The ASO invites the community to a free concert. No tickets are needed — just bring yourself and enjoy the music. Saint-Saëns’ Danse Macabre, music from Harry Potter, Jaws, Psycho, Ride of the Valkyries, and the 1812 Overture. The night the orchestra comes to you, free and open to everyone.

Free Neighborhood Concert

Bartlett High School

KONTRAST - Halloween with RDAM Brass

Hellig Kors Kirke

This recital is a rare opportunity to hear Bryn up close, performing music that means a lot to him – from traditional Welsh folk tunes that echo of home to hits from musical theatre and classical lieder. His extraordinary voice will fill the Sydney Opera House Concert Hall, every facet of his extraordinary instrument shining bright.

The Voice of Bryn Terfel

Sydney Opera House

With The Flying Dutchman, controversial theatre director Milo Rau is tackling the work and Richard Wagner’s oeuvre for the first time, using the Romantic opera as a starting point for a journey into the political depths of the Federal Republic of Germany. The story centres on a cursed sailor who can only be delivered through the faithfulness of a woman, and who finds in Senta an obsessively determined ally. Taking Wagner’s ideologically camouflaged preoccupation with Ahasverus, the motif of the Wandering Jew, his anti-Semitism and redemption cult as a basis, Rau turns his gaze toward the long post-war history of guilt, memory and the search for reconciliation. What does it mean to be a fan of Wagner after the Holocaust? Is there redemption for Wagner, any deliverance from German guilt? The production searches for the answers to these questions via the unredeemed Dutchman of the title, like a road trip movie through German culture and history after 1945 as well as the emotionally charged German-Israeli relations up to the present day. The Dutchman appears as a national metaphor, a figure who is constantly failing to overcome his own history. Through this, Rau ventures a step into painful corners of the discourse without promising any answers that can be easily swallowed. With a documentarian narration style and the tools of musical theatre, the score becomes a space for reflecting on reception and accountability. The music of Wagner’s ghostly opera is coupled with the energetic narration of young conductor Giedrė Šlekytė, who is giving her Wagner debut at Deutsche Oper Berlin with this production. Tomasz Konieczny, who has a wealth of experience in the role, will portray this new Dutchman. At his side will be Aušrinė Stundytė, internationally celebrated for her radical portrayals of women and who will be debuting her portrayal of Senta.

The Flying Dutchman

Deutsche Oper Berlin

At Paliesius Manor, three artists will present the concert program "Richard's Women". They will perform the music of German music innovators Richard Wagner and Richard Strauss, who created works during the Romantic and early modern periods - well-known works, but performed for the first time in Lithuania, which will reveal the portrait of a woman using the stylistic methods of these periods. The program will include opera excerpts, chamber music masterpieces, and opuses performed for violin and piano, filled with virtuosity, maturity, and feminine sensitivity.

"Richard's Women"

Paliesius Manor

Guest performance in Salzburg | Tour with Marie Jacquot

Great Festival House

Siegfried arrives at Santa Cecilia to inaugurate the new 2026/2027 symphonic season: the project to perform Richard Wagner’s Tetralogy in a staged production continues, an endeavor that will see the Accademia engaged until 2028, presenting this time the second day of the Ring on Wednesday, October 21, Saturday, October 24, and Tuesday, October 27, in the Sala Santa Cecilia.

Wagner: Siegfried / Daniel Harding

Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia

Guest performance in Innsbruck | Tour with Marie Jacquot

Congress Innsbruck

Guest performance in Linz | Tour with Marie Jacquot

Brucknerhaus Linz

Santa Cecilia will host a meeting of extraordinary cultural significance. The event marks an unprecedented occasion: two key figures in the Italian intellectual scene will converse together for the first time in the Santa Cecilia Hall. Journalist and writer  Corrado Augias  will explore the secrets of  Siegfried  in a one-on-one conversation with  Quirino Principe , a musicologist of undisputed authority on Wagner. Music historian Sandro Cappelletto will also participate and offer a dialogue  .

Augias / Principe / Cappelletto: I segreti di Wagner

Back by popular demand, the London Opera Company revives its critically acclaimed production of Wagner’s romantic tragedy, Tristan und Isolde. Featuring a full orchestra of professionals and the crème de la crème of London’s music graduates, alongside a stellar cast of singers with world-renowned expertise in Wagner, this promises to be an unmissable event for Wagner fans.

Tristan und Isolde

Smith Square Hall

Two classical music stars grace this extraordinary program: Latvian organist Iveta Apkalna elevates Camille Saint-Saëns' sublime "Organ Symphony," while French violist Antoine Tamestit takes center stage in Thierry Escaich's sophisticated viola concerto "La Nuit des Chants." Composed especially for him, the work explores the dazzling expressive possibilities of his instrument. The concert opens with Richard Wagner's majestic "Tannhäuser" Overture.

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Majestic - Marie Jacquot & Iveta Apkalna

Cologne Philharmonie

WDR Happy Hour - Marie Jacquot

Konzerthaus Dortmund

The Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra continue its season at Cadogan Hall with conductor James Blair and award-winning soprano Lorna McLean in an all-Wagner programme, exploring some of the most powerful moments from the composer’s operatic masterpieces.

The concert begins with the Overture to Tannhäuser, where noble chorales and surging drama set the tone for the evening. This is followed by the Prelude and Liebestod from Tristan und Isolde, music of extraordinary intensity and longing that remains among Wagner’s most profound creations.

Young Musicians Symphony Orchestra

Cadogan Hall

Artistic Partner Maria Włoszczowska joins Royal Northern Sinfonia to kick off a brand new season at the Fire Station.

Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto

The Fire Station, Sunderland

Start the season with a powerful and dramatic evening of orchestral favorites, led by Principal Conductor and Artistic Advisor Ari Pelto. Sibelius’s Finlandia sets the stage with its soaring, cinematic sweep, followed by Wagner’s majestic music from Act III of Die Meistersinger. The night closes with Rachmaninoff’s electrifying Symphonic Dances – bold, colorful, and unforgettable.

Opening Night: Nordic Lights & Romantic Fire

Safe Credit Union Performing Arts Center

Raise a glass and experience the OPO Brass as Guest Conductor Lyman Brodie leads a powerful and electrifying program of fanfares, opera favorites, folk melodies, and classics. From Wagner’s dramatic overtures to the celebratory sounds of Die Fledermaus, this program highlights the versatility of the OPO Brass. Grab your favorite drink, sit back, and enjoy a night of music and energy at The Plaza Live!

Brass and Brews

Colonial Plaza

In Götterdämmerung, Siegfried takes leave of Brünnhilde to travel the world and accomplish new feats. These will be his last: during his journey along the Rhine, he falls victim to a sinister plot hatched by Alberich and his son Hagen. The downfall of the gods is now inevitable...

Götterdämmerung

Opéra Bastille

The 42nd Weekday Afternoon Concert

Tokyo Opera City Tower

The 109th Holiday Afternoon Concert

Can one man heal a broken society? A bold new production by Evgeny Titov features a stellar cast including Stanislas de Barbeyrac, Ekaterina Gubanova, Christian Gerhaher and Brindley Sherratt. Jakub Hrůša conducts.

Parsifal

Royal Opera House

A critic of Italian opera and its structure, Wagner, however, always showed great admiration for Vincenzo Bellini, and in particular for Norma , which he considered worthy of comparison with Greek tragedy and the great classical operas of Gluck. In an essay published on the occasion of a performance he conducted in Riga in 1837, the German composer praised it for its attention to the text, its long-drawn-out melodies, and the interplay between music and text, which he deemed intrinsically dramatic and theatrical.

Bellini and Wagner

Teatro Politeama Garibaldi

Love, Fate and Fire

C.K. McClatchy High School

Theatre Luigi Pirandello

Led by Music Director Alex Prior, the brass and percussion of Eugene Symphony take center stage in a concert filled with soaring melodies, dramatic marches, and thrilling fanfares. From the iconic opening of Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man to music both moving and majestic, Fanfares & Serenades offers a powerful orchestral experience in an intimate setting.

Eugene Symphony: Fanfares & Serenades

Florence Events Center

Led by Music Director Alex Prior, the Soreng Chamber Series opens with a program of brilliance, power, and ceremonial grandeur. Centered on Fanfare for the Common Man and Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman, the concert celebrates the bold, resonant sound of brass in an intimate yet powerful start to the season.

Fanfares for the Common Man and the Uncommon Woman

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

The music of American composer Gabriella Smith is indelibly linked to nature, marvelling at its beauty, terror and joy.

Sibelius Symphony No. 5

The Bridgewater Hall

With an evening brimming with sonic magic and visionary power, Marie Jacquot celebrates her inaugural concert as the new chief conductor of the WDR Symphony Orchestra. From the ethereal prelude to Wagner's opera "Lohengrin," the program spans Chopin's Piano Concerto in F minor to the evocative tone poems of the late Romantic era: "Andromède" by the Irish-French composer Augusta Holmès and "Le poème de l'extase" by the Russian composer Alexander Scriabin. Let yourself be captivated by this dramatic program – and experience the exceptional pianist Yulianna Avdeeva, a former winner of the prestigious Warsaw Chopin Competition.

Departure - Marie Jacquot & Yulianna Avdeeva

Conductor Pietari Inkinen produced absolutely enchanting sounds from the Danish Radio Symphony Orchestra when he conducted Mahler's Symphony No. 3 at short notice in 2024. Now he returns with a composer even closer to his heart: Wagner.

Inkinen & Wagner

DR Koncerthuset

Daniele Rustioni, Conductor Emeritus of the Opéra de Lyon and new Principal Guest Conductor of the Metropolitan Opera, is opening the season with a majestic blend of symphony and opera, presenting works by Richard Wagner, both as a composer and inspiration source, and the epitome of German Romanticism, Anton Bruckner.

Wagner / Bruckner

Opéra National De Lyon

Forget everything you think you know about Wagner! Kent Nagano, the Dresden Festival Orchestra, and Concerto Köln are setting new standards with their performance of the Ring cycle. For the first time ever, this monumental project is being heard in a historically informed interpretation. Just as in Wagner’s own day, the string players use gut strings; the wind instruments are reconstructed based on 19th-century models; the orchestra’s tuning is lower; and the text is at times declaimed rather than traditionally “sung.” Suddenly everything becomes intelligible — and at times it almost recalls the delivery of art song. Working with an international research team, Nagano has brought surprising insights to light. The result is striking. “Light and airy” is how Jan Brachmann described this Wagner in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung; in particular, the winds impress “with sharper definition in their individual colors: they creak, belch, and grunt with a kind of unruly physicality.” With Götterdämmerung, the Ring comes full circle this summer. And once more we have the chance to experience Wagner’s music as he himself most likely heard it.

Dresden Festival Orchestra | Concerto Köln | Dresden Festival Choir of the Richard Wagner Academy | Kent Nagano | Soloists

KKL Luzern Concert Hall

Only a few days before the premiere of the opera Mittwoch aus Licht, Titus Engel devotes himself in his first concert as conductor in residence with the Orchestra of the Deutsche Oper Berlin to a scene from another day of Karlheinz Stockhausen’s week-long opera cycle – the second act of Donnerstag aus Licht. The purely instrumental section Michaels Reise um die Erde depicts the travels of a hero culminating in an ascension to heaven. There are clear parallels here to the journey of Parsifal which was profoundly characterised by Richard Wagner’s affinity with religious spirituality, and the evening concludes with extracts from this work. John Cage’s 4′33″, a composition that reoriented and challenged listening habits through the discovery of musical rests as sonic space, acts as a connecting element between these works, attuning the ear to a quasi-sacred atmosphere.

Orchester der Deutschen Oper Berlin

Kleiner Saal

In the context of Mittwoch aus Licht, Titus Engel, for his first concert as conductor-in-residence, connects the musical worlds of Stockhausen and Wagner. Both composers not only shaped the music of their time, but they also polarised opinion, both aesthetically and socially. A mystical aura still surrounds both; religion of art and classical heroic epic are the central elements of their two late works. A few days before the premiere of Mittwoch, the second act of Donnerstag offers insights into another day of the week-long opera cycle. As a purely instrumental section, Michael’s journey around the world traces a hero’s path culminating in his ascension to Heaven. The parallels to Parsifal’s journey, profoundly influenced by Wagner’s affinity for religious spirituality, are evident. John Cage's piece 4′33″ serves as a link and prelude to the quasi-sacred atmosphere, having revolutionised listening through the establishment of the musical pause as a sonic space. The concert marks the opening of the thematic focus on Stockhausen and Cage, co-curated by Titus Engel.

Symphony Concert: Light on Parsifal

The Perelada Festival presents an extraordinary concert at the Palau de la Música Catalana, bringing together the Bayreuth Festival Orchestra under the direction of Pablo Heras-Casado. An event that transcends the usual framework of the Festival and is projected as an event of great musical significance, in dialogue with a city deeply linked to the Wagnerian tradition.

Bayreuth Festival Orchestra

Palau de la Música Catalana

The Royal Swedish Orchestra’s 500th anniversary celebrations continue with a magnificent start to this autumn’s concerts. A powerful programme of Wagner’s works features Nina Stemme as a soloist and Alan Gilbert conducting.

Royal Orchestra & Stemme

Royal Swedish Opera

Fasten your seatbelts for a high-octane musical journey, from Hans Zimmer’s epic Gladiator score to Wagner’s imposing Die Walküre, via the jazzy swing of Artie Shaw’s Clarinet Concerto with Principal Clarinet Andrew Simon. The HK Phil trombone section – Jarod Vermette, Christian Goldsmith, Kevin Thompson, and Aaron Albert – performs Koetsier’s Concertino for Four Trombones, a playful showcase of brass virtuosity. From circus march to operatic fire, this musical thrill ride soars with energy and lands in unforgettable style.

Swire Denim Series: From Gladiators to Valkyries

Hong Kong Cultural Centre

This pianist fits into no mold. Bridget Yee was born in Malaysia in 2004, came to London at age eleven to study, and went on to win the Windsor International Piano Competition, among others. Yet she doesn’t shine only at the keyboard: she also trained as a cellist and double bassist, performing in orchestral concerts under Jac van Steen and Benjamin Zander. That broadened her horizons, she says — and benefits her piano playing, too.

Bridget Yee

Reformierte Lukaskirche

Marking 25 years as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst leads a rousing program of music spanning a century and a half. The expansive opening of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger gives way to the propulsive soundscapes of Bernd Richard Deutsch’s Intensity. The evening closes with Richard Strauss’s Symphonia domestica, an intimate portrait of the composer’s family life, from the mundane to the passionate to the playful.

Welser-Möst Conducts Strauss

Severance Music Center

A Night at the Symphony

Taft High School

The opera success for the whole family returns!

Who will save humanity and love when the battle for the magic ring rages from the castle of the gods to the depths of the underworld? Experience an unforgettable musical adventure populated by gods, valkyries and dwarves in this brand new family version of Wagner's opera cycle The Ring of the Nibelung . Here, four operas are merged into one story about friendship and power, and what happens when power ends up in the wrong hands.

The Ring offers 7-12 year olds and their families an adventurous first-time experience of Wagner's classical masterpiece.

Ringen

The Little Theatre, Copenhagen

Bach - Liszt - Medtner - Chopin - Beethoven

Alexandre Kantorow piano recital

Parc de Florans

What breaks cannot be put back together. But in "Götterdämmerung" it becomes clear that even in the shadow of failure, a profound meaning shines – beyond revenge and glory.

Twilight of the Gods

Bayreuth Festival Theatre

Depicting a man’s final hours on earth and his soul’s journey to judgement, The Dream of Gerontius contains some of Elgar’s most moving and powerful music, from the quiet but fervent opening to the sublime ‘Angel’s Farewell’. Life and death, angels and demons, love and faith, all are explored in heart-rending music that Elgar himself described as “the best of me”.

Three Choirs Festival: The Dream of Gerontius

Gloucester Cathedral

Jay Scheib translates Wagner's religious masterpiece into a contemporary, often abstract visual language, questioning traditional rituals and symbolism.

A young man, unaware of his origins, resolutely breaks free from old ties. "Siegfried" unfolds the tense struggle of an individual fighting his way through a web of unfulfilled expectations, oppressive silence, and crumbling power.

Siegfried

Tcherniakov's production of "The Flying Dutchman" is a radical, psychologically dense interpretation that brings clear visual symbolism, strong female characters and a modern thriller scenario.

The Valkyrie

The ring grows from a painful insult – a spark that ignites an unleashed force that can no longer be tamed. "Das Rheingold" opens the gate to an unstoppable chain reaction that sets everything in motion and irrevocably steers destiny.

Das Rheingold

Rienzi, Wagner's third opera, was once his greatest success. The performance in Bayreuth is a unique opportunity to rediscover Wagner's early triumph – in a place where it has never been heard before.

Rienzi

The Perelada Festival welcomes the return of Bryn Terfel, one of the great voices of our time, in a recital that is presented as a living synthesis of his artistic journey. With a career that extends over almost four decades, the Welsh bass-baritone has built an interpretative universe that embraces from Mozart to Wagner, from the Romantic Lied to the traditional song, always with the same expressive conviction and deep respect for the musical material.

Bryn Terfel

Església del Carme

Notes at the Museum

Palazzo Abatellis

Wigmore Hall Associate Artist Gweneth Ann Rand’s inspired selection of words and music looks at migration and exile both through the lens of history and with a contemporary eye. The soprano’s choice of works was shaped by a quote from the Vietnamese Buddhist monk and peace activist, Thích Nhất Hạnh, who himself spent over half his long life as an exile in France: 'If we believe that tomorrow will be better,’ he wrote, ‘we can bear a hardship today'.

Gweneth Ann Rand soprano; Allyson Devenish piano; Simon Lepper piano

Wigmore Hall

The sensual timbre of Marie-Nicole Lemieux and the virtuosic sections of the Orchestre National de France: the ideal tools for interpreting two great pages of German Romanticism.

Mahler 5

Opéra Berlioz

Nicolas Ellis conducts a Shakespeare-inspired program featuring Mendelssohn’s magical music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Tchaikovsky’s impassioned Romeo and Juliet, Fantasy-Overture. Violinist Geneva Lewis contrasts Vaughan Williams’s tranquil The Lark Ascending with the fiery Carmen Fantasy, a perfect match for a summer night.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Davies Symphony Hall

3rd Festival Chamber Concert: Polyphonic with Vocals

Munich Residence

Raphaël Pichon and the ensemble Pygmalion invite you on a journey through German Romanticism, with Stéphane Degout (baritone), in a program built around the Wanderer: Schubert, Liszt, Reger, Wagner and Brahms.

Romantic Germany

Le Corum

The opera returns to the Montpellier Festival! Tristan and Isolde, the gospel of Western love, an epic and deeply moving work exploring the power of human emotions and the sacrifices they demand.

Tristan and Isolde

Each year, the Festival international de Colmar transforms the city’s most distinguished heritage venues into vibrant stages for world-class soloists and leading ensembles. Since 2023, the festival has been under the artistic direction of Alain Altinoglu.

The La Monnaie Symphony Orchestra at the Colmar Festival

Église Saint-Matthieu de Colmar

An unusual program where Antonio Pappano, Principal Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, demonstrates both his opera experience and his dramatic flair. Vilde Frang interprets Beethoven's Violin Concerto on a 1734 Guarneri. Sarah Jakubiak and Clay Hilley can be heard in Wagner's "Liebestod" act from Tristan und Isolde. In addition to his role as Siegfried, the American heroic tenor has already earned acclaim in the Festspielhaus as the emperor in Strauss’s Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Wagner & Beethoven

Festspielhaus Baden-Baden

The Budapest Festival Orchestra takes a musical trip to the banks and into the depths of the Rhine when offering Schumann’s symphony, inspired by charming experiences and a Wagner scene. The former commemorates a peaceful riverside excursion to the Rhine, and the latter is one of the most famous scenes from the monumental opera tetralogy, The Ring of the Nibelung. The concert will feature two outstanding singers in the roles of Brünhilde and Wotan in one of the most dramatic father-daughter scenes in operatic literature. Swedish soprano Ingela Brimberg, who is very much at home in the Wagnerian repertoire, has sung the title role in numerous productions from Stockholm to Madrid to Bordeaux.

Tour: Alhambra, Granada

Patio of the Palace of Charles V

International guest concert 1

The Concertgebouw

This stellar festival gala concert will welcome one of the greatest figures on the contemporary opera scene. Bryn Terfel, an operatic legend with the charisma of a world star, will perform a programme that transcends the boundaries of genres and styles. He will be joined by Slovak soprano Slávka Zámečníková. The evening will feature famous opera arias, musical theatre melodies and distinctive Welsh songs, promising an exceptional experience full of emotion and vocal virtuosity.

Opera Gala – Bryn Terfel & Slávka Zámečníková

Litomyšl Castle

Concert performance, with surtitles. Intoxicating. Passionate. Transcendent. Wagner plunges the depths and rises to ecstatic heights in one of the greatest and most intense of operatic love stories.

Wagner: Tristan and Isolde

Barbican Centre

Concert performance, with surtitles. Intoxicating. Passionate. Transcendent.

“A Night at the Opera” brings the grand tradition of European opera into our American Adventures season, celebrating the larger-than-life drama, romance, and spectacle that have captivated audiences for centuries. This performance will showcase highlights of the work in concert format, featuring the Summit Choral Society alongside soloists selected from Central City Opera’s prestigious Bonfils-Stanton Foundation Young Artists Training Program. Mozart’s Overture to The Magic Flute sets the stage with brilliance and mystery, its noble chords and quicksilver passages opening the door to a world of fantasy. From Rossini’s swaggering “Largo al factotum” to Bizet’s sultry “Habanera,” from the thunder of Verdi’s Anvil Chorus to the soaring triumph of “Nessun dorma,” this program unfolds as a gallery of unforgettable moments—choruses, duets, and overtures that showcase opera’s full emotional range, from intimate confession to exhilarating spectacle. 

A Night at the Opera

Riverwalk Center

Richard Wagner wrote Die Walküre as the second of four parts of the powerful musical theatre epic, Der Ring des Nibelungen, which is based on the Medieval Nibelungenlied and old Norse god sagas. Wotan, the highest god, has fathered twins with a mortal woman – Siegmund and Sieglinde. These two in turn have a child, in which Wotan sees his dominion consolidated. His wife Fricka defies his plans and, as protector of the traditional marriage rites, demands Siegmund’s death. Wotan reluctantly agrees, although it will cause a split with his favourite daughter.

Die Walküre

Max-Joseph-Platz

Zubin Mehta & Rudolf Buchbinder

We join RNCM student conductors and International Artist Diploma musicians for an afternoon of extraordinary music making in the BBC Philharmonic Studio.

BBC Philharmonic Orchestra and RNCM: International Artist Diploma Performance 2

MediaCityUK

Tannhäuser lived for seven years in the dream world of the Venusberg, but even his return to the stifling society of Wartburg Castle brings no fulfillment. A pilgrim between worlds, he is homeless. The Icelandic director Thorleifur Örn Arnarsson, known for his compelling interpretations of mythical material and grand narratives, stages "Tannhäuser" as an existential drama of identity and a surreal journey into the human psyche. Wagner condensed the search for meaning and stability in a world that seems to be slipping away into a philosophical description of the world.

Tannhäuser

Opernhaus Zürich

Works by Wagner / Widmann / Xenakis / Saariaho / Pelzel

Friedrichsforum

The Irish princess Isolde is promised to King Marke of Cornwall. Together with her handmaiden Brangäne, she is escorted across the sea by the knight Tristan. Isolde’s lethal poison meant for Tristan is replaced with a love potion, and their passion leads them along a path to tragedy.

We present a revival of our acclaimed production of Wagner’s groundbreaking Tristan und Isolde, directed by Carmen Jakobi with the Longborough Festival Orchestra conducted by Longborough’s veteran Wagnerian Music Director, Anthony Negus.

Longborough Festival Opera

We're having a celebrity guest at the start of our weekend with the Bavarian State Opera: Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, a member of the ensemble from 2012 to 2016, is a sought-after singer who performs on the world's most important opera and concert stages. She sings Alexander Zemlinsky's extended setting of a poem by Richard Dehmel, whose poetry also inspired Arnold Schoenberg to create his most famous piece, the sextet "Transfigured Night." Interspersed with Richard Wagner's Tristan-like Wesendonck Lieder: unimagined bliss...

The Bavarian State Opera in Blaibach – Polyphonic

Blaibach Concert Hall

Richard Wagner’s music dramas take centre stage this season, but his music for small ensembles is equally captivating. Siegfried Idyll, featuring birdsong and a lullaby, was a tender birthday gift to his wife Cosima, free from the weight of his grand operas, though its themes later appeared in Der Ring. George Enescu’s lushly harmonic Octet showcases the rarely used combination of eight strings, blending the power of a larger ensemble with the intimacy of chamber music. Together, these works reveal a different, lighter side to the late Romantic tradition.

Chamber music: Wagner and Enescu

AMUZ (Festival van Vlaanderen Antwerpen)

In Wagner's interpretation, the medieval myth about the tragic love between the Irish king's daughter Isolde and Tristan, King Mark's henchman, to whom Isolde was married against her will, becomes a key work of musical theater at the beginning of a new era. This season, the Hamburg State Opera is bringing Ruth Berghaus' legendary production from 1988 back into the repertoire.

Tristan und Isolde (Tristan and Isolde)

Hamburg State Opera

The Apollo Orchestra with principal Conductor David Chan welcomes Susanna Phillips, soprano, as our featured soloist in Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

New World

Montgomery College Catherine F. Scott Commons

Conner Leavitt, tenor

Northwestern Bienen School of Music

Stories of tragic love unfold through the expressive power of the orchestra. Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde conveys the tender weight of grief with exquisite harmonies, and Tchaikovsky recounts forbidden lovers from Dante’s Inferno who are eternally tossed in the wind. The highs and lows of a bittersweet romance are on display in scenes from Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier.

Wagner, Tchaikovsky, and Strauss

Detroit Symphony Orchestra

There’s a good reason why Elgar’s Cello Concerto is a classic: deep emotions surge beneath its haunted surface and if anyone can uncover them it’s our soloist, the remarkable Kian Soltani. Today, it’s just one stage on an emotional odyssey devised by our Principal Guest Conductor Patrick Hahn: a voyage that embraces the infinite longing of George Crumb and Richard Wagner, the volcanic grief of Benjamin Britten, and Scriabin’s final, multicoloured starburst of pure sonic bliss. Join us and be transported. 

Richard Wagner

Events

Upcoming events

Apr 25, 2026 - Jun 10, 2027

Der fliegende Holländer · Wiener Staatsoper

Oct 24, 2026 - Feb 20, 2027

The Flying Dutchman · Deutsche Oper Berlin

6 - 15 Nov, 2026

Das Rheingold (RING Festival) · Opéra national de Paris

7 - 17 Nov, 2026

Die Walküre (RING Festival) · Opéra national de Paris

Nov 8, 2026

Opera Highlights in Conversation Concert · Erlesene Oper

Past events

Oct 31, 2026

Free Neighborhood Concert · Anchorage Symphony Orchestra

Oct 30, 2026

KONTRAST - Halloween with RDAM Brass · The Royal Danish Academy of Music

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