Composer

The orchestra of The Metropolitan Opera comes to Carnegie Hall in full dramatic force for its final concert of the season. The program opens with the stormy overture to Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman. The suite from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande follows, featuring music from all five acts of the opera in just over 20 minutes, drawn largely from its gorgeous orchestral interludes. Metropolitan Opera stars Elīna Garanča and Christian Van Horn then join the orchestra in a complete concert performance of Bartók’s one-act expressionist opera Bluebeard’s Castle.

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The Met Orchestra

Carnegie Hall

Eternal Love Eternal Harmonies

Henry W. Coil Sr. and Alice Edna Coil School for the Arts

Warrior women, jealous rage, a dragon and a magic sword—Richard Wagner’s Ring of the Nibelung electrified 19th-century audiences. But it’s hard to imagine a better age for this epic fantasy than 2024. From Game of Thrones to Minecraft to The Lord of the Rings, our world is hungry for the stuff that came out of Wagner’s original binge-watch. This week, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra dips its toe into this vivid fantasy world with The Ring without Words, an instrumental suite drawn from Wagner’s gripping and evocative four-opera cycle.

Nathalie Stutzmann + The Ring Without Words

Atlanta Symphony Hall

Brahms Symphony No. 4

Robinson Center

With Die Walküre, Wagner leaves the realm of the gods and traces the story of the king of the gods Wotan’s mortal children and the warrior-maid Brünnhilde. The most well-loved opera of the tetralogy, it encompasses some of its most beautiful music: impassioned expressions of love, Wotan’s farewell to his beloved child Brünnhilde, the Magic Fire Music, and, of course, The Ride of the Valkyries, the rousing battle cry sung by eight Valkyrie sisters (memorably on the soundtrack of Apocalypse Now). With English supertitles.



Ring Cycle: Die Walkure

Meyerson Symphony Center

Tonight, the “Prologue” of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung sets the mighty saga in motion and prepares you for what is to come: the conflict between love and power, and, ultimately, redemption through love. You’ll be plunged into the depths of the Rhine and hear the seductive siren song of the Rhine maidens; shudder at the curse placed on the possessor of all-power-giving ring of gold; fear for the folly of the gods as they traverse the rainbow bridge to enter their Valhalla palace — not knowing the doom that awaits them. With English supertitles.



Ring Cycle: Das Rheingold

The Ring Cycle, Wagner’s magnum opus, continues with Die Walküre, the second epic installment in the series. The daughters of Wotan, ruler of the gods, serve as Valkyries tasked with guiding the souls of fallen warriors to Valhalla. But as scandal erupts, Wotan finds himself at odds with whom he most trusts.

Die Walküre

Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre

Experience the epitome of Romantic music with colorful and expressive pieces from great operas. Brittany Logan, a singer from the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, will join HSO for Strauss’s masterpiece and one of Gershwin’s best loved songs.

Night at the Opera

Jack H. Miller Center for Musical Arts

Jakub Hrůša, a “serious, thoughtful conductor” (ArtsDesk) whose star is on the rise around the world, leads the Bamberg Symphony in this all-German, all-Romantic program. Hrůša makes his Celebrity Series debut, and the orchestra has appeared on the Series once before, in the 1983/84 season. It’s a rare treat to welcome them back to Boston.

Bamberg Symphony, Jakub Hrůša, conductor

Symphony Hall

Our Pines of Rome concert will be really exciting. Music of pulsating living nature vs the miracles of human engineering.  Do you remember feeling utterly peaceful standing in the middle of a thick green forest? Brimming with life. A miracle. Or the sense of majestic flow sitting at the banks of a broad river? And then compare it with your daily wonder of technology, from the intricate workings of your computer to simply using “google search.

Pines of Rome

Civic Center Music Hall

Die Walküre is the second of Wagner’s four-opera Ring cycle. The first act narrates the tale of a forbidden romance with Wagnerian grandeur and themes that call the cycle’s other operas and characters to mind. FWSO Music Director Robert Spano leads the orchestra and star vocalists in a special concert version of this act, preceded by Sibelius’ Symphony No. 6, which the composer poetically described as “cold spring water” and the “scent of first snow.”

Wagner’s Walküre and Sibelius’ Sixth

Bass Performance Hall

Majestic horns herald the arrival of spring with a program of music including Beethoven’s enchanting Sextet in E flat major for two horns and string quartet, and Paul Hindemith’s masterly Sonata for Four Horns. 

Beethoven and Hindemith: Horns with Strings

The Sheldon

Beethoven Symphony No. 2

Mendocino College

Join your Saginaw Bay Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Maestro Fouad Fakhouri, in a celebration and display of spirit and virtuosity featuring Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture and Bartok’s notoriously difficult Concerto for Orchestra.

Spirit And Virtuosity

Temple Theatre

Ludwig van Beethoven’s influence was far-reaching and ushered in a movement of music that was picked up and further developed by composers like Wagner and Strauss. Beethoven’s one and only Violin Concerto has become an audience and performer favorite, filled with delicate melodies and stunning poignance. This concert opens with a premiere by Los Angeles-based composer Sarah Gibson, which the League of American Orchestras commissioned with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.

MasterWorks 04: Beethoven Violin Concerto

Michigan State University

Susanna Mälkki conducts a thought-provoking program anchored by Gustav Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. This celestial score, which includes a cryptic dance of death, is announced with sleigh bells and a rustic melody that ends with a child’s view of heaven, delivered here by soprano Ying Fang. Principal Flute Stefán Ragnar Höskuldsson is the soloist in a newly commissioned concerto written for him by the esteemed Lowell Liebermann.

CSO at Wheaton: Mahler 4

Symphony Center

Wheaton College

Wagner’s thrilling music resounds in Kodak Hall! Andreas Delfs leads favorite selections from “The Ring of the Nibelung,” as arranged into a symphonic suite by Lorin Maazel. Plus, an RPO Centennial commission by composer David Hertzberg opens the concert—a symphonic monodrama inspired by the life and death of America’s premier picture-man, George Eastman.

Wagner Without Words and The Life Of George Eastman!

Eastman Theatre

Wagner’s supernatural drama makes landfall with Opera Colorado next winter. The captain of a legendary ghost ship is lost in more ways than one as he is doomed to roam the seas and only come to land for one day every seven years. When the Dutchman is introduced to the idealistic Senta, he begins to wonder if he has found a love strong enough to break his lonely curse.

The Flying Dutchman

Denver Performing Arts Complex

“O fortuna!” Right from its famous opening notes, Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana shakes the Stifel to its foundation. Orff’s work charts the course of fate with songs of joy, love, and celebration. Stéphane crafts a first half trilogy of loss and fateful farewell. In Arvo Pärt’s Cantus in Memoriam Benjamin Britten, pure sounds are as if directly descended from heaven, then Lera Auerbach brings us to the heat of the sun in Icarus. In the Love-death from Richard Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde we end with a salute to eternal love.  

Carmina Burana

Stifel Theatre

Acclaimed soprano, violist, and pianist, Susanna Phillips, Paul Neubauer, and Anne-Marie McDermott, combine for a shimmering salon-style concert.

SPA Trio

PPU Pittsburgh Playhouse

Romance is in the air with Enduring Love Stories. The HSO introduces you to star-crossed lovers throughout time and explores the struggles they endured. Through the music of Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, and Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld the HSO brings emotion and passion to the stage. Bringing dynamic duos into the present, the HSO has commissioned a double concerto by Grammy® Award nominated composer Clarice Assad for the husband-and-wife guitar and cello duo, Boyd Meets Girl, comprised of Rupert Boyd, guitar and West Hartford native, Laura Metcalf, cello.

Enduring Love Stories

The Bushnell

Experience the legendary dramatic prowess of The Met Orchestra in the historic splendor of Carnegie Hall. In the first of three performances this season, Yannick Nézet-Séguin and the orchestra are joined by soprano Lise Davidsen, who debuted at the Met Opera in 2019 in the lead role of The Queen of Spades. The concert begins with Webern’s reimagining of J. S. Bach’s six-part fugue, followed by Wesendonck Lieder, which include some of Wagner’s most popular non-operatic songs. The second half of the concert comprises Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony, a work close to Nézet-Séguin. “What is orchestral music? Here’s the example … it’s a symphony that has everything,” he recently told WRTI.

The Met Orchestra 2024

With an ”electrifying sense of fearlessness” (San Francisco Chronicle), Raehann Bryce-Davis has made the opera and concert world sit up and take notice of her abundant energy and magnetic style. A gifted singing actress, she has a distinctive point of view in recital programs that bring together voices and stories old and new that resonate with love and courage, resilience and humanity.

Raehann Bryce-Davis | Mezzo-Soprano

War Memorial and Performing Arts Center

The Canadian-born pianist Tony Siqi Yun recently made his debut with the Philadelphia Orchestra performing Robert Schumann’s Piano Concerto under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. He first met Maestro Nézet-Séguin in the final round of the inaugural China International Music Competition in 2019, where he went on to win First Prize and a Gold Medal performing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No 1. Other recent concerto performances have included the Cleveland Orchestra (Tchaikovsky), Toronto and Orchestre Métropolitain in Montreal (Clara Schumann) and the Orchestre de Chambre de Paris (Beethoven).

Tony Siqi Yun

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Wagnerites from around the world will descend upon Houston when HGO presents Parsifal, the composer’s final opera, full of shimmeringly beautiful music and spiritual and philosophical exploration. The revered masterpiece takes audiences on a mystical journey through a realm where time has no meaning and a group of knights are trying to protect the Holy Grail and their wounded king, Amfortas. He can only be healed by an innocent fool—the titular protagonist—but first Parsifal must undertake a quest to reclaim the Holy Spear, enduring tests including an attempted seduction by a bevy of gorgeous women. The opera will be presented in a stunning, sensual, colorful production from Tony Award-winning director John Caird. HGO Principal Guest Conductor Eun Sun Kim leads a cast of extraordinary Wagnerians including tenor Russell Thomas as Parsifal, soprano Christine Goerke as Kundry, bass Kwangchul Youn as Gurnemanz, and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as Amfortas.

Parsifal

Wortham Theater Center

Cirque de la Symphonie brings the magic of cirque to the music hall with your Charleston Symphony. Artists include the most amazing experts of exceptional cirque programs throughout the world — aerial flyers, acrobats, contortionists, dancers, jugglers, balancers, and strongmen. The stunning aerialists, dazzling dancers, and unbelievable feats are superbly choreographed to classical masterpieces and popular music performed live onstage with the orchestra.

Cirque de la Symphonie

Gaillard Center

In Gustavo Dudamel’s words, “Music after Wagner was never the same. Wagner's operas pushed music to its physical and emotional limits … paving the way not just for composers like Mahler and Richard Strauss, but for everything from Star Wars to Metallica.” For the first time, Dudamel helms a fully staged production of one part of Wagner’s Ring Cycle, navigating the epic naturalism, endless melodies, and gripping harmonies. The mythical world of Das Rheingold springs forth from Walt Disney Concert Hall with the help of the ever-innovative Frank Gehry, direction by Alberto Arvelo, and costumes by Cindy Figueroa. The Grammy Award-winning Ryan Speedo Green lends his voice to Wotan, headlining an internationally renowned cast.

Dudamel Leads Das Rheingold
Celebrating Frank Gehry

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Richard Wagner composed his Siegfried Idyll as a birthday present for his wife, Cosima, following the birth of their son Siegfried. The dazzling violinist Bella Hristova joins The Phoenix Symphony to play a violin concerto that her husband, composer David Ludwig, wrote especially for her as a wedding present. Music Director Tito Muñoz ends the program with Tchaikovsky’s passionate Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”, an epic tale about the power of fate in life and death which premiered just nine days before the 53-year-old composer’s untimely death.

Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique”

Mesa Arts Center

CSO Artist-in-Residence Hilary Hahn illuminates Brahms’ Violin Concerto, with its ardent beauty and fiery finale. Mikko Franck conducts Wagner’s ecstatic Prelude to Tristan und Isolde before concluding with Sibelius’ Seventh Symphony, an awesome, “time-bending journey” (The Guardian), and the Finnish composer’s crowning symphonic achievement.

Hilary Hahn Plays Brahms

Following his heroic performance as Siegfried in the Met’s 2019 Ring cycle, dashing Austrian tenor Andreas Schager returns as the knight Tannhäuser in Wagner’s ravishing opera of love, lust, and redemption. Soprano Elza van den Heever is the pure and virtuous princess Elisabeth, alongside mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova as the tempting goddess of love, Venus. Maestro Donald Runnicles takes the podium for Otto Schenk’s classic production, which also features baritone Christian Gerhaher in his Met debut as Tannhäuser’s companion knight Wolfram and bass Georg Zeppenfeld as Landgraf Hermann.

Tannhäuser

Lincoln Center

A concert in memory of Kenneth Brown and for the benefit of the Ken Brown Memorial Scholarship Fund, with special guests Angel City Chorale, Artistic Director Sue Fink, composer and conductor Christopher Tin, and soloist Reverend Donald Paredes. Includes the world premiere of Psalm 91, a work composed by Charles Dickerson for all those who sustained loss during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The ICYOLA 2023–24 Season Opening Concert with Angel City Chorale

El Camino College

Discover the jaw-dropping artistry of next-gen talents as the 100 musicians of the SF Symphony Youth Orchestra come together to explore repertoire standards and new works alike

Youth Orchestra

Davies Symphony Hall

The SF Symphony Youth Orchestra opens its season with a program featuring Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s Metacosmos.

San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra

Brahms’ Symphony No. 1

Ruth Eckerd Hall

Duke Energy Center for the Arts

Straz Center for the Performing Arts

The third of 16 planned concerts and four events, Perilous Balance sees three young composers respond to Arnold Schoenberg’s groundbreaking Three Piano Pieces, Op. 11 with three brand new compositions. Also premiering is Peter Knell’s orchestral synthesis of ARKHIPOV, his gripping two-act opera depicting a Soviet submarine run amok. Among its musical arsenal, Arkhipov Synthesis uses a key technique invented by Schoenberg. Additionally, Tomas Peire Serrate's Awake reconsiders Schoenberg’s famous “Pierrot ensemble” with a fresh approach.

Perilous Balance

First Presbyterian Church

A night of epic music begins with Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra, a new piece by GRAMMY®-nominated composer, curator and activist Carlos Simon, commissioned by the San Diego Symphony. Music Director Rafael Payare also leads a sonic expedition into Richard Wagner’s Ring Without Words, an ingenious synthesis of the composer’s Ring cycle of operas, arranged by conductor Lorin Maazel. Ring Without Words invites listeners on an enchanting journey through the Rhine to Valhalla, soaring over hills, valleys and caves, with the flight of a Valkyrie.


The Ring Without Words

The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park

A night of epic music begins with Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra, a new piece by Grammy®-nominated composer, curator and activist Carlos Simon, commissioned by the San Diego Symphony. Music Director Rafael Payare also leads a sonic and visual expedition into Richard Wagner’s Ring Without Words, an ingenious synthesis of the composer’s Ring cycle of operas, arranged by conductor Lorin Maazel. Ring Without Words invites listeners on an enchanting journey through the Rhine to Valhalla, soaring over hills, valleys and caves, with the flight of a Valkyrie.

Daredevil pianist Yuja Wang is at her finest performing Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. From its thunderous opening to fiery finale, this formidable work is a brilliant showcase for Wang’s “impeccable technique” and “edgy, kind of naughty personality” (The New York Times). Young Finnish prodigy Tarmo Peltokoski conducts a masterpiece by his fellow countryman: Sibelius’ lush Symphony No. 1.

Yuja Wang plays Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Tarmo Peltokoski conducts Sibelius’ First Symphony

Kennedy Center

Richard Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll, composed as a birthday present for his wife, sets the stage for a hero’s woodland journey that concludes with Franz Josef Haydn’s stately Symphony No. 77 in this Express Concert led by SPCO musicians. Along the way, Jörg Widmann’s string quartet The Hunt offers vivid dark humor in contrast to Mabel Daniels’ lush orchestral tone poem Deep Forest which captures the eerie stillness and beauty of nature.


Express Concert: Wagner’s Siegfried Idyll

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

Wayzata Community Church

Every Carnegie Hall debut is a notable event, and recitals in the intimate Weill Recital Hall can be especially powerful for artist and audience alike. Simon Bode is an acclaimed tenor whose “voice radiates a charisma and intensity that requires no reinforcement” (Bachtrack), and in this recital debut he performs a program of 19th-century art song and opera, including works by Wagner, Duparc, Liszt, and Wolf.

Simon Bode, Tenor Jonathan Ware, Piano

Alexander Malofeev, piano

Tucson Convention Center

Superheroes: John Williams meets Richad Strauss

Plaza Theatre

The winners of the 2021 Fischoff Competition and the 2022 Concert Artists Guild Competition showcase the versatility of the cello quartet with music of different periods and contrasting styles and characters. From Vivaldi to Piazolla, the first half of the program journeys through works written for chamber orchestras, operas and virtuosic showpieces, redesigned for the cello quartet. As a unique ensemble that does not have the standardized repertoire of string quartets, the ensemble presents a rare opportunity to create and commission new works by composers of varying backgrounds, in this case Zhou Tian. The Andean Walkabout by Gabriela Lena Frank is the crux of the second half. Leyendas, with its American, Chinese and South American influences, encompasses many of the backgrounds and ideals of the quartet’s members.

Galvin Cello Quartet

Kaufman Music Center

He arrived from her dreams to save her from a nightmare. Trapped in a scheme to frame her for her brother’s disappearance, Elsa von Brabant prays for a savior to rescue her. And one appears: a knight conveyed by a beautiful swan. He has only one request: that Elsa must never ask his name.
Can Elsa trust her life and love to a stranger whose mysterious identity is eating away at her? Lohengrin marks the beginning of Music Director Eun Sun Kim’s journey through the works of Richard Wagner, creating a new generation of Wagnerian experiences that will speak to the soul of our collective humanity.

Lohengrin

War Memorial Opera House

Hailed as “the reigning American dramatic soprano of the day” by the New York Times, multiple Grammy winner Christine Goerke visits with a recital that shows off two fantastically different sides of her musical personality. The first half of her program revels in repertoire you might expect from a Wagnerian of her stature—songs by Richard Strauss and Brahms, and arias from Wagner roles she has sung to great acclaim. The second half is a frolic through American popular music, featuring songs like “Deep Purple,” “Orange Colored Sky,” “Hickory Hill,” and a volley of Carrie Jacobs-Bond’s lighthearted Half-Minute Songs.

Christine Goerke, soprano Craig Terry, piano

University of California, Berkeley

Tickets to the PSO’s outdoor concert at the Plano Balloon Festival are now on sale! In partnership with the H-E-B | Central Market Plano Balloon Festival, the PSO is honored to once again play a role in opening this year’s festival with a special outdoor community concert! General admission tickets, which provide access to the concert, are $10 per person, $5 for children age 12 and under and seniors age 65 and up.

The PSO at the Plano Balloon Festival

Oak Point Park

Orchestral Series I

River Center Theatre

Would you renounce love to become all powerful? The Nibelung Alberich steals enchanted gold to craft a ring which allows him to do just that. Yet the corruptive power won’t be his forever as gods and giants discover how far they will go to possess the cursed ring. Brother kills brother, the innocent are enslaved, and the King of Gods must decide where his power truly lies.

Bass-baritone and Wagner veteran Greer Grimsley returns as Wotan alongside Frederick Ballentine, Michael Mayes, and Kenneth Kellogg in their first Seattle Opera Wagner production. Internationally celebrated mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves makes her Seattle Opera debut as the earth goddess Erda.

Das Rheingold

Seattle Center

Beethoven’s Second Symphony

Sun Valley Pavilion

Wotan's union with Erda produced nine daughters, the Valkyries, who would assist war heroes in battle and escort the fallen to Valhalla to eternal bliss. Among them, Wotan's favorite child is Brünnhilde. But the gods are in danger from Alberich, who is waiting for the recovery of the power-giving ring. To accomplish his revenge on Wotan, he fathered an unborn son, which is why the father of the gods himself has to strive with all his might to regain the ring that he had to give to the giants for the construction of the gods' castle.

Festspielhaus

In this unique special, Rick Steves – America's leading authority on European travel – plays musical tour guide and utilizes his extensive knowledge of European history and culture to help set the context for each piece. Then, the orchestra performs a selection of stirring 19th-century anthems by Romantic-era composers. The music is accompanied by a montage of evocative video images from each country.

Rick Steves' Europe: A Symphonic Journey

DeVos Performance Hall

Romantic Heroines

La Serra di Lerici

The Milwaukee Shepherd Express conjectured that he “well may be the best violinist in the world. [His] gorgeous sound is ample and rich always. Every detail is played with perfectly clear intent.” Augustin Hadelich’s astonishing technique, eloquent phrasing, and seeming effortlessness inspired Donnacha Dennehy to compose his first multi-movement concerto especially for him. In Dennehy's words, “The first movement especially zooms in and out of various perspectives. I think of this aerial zooming as being essential to its nature. The second movement feels redolent of the sea to me. The sea always emerges in my music it seems. Maybe it has to do with growing up in Ireland, surrounded by water on all sides. There is a real feeling of yearning to this movement. It was written during the first lockdown of the pandemic, and I feel that a kind of desire to transcend the conditions of everyday life permeates this movement. The final movement is more earthy and cheeky. A strange, splintered, fierce jig eventually appears, and then abstractions of that start to eat away at the very fabric of the music, when the violin threatens to spiral everything out of control leading to a fierce conclusion on the very edge of what is possible!”

Livestream: Augustin Hadelich, Dennehy and Wagner

Franz Liszt, one of the great piano virtuosos of his time was also a prolific arranger of orchestral and operatic music to further show off the prowess of his instrument. In this case he takes Wagner’s “Liebestod” and reworks it brilliantly for his instrument, showing that the piano can sound like any instrument – even the human voice! Incidentally, when the young prodigy, Clara Schumann, whose music is also featured on this program, played for Liszt, he was awestruck by her pianistic abilities. The program ends with Robert Schumann’s Piano Quintet, one of his most orchestral-sounding works of chamber music

This concert is preceded by a free Blattner Series Lecture at 2:30pm offered by Nic McGeegan

THE PIANO AS ORCHESTRA: Clara Schumann, Liszt, R. Schumann

Hanna Boys Center

The Milwaukee Shepherd Express conjectured that he “well may be the best violinist in the world. [His] gorgeous sound is ample and rich always. Every detail is played with perfectly clear intent.” Augustin Hadelich’s astonishing technique, eloquent phrasing, and seeming effortlessness inspired Donnacha Dennehy to compose his first multi-movement concerto especially for him. In Dennehy's words, “The first movement especially zooms in and out of various perspectives. I think of this aerial zooming as being essential to its nature. The second movement feels redolent of the sea to me. The sea always emerges in my music it seems. Maybe it has to do with growing up in Ireland, surrounded by water on all sides. There is a real feeling of yearning to this movement. It was written during the first lockdown of the pandemic, and I feel that a kind of desire to transcend the conditions of everyday life permeates this movement. The final movement is more earthy and cheeky. A strange, splintered, fierce jig eventually appears, and then abstractions of that start to eat away at the very fabric of the music, when the violin threatens to spiral everything out of control leading to a fierce conclusion on the very edge of what is possible!

Festival Orchestra: Wagner's "Ring," Hadelich Plays Dennehy

Aspen Meadows Resort

Every seven years, an ill-fated sea captain gets a chance at redemption. He needs a bride to break the curse. Can he find a woman pure of heart or will he roam the seas eternally?

David Alden delivers a new production of The Flying Dutchman to Santa Fe Opera audiences for the first time in 35 years. This Dutchman promises to be a dark, turbulent and dangerous voyage for the condemned sailor.

Santa Fe Opera

An Ode to Joy. An anthem for humanity. Experience one of history’s most powerful and inspiring artistic works. A masterpiece whose staggering influence is felt across cultures everywhere, it culminates with the famous Ode to Joy, a rallying cry for hope, humanity, and universal fellowship.

Beethoven's Ode to Joy

Blossom Music Center

TheGalvin Cello Quartetshowcases the beauty and range of the cello with works by Bach, Vivaldi, Popper, Wagner, Gershwin, and the late virtuosic cellist GasparCassadó.

Community Concert II

Vail Interfaith Chapel

Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann closes the season with a feast of favorites, showcasing the depth of artistry within the ranks of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. She opens the evening with the rapturous Overture to Tannhäuser by Richard Wagner and then offers up two works by her fellow countryman Maurice Ravel: his tender homage to friends lost in the perils of World War I, Le tombeau de Couperin, and his sultry orchestral slow-burn Boléro. French pianist Lise de la Salle joins the Orchestra for Beethoven’s heroic Piano Concerto No. 3.

Nathalie Stutzmann Conducts Beethoven & Boléro

The transcendent cellist Yo-Yo Ma performs Elgar’s achingly beautiful concerto, one of the most well-known and revered of cello concertos, in this one-night-only performance. Written near the end of WWI, Elgar’s valedictory work is a searing response at once both tender and pained. Rafael Payare leads the Orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s passionate 5th Symphony, an emotion-filled journey rife with brilliant melody.

An Evening With Yo-Yo Ma

Joan and Irwin Jacobs Music Center

Desire for a coveted ring begins a mammoth adventure to Valhalla. Gods, dwarves, giants, river nymphs, and dragons scheme and dream of power in Das Rheingold, the influential masterpiece by Richard Wagner that echoes in our popular culture today. 

The Atlanta Symphony Orchestra welcomes guest conductor Nicholas Carter for music inspired by the lust for adventure. Lera Auerbach's Icarus evokes the mythic traveler whose waxen wings lift him to the heavens. The noble music of Wagner's Götterdämmerung follows the hero Siegfried down the Rhine, and Vaughan Williams' roiling Sea Symphony pays tribute to the countless souls who have set sail, only to be swallowed by the deep. It's an evening of evocative tone painting, cast in technicolor by the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra.

A Sea Symphony

Star-crossed lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde unknowingly provoke the wrath of the gods of Valhalla, who decree the death of Siegmund.  Brünnhilde, the titular Valkyrie, defies the will of her father Wotan, leader of the gods, to rescue Sieglinda and the couple’s unborn child, in Wagner’s romantic masterpiece that features the famous “Ride of the Valkyries”.

Lobero Theatre

Star-crossed lovers Siegmund and Sieglinde unknowingly provoke the wrath of the gods of Valhalla, who decree the death of Siegmund. Brünnhilde, the titular Valkyrie, defies the will of her father Wotan, leader of the gods, to rescue Sieglinde and the couple’s unborn child, in Wagner’s romantic masterpiece that features the famous “Ride of the Valkyries”.

The Valkyrie

Four pieces of orchestral artwork are showcased in this intensely expressionistic program led by acclaimed conductor and regular Minnesota Orchestra guest Carlos Miguel Prieto. The Ring of Fire and Love evokes an “earth-shattering, creative and cataclysmic moment,” as described by composer Outi Tarkiainen. Richard Wagner’s Wesendonck Lieder is a set of five musical love letters, sung here by soprano Emily Magee, followed by Joaquin Turina’s colorful and passionate Danzas Fantásticas. The Orchestra then creates a kaleidoscope of swirling sound in Claude Debussy’s classic portrait of the sea.

Prieto Conducts La Mer

Orchestra Hall Minneapolis

What are all those instruments on the stage? How do they all play together? Learn this and more at the ASO premiere of Russel Peck's The Thrill of the Orchestra, a colorful illustration of the instruments in an orchestra and how they are played.

The "thrill" continues with music from Harry Potter and Frozen, Flight of the Bumblebee, Copland's Rodeo, and much more!

Come early for the Instrument Petting Zoo presented by The Music Man!

Family Concert 2023

Alaska Center for the Performing Arts

Copland’s popular Billy the Kid Suite complements Schubert’s sublime and familiar “Unfinished” Symphony No. 8. and Wagner’s glorious operatic prelude to Die Meistersinger. Conductor Gerard Schwarz welcomes his son, Julian, who takes on the tremendous Cello Concerto by Arthur Foote.

Schubert & Wagner

Kleinhans Music Hall

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking music, with Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium to conduct a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role of the mysterious swan knight. Sopranos Tamara Wilson and Elena Stikhina, as the virtuous duchess Elsa, falsely accused of murder, go head-to-head with soprano Christine Goerke as the cunning sorceress Ortrud, who seeks to lay her low. Bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin is Ortrud’s power-hungry husband, Telramund, and bass Günther Groissböck is King Heinrich.

Andris Nelsons and the BSO’s continuing tradition of performing opera in concert brings us excerpts from Richard Wagner’s early opera Tannhäuser, which had its premiere in Dresden in 1845. A German minstrel-knight, Tannhäuser (tenor Klaus Florian Vogt), struggles to reject the world’s sensual pleasures, represented by the "Venusburg Music" of the opera’s Act I. He is redeemed by the pure love of Elisabeth, sung by Amber Wagner, and with the help of the wise minstrel Wolfram, sung by Christian Gerhaher.

Andris Nelsons conducts an All-Wagner Program

Boston Symphony Hall

For the first time, Gustavo Dudamel conducts the return of this remarkable production of Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde, directed by Peter Sellars with video by Bill Viola, one of America’s leading visual artists. When the Tristan Project was first performed in 2004, The New York Times hailed it as “a multimedia conception that promised to be so ingenious that listeners traveled long distances to catch it and talked about it for months.” Matching Wagner’s 19th-century desire to expand what opera could be with 21st-century innovation, Viola’s and Sellars’ staging explores the psychological, spiritual, and elemental subtext of the story. This rare opportunity to see the Tristan Project features a globally celebrated cast, headlined by Michael Weinius and Miina-Liisa Värelä.

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act III

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act II

Dudamel Leads the Tristan Project: Act I

Payare Leads Brahms Symphony No. 1

We continue our exploration of Richard Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in Act II, paired with Lili Boulanger's miniature springtime-inspired symphony.

Our three-year exploration of Richard Wagner’s operatic masterpiece continues with Act II. At once tender and tragic, this deeply personal love story changed the course of classical music, drama, and opera forever…and has only ever been performed in Oregon once, some 50 years ago. Prior to the complete Act II, we’ll hear French composer Lili Boulanger’s shimmering miniature about springtime, and Francesco will set the stage with a captivating examination of what makes Wagner’s music so moving.

Tristan und Isolde Act II

Hult Center for the Performing Arts

It begins softly. A single snare drum. Then, a flute. Gradually, each instrument of Pacific Symphony joins in, one after the other, until Ravel’s Boléro reaches one of the greatest climaxes in all of music. Also, Orli Shaham, Dennis Kim and Warren Hagerty perform Beethoven’s too-rarely encountered tour-de-force, the Triple Concerto.  Carl St.Clair begins the season with Wagner’s stormy overture to The Flying Dutchman, and Re(new)al, a new work by the brilliant young composer, Viet Cuong.

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