They’re starving for everything but love. Rodolfo loves Mimi, Marco loves Musetta, Colline loves philosophy, Schaunard loves music, and they all love their eccentric Bohemian life in the garrets of Paris’ 19th century Latin Quarter. Starving artists all, this crazy cadre of young friends bear their poverty with laughter and grace, until it devastates them with unspeakable tragedy.  With beloved favorites like “Che gelida manina,” “Quando m’en vo, ”and “Donde lieta uscire,” Puccini’s divinely romantic score memorably illustrates the joys, struggles, loves, quarrels, triumphs, and tragedies of six  friends and lovers as they embody the true vie de bohème.

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La bohème

Au-Rene Theater at Broward Center For The Performing Arts

Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts

Join us for a special program curated by SPCO violinist Nina Tso-Ning Fan, which features a thrilling collaboration with Twin Cities-based mezzo-soprano Clara Osowski, a local award-winning artist revered world-wide for singing "from inside the music with unaffected purity and sincerity" (UK Telegraph). As the featured soloist on Franz Schubert’s dazzling Rondo in A, Fan will open this concert that contrasts light and dark with several works by Schubert and Ottorino Respighi’s Il tramonto (The Sunset) for Voice and String Quartet. The program closes with a youthful Symphony by Schubert.

Schubert’s Fifth Symphony

Trinity Lutheran Church of Minnesota

Ordway Center for the Performing Arts

Join us for an Express Concert inspired by music rooted in and born from African rhythm and dance. No matter the continent or time period, the works on this program speak to the idea of interconnection, with music stemming from the same sounds and traditions. Afro-Cuban Concerto, a work by the SPCO’s newest Sandbox Composer-in-Residence Valerie Coleman, opens the concert and sets the stage for a program featuring four works that span across centuries and continents.

Express Concert: Coleman’s Afro-Cuban Concerto

Capri Theater

Ted Mann Concert Hall

SPCO Artistic Partner Richard Egarr returns to escort us on a musical journey that contrasts darkness and light. The overture to Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s beloved opera, The Magic Flute, calls upon the power of truth, love and beauty to conquer the darkness while The Unanswered Question, Charles Ives’ riddle-like work, features a contemplative trumpet solo asking the “eternal question.” The Great Major C, Franz Schubert’s monumental symphony begins reverently before being enriched with many moments of ecstatic joy. Fans of brass will love this fanfare-filled program!

Express Concert: Schubert’s The Great C Major Symphony with Richard Egarr

Benson Great Hall

Ruth Crawford Seeger composed Suite for Wind Quintet in 1952, 16 years since writing any significant compositions and a year before she died from cancer. Principal Cello Julie Albers takes the spotlight in Franz Joseph Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D, the second of two cello concertos composed twenty years apart. Written in dedication to and in competition with his close friend Mieczysław Weinberg, Dmitri Shostakovich’s String Quartet No. 10 will be performed in an arrangement for Chamber Symphony.

Julie Albers Plays Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D

St. Andrew's Lutheran Church

Saint Paul's United Church of Christ

Richard Goode, a Grammy award-winning American pianist acknowledged worldwide as one of today’s leading interpreters of classical music, joins the SPCO to perform and conduct two of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s renowned piano concertos, Nos. 18 and 23. Frequent SPCO collaborator Chia-Hsuan Lin will conduct the high-energy world premiere of Līlā written by Korean American composer Texu Kim — a new work for chamber orchestra inspired by Korean shamanistic dance traditions.

Richard Goode Plays Mozart’s Piano Concertos Nos. 18 and 23

The effects of war are profound and far-reaching. Such is the case with Erwin Schulhoff and André Caplet, whose lives changed drastically and were shortened by World Wars I and II. This concert pays tribute to their earlier work paired alongside an early work of Johannes Brahms — his titular Sextet No. 2 written at a time in his life marked by the sudden loss of his mother and a broken engagement to the singer Agathe von Siebold.

Brahms’ Second Sextet

Wayzata Community Church

Join guest conductor Gábor Takács-Nagy and The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra for a stunning season finale. Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto, performed by Concertmaster Steven Copes, invites the listener to feel love, loss and hope, being dedicated “to the memory of an angel.” Then, prepare to be drawn in by the power and vivacity of Ludwig van Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony — an epic close to our 65th season.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

25 - 27 Apr, 2024

Schubert’s Fifth Symphony

Apr 6 - May 4, 2024

La bohème

3 - 5 May, 2024

Express Concert: Coleman’s Afro-Cuban Concerto

10 - 12 May, 2024

Express Concert: Schubert’s The Great C Major Symphony with Richard Egarr

17 - 19 May, 2024

Julie Albers Plays Haydn’s Cello Concerto in D

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra

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