On April 28 at Carnegie Hall, violinist Lisa Batiashvili and pianist Giorgi Gigashvili will play the U.S. premiere of a new work by Josef Bardanashvili. The recital will also include sonatas by Beethoven, Bartók, and Franck. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/04/28/Lisa-Batiashvili-Violin-Giorgi-Gigashvili-Piano-0730PM
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| 0 events, | 1 event, | 0 events, | 1 event,The Opera Lafayette Orchestra, featuring soprano Lauren Snouffer, will give performances of the solo show New Woman in Washington, DC and New York. Snouffer will sing arias by 18th-century opera composers Marianna Martines and Maria Antonia Walpurgis as well as music by Gluck and J.C. Bach. (April 30-May 2) https://operalafayette.org/new-woman/ | 1 event,John Adams’ Harmonium, using texts by John Donne and Emily Dickinson, will be paired with Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the April 30-May 3 Boston Symphony program. Soloists include Andrea Carroll, Zoie Reams, Andrew Haji, and Morris Robinson. Dima Slobodeniouk conducts. https://www.bso.org/events/apr-30-may-3-adams-beethoven?performance=2026-04-30-19:30 | 1 event,Camerata Chicago will be joined on May 2 by Van Cliburn Competition winner Evren Ozel to play the Mozart Piano Concerto No. 20. The second half of the program will be Mozart's Prague Symphony No. 38. This concert takes place at Union Church in Hinsdale. https://cameratachicago.ticketspice.com/20260502-hinsdale | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,To celebrate the 250th birthday of the United States of America, Robert Spano will conduct the Atlanta Symphony in Leonard Bernstein’s Symphony No. 2, The Age of Anxiety. The May 7-9 program opens with principal violist Zhenwei Shi as soloist in Berlioz’s Harold in Italy. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/america250-spano-conducts-bernstein-berlioz | 2 events,Pianist Stephen Hough is the guest star for the Cincinnati Symphony’s season finale May 8-9, playing Beethoven’s beloved Emperor Concerto. The program, conducted by Roderick Cox, also includes Fanfare Ritmico by Jennifer Higdon and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2526-cso-season/beethoven--tchaikovsky/ Under the duo batons of Stéphane Denève and Kevin McBeth, the St. Louis Symphony and Chorus as well as the IN UNISON Chorus will perform the world premiere of Nathalie Joachim’s Family on May 8-9. This assemblage of over 300 instruments and voices will also present Kevin Puts’ Virelai and Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé. https://shop.slso.org/8651 | 3 events,Don’t miss the chance to hear and see legendary conductor Herbert Blomstedt with the Detroit Symphony on May 9-10. The maestro, who will be 99 when these concerts take place, will take on Mahler’s powerful Ninth Symphony. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/25-26-spring/herbert-blomstedt-conducts-mahlers-ninth A new orchestral work by Sydney Guillaume will open the Spokane Symphony’s May 9-10 “Celebrating America” program. Evren Ozel plays Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini, and conductor James Lowe concludes with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/masterworks-9-to-america/ The San Diego Symphony and Alisa Weilerstein will perform a new cello concerto on May 9-10: Dzonot by Gabriela Ortiz. Rafael Payare also conducts Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/depths-to-heights/?performance=9693 | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 2 events,American composer Gabriela Lena Frank makes her Metropolitan Opera debut with a new production of her first opera, El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego, a magical-realist portrait of Mexico’s painterly power couple Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, with libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz. (May 14 - June 5) https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/el-ultimo-sueno-de-frida-y-diego/ Gustavo Gimeno conducts and Abel Selaocoe solos in the North America premiere of Jessie Montgomery’s Cello Concerto with the Toronto Symphony May 14-16. Also on the program are Wagner orchestral excerpts from The Flying Dutchman and Götterdämmerung. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/epic-wagner | 2 events,A world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner Tyshawn Sorey, composed for pianist Aaron Diehl, will be premiered on May 15-16 by the Philadelphia Orchestra. Mahler’s Fifth Symphony concludes the program conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/mahler-and-sorey In a program called “Folk Auras” on May 15-16, the San Diego Symphony will perform Jimmy López’s Perú Negro as well as two other works inspired by folk music from around the world: Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Scottish, and Berg’s Violin Concerto (featuring Jeff Thayer). Rafael Payare conducts. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/folk-auras/?performance=9697 | 2 events,Héctor Armienta’s romantic and aventurous opera, Zorro, will have its Los Angeles premiere at the Pacific Opera Project. The lush score is influenced by mariachi, flamenco, and corrido music (May 16-17) https://www.pacificoperaproject.com/zorro The Illinois Philharmonic’s final concert of the season, May 16, is a celebration of America at 250. Stilian Kirov conducts works by a range of favorite American composers: Joan Tower, Jessie Montgomery, John Philip Sousa, and Aaron Copland. https://ipomusic.org/2025-26-season/ | 0 events, |
1 event,Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival presents an America-centered program by the Met Orchestra Chamber Ensemble on May 18. The program includes works by Valerie Coleman, Gabriela Lena Frank, Bernstein, and Steve Reich, plus Dvořák’s String Quintet, which he wrote while living in America. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/05/18/The-Met-Orchestra-Chamber-Ensemble-0730PM | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,The Penderecki Quartet, under the auspices of Music Toronto, will present a newly commissioned work by Nicole Lizée and Shad for Quartet and rapper. This May 21 program will also include a string quartet by Beethoven (details TBD). https://musictorontoconcerts.com/concerts/penderecki-quartet | 2 events,Under the baton of Robert Spano, the Fort Worth Symphony will play a new violin concerto by Michael Gandolfi on May 22-24, with Michael Shih as soloist. The program also includes Sibelius’ The Swan of Tuonela. https://fwsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/25-26-season/symphonic-series/an-evening-in-finland Spoleto USA will present Gian Carlo Menotti’s comic one-act opera The Old Maid and the Thief May 22-29. Originally a 1939 radio broadcast, the work is reimagined as a live radio broadcast—complete with onstage Foley sound effects, object manipulation, and the thrill of storytelling in real time. Directed by Daisy Evans. https://spoletousa.org/events/the-old-maid-and-the-thief/ | 0 events, | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Orchestre symphonique de Québec will play Création by Éric Morin, inspired by the first part of George Orwell’s 1984. Clemens Schuldt conducts this May 27-28 program, which also includes Orff’s Carmina Burana. https://www.osq.org/concerts/carmina-burana/ | 1 event,On May 28-31, the Philadelphia Orchestra will present the world premiere of a new symphony by jazz legend Wynton Marsalis. Yannick Nézet-Séguin concludes the program with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/beethoven-and-marsalis | 5 events,“Finding Peace at Potsdam” is a program by the Virginia Symphony Orchestra on May 29-30. At 1945’s Potsdam Conference, works by Tchaikovsky, Chopin, Kreisler, and others were one of the only things that united the assembled Allies. Potsdam is a collage of these various composers, with storytelling incorporated into the presentation. Eric Jacobsen conducts. https://virginiasymphony.org/event/finding-peace-at-potsdam-chrysler/ Eugene Opera will pderform Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Three Decembers, based on an unpublished play by Terrence McNally. Conducted by Andrew Bisantz, directed by David Gately. (May 29-31) https://eugeneopera.org/upcoming-productions/three-decembers/ The Indianapolis Symphony co-commissioned a new saxophone concerto from Joan Tower, which she titled Love Returns. It will have its Indy premiere on May 29-30 with soloist Steven Banks. Robert Spano also conducts Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite and Vaughan Williams’ Symphony No. 5. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/appalachian-spring/ Chamber Orchestra of New York’s season finale, Children’s Tales, includes world premieres by Stéphane Gassot and Salvatore Di Vittorio. This May 29 program at Carnegie Hall, conducted by Di Vittorio, will also include Saint-Saëns’s Carnival of the Animals and Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf as well as Liszt’s Concerto for Piano and Strings in E Minor, featuring Eden Chen. […] Mozart’s Mass in C Minor, on May 29, is Spoleto USA’s surprising choice to mark America250. The work was premiered in 1783, the same year the British crown recognized the American Colonies as an independent entity. Amanda Quist conducts the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus and Orchestra in her debut as the chorus’ music director. https://spoletousa.org/events/mozarts-mass-in-c-minor/ | 1 event,It’s all about rhythm for the Oregon Symphony May 30-31. David Danzmayr conducts composer-in-residence Andy Akiho’s Percussion Concerto, Brittany Green’s Testify! and Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. https://www.orsymphony.org/productions/2526/percussion-and-rhythm-with-andy-akiho | 0 events, |
