viola

Dorchester Abbey

Lise Davidsen - Isolde in Wagner's masterpiece about love and death

After many years of waiting, Lise Davidsen makes her debut in one of the opera world's most demanding roles: Isolde in Wagner's masterpiece of love and death. Michael Spyres sings Tristan, while the Met's music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the orchestra. Yuval Sharon, hailed as one of the most visionary directors of our time, debuts with a new, innovative production Language: German Swedish subtitles!

Tristan and Isolde

Odeon, Skovde

Archipelago House, Hall A, Trosa

Ullareds Community Centre

Intended to be a test of both the soloist’s technical ability and their musicianship, the work overflows with cadenzas – short, often improvised passages of notes – which give the soloist ample opportunity for real virtuosic display. Viktoria Mullova, whose playing has been praised by critics and audiences alike for its immense agility and richness of tone, is sure to bring us an unforgettable performance.

Mullova Plays Brahms

The Bridgewater Hall

The exceptionally versatile violinist Viktoria Mullova teams up with Kahchun Wong for a performance of Brahms’ Violin Concerto. Intended to be a test of both the soloist’s technical ability and their musicianship, the work overflows with cadenzas – short, often improvised passages of notes – which give the soloist ample opportunity for real virtuosic display. Viktoria Mullova, whose playing has been praised by critics and audiences alike for its immense agility and richness of tone, is sure to bring us an unforgettable performance. Where concertos are usually a work comprised of a solo instrument accompanied by an orchestra, Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra treats each instrumental family as if they were soloists in their own right. Let’s get ready to shine a spotlight on all sections of the orchestra.

The Hallé – Mullova plays Brahms

An encounter with the great Romantic spirit: Under the baton of 21-year-old Maximilian Haberstock, founder of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Munich, outstanding young musicians from more than twenty-five nations come together – a new generation of excellence. Together with the exceptional American pianist Maxim Lando, they perform Wagner’s Prelude to „Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg“, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 – three milestones of Romantic passion and symphonic power. Youthful energy, precision, and remarkable artistic maturity combine in a concert that vividly reveals what the future of orchestral music-making can sound like.

Munich Young Philharmonic Orchestra

Alte Oper

Opera’s greatest moments come to life—no costumes or staging required! This grand symphonic evening brings you soaring drama, tender lyricism, and triumphant power to stir your soul. Unforgettable melodies and epic emotion, all through the power of winds and percussion.

Magnum Opera

Meyerson Symphony Center

The vast majority of people listen to music - this also applies to the great political figures of the last 100 years. But what do they listen to - and why? Does the music say something about their political stance, and do they perhaps even instrumentalize it in their political struggle? Or is it just for their own pleasure? Does certain music stimulate certain political beliefs - and vice versa?

Music of world leaders

Lille Sal Musikhuset

From Wagner’s ghostly ship to the fiery brilliance of Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, this concert soars through myth, magic, and the natural world. Wagner’s electrifying Overture to The Flying Dutchman tells the storm-tossed tale of a ghostly ship cursed to sail the seas for eternity. We then embark in flight with the World Premiere of Daniel Perttu’s violin concerto Stealing From Birds. Inspired by the beauty of bird songs, WSO Concertmaster Holly Mulcahy brings this concerto to life for the very first time!

The Firebird

Century II Performing Arts & Convention Center

Nicholas Carter, one of the leading opera conductors of his generation, makes his Bridgewater Hall debut.

Four Last Songs

BBC Philharmonic - Four Last Songs

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

All Saints Church Ecclesall

Celebrate spring with a rich musical journey in this concert, where every piece is a destination in itself. Principal Trumpet George Carpten will bring the brilliance of Haydn’s Trumpet Concerto to life, evoking the excitement of innovation and discovery. The serene intimacy of Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, a peaceful pause along the way, will lead to the spirited energy of Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 “Italian,” inspired by his own travels. ASO Member Brent Register’s Alegria, an ASO World Premiere, combines the unique sounds of the bass clarinet with the English horn, and explores how the experience of new places sparks profound musical expression. Travel not only across borders, but deep into the soul of sound with the Altoona Symphony Orchestra.

Passport of Sound

Mishler Theatre

Austrian conductor Christoph Koncz invites us to a festival of orchestral images. We begin with the overture to Wagner's Meistersinger , which foreshadows all the opera's themes. With its romantic flair and majesty, it celebrates the artist's freedom from established rules. Wagner's father-in-law, Liszt, and his First Concerto allow American pianist Michelle Cann—a Grammy winner in February 2025—to dazzle us with a dazzling display of virtuosity. The score's evocative and emotional richness also gives a universal dimension to this pillar of the piano repertoire.

Stravinsky's The Firebird

Grand Théâtre de Québec

This is one of only two performances of, Wagner at his most intoxicating and transcendent. Justin Way directs a timeless tale of forbidden love. Noted Wagnerian Gwyn Hughes Jones takes his signature Tristan to Scotland for the first time, and Annemarie Kremer makes her Company debut as the proud princess Isolde. A supporting cast includes noted mezzo-soprano Rosie Aldridge as Brangäne, Roland Wood as Kurwenal, Dingle Yandell as the unfortunate King Marke, and Mark Le Brocq as the treacherous Melot.

Scottish Opera - Tristan und Isolde

Usher Hall

With only two performances, don’t miss this chance to experience Wagner at his most intoxicating and transcendent. Justin Way directs a timeless tale of forbidden love. Noted Wagnerian Gwyn Hughes Jones takes his signature Tristan to Scotland for the first time, and Annemarie Kremer makes her Company debut as the proud princess Isolde. A supporting cast includes noted mezzo-soprano Khatuna Mikaberidze as Brangäne, Roland Wood as Kurwenal, Dingle Yandell as the unfortunate King Marke, and Mark Le Brocq as the treacherous Melot. 

Usher Hall, Edinburgh

Theatre Royal Glasgow

Composed in 1969, Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Piano Concerto No 1 is packed with shimmering, gleaming beauty and unbounded joy, its percussive drive tempered by moments of astonishing impressionistic colour.

London Symphony Orchestra/Tarmo Peltokoski

Barbican Centre

The king dies. Amfortas, leader of the Grail Brotherhood, is tormented by a wound that will not heal - struck by his arch-enemy Klingsor, to whom he also lost the Holy Spear of Christ that was guarded by the Brotherhood. Day after day, the Knights of the Grail are forced to watch helplessly as Amfortas dies of pain and guilt. Only a prophecy gives them hope: a “pure fool” will one day redeem the suffering king through his compassion and win back the Holy Spear, which the fallen Grail knight Klingsor guards in his magic garden. And then Parsifal knocks on the gates of the Grail Castle...

German Oper am Rhein

In Wagner’s groundbreaking opera Tristan and Isolde, a romance for the ages plays out through some of the most revelatory and transcendent music ever written. Act II of this masterpiece has it all—searing passion, spellbinding drama, and staggering vocal feats. Experience the complete second act live in concert, performed by an all-star cast of singers and the Symphony, and hear why Tristan and Isolde is considered one of the greatest works of art ever created.

Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde

Jones Hall

Johannes Brahms and Richard Wagner – two Romantic giants with distinct musical voices. Brahms’ Second Piano Concerto, often called a ‘symphony with soloist,’ blends piano and orchestra in perfect harmony. Pianist Garrick Ohlsson joins the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra to bring this masterpiece to life. Wagner’s monumental Götterdämmerung, the final chapter of Der Ring des Nibelungen, offers excerpts of breathtaking intensity. Conductor Michael Sanderling made a careful selection, creating an unforgettable live experience in the concert hall.

Wagner's Götterdämmerung

Queen Elisabeth Hall

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s last three symphonies were composed in little more than six weeks, and it is widely speculated that he was never able to hear them performed. Many scholars believe that these works were conceived as a sort of trilogy, with the 39th serving as an almost overture to the other two. Despite its relative lack of popularity in comparison to his 40th and 41st symphonies, Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E-flat Major is no less impressive. Stately, and at times playful and mischievous, this symphony has many of the hallmarks of his previous works, while continuing to push compositional boundaries in a way that is uniquely Mozart.

Mozart's Symphony No. 39: UMD Symphony Orchestra

The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center

Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony

Mayo Performing Arts Center

New Jersey Performing Arts Center

In order to foil Alberich’s bid for power, the ruler of the gods Wotan has fathered nine Valkyries, who have the task of gathering an army of fallen heroes for him and bringing them to Valhalla. His intention is that his son Siegmund, conceived from a relationship with a mortal woman, will be the free-born hero who wins back the ring for him. However, Siegmund unwittingly upsets Wotan’s plan by falling in love with his twin sister Sieglinde, a union that gives birth to Siegfried. When Wotan’s favourite daughter Brünnhilde disobeys her father’s order to seal Siegmund’s downfall out of compassion, he banishes her to the rock of fire from which only the strongest hero will be able to rescue her. This will be Siegfried.

The Valkyrie

Theater Duisburg

Get ready for a concert that radiates boldness, brilliance, and pure musical fire!

The evening opens with Wagner’s Prelude to Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg—a grand, triumphant burst of orchestral colour that sets the stage for a night of epic scale.

Then, rising star William Leathers takes the spotlight for John Estacio’s electrifying Trumpet Concerto—a dazzling showcase of virtuosity, energy, and emotional depth that pushes the instrument to its expressive limits.

Eroica

FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre

Celebratory concert for Ralf Weikert’s 85th birthday

Zurich Opera House

Written for his friend and mentor Joseph Joachim, the soaring Violin Concerto represents Brahms at his brightest and is a cornerstone of the Romantic repertoire. Virtuoso Abigél Králik, a veteran of Forbes’ “30 Under 30” list, will invigorate this timeless classic with a fresh and youthful perspective. The piece is paired with Paul Hindemith’s probing and powerful symphony Mathis der Maler, a proving ground for material for his opera on the life of Renaissance painter Matthias Grünewald. 

Brahms Violin Concerto

Von Braun Center

Japanese pianist Mao Fujita made his United States solo recital debut in 2023 on one of this country’s most storied stages for classical music, Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium. Now, on our Debut Series, you can experience his artistry up close in the intimate setting of Longy’s Pickman Hall. A young artist on a trajectory to the top of the classical music world, Fujita has earned acclaim and captivated audiences with his eloquence, poetic touch, and the fluidity and momentum of a stream or a gust of wind.

Mao Fujita, piano

Longy School of Music of Bard College

Sarasota Orchestra Music Director Giancarlo Guerrero makes his Chamber Soirée debut, leading three landmark works. Stravinsky’s Danses concertantes is a delight tinged with Stravinsky’s trademark spicy interpretation. Wagner composed his highly romantic Siegfried Idyll as a birthday gift for his wife, hiring a small ensemble to perform it on the staircase outside her bedroom. Schoenberg’s Chamber Symphony No. 1 was a pivotal work, bridging the gap between 19th-century romanticism and 20th-century modernism.

Miniature Masterworks

Sarasota Orchestra

Music by Richard Wagner is Buddhistic, and music by Gustav Mahler is life itself. At least that is what we are told by the Czech Philharmonic’s chief conductor Semyon Bychkov, who has been involved with both composers throughout his career. And the Italian Symphony by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy is beautiful, plain and simple. We invite you to a concert that begins with a symphony and ends with an overture.

Czech Philharmonic • Semyon Bychkov

Rudolfinum

A pianist of profound emotional sensitivity, Mao Fujita is also a savvy programmer. He illustrates the youthful genius of Beethoven and Brahms in their first piano sonatas, the virtuosity of the variation form in contrasting sets by Mendelssohn and Berg, and the originality of Wagner in the Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, perhaps the very essence of Romanticism.

Mao Fujita in Recital

Severance Music Center

L'Auditori de Barcelona

L'Auditori

That's what you call fate: While the bassoon is featured prominently as a soloist in many symphonies and operas, explicit solo concertos for this particularly dark woodwind instrument are rare. Carl Maria von Weber, the composer of the rather dark opera "Der Freischütz," wrote a bassoon concerto in 1811: an ideal playing field for the French bassoonist Marceau Lefèvre. The Italian conductor and pianist Vanessa Benelli Mosell frames Weber's rarely heard gem with timeless works: Wagner's Ringfarbige Musik der Freude über seinen neuen Sohn Siegfried (Ring-colored Music of Joy over His Newborn Son Siegfried), and Schubert's arguably best-known and unfinished symphony, whose two movements are among the finest of the entire 19th century.

Unfinished

Stadthalle Göttingen

Auditorio Nacional de Música

On Saturday, February 14, at 7:30 p.m. in Old Cabell Hall, the Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia presents a concert entitled Romance.

Charlottesville Symphony at the University of Virginia - Masterworks 3 - Romance

Downtown Mall

University of Virginia

After his unforgettable debut in October 2024, pianist Jaeden Izik-Dzurko (of Salmon Arm, BC) returns to perform the work with which he won the 2024 Leeds Piano Competition – Brahms' epic Piano Concerto No. 2. Wagner's Prelude to his innovative opera Tristan and Isolde conveys melodramatic longing with aching harmonic progressions and unmatched emotional intensity. Tchaikovsky's tone poem of Francesca da Rimini’s tragic tale completes this romantic program steeped in passion, drama, and doomed love.

Forbidden Love: Brahms, Tchaikovsky & Wagner

Winspear Centre

Celebrate Valentine’s Day with an evening of luscious symphonic classics offering some of the most romantic melodies ever written. The concert features the sensuous slow movements from three of the finest concertos for piano and Richard Addinsall’s Warsaw Concerto, as well as love themes from silver screen masterpieces by Ennio Morricone, James Horner and John Williams Also included is Wagner’s musical love letter and Tchaikovsky’s passionate overture to Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers, Romeo and Juliet. Make sure you make a date and treat a loved one!

Smooth Valentine Classics Romantic classics for a special evening

Lighthouse, Poole's Centre for the Arts

The heartfelt concert features soprano Jordan Bowman, a native of Southeast Idaho, whose captivating stage presence and vocal bravura continues to drive her successful career in the world of Opera and Broadway. Jordan will perform charming music by Franz Lehar and Richard Rodgers, and together with a massive orchestra, she will tackle the divine “Liebestod” from Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde. With the full orchestra on overdrive, the night concludes with Tchaikovsky’s stunning Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture.

EIRMC Presents The Red Dress: Valentines Concert

Idaho Falls High School

From first breath to final memories. Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, composed to celebrate the birth of his son, glows with intimate joy and new life while a new piece by Laura Cetilia will see its first performance. Morton Feldman’s Madame Press Died Last Week at Ninety is a hushed farewell to his dear piano teacher. Mozart’s Symphony No. 40, restless and unresolved, stands outside time—at once youthful and haunted.

From the Cradle

Ithaca College

Love. Longing. Tragedy. The Fire of Love: Romeo and Juliet brings passion to the stage with Nurit Bar-Josef and the OKC Philharmonic—featuring music by Ravel, Price, Wagner, and Tchaikovsky.

The Fire of Love: Romeo and Juliet

Civic Center Music Hall

Elevate your musical experience with our Sound of Innovation performances. This distinctive series, where innovation meets classical virtuosity, immerses you into a mix of traditional and contemporary compositions. Your experience includes dinner and a drink ticket

The Sound of Innovation

The Club Room at The Clyde

Wagner’s Magic Fire Music sets the stage ablaze capturing the drama and enchantment of a hero’s fiery farewell. Experience the full brilliance of brass in Arutiunian’s Trumpet Concerto, featuring the FSO’s very own principal trumpet, Keli Price. Respighi’s Roman Festivals captures the the grandeur, chaos and celebration of ancient Rome in four vivid scenes.

Trumpet & Triumph

FMU's Performing Arts Center

A perfect, if dark, teaser for Valentine’s Day, Richard Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde is the ultimate love story. The Prelude und Liebestod combines the opening and closing segments of the opera, and portrays love, and every possible emotion of it. Ludwig van Beethoven’s grandiose and heroic Piano Concerto No. 5, “The Emperor” was his final piano concerto. A perfect contrast with the passionate Tristan und Isolde. It will be performed by rising star pianist Albert Cano Smit. Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4 epitomizes the German late Romantic era symphony with its highly integrated and sweepingly melodic themes.

Life, Love & Death

Northwestern University

Your own daughter’s hand as a prize in a singing competition – imagine that! There could hardly be a stronger sign of the belief in the systemic relevance of art. And indeed, goldsmith Veit Pogner, who offers his daughter Eva as a prize, is just one of many masters from Nuremberg for whom their art is more than just a nice-sounding sideline: it is no less than a community-building and society-improving force. In the Meistersinger, we encounter a group of utopians who are not interested in their origins or money, but in innovation and the future. Eva’s own attitude to the whole thing is, as so often, of secondary importance. She already knows who she would like to be sung by and who she would rather not. Wagner initially conceived Die Meistersinger as a comic opera, and so everything ends on a superficially happy note: at the end, Eva’s crush Stolzing wins the competition and the bride – an impoverished squire, of all people. The future comes from the past, not only in terms of the son-in-law’s origins, but also with regard to the end of the utopia: the whole thing culminates in the Meistersinger Hans Sachs, who mentored the Junker Stolzing to victory, being crowned King of Art: “Heil Sachs!” and glory to the holy German art. In Wagner’s works, the monstrous often peeps through the tiniest of cracks. With the Meistersinger, Elisabeth Stöppler and Cornelius Meister also tell a piece of German history and mentality between awakening and restoration and, in this German Midsummer Night's Dream (Elisabeth Stöppler), focus on the relationship between the generations and the question of why what was is perhaps also what will be.

The Mastersingers of Nuremberg

Stuttgart Opera

The story of Tristan and Isolde has fascinated across geography and generations since the Middle Ages. And of all the love couples in art, Tristan and Isolde are perhaps the most tragic. The story is simple: The knight Tristan is sent across the sea to fetch the princess Isolde, who is to marry the king against her will. On the journey home, they both accidentally drink a love potion. Forbidden love arises – the kind that moves mountains and eats them up from the inside. And now we follow Tristan and Isolde into the deadly power of stormy love.

Tristan & Isolde

Aarhus Theatre

For the United States of America’s 250th anniversary, the American Symphony Orchestra celebrates the forging of an American musical identity in the 19th century with a diverse program of seldom performed scores. The concert’s centerpiece is George Bristow’s massive “Niagara” symphony in its first performance since the work’s world premiere. The program begins with two scores of joyful, exuberant celebration, each one rhythmically propulsive and highly entertaining: the Festival Overture on the American National Air by Dudley Buck and Richard Wagner’s American Centennial March, which he wrote for the opening of the Declaration of Independence’s centennial celebration in 1876 in Philadelphia.

Forging an American Musical Identity

Carnegie Hall

Joseph Haydn is often called the “father of the symphony”, having composed more than 100 symphonies that are inventive, refined, and often laced with wit.

Minkowski, Mozart & Wagner

The Royal Playhouse and The Old Stage

'The Ring' stands as the undisputed giant of operatic literature. Wagner's great divine tale of the creation and destruction of the world takes four evenings to perform, but in composer Henk de Vlieger's arrangement, the glowing orchestral sounds are allowed to shine with undiminished dramatic power, even though the suite only lasts a little over an hour.

Hermus & Wagner

DR Koncerthuset

This evening, the Jewish Chamber Orchestra Munich, under the direction of Daniel Grossmann, blends Klezmer, Wagner, and contemporary sounds. Joining them are the charismatic actor Stefan Merki and the captivating singer Ethel Merhaut. 
A poor Jewish musician, barely scraping by with wedding performances, fulfills a dream: with his hard-earned savings, he treats himself to a visit to the Imperial Court Theatre in Vienna. By chance, he hears – without any prior knowledge – Wagner's Lohengrin. The opera transforms his life: back in his shtetl, he insists on playing only Wagner's melodies at Jewish celebrations, no longer the traditional tunes – which naturally leads to conflict.

Mendele Lohengrin

Das MuTh

At the beginning of one of the most famous sunrises in music history: radiant and majestic, maximum light intensity from zero to one hundred within seconds. Richard Strauss's Thus Spoke Zarathustra is a magnificent masterpiece whose splendor no one can escape.

Life puzzles

Cologne Philharmonie

The intensely moving prelude of Wagner’s Parsifal and ethereal beauty of Crafton Beck’s Passage set the stage for an extraordinary interwoven dialogue between Joel Thompson’s powerful and critically-acclaimed Seven Last Words of the Unarmed and Gabriel Faure’s serene and comforting Requiem. Jackson State University Chorale joins MSO in a program that will touch your soul and transform your spirit.

Bravo 3: Transcendent Voices

Thalia Mara Hall

In 2020, the National Opera in Warsaw celebrated the 55th anniversary of the reconstruction of its historic home on Teatralny Square. The ambitious project of raising the theatre from ruins was completed 20 years after the war, with the grand opening of the modernized Grand Theatre on November 19, 1965. Shortly thereafter, the Warsaw Opera ensemble, including its distinguished choir, moved in from its temporary home on Nowogrodzka Street.

Chorus Opera

Teatr Wielki - Polish National Opera

The Dutchman is a cursed man, an outsider, a driven individual. Richard Wagner came upon the character of the famous drifter via Heinrich Heine, who lent the Romantic material his typically ironic touch. Wagner’s interest was tweaked not by Heine’s packaging of the story, which relegated the Dutchman-based action to the margins, but by the tale of the enigmatic mariner, which led to him writing his first opera about the man’s quest for a woman who could offer him redemption. The Dutchman, restlessly plying the borderlands between life and death, encounters Senta, who appears equally ill-at-ease and rootless and yearns for a masculine character, the Dutchman, a figment of her imagination.

Der fliegende Holländer

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Elsa von Brabant is accused of murdering her brother. No one dares prove the young woman’s innocence in this mysterious case. Trapped in a reality that no one seems to share with her, a man enters her life promising to fight for her cause – on one condition: Elsa must trust him blindly and never ask him his name or birthplace.

Bebelplatz

	
What better way to ring in the New Year than with an exciting program featuring all your favorites from the world of opera performed by members of The Santa Fe Symphony and Chorus. Enjoy overtures and melodies from Mozart, Rossini, Bizet and Leoncavallo alongside dances, choruses and other works from Verdi, Borodin, and Wagner. 

operatic favorites

Lensic Performing Arts Center

The Space Coast Symphony Orchestra’s commitment to artistic growth, new music, and the next generation of talent is on full display in this special program. In addition to Aaron Collins at the podium, the orchestra welcomes guest conductor Andrés Rivas, who will lead several works as part of Aaron’s ongoing effort to highlight and mentor emerging conductors—an initiative that reflects the SCSO’s belief in nurturing the future of the art form alongside celebrating its greatest traditions.

Audience Choice Concert

Holy Trinity Episcopal Academy - Upper School

Community Church of Vero Beach

The Flying Dutchman navigates the earth, accursed, tirelessly searching for salvation. But he can only find deliverance if he finds a woman who will promise to be faithful to him, even in death. Wagner’s atmospheric thriller encompasses the search for home and the desire for another.

The Flying Dutchman

Oper Leipzig

The city itself is mythical: Venice, with its undulating shores, where the aging writer Gustav von Aschenbach abandons his previous life’s concept. In John Neumeier’s adaptation of the famous Thomas Mann novella, Aschenbach becomes a master choreographer who finds himself in the midst of a deep creative crisis.

Death in Venice 

Ballettzentrum Hamburg – John Neumeier

Senta's dreams are directed towards the sea: will the man who will free her from her restricted life at home come from there? It begins stormily; Wagner's first fully valid opera presents a grandiose, overwhelming vision of the elements already in the overture. The fate of the Flying Dutchman and the woman who is to redeem him takes place in the roar of the waves and the ocean. This "romantic opera" aims to transcend boundaries.

The Flying Dutchma

For its first concert of 2026, Cascade Symphony performs Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony along with music by Richard Wagner, Leos Janacek and Edouard Lalo. Cellist Sunnat Ibragimov, an Uzbekistan native and current Seattle Symphony member, previously served as Principal Cellist of the prestigious Tanglewood Festival Orchestra. He has performed with major orchestras in Asia and North America and is pursuing doctoral studies at the renowned Peabody Institute. He joins Cascade Symphony to perform Edouard Lalo’s lyrically romantic cello concerto.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Edmonds Center For the Arts

“They are rushing toward their own ruin, they who are so confident of their own existence,” prophesies Loge at the end of Rheingold. And then, in Walküre, Wotan becomes painfully aware that he’s borrowed more than he can afford in order to build Valhalla, and confides in his daughter Brünnhilde that his plans have foundered – and that he wishes only for the end. Time and again, Alberich’s curse strikes, always demanding a new sacrifice: Love or power — but never both. Siegmund and Sieglinde, the twin lovers, tasted the power of the Ring, and fell victim to its curse. But one final hope remains, one final chance to win the Ring of the Nibelungs back from Fafner. Siegfried, a new hero, who never learned to be afraid. But this naive child of nature is bound to fall victim to the ice-cold machinations of an ever-coarsening society, in which love, friendship, truth, and loyalty are increasingly disregarded. In the end, a complete collapse of the existing world is the only way to guarantee a new beginning. Wagner’s The Twilight of the Gods describes the transition from nature to civilization, from the world of gods to the world of men, from legend to reality – until the apocalyptic moment when nature returns, with all of her force. The myriad musical motives coalesce in this, the final part of Wagner’s tetralogy. They culminate in Brünnhilde’s immolation scene, when once again the entire world of the Ring passes before our eyes. The Twilight of the Gods is perhaps the most exciting story that Wagner ever wrote: A thrilling psychological tale of love, power, and betrayal, and performing the opera is a tour de force for soloists, choir and orchestra. Ulf Schirmer, former managing director and general music director of the Oper Leipzig, leads the Gewandhausorchester.

The Twilight of the Gods

One of today’s most lauded Wagnerian sopranos, Christine Goerke traverses stunning highlights of the composer’s operatic canon at this not-to-be missed concert. Tristan and Isolde delves into the mysteries of love and death as Isolde sings herself into rapturous oblivion. David Danzmayr also leads the Oregon Symphony in orchestral highlights from The Valkyrie and Twilight of the Gods. In the spine-tingling “Ride of the Valkyries,” the warrior maidens ride their flying steeds as they carry fallen heroes to Valhalla; and you’ll be enthralled by Siegfried’s heroic Rhine Journey and gripping Funeral March. Surrender to the drama and passion of Wagner’s music.

Wagner's Greatest Hits

Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Romanticism is the 19th century; it is the magic of nature and great emotion, it is the deaths of love and the bliss of redemption. But this era was also filled with the passionate energy of dances and lavish celebrations.

Epiphany Concert 2026: Salzburg Wind Philharmonic | "Music of the Romantic Period"

Great Festival House

During the Twelfth Night weekend, Norrlandsoperan" class="css-u850">Norrlandsoperan opens its doors for a glittering, high-class opera gala with carefully selected treats for opera connoisseurs and beginners alike. Swedish rising star Rebecka Wallroth makes her debut at Norrlandsoperan and as the male counterpart we hear the well-known tenor Per Lindström.

The evening begins in the good spirit of La Scala with Italian splendor. Rebecka Wallroth sets the tone with the famous Rossini aria “Una voce poco fa” from The Barber of Seville followed by the duet “Un soave non so che” from Cinderella by the same composer. This is followed by another soprano number from the bel canto repertoire, this time from Bellini’s opera I Capuleti ei Montecchi . The first set is rounded off in grand style by Per Lindström with Puccini’s beloved tenor arias “E lucevan le stelle” from Tosca and “Che gelida manina” from La Bohème.

Thirteenth Day Concert

Norrlandsoperan

Beethoven's piano sonatas are one of the absolute monuments, not only in piano literature, but in classical music as a whole. At the concert in Mogens Dahl Concert Hall, Fujita performs Beethoven's first piano sonata, where he still stands on the shoulders of Haydn and Mozart, but heralds what is to come.

Mao Fujita

Mogens Dahl Koncertsal

2025 December Concert

University of New Orleans

Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the overture to Wagner's Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg , and Nikolai Lugansky is the soloist in Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor .

Richard Wagner

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