We are rarely confronted with death in our culture. We don't talk about it and we move it to nursing homes and hospices. Perhaps a new attitude towards death and grief is slowly emerging, but we still lack rituals and spaces to face them, because studies show that grief is fundamentally lonely in our society. The concert series 'The Tones of Death' will attempt to create such a space, perhaps a modern mourning ritual, where death is existential and where we can be together about it.

In 2021, the Danish Entertainment Orchestra performed the first concert with 'The Tones of Death', which was framed by excerpts from Naja Marie Aidt's 'If death has taken something from you, give it back. Carl's book', selected and read by the author herself. Since then, there have been successful concerts in 2022 and 2023 with, among others, Søren Ulrik Thomsen and Maren Uthaug as literary guests.

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Death Tones

The Royal Danish Academy of Music

On the evening of September 11, Opera Carolina invites you to a sacred memorial tribute at the Mint Museum, honoring the lives of those lost and forever remembered.

Stabat Mater

The Mint Museum – Uptown

Bring a friend and join the Boise Baroque Orchestra for an outdoor evening of music and laughter. Guests are invited to bring their own picnic or pre-purchase food from Roghani's Restaurant and enjoy eating, drinking and socializing while listening to a concert on the lawn, conducted by Artistic Director Robert Franz.

Boise Baroque Summer Music Festival at the Château des Fleurs - Neapolitan Opera

Château des Fleurs

Bring a friend and join the Boise Baroque Orchestra for an evening of beautiful baroque music conducted by Artistic Director Robert Franz indoors at the First Presbyterian Church, 950 W. State St., Boise, ID 83702.

Boise Baroque Summer Music Festival at First Presbyterian Church - Neapolitan Opera

First Presbyterian Church.Boise

Summer@SFCM: Vocal Academy Solo Recital

San Francisco Conservatory of Music

Star oboist Albrecht Mayer returns to the Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Festival for one evening after almost ten years. He will perform with one of the oldest orchestras still in existence in the world: the Mecklenburg State Orchestra in Schwerin. Mayer's musical home is with the Berlin Philharmonic, and in Mecklenburg, he will revive the era of "Ludwigslust Classicism."

Albrecht Mayer

Stadtkirche Ludwigslust

Graduating Student Recital | Ying Li, mezzo-soprano | Whispers of the Heart

Longy School of Music of Bard College

This recital explores the emotional journey of human experience through song, framed around the themes of sleep, dreams, love, heartbreak, and inner strength.

Graduating Student Recital | Yifan Pan, soprano | Beyond the Dream: A Journey of Strength

The season of seasons closes by honoring the themes of light, love, and rebirth through acclaimed works by Pergolesi, Scarlatti, Bach, and Vivaldi. In Vivaldi’s “Summer,” the cuckoo, dove, and goldfinch sing in the blazing sun before the winds begin to blow. Following an homage to Scarlatti, including his Salve Regina in G Minor, we conclude with a work that he inspired; Pergolessi’s final masterpiece, Stabat Mater. Its dancing rhythms and decorative trills contrast effectively with the tender, passionate text sung by soprano Anna Dennis, rounding out the season with a sense of joy and hope.

Pergolesi: Stabat Mater

Reed College

Sanctuary Hall at First Congregational UCC

Opera Soiree is back!  Soprano Michelle Lange and baritone Stefan Gordon bring us La Serva Padrona by Pergolesi. Plan ahead and get your tickets to Chamber opera at its best.

From Sandpoint with Love Opera Soiree

Music Conservatory of Sandpoint

This festive event will bring joy to all ages. Corelli’s Concerto Grosso in G Minor (“Christmas Concerto”) concludes with a musical image of shepherds rejoicing, capturing the joy of the season also reflected in Pergolesi’s uplifting setting of the Magnificat. The Fratello Marionettes will bring scenes from The Nutcracker to life, in interpretations by both Tchaikovsky and Duke Ellington! The San Ramon Valley Chorale’s beautiful singing will complete this holiday celebration.

Home for the Holidays

Walnut Creek Presbyterian Church

20-member baroque ensemble Musica Transalpina performs sacred works by Corelli, Pergolesi, and Scarlatti, including Pergolesi’s famous Stabat Mater.

Musica Transalpina

First Presbyterian Church of Santa Monica

Join Mr Punch as he and his friends help the wiley Serpina get her man. With appearances from Judy, The Crocodile, a Cheeky Monkey, a band of singing Policemen and a host of others, this is the perfect introduction to classical music for children (and grown up kids) of all ages. Featuring stunning operatic vocals and beautiful melodies as well as all the twists, turns, gags and the uproar of your favourite pantomimes.

Mr Punch at the Opera

Arcola Theatre

Bienen Contemporary/Early Vocal Ensemble

Mary B. Galvin Recital Hall

La serva padrona

University of Mississippi

Forte Mare

Luštica Bay

Baritone John Michael and soprano Jessica Rose Nelson return to Wilmington Concert Opera in the roles of Uberto and Serpina, respectively. Irene Moretto makes her debut as pianist and music director. Join us for this delightful intermezzo (a short piece designed to be performed between acts of a longer work) - it’s full of fun, slapstick, and beautiful singing, with English supertitles and a run time of approximately 45 minutes.

Moorestown Library

Church of the Covenant

The Orchester der Oper Zürich starts the concert season under a new, old name. After thirteen years as Philharmonia Zurich, the orchestra will return to its original moniker. The Philharmonic Concerts will once again alternate between the Opernhaus and the Tonhalle Zürich.

Mühlemann & Noseda

Tonhalle Zürich

Gianandrea Noseda and the Zurich Opera Orchestra – a well-rehearsed team, masterfully skilled at the intense portrayal of powerful emotions and supporting famous voices. Together with star soprano Regula Mühlemann, they present a collage of Passion-themed works at the Elbphilharmonie this Easter, focusing on the figure of the suffering Mother of God.

Orchester der Oper Zürich / Regula Mühlemann / Gianandrea Noseda

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Bach without borders

The Bach Concerts of Lutry

Army Museum

Jerome Robbins is considered one of the most important ballet makers of the 20th century and his unmistakeable style has had a decisive influence on American dance. Interplay, his second choreographic work, premiered in 1945 in New York, provides a rousing opening to the four-part programme American Signatures that combines dance icons with current choreographic voices.

Performed to Morton Gould’s jazzy score, Interplay presents precisely what its title suggests: as if in a playground, the dancers meet, full of fun, but also competing with each other in Robbins’ choreography, that employs jazz elements to enrich the classical ballet vocabulary and with which the theatre maker and dance artist created one of the works that had a formative influence on his aesthetic.

American Signatures

Volksoper Wien

Maestra Judith Yan returns to close out our season in a very special concert.

Finding Light

Knox United Church

The dialogue between eras has always been a source of artistic fascination. The musical language of Giovanni Pergolesi, W.A. Mozart, and their contemporaries found an echo in the neoclassical period of the early 20th century. In his "Antiche danze ed aria," Ottorino Respighi referenced lute pieces from the early and high Baroque periods, including those by Jean-Baptiste Besard and Ludovico Roncalli, which he adapted to the classical string sound. Igor Stravinsky, on the other hand, specifically sought out Pergolesi's works for his "Pulcinella" ballet, allowing him to freely adapt them. With the minor flaw that, as it later turned out, most of these pieces were apparently by other masters...

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Events

Upcoming events

Mar 21, 2026

Mühlemann & Noseda · Opernhaus Zürich

Apr 1, 2026

Orchester der Oper Zürich / Regula Mühlemann / Gianandrea Noseda · Elbphilharmonie

13 - 19 Apr, 2026

Bach without borders · Les Talens Lyriques

9 - 30 May, 2026

American Signatures · Volksoper Wien

May 30, 2026

Finding Light · Saskatoon Symphony Orchestra

Past events

Nov 8, 2025

Death Tones · Danish Chamber Orchestra

Sep 11, 2025

Stabat Mater · Opera Carolina

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