It’s Southeastern Virginia’s grandest Messiah! Conducted this year by Music Director Eric Jacobsen, Handel’s most famous work comes to life with the full Christmas section along with selections from the second and third parts, including the iconic Hallelujah chorus! This sacred masterpiece will hearten and warm the spirit this holiday season. 

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Handel’s Messiah with Eric Jacobsen

First Baptist Church / Primera Iglesia Bautista

Harrison Opera House

Bright and Bold, Holiday Brass is a sound to behold. Featuring the VSO brass and percussion sections, this festive concert is full of finesse, flourish and a touch of flair! You’ll enjoy music from a variety of styles that have made this concert a new holiday tradition across Hampton Roads!

Holiday Brass

Saint Bede Catholic Church

Get ready for a magical night of dance and music as the Michigan Opera Theatre presents the World Ballet Company's 'Nutcracker' on December 23, 2025. This enchanting performance will take place at the prestigious Chrysler Hall in Norfolk, US, starting at 7 pm. Experience the timeless tale of Clara and her Nutcracker Prince as they journey through a world of sugar plum fairies and battling mice. This beloved holiday classic is a must-see for all ages. Don't miss out on this festive treat! Secure your tickets now at the primary event link.

World Ballet Company: Nutcracker

Chrysler Hall

The Academy of St Martin in the Fields join Music Director Joshua Bell for a tour of Europe with a programme including Kevin Puts’ extraordinary Earth – a contribution to Joshua’s ‘Elements’ project, consisting of five new commissions shaped around water, air, fire, space and earth. Shaped around a four-note ostinato and the lyrical phrases that are traded between the violin and orchestra, Puts’ work is an example of the stability and endurance of this element, as well as acting as a reverent tribute to the planet Earth.

ASMF & Joshua Bell Europe

HCC Hannover Congress Centrum

Alte Oper

Elbphilharmonie Hamburg

Museum Ludwig

Beethoven Hall (Beethovensaal)

Wiener Konzerthaus

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

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d36M5Hi6O80

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

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59E40S_EQSY

The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

Podcast link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THv6htilWtI

The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

Line dance down the aisles to Aaron Copland’s Rodeo featuring the iconic “Hoe-Down”. Principal Harpist Alexis Colner brings her instrument’s harmonically bountiful sound to the forefront with Jennifer Higdon’s GRAMMY® Award-Winning Harp Concerto. Along with Curtis Stewart’s brand new work inspired by Black religious music and experiences, this program celebrates the great American composers of the past, present, and future.

Gershwin’s An American in Paris & Copland’s Rodeo

Chrysler Hall Norfolk

Ferguson Center for the Arts

From the profound sense of wonder in awe of the unfathomable beauty of the rocky landscapes in Utah/North America, all the way up to the overarching panoply of the stars – thus one might imagine the energy field inhabited by Olivier Messiaen as he wrote this masterpiece of compositional architecture and sound in colourful splendour. From the depths of the canyons, through the stars, and into paradise.

Sternschluchten

In cooperation with the Resonanzen Festival at the Vienna Konzerthaus, the most prestigious festival for early music in Vienna, the MUK.barockorchester presents a unique program again this year. Among the festival's special features are performances of unpublished or rediscovered Baroque works. The 34th edition of the festival in 2026 will be themed " Les femmes" (Women) .

UNIkate — Concert at the "Resonances" Festival

The competition is aimed at students of the cello program at the Fritz Kreisler Institute for Concert String Instruments, Guitar and Harp.

1st Heinrich Schiff Competition 2026

Cello evening - Students of Elisabeth Pfefferkorn

University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna

School Concert of the Vienna Philharmonic

Concert in the Wiener Konzerthaus

Pianist Clayton Stephenson brings his joyous charisma, expressive power, and natural ease to the romantic showstopper, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.  Continuing the season’s celebration of fifth symphonies, Music Director Eric Jacobsen conducts Prokofiev’s Fifth, a hymn to the purest and noblest of spirits that emphasizes the musical power of lyricism and accessibility.

Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto & Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony

Sandler Center for the Performing Arts

Pianist Clayton Stephenson brings his joyous charisma, expressive power, and natural ease to the romantic showstopper, Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto.

COFFEE CONCERT: Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto

The Czech Philharmonic returns to Vienna’s Konzerthaus two years after its last appearance—and nearly a century after its debut there. Chief Conductor Semyon Bychkov will be joined by acclaimed Italian pianist Beatrice Rana and a trio of vocal soloists: Stefanie Irányi, Martin Mitterrutzner, and Jongmin Park. The programme will include works by Mendelssohn, Ravel, and Stravinsky.

Czech Philharmonic • Vienna

To dream what, in all its improbability, defies comprehension: This freedom and imaginative power underpin Unsuk Chin’s music. Light and colour are the aggregate states of these sounds, which – in the process of engaging with one another – continually change their consistency, hinting at these dream-landscapes’ vast expanses. Just as Enno Poppe, with his transitions between rigorously structured design and axes that reach out towards unbounded time, conjures an unrestrained, almost dizzying sound experience in his listeners.

Unlimited Time

Influenced by Native American folk songs, Black spirituals, and his native Bohemia, Dvořák’s “New World Symphony” whisks audiences away to the vast tapestry of Americana. World Renowned in their own right, the Shaham siblings, foremost violinist Gil and consummate pianist Orli, join the Virginia Symphony to perform a world premiere concerto composed by Indian-American composer Reena Esmail.

Dvořák’s New World Symphony + Gil & Orli Shaham

He was the legendary seducer—and ultimately ended up in hell: Don Giovanni in Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's version, Don Juan in the ancient Spanish legend, and in Nikolaus Lenau's work, which inspired Richard Strauss's tone poem . Both works offer a captivating auditory experience, as does Henze's overture to a theater. Carl Maria von Weber's favorite instrument was the clarinet, perhaps also because he was commissioned by the Bavarian King Maximilian I to write his Concerto No. 1. While widely performed internationally, it remains (for now?) a hidden gem in Vienna.

MUK.sinfonieorchester | Don Giovanni & Don Juan

A major third rings out from the loading hatch of a garbage truck – Gerhard Stäbler perceives it as Morse code of an acoustic journey. Endless loops, which imperceptibly alter our stream of consciousness, cause the acoustic landscape in Bernhard Lang’s piece to implode. A fragmentary nucleus, dissected by Laure M. Hiendl into minuscule particles, oscillates between a sonic still life and animated stasis, hinting at a third possibility. Instead of dogmatic assertions of absoluteness, Luxa M. Schüttler envisions an archipelagic diversity which, ultimately, is not bound to a single focal point. A concert that takes you into the infinite expanses of minuscule dimensions.

Archipelagic Sounds

Be astounded by the world’s most revered composition, Ludwig van Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. This cornerstone of western music takes audiences on a euphoric journey of fate, from tragedy to triumph, from sorrow to joy and serves as the fitting grand finale of our fifth symphony celebration. Revel in Mozart’s compositional brilliance with his Sinfonia Concertante featuring the Virginia Symphony Orchestra’s own Principal Viola Celia Daggy and Principal Second Violin Elizabeth Vonderheide.

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