Bass-baritone Alfred Walker and soprano Brittany Renee headline one of the defining works of American music theater. With its fusion of opera, jazz, and Broadway, the Gershwins’ enduring masterpiece features a number of tunes whose popularity has transcended the opera house, including the classics “Summertime” and “It Ain’t Necessarily So.” Hailed by The Washington Post as “a Porgy of its time that speaks to ours,” James Robinson’s vivid staging features electrifying choreography by Camille A. Brown, with an all-star ensemble portraying the community of Catfish Row.

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Porgy and Bess

Lincoln Center

Richard Tucker Music Foundation Gala,  50th Anniversary | Miami Edition, marks the first time that the Richard Tucker Gala travels beyond New York. It also celebrates the 50th anniversary of this historic institution, which has helped launch so many of today’s—and yesterday’s—great opera stars.

Richard Tucker Music Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala | Miami Edition

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

This afternoon's performance by the Tanglewood Festival Chorus is supported by the Alan J. and Suzanne W. Dworsky Fund for Voice and Chorus.

Beethoven Symphony No. 9, Ode to Joy

Tanglewood Music Center

Summer, energy, passion – Gustavo Dudamel and the Berliner Philharmoniker invite you to a end-of-season concert at the Waldbühne. The Venezuelan conductor performed at this venue back in 2008 under the motto Los ritmos de la noche. It was his debut with the Berliner Philharmoniker, and was met with great acclaim by the audience. Dudamel now celebrates the end of the season with the orchestra in the open air for the fourth time. The programme will include rousing dances from Bernstein’s musical West Side Story, in which Latin American sounds and rhythms are all-pervasive.

End-of-season concert: Berliner Philharmoniker and Gustavo Dudamel at the Waldbühne

Waldbühne

Following the LA Phil’s acclaimed production of Das Rheingold, Gustavo Dudamel, famed architect Frank Gehry, and director Alberto Arvelo take on the second installment in Wagner’s grand Ring Cycle: Die Walküre. Envisioned as a three-part saga with each act standing on its own, this production boasts a cast of international opera superstars who bring to life a grand tale of love, fate, duty, and self-determination.

Die Walküre Act II

Walt Disney Concert Hall

Blood, sex, magic and redemption come together in an astonishing musical odyssey. This psychological drama about family duty and private desire, how we die and why we live, is staged at Glyndebourne for the first time.

Parsifal

Glyndebourne

After years of anticipation, a truly unmissable event arrives as the electrifying Lise Davidsen tackles one of the ultimate roles for dramatic soprano: the Irish princess Isolde in Wagner’s transcendent meditation on love and death. Heroic tenor Michael Spyres stars opposite Davidsen as the love-drunk Tristan. The momentous occasion also marks the advent of a new, Met-debut staging by Yuval Sharon—hailed by The New York Times as “the most visionary opera director of his generation” and the first American to direct an opera at the famed Wagner festival in Bayreuth—as well as Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin’s first time leading Tristan und Isolde at the Met. Mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova reprises her signature portrayal of Brangäne, alongside bass-baritone Tomasz Konieczny, who sings Kurwenal after celebrated Met appearances in Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer and Ring cycle. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes an important role debut as King Marke.

Tristan und Isolde

Dressed as a man and calling herself “Fidelio”, Leonore surreptitiously gains the confidence of the jailer Rocco and his daughter Marzelline, thus gaining access to the high security tract where her husband Florestan has been despotically incarcerated by Don Pizarro. Florestan is in mortal danger, but this does not intimidate his wife, who is determined to liberate him. Finally, however, the two of them can only be rescued by an emissary from the monarch. At the end, a Utopia in the form of a final chorus sets the stage aglow, not only as a plea for freedom and justice, but also concurrently as a condemnation of the anxieties and restrictions of human existence.

Fidelio

Max-Joseph-Platz

The nickname “Symphony of a Thousand” scarcely does justice to Mahler’s epic work — one of the greatest in the concert repertoire. Its immense scope makes performances rare and, therefore, are to be treasured. Part One of Mahler’s mystical work begins with a powerful unleashing of sound that sets the hymn, “Come, Creative Spirit,” a text that also foreshadows the message of Part Two of the Symphony. The expansive second half transports us to the final scene of Goethe’s dramatic poem Faust, the title character who had bargained away his soul to the devil and thus to eternal damnation. But the beatific voices of a “chorus mysticus,” underscored by thunderous timpani rolls, reach into the stratosphere and promise that Faust’s soul — borne higher and ever higher to heaven through the intercession of hosts of penitent women and holy men and ultimately angels, will be redeemed through “the eternally feminine” — the power of love.

Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand

Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center

Die Walküre Act III

A square in Sevilla. Soldiers are whiling away the time in front of their guardhouse. Micaela enters and asks after Don Jose, who, however, is not expected until the changing of the guard. She says she will return again and runs off as the men laugh at her.

Ryan Speedo Green

Events

Upcoming events

Dec 2, 2025 - Jan 24, 2026

Porgy and Bess · The Metropolitan Opera

Mar 8 - Jul 18, 2026

Fidelio · Bayerische Staatsoper

15 - 17 May, 2026

Mahler’s Symphony of a Thousand · Dallas Symphony Orchestra

21 - 24 May, 2026

Die Walküre Act III · Los Angeles Philharmonic

13 - 21 Jun, 2026

Carmen · Bayerische Staatsoper

Past events

Dec 2, 2025 - Jan 24, 2026

Porgy and Bess · The Metropolitan Opera

Nov 9, 2025

Richard Tucker Music Foundation 50th Anniversary Gala | Miami Edition · Florida Grand Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

King Marke in Tristan und Isolde by Wagner

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Symphony No. 8 by Mahler

Dallas Symphony Orchestra

Wotan in Die Walküre by Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Crown in Porgy and Bess by Gershwin

The Metropolitan Opera

Singer in Old American Songs by Copland

Berliner Philharmoniker

Klingsor in Parsifal by Wagner

London Philharmonic Orchestra

Singer in Symphony No. 9 by Beethoven

Tanglewood

Don Fernando in Fidelio by Beethoven

Bayerische Staatsoper

Wotan in Die Walküre Ride of the Valkyries by Wagner

Los Angeles Philharmonic

Singer in Words and Prayers of My Fathers by Simon

Tanglewood

Escamillo in Carmen by Bizet

Bayerische Staatsoper

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