Opening night at Sun Valley Music Festival, July 28, will feature pianist Gabriela Martinez playing Mozart’s Piano Concert No. 20 in D minor, K. 466. Alasdair Neale conducts the Festival Orchestra in Mozart’s Haffner Symphony. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/opening-night-with-gabriela-martinez/
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2 events,Two works by Gabriela Ortiz will be the focus of the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra’s performance on July 28. Thomas Wilkins also conducts pieces by two other female composers: Gabriella Smith and Ellen Reid. https://www.bso.org/events/july-28-twd-music-ctr-orch?performance=2025-07-28-20:00 | 1 event,On July 29, countertenor Franco Fagioli and the Orchestre de l’Opéra Royal de Versailles will present a program called The Last Castrato: Giovanni Battista Velluti at Toronto Summer Music. Conducted by Stefan Plewniak, this concert celebrates Velluti (1780-1861), who inspired works by Rossini, Meyerbeer, and more. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/franco-fagioli-the-last-castrato/ | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,When he got married in 2024, violinist Benjamin Beilman’s best man, composer Chris Rogerson, presented the groom with a new Arietta. Beilman and pianist Gloria Chien will perform the Arietta on Aug. 2 at Music@Menlo, along with works by Ysaÿe, Paganini, Franck, and others. https://musicatmenlo.org/cb/?evt=1815 | 2 events,Leonidas Kavakos (violin), Antoine Tamestit (viola), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), and Emanuel Ax (piano) will join forces in Aug. 3 for an all-Beethoven program at Tanglewood. On tap are piano-quartet arrangements of Leonore Overture No. 3 and the Third Symphony, plus the Trio No. 4 in B-flat, Op. 11. https://www.bso.org/events/2025-twd-ax-kavakos-ma-tamesit?performance=2025-08-03-14:30 West Edge Opera Festival will perform Marc-Antoine Charpentier’s 1688 opera David and Jonathan, telling the timeless story of war and how it pushes us to struggle with fate, loyalty, and the tragic conflict between love and duty. The title roles will be sung by Derek Chester and Aaron Sheehan, respectively. Adam Pearl conducts. (Aug. 3-16) […] |
1 event,Sun Valley Music Festival favorites Time for Three will perform a new concerto written for them by Mason Bates. Titled Silicon Hymnal, Bates describes it as “an electro-acoustic book of songs.” The program opens with Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, an exuberant piece full of dance themes inspired by the composer’s time in Italy and the best themes […] | 0 events, | 1 event,To celebrate the 90th birthday of pianist Gilbert Kalish, Music@Menlo will present a program Aug. 6 that culminates with Schoenberg’s Pierrot lunaire, which Kalish was introduced to as a young man. Related chamber works by Bach and Webern lead up to the Schoenberg. https://musicatmenlo.org/cb/?evt=1816 | 1 event,Staged by Peter Sellars and produced by American Modern Opera Company (AMOC), Tanglewood’s presentation of Matthew Aucoin’s opera Music for New Bodies on Aug. 7 will be conducted by the composer. Cast includes Meryl Dominguez, Taylor Raven, and Paul Appleby. https://www.bso.org/events/american-modern-opera-company?performance=2025-08-07-20:00 | 1 event,Giancarlo Guerrero conducts a symphonic spectacular at the Grant Park Festival on Aug. 8-9, featuring Stravinsky's The Firebird and Lera Auerbach's Icarus. The program also includes Benjamin Britten's The Building of the House and Jennifer Higdon's The Singing Rooms, with Chicagoan violinist Jennifer Koh. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2025-season/2025-stravinsky-firebird | 1 event,For her Ravinia debut on Aug. 9, Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya leads the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture and Debussy’s La mer. Violinist Ray Chen is the soloist for Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/debussys-la-mer-bruchs-concerto | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Glimmerglass Festival 2025 artists-in-residence Greer Grimsley and Luretta Bybee will present a special event on Aug. 14 featuring the Glimmerglass Young Artists, the culmination of Grimsley and Bybee’s season-long exploration of how words and music intertwine to tell compelling stories. The evening will feature shared reflections on and repertoire from Glimmerglass’s 50-year history, celebrating the […] | 0 events, | 1 event,On Aug. 16, the Ravinia Festivals Steans Institute fellows will bring to life one of the most transformative moments in Franz Schubert’s career, an 1825 tour program (the first-ever Lieder recital series) that the composer took through upper Austria. Pianist and art song scholar Graham Johnson hosts this innovative historical reconstruction. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/schubert-on-the-road | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 1 event,In a program called Percussion Party on Aug. 19, the Penninsula Music Festival will present Vincent Ho’s The Shaman: Concerto for Percussion and Orchestra, featuring veteran percussion star Evelyn Glennie. Rune Bergmann also conducts Shostavoch’s Symphony No. 10. https://purchase.musicfestival.com/events | 0 events, | 1 event,The final program of the 2025 Sun Valley Music Festival on Aug. 21 will be back-to-back Richard Strauss. Alasdair Neale will conduct the tone poem Death and Transfiguration followed by a suite from Der Rosenkavelier. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/season-finale-an-evening-with-richard-strauss/ | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Chicago’s Haymarket Theater brings its historically informed work to the Ravinia on Aug. 24 with a semi-staged reading of Handel’s Alcina. Soprano Nicole Cabell stars in the title role, and Craig Trompeter conducts. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/handel-alcina |
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