The Tusla Symphony is celebrating its 20th anniversary during the 2025-26 season, which opens Oct. 4. Guest conductor Lina González-Granados will lead the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Emanuel Ax), and Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/classics-1
Nashville Opera will perform The Shining, Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell’s opera based on the Steven King novel. The production, directed by John Hoomes, will feature Robert Wesley Mason and Anya Matanovic as Jack and Wendy Torrance. (Oct. 9-11) https://www.nashvilleopera.org/shining
On Oct. 16-18 the Dallas Symphony will play the world premiere of a new work by Angélica Negrón for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. With Inon Barnatan at the piano, Fabio Luisi also conducts Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, and the program concludes with Morton Gould’s Latin-American Symphonette. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/gershwinsrhapsodyinblue/
As a salute to the 150th anniversary of Bizet’s Carmen, the Dallas Opera will present a new production of the opera, directed by Romain Gilbert, recreating its inaugural performance in Paris in 1875. The cast includes Marina Viotti (Carmen) and Saimir Pirgu (Don José). Emmanuel Villaume conducts. (Oct. 17-26) https://dallasopera.org/performance/carmen/
Members of the Alabama Symphony, conducted by Chris Confessore, will perform the world premiere of a new children’s opera on Oct. 30. Written by Candace Neal Pappas, Treble in the Library is meant for kids in grades 3-6. It tells the story of Lexi the Librarian and her Junior Librarians as they discover that, with […]
The first of two tributes to Rachmaninoff by the Kansas City Symphony, Nov. 1-2, will include world premieres by Nico Muhly and Nicholas Britell, both inspired by the Russian composer. Matthias Pintscher also conducts Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (with George Li) and The Bells. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/rachmaninoff-pt1