Name: Star Wars: The Story in Music
Start: 2025-05-15T19:30:00
Location: Boston Symphony Orchestra

Keith Lockhart

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Andris Nelsons leads some of the most acclaimed stars of opera today in performances of Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, a work considered by many the greatest American opera. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1958, Vanessa premiered at the Metropolitan Opera that year. Barber wrote the opera on a libretto by Gian Carlo Menotti; they aimed for a cosmopolitan, nostalgic work on lost love and the consequences of self-delusion. Barber’s romantic lyricism is ever-present in this powerfully affecting work, a centerpiece of this season’s E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One focus.

Vanessa | E Pluribus Unum: From Many, One

Take an intergalactic musical journey with Keith Lockhart and the Boston Pops! Watching all nine episodes of Star Wars would take over 20 hours. But you can re-live the entire saga in just two hours, as a live narrator and America’s Orchestra bring this epic story and iconic music to life. This interstellar concert experience will awaken the Force within you and transport you to a galaxy far, far away.