Asher Fisch is one of the world’s finest Wagner conductors, and he leads an all-star cast including celebrated British baritone Christopher Maltman as the Dutchman, Daniel Sumegi as Daland, and acclaimed soprano Anna-Louise Cole as the devoted Senta.

The Flying Dutchman

The University of Western Australia

Opera love stories tend to unfold quickly, leaving the composer with the task of supporting a plot with music that speaks volumes. The chord progression at the beginning of Wagner's Tristan and Isolde is a textbook example of musical foreshadowing. In Bartók's psychological thriller Bluebeard's Castle, two extraordinary artists portray a doomed couple.

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Søndergård Conducts Wagner and Bartók

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

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.

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung

Severance Music Center

A string of Strauss' best songs, set to voice by Miah Persson – combined with Beethoven's nature-enjoying Pastorale symphony and the overture to Tannhäuser: The very best from the classical world.
Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overflows with grateful enjoyment of nature. The symphony is a deeply personal depiction of what made Beethoven happiest: lonely walks through rural landscapes, small babbling brooks and mighty thunderstorms. It is uncomplicated and comes straight from the heart.

Beethoven 6

Aarhus Music Hall

Welcome to an evening in the spirit of love, where the singers of the DR Vocal Ensemble explore virtuoso and expressive choral music.

Songs of Love with the DR Vocal Ensemble

Trinity Church Copenhagen

Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony overflows with grateful enjoyment of nature. The symphony is a deeply personal depiction of what made Beethoven happiest: lonely walks through rural landscapes, small babbling brooks and mighty thunderstorms. It is uncomplicated and comes straight from the heart.

The viola figures prominently in tonight's Pro Musica concert. Dvořák's 3rd String Quintet has added an extra viola to the standard string quartet and dates from Dvořák's time in America in the early 1890s, where he went all out to find the American 'primordial music', just as he had done with his own Czech folk music idiom. We can therefore look forward to both tribal rhythms, folk tunes and Dvořák's take on what could be a new, American national anthem.

Dvořák's String Quintet & Viola Power

Odense Concert Hall

The UNLV Symphony Orchestra, conducted by the orchestra's artistic director Taras Krysa, performs Wagner's The Ring of the Nibelung.

UNLV Symphony Orchestra: The Ring Cycle!

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

The works on this program are the quintessence of Romantic-era expression, with a focus on themes of individualism and emotionalism, and a lush, hyper-dramatic musical vocabulary. The performance begins with the Prelude from Wagner’s opera Tristan und Isolde and depicts the passions and frustration of the doomed lovers.

Radiant Romance

Florida State University

This evening will be unforgettable: Star director Tiago Rodrigues, author and special guest of the 2026 Wiesbaden May Festival, takes a close look at Wagner's "Tristan und Isolde." His production traces the eventful path of the Tristan myth through rewritings and ambiguities to the present day. In a vast archive, dancers Sofia Dias and Vítor Roriz turn over pages of this story, bringing it close to our present through their questions. Produced at the Opéra Nancy, Rodrigues' interpretation was met with enthusiasm there, not least because it "increases the concentration on singing and listening" (Concerti). And this becomes a true delight, as only young, internationally successful Wagnerian singers grace the Wiesbaden stage: Ric Furman (Tristan) launched his international career with prizes at Wagner competitions after an engagement at the local State Theatre. Carla Filipcic Holm (Isolde) is one of Argentina's most sought-after sopranos and is currently taking European stages and the hearts of the press by storm. While Irene Roberts, celebrated from the Metropolitan Opera to the Bayreuth Festival, takes on the role of Brangäne, Tommi Hakala returns to Wiesbaden as Kurwenal after his success in the title role of "The Flying Dutchman."

Tristan and Isolde: Music drama by Richard Wagner

Hessisches Staatstheater Wiesbaden

Opera Wilmington and Osher Livelong Learning Institute at UNCW continue their collaboration to bring you Opera Talks focused on two Met Opera Live in HD screenings in April and May.

UNCW opera historian and bassist Dr. Helena Kopchick Spencer again guides Opera Talk attendees through the stories behind the operas as well as the operas themselves.

Coming up next is Eugene Onegin, at times celebratory, at times poignant and heartbreaking. Timing is everything in this opera, which Tchaikovsky based on a verse novel by Alexander Pushkin. Onegin, a man of society, gets his timing all wrong, rejecting the love of Tatiana, a country girl, when they first meet.

When he sees her again five years later, he realizes that he loves her deeply. Tatiana is now married, however, and refuses to leave her husband even though she still harbors great affection for Onegin.

Expanding our understanding of the opera and the world in which it takes place is the purpose of Opera Talks. Kopchick Spencer brings her enthusiasm, vast knowledge and sense of humor to each one.

The final session, May 27, spotlights El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, a contemporary work by Gabriela Lena Frank. This “last dream” of the famous artists is fashioned as a reversal of the Orpheus and Euridice myth. Frida Kahlo leaves the underworld on the Day of the Dead to unite briefly on earth with her lover Diego Rivera.

Opera Talks

Cinemark Myrtle Beach

Mayfaire Town Center

University of Delaware Wilmington Campus

Wagner's Ring des Nibelungen consists of four operas – or "music dramas," as the composer called them. He also considered these works to be symphonic in nature, a further development of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony. Which is why it is worth listening to the Ring in a concert performance. Siegfried combines the growth and development of a hero with nature music. The "Forest Murmurs" section in the second act is pure magic. Yannick Nézet-Séguin continues his concert-version Ring cycle at the Festspielhaus with the Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra.

Richard Wagner: Siegfried

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

Even "birdsong and an orange sunrise" can be found in his "Siegfried Idyll," explained Richard Wagner. The work for chamber orchestra was a birthday surprise for his wife Cosima and was first performed in 1870 in the stairwell of their home in Tribschen near Lucerne. The title alludes to their son Siegfried, but Wagner primarily quotes from the musical drama of the same name in his four-part opera "The Ring of the Nibelung."

Day And Night

Zeughaus Neuss

Josh Jones will play Procession, Jessie Montgomery's inventive percussion concerto. Mussorgsky's colorful Pictures at an Exhibition in Ravel's iconic orchestration will complete the program.

Pictures at an Exhibition

Ohio Wesleyan University

It's a shame the composers can't meet in person this evening. It would certainly be entertaining to hear what the antipodes Brahms and Wagner would have to say to each other. While the musical theater reformer, who landed his first international hit with "Tannhäuser" in 1845, and the symphonists world-famous not only for his "Hungarian Dances" treated each other with at most mild malice, there had been a proverbial blowout between Brahms and Hugo Wolf. Brahms' attacks on his older colleague, which Wolf regularly published thereafter, were often amused to recount to his friends. But regardless of what one thought of the other, what one heard were nothing but masterpieces.

Pretty best enemies

Theater Duisburg

He was condemned by Satan to sail the world's oceans until a woman frees him from this curse through her loyalty. One day, when Senta's father returns home from a long voyage with a mysterious man, Senta is the only one who recognizes the Flying Dutchman in the sinister foreign captain. At the cost of self-destruction, she decides to redeem him.

Der fliegende Holländer

Vienna State Opera

Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll was a gift to his wife Cosima on the birth of their son. The music, one of the composer's sunniest creations, takes up motifs from the opera Siegfried, which Yannick Nézet-Séguin will also be bringing to his Baden-Baden guest performance this spring. In Götterdämmerung, the conclusion of the Ring tetralogy, the older Siegfried will embark on a trip on the Rhine. But today’s audience beats him to it: with Robert Schumann's cheerful and Romantic “Rhenish” Symphony.

Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Die Walküre, the second part of Wagner’s iconic Ring des Nibelungen, was conceived as a theatrical spectacle with a hidden orchestra. The Antwerp Symphony Orchestra flips the script, placing the music front and centre in a concert performance free of visual additions. Under the baton of Jaap van Zweden, the orchestra and soloists reveal the full dramatic power of Wagner’s score, proving it shines even without staging. Immerse yourself in the epic tale of Siegmund and Sieglinde, and let the music transport you to a world of myth, passion, and timeless emotion.

Jaap van Zweden conducts Die Walküre (1. Akt)

Heuvel Eindhoven

Queen Elisabeth Hall

PLT - Theater Heerlen

The story of Pelléas and Melisande is one of literature's greatest love stories, along with Romeo and Juliet and Tristan and Isolde .

Luisi & Pelléas and Mélisande

DR Koncerthuset

Courtney Lewis leads a program blending timeless classics with bold new sounds. Wagner’s grand Meistersinger Prelude sets the tone, followed by a highly anticipated world premiere from Anna Clyne. Ellington’s Celebration infuses jazz energy, leading to Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5, one of history’s most iconic and powerful works.

Beethoven’s Fifth

Jacoby Symphony Hall

Guest Concert

Festhalle Wörth

Maybe you don't have a green thumb and you don't care about garden design, but perhaps you still know that strange feeling when a houseplant dies? Empathy, maybe even guilt, arise. And then you ask yourself since when this photosynthetic shrub actually lived in your heart – rent-free!

Heaven

Pfalzbau Ludwigshafen

Jan Lisiecki, “perhaps the most ‘complete’ pianist of his age” (BBC Music Magazine), performs one of Mozart’s spellbinding piano concertos at the center of a deeply spiritual program that muses on the interplay of shadow and light. Returning to the SLSO podium, Hannu Lintu leads the orchestra through Wagner’s shimmering melodies, inspired by a holy relic; Samy Moussa’s visionary expression of timelessness and paradise in Elysium; and the mysticism and wonder of Respighi’s Church Windows.

From Mozart to Wagner

Powell Hall

Blast off on an out-of-this-world adventure with your Fayetteville Symphony Orchestra! Experience the music from two of John Williams's most iconic film scores, paired with some of the classical greats that inspired them. This concert is a great fit for lovers of music that evokes character and tells a story.

John Williams and His Influences

Methodist University

Choral Fantasy

Carson Center for the Performing Arts

Internationally renowned Wagner interpreter Simone Young returns to the San Francisco Symphony to conduct a can’t-miss symphonic synopsis of Wagner’s massive Ring cycle, featuring her own selection of orchestral excerpts. In her serenely invigorating orchestral piece The Space Between Stars, Sydney-based composer Ella Macens “wanted to convey the energy and magic of our night sky.” Set in a single searing movement, Saint-Saens’s Cello Concerto No. 1 is bursting with sonic surprises—a music-box minuet here, a sudden silence there—as well as the requisite solo pyrotechnics, taken here by the acclaimed French cellist Gautier Capuçon.

Simone Young & Gautier Capuçon

Davies Symphony Hall

Lohengrin

Teatro La Fenice

Why are we here, and what comes next? Throughout time, humans have wrestled with these questions, resulting in compositions like Richard Strauss’ radiant swan song, Rachmaninov’s haunting depiction of the journey of souls to the afterlife, Janáček’s portrait of hope and solidarity in a Siberian prison camp and Wagner’s spine-tingling meditation on eternal love.

Songs of Love and Farewell

Chicago Symphony Orchestra

Neither balsam, nor medicinal herbs can provide relief to the wounded and ailing Amfortas, ruler of the Grail kingdom. His path to recovery proves to be a complex one. No member of the Grail community can reclaim the spear which inflicted the wound, but only an outsider, a “pure fool”, enlightened by compassion. Only by the tip of this spear touching Amfortas’s wound can he be healed. On his journey of self-discovery, towards his destiny as chosen deliverer, Parsifal is accompanied, not only by the skilful Grail Knight Gurnemanz, but also by the enigmatic and seductive Kundry, who opens his eyes to sensuality and extrasensory experience.

Parsifal

Max-Joseph-Platz

Raised by a scheming dwarf and unaware of his true family origins, a young man embarks on an epic journey. Soon, destiny brings him face-to-face with a shattered sword, a fearsome dragon and the cursed ring it guards, and a Valkyrie forced into enchanted slumber...

RBO: Siegfried

Chelmsford Theatre

Chamber Orchestra – Arthur Fagen, conductor; David Holloway, horn soloist

Auer Hall

When Benjamin Britten presented his official Opus 1, he was just eighteen years old – and already a seasoned composer. Before he was ten, he had already written several sonatas and a full-fledged symphony. With the Sinfonietta, he was now introducing himself to the public for the first time – a masterpiece that is far too rarely heard. In complete contrast to Wagner's popular Siegfried Idyll, a musical gift to his wife on the birth of their first child.

Siegfried-Idyll

The Baden-Baden Casino

The male alliance of the Knights of the Grail is in crisis. Time and again, knights desert to the opposite realm of the sorcerer Klingsor, who had previously been rejected by the circle of knights.

Strauss’ Tod und Verklärung (Death and Transfiguration) traces the final moments of a life: memories surface, struggles fade, and a soul wins its final release. Under the baton of Simone Young, the NSO displays the full scope of Strauss’ vision and the promise of beyond. Winner of the prestigious International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition Sergey Khachatryan brings fire to Sibelius’ Violin Concerto.

Death and Transfiguration Khachatryan plays Sibelius

Kennedy Center

Famous classical hits galore – presented by a cult ensemble consisting of 100% cellos! Music to relax to, presented by the Concertgebouw Orchestra's renowned cello section. Our tip: reserve your tickets well in advance!

Pure Cello

With Tristan und Isolde, Richard Wagner created his most radical and most sensual opera. Two lovers are drawn into a whirlwind of desire and passion. Their only possible salvation is death. Wagner wrote a timeless, eternal “infinite melody,” or “infinite melody,” that would forever irrevocably change the course of music history.

Tristan and Isolde

Oper Leipzig

Drawing loosely on motifs from Christianity, Buddhism, assorted legends and Schopenhauer’s philosophy, Richard Wagner eventually completed a myth of his own, PARSIFAL. The work that he dubbed a “stage-hallowing play” tells the story of a “pure fool” who is blissfully unaware of his own nature and calling. Parsifal sallies forth into the ascetic brotherhood of the Knights of the Grail and into another very different world, that of Klingsor’s erotically charged garden, where a kiss from Kundry infuses him with an enlightenment that leads him to release Amfortas, the King of the Grail, from his suffering and redeem the brotherhood.

Deutsche Oper Berlin

Storm and thunder, unbridled passion, incest and divine wrath - all of this is already brewing in the first bars of the orchestral prelude to DIE WALKÜRE and gives a hint of what is to follow. In DIE WALKÜRE, the first day of the stage festival play DER RING DES NIBELUNGEN, Wagner focuses on the generation of Wotan's descendants: On the sibling pair Siegmund and Sieglinde, who, after many years of separation, meet fatefully and fall in love with each other. And on the Valkyries, Brünnhilde and her eight sisters, whose task it is to bring the heroes fallen in battle to Valhalla. When Wotan's wife Fricka learns of the incestuous relationship between Siegmund and Sieglinde, she demands that Wotan put an end to it. So Wotan orders his favourite daughter Brünnhilde to overthrow Siegmund in his battle against his rival Hunding. But Brünnhilde protects Siegmund against Wotan’s command. As punishment, Wotan puts Brünnhilde into a deep sleep and ignites a circle of fire around her, which only one without fear can pass through...

Die Walküre

Cologne Opera

Richard Wagner's redemption operas continually invite new interpretations. Joana Mallwitz was already deeply involved with the composer's oeuvre during her time as General Music Director in Nuremberg. Director and musician Johannes Erath will stage the Baden-Baden Lohengrin production. He began his directing career as an assistant to Willy Decker, worked at the Semperoper in Dresden among other venues, and has been awarded the Götz Friedrich Prize and the Austrian Music Theater Prize.

Richard Wagner: Lohengrin

Led by the highly qualified conductor Pierre Bleuse and the penetrating sound of mezzo-soprano Bella Adamova, the evening concert of this happening explores a multitude of musical and philosophical themes. Central to it is the play of contrasts: light and dark, revelation and concealment. Thomas Larcher tackles the sense of time: sometimes it seems to slow down, and sometimes it seems to go faster. In Debussy's ‘poème dansé’, the ballet is contained in the music, even without dancers on stage. With Berio, the rather floaty wanderings then give way to expressive vocal fireworks, and to top it all off, Andrew Gourlay reduces Wagner's grandeur to its essence, in a version without vocals. As a listener, you rediscover what rustles at the margins and remains hidden from the naked eye.

Happening: Evening concert 'Parsifal'

Join Curtis Symphony Orchestra and Grammy award winner Yannick Nézet-Séguin for an evening of powerful musical storytelling. The program features William L. Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony, a groundbreaking 1934 masterpiece that blends African American spirituals with classical symphonic traditions. Premiered by Leopold Stokowski and The Philadelphia Orchestra, the work is celebrated for its stirring melodies and rhythmic vitality.

Yannick Leads Mahler & Dawson

Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts

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.

Tristan und Isolde

Oper Frankfurt

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.

Hamburg State Opera

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?

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

WALTON AND RACHMANINOV with ROSALIND VENTRIS viola

Dorchester Abbey

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

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!

Odeon, Skovde

Archipelago House, Hall A, Trosa

Ullareds Community Centre

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

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.

BBC Philharmonic - Four Last Songs

Jeneba Kanneh-Mason

All Saints Church Ecclesall

Four Last Songs

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

The final day of The Ring is staged with The Twilight of the Gods . This completes Sir David McVicar's directorial vision, which returns the Ring to its mythical foundations and narrative linearity, rightfully placing it among the benchmarks of the Western canon. Ancient tragedy, Baroque theater, and Elizabethan drama converge in a reading that identifies two episodes of comedy— Rheingold and Siegfried —and two episodes of tragedy, Die Walküre and, above all, Götterdämmerung , which marks the final arrival at catastrophe.

Götterdämmerung (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

Teatro alla Scala

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

The third episode of the Tetralogy introduces the character of Siegfried, the son of siblings Siegmund and Sieglinde, who grew up in the lair of the treacherous Mime and was called upon to reforge the sword Nothung with which he would slay the dragon Fafner, guardian of the treasure, before freeing Brünnhilde from the spell of fire. A young man unfamiliar with fear, he is the protagonist of a fairytale plot that recurs with the sentiment of Nature and the obstacles to be overcome, culminating in his encounter with the Valkyrie, who renounces her divine nature for him.

Siegfried (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

After ten years, Teatro alla Scala presented a new production of Ring des Nibelungen in the fall of 2024 , conducted by Simone Young and Alexander Soddy, who join the ranks of great maestros such as Toscanini, De Sabata, Krauss, Furtwängler, Cluytens, Muti, and Barenboim. The direction is by David McVicar, one of the most authoritative names on the international stage, who has won acclaim at La Scala in a vast repertoire, from Cavalli to Berlioz, Cilea, and Verdi.

Das Rheingold (Der Ring des Nibelungen)

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

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

Daniele Rustioni

CAURUM HALL Auditorium Guido d’Arezzo

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

Celebratory concert for Ralf Weikert’s 85th birthday

Zurich Opera House

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.

Richard Wagner

Events

Upcoming events

Sep 26, 2025 - Jun 5, 2026

Opera Workshop · Staatsoper Hamburg

Apr 25, 2026 - Jun 10, 2027

Der fliegende Holländer · Wiener Staatsoper

1 - 24 May, 2026

Tristan and Isolde: Music drama by Richard Wagner · Staatstheater Wiesbaden

7 - 9 May, 2026

Wagner’s Götterdämmerung · The Cleveland Orchestra

8 - 9 May, 2026

Søndergård Conducts Wagner and Bartók · Minnesota Orchestra

Past events

8 - 9 May, 2026

The Flying Dutchman · West Australian Opera

8 - 9 May, 2026

Søndergård Conducts Wagner and Bartók · Minnesota Orchestra

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