Winner of 4 Tony Awards®, including Best Choreography and Best Costumes, and the Grammy Award® for Best Musical Theater Album, SOME LIKE IT HOT is “A Super-Sized, All-Out Song-And-Dance Spectacular!” - The New York Times. Set in Chicago when Prohibition has everyone thirsty for a little excitement, SOME LIKE IT HOT is the “glorious, big, high-kicking” (Associated Press) story of two musicians forced to flee the Windy City after witnessing a mob hit. With gangsters hot on their heels, they catch a cross-country train for the life-chasing, life-changing trip of a lifetime. And what a trip it is! With its irresistible combination of heart and laughs, song and dance, SOME LIKE IT HOT won more theater awards than any show in its season, and was named Best Musical by the Drama Desk, The Drama League, and the Outer Critics Circle. No wonder Deadline calls it “a tap-dancing, razzle-dazzling embrace of everything you love about musical theater.”

Some Like It Hot

Citizens Opera House

Joining BSO Assistant Conductor Anna Handler in her Symphony Hall debut with the BSO is concertmaster Nathan Cole making his Symphony Hall debut as a concerto soloist. Principal Viola Steven Ansell is Cole’s solo partner in Mozart’s Sinfonia concertante, a vivacious masterpiece. American composer Gabriella Smith’s Bioluminescence Chaconne uses the natural world as a metaphor for musical structure and process, or vice versa — part of a multi-season programmatic focus exploring artists’ responses to our environment. Tchaikovsky’s iconic ballet score Swan Lake, for all its supernatural, fairytale narrative, is also very much in the realm of nature pieces. Its lush, romantic music is some of the most familiar in the repertoire.

Mozart Sinfonia concertante with Nathan Cole and Steven Ansell

Boston Symphony Orchestra

Dianne Reeves made a stunning Series debut in 2024’s Duets concert alongside Chucho Valdés and Joe Lovano, and we’re thrilled to welcome her back for an evening in the spotlight. Named a Jazz Master by the National Endowment for the Arts, the charismatic Reeves is “a natural storyteller, [using her] timing and phrasing to bring novel insights to everything she sang” (Los Angeles Times).

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Dianne Reeves

Berklee College of Music

Join Sakura & Rose—the captivating piano/soprano duo featuring pianist Sakurako Kanemitsu and soprano Rose Hegele—for a dynamic recital that celebrates the rich diversity of musical styles fostered at Berklee. Their eclectic program spans classical art songs, contemporary works, jazz, and musical theater, showcasing their versatility and shared passion for genre-defying performance.

Blossoming: Sakura & Rose in Recital

Berk Recital Hall

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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Award-winning multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Meshell Ndegeocello has been a powerful force in music for more than 30 years. Known for her genre-defying sound, she blends soul, R&B, jazz, hip hop, and rock with honesty and depth. Throughout her career, she has chosen artistic integrity over trends and substance over fame, building a devoted following drawn to her fearless creativity and emotional truth. In 2024 and 2025, she was recognized with back-to-back Grammy Awards for Best Alternative Jazz Album—further cementing her status as one of the most innovative and influential artists of her generation.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Don’t miss an international a cappella quartet that will lift your spirits as they share the beauty of music from around the world.

Women of the World

Bethel A.M.E. Church

Alchemy celebrates the beautifully blurred line between classical and popular music. Vocalist Rebecca Shrimpton and pianist/composer Herman Weiss perform American art songs by jazz and classical composers, including Charles Ives, Ornette Coleman, Florence Price, and Duke Ellington, as well as new original works. These uniquely American songs bend genre boundaries by uniting masterly compositional structures with traditional hymns, spirituals, early popular tunes, blues, and jazz. 

Alchemy: American Art Songs—Ives to Ornette

David Friend Recital Hall

Get ready for an evening of music that holds nothing back. Mahler’s Third Symphony is a colossal masterpiece, featuring two choirs, an expanded orchestra, and an alto soloist. The epic work embraces the forces of nature, the exuberance of life, the innocence of childhood, and the transcendent beauty of love.

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Boston Symphony Hall

Before Esa-Pekka Salonen became one of the world’s most renowned conductors, he started his musical life as a working horn player and progressive composer. He brings his musical worlds together in leading the American premiere of his Horn Concerto composed for Stefan Dohr, principal horn of the Berlin Philharmonic. The concerto draws on material from Anton Bruckner’s magisterial, brass-friendly Fourth Symphony, which Salonen has programmed for the second half of this concert. Bruckner’s soaring symphonies are frequently described as “cathedrals in sound.”

Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts Bruckner and Salonen

The 25th Solo/Duo Faculty Guitar Night features faculty from the Guitar Department in solo and duo settings. Kim Perlak and Sheryl Bailey, chair and assistant chair of the Guitar Department, will share the stage with colleagues who perform in the classical, jazz, fingerstyle, folk, funk, slide, modern improvisation, and blues styles.

Solo/Duo Faculty Guitar Night XXV and Convocation

Making their Celebrity Series debut, Trisha Brown Dance Company brings a program spanning the visionary postmodern choreographer’s groundbreaking career—from her early explorations of movement to her later masterpieces.

Trisha Brown Dance Company

Boston Arts Academy Theater

Pianist and conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout will make his Boston Philharmonic debut playing Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20.

MOZART / BRUCKNER Concert

Violinist Itzhak Perlman returns to Symphony Hall with the Klezmer Conservatory Band and a cast of klezmer all-stars to celebrate the 30th anniversary of his beloved Emmy-winning PBS special, In the Fiddler’s House.

Itzhak Perlman

Debussy, Salonen, and Chausson with Augustin Hadelich

New England Conservatory of Music

Kinky Boots is Broadway’s huge-hearted, high-heeled hit! With songs by Grammy® and Tony®-winning pop icon Cyndi Lauper, this joyous musical celebration is about the friendships we discover, and the belief that you can change the world when you change your mind. Inspired by true events, Kinky Boots takes you from a gentlemen’s shoe factory in Northampton to the glamorous catwalks of Milan. Charlie Price is struggling to live up to his father’s expectations and continue the family business of Price & Sons. With the factory’s future hanging in the balance, help arrives in the unlikely but spectacular form of Lola, a fabulous performer in need of some sturdy new stilettos. With direction and choreography by two-time Tony Award winner Jerry Mitchell (Legally Blonde, Hairspray) and a book by Broadway legend and four-time Tony Award winner Harvey Fierstein (La Cage Aux Folles), Kinky Boots is the winner of six Tony Awards, including Best Musical, Best Score and Best Choreography. Take a step in the right direction and discover that sometimes the best way to fit in is to stand out. “There is no show hotter than Kinky Boots!” – CBS News

Kinky Boots

Pianist/composer Matthew Nicholl presents an evening of original music, joined by old friends from the Berklee community.

Matthew Nicholl and Friends

Join us for an evening filled with music that welcomes the new year with joy, renewal, and cultural splendor, honoring the vibrant traditions of communities across Asia.

Lunar New Year Concert

Harmony Too! is a recital of faculty performances of the best student final projects from the Tonal Harmony and Composition 2 course.

Harmony Too!

2025-26 BSO artist in residence Augustin Hadelich performs longtime BSO collaborator Thomas Adès’ kaleidoscopic violin concerto Concentric Paths with the composer conducting. The recent orchestra work Aquifer joins other Adès works in depicting the dynamism of the natural world, here referencing geological structures that store and release water. The piece reflects the static, flowing, and surging properties of water. As with love and spirituality, artists throughout history have responded to nature through their art. Ludwig van Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, is the composer’s joyous response to a day spent in the countryside.

Beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral and Augustin Hadelich performs Adès

Join us for the 31st Annual Harmony and Jazz Composition Department Write of Spring Concert, showcasing original compositions and arrangements by the department's esteemed faculty. Produced by Randy Pingrey and Brian Landrus, this special evening will feature performances by a dynamic faculty ensemble representing talented musicians from across the Berklee community.

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