The Kansas City Symphony, led by Mattias Pintcher, will present a special immersive program, with choreography and visual design, on Sept. 5. It’s set to a soundtrack interspersing Aureliano Cattaneo’s mysterious La nuit sombre (The Dark Night) with Mozart’s Gran Partita, featuring dancers from Quixotic, and sopranos Marisol Montalvo and Anna Schubert. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/la-nuit-sombre
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| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event, | 0 events, | 1 event,The North Carolina Symphony has a recurring theme this season: Concerts featuring works by a single composer. They open with an all-Gershwin program in Chapel Hill on Sept. 7. Sophie Mok conducts Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture, Rhapsody in Blue (featuring pianist Clayton Stephenson), and An American in Paris. https://ncsymphony.org/events/rhapsody-in-blue-09-07-25-3pm-ch01/ |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Gustavo Dudamel opens his season as music and artistic director-designate of the New York Philharmonic Sept. 11-16 with a world premiere by Kanaka Maoli composer Leilehua Lanzilotti. Charles Ives’ Symphony No. 2 and Yunchan Lim as soloist in Bartók’s Piano Concerto No. 3 round out the program. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/gustavo-dudamel-and-yunchan-lim/ | 0 events, | 3 events,The 2025-26 season marks the Spokane Symphony’s 80th birthday. The Sept. 13-14 opening program includes Gustav Mahler’s Fifth Symphony and Alma Mahler’s Seven Songs (with Ashley Dixon, mezzo-soprano). James Lowe conducts. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/masterworks-1-the-mahlers/ Japanese composer Joe Hisaishi, best known for his Studio Ghibli film scores, makes his debut conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony on Sept. 13-14. Besides performing the score to The Boy and the Heron, Hishaishi will present the U.S. premiere of The End of the World, a work inspired by a trip to New York that made […] 2025-26 is the final season for the Milwaukee Symphony’s music director, Ken-David Masur. He kicks of his last round on Sept. 13-14 with a program featuring Stewart Goodyear playing ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, and concluding with Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. https://www.mso.org/concerts/season-opener-heros-life/65826/ | 0 events, |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,Montreal Symphony Orchestra’s music director Rafael Payare opens the season with Berlioz’s The Damnation of Faust, inspired by Goethe’s masterful play, Sept. 17-18. The OSM Chorus will be joined by soloists Karen Cargill, Andrew Staples, Willard White, and Ashley Riches. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/the-damnation-of-faust-a-quest-for-eternal-youth/ | 0 events, | 3 events,Portland Opera has condensed Donizetti’s L'Elisir d'amore to its essentials for their Portland Opera to Go series. The beloved opera will be presented as a 50-minute staging in English, with full sets and cosutmes. Directed by Kristine McIntyre. (Sept. 19-20) https://www.portlandopera.org/performances-tickets/25-26-season/portland-opera-to-go-the-elixir-of-love/ Opera Columbus presents Rappaccini’s Daughter, composed by Daniel Catán and adapted from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s haunting short story set in Padua. Sung in Spanish. (Sept. 19-21) https://www.operacolumbus.org/rappaccini/ In its opening weekend, conducted by music director Juraj Valčuha, the Houston Symphony will play the world premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Liberty Bell. The Sept. 19-21 program continues with Florent Schmitt’s setting of Psalm 47, featuring the Houston Symphony Chorus and star soprano Angel Blue, making her debut with the orchestra. Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite finishes […] | 1 event,Anchorage Symphony opens its 80th season Sept. 20 with the world premiere of Bill Klemm’s Postcards from Alaska. Gao Hong will play her own Pipa Concerto, and the program closes with the Ravel orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://www.anchoragesymphony.org/concerts-events/2025-opening-night | 1 event,The Metropolitan Opera will mount a new production of Mason Bates’ and Gene Scheer’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, based on Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Bartlett Sher directs, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts, and baritone Andrzej Filończyk makes his Met debut. (Sept. 21 – Oct. 11) https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/the-amazing-adventures-of-kavalier--clay/ |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,It’s rare to hear the two Ravel piano concertos side by side, but the Chicago Symphony is offering just that on Sept 25-28, with pianist Alice Sara Ott conducted by Mikko Franck. The program opens with Camille Pépin’s Celestial Waters and closes with Bizet’s Carmen Suite. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/ravel-piano-concertos-and-suite-from-carmen/ | 4 events,St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform some recent commissions by their artistic partner Abel Selaocoe on Sept. 26-28, blending South African musical traditions in the Xhosa and Zulu languages with Selaocoe’s own original compositions. Works by Chicago-based composer Shawn Okpebholo and Norwegian Ola Gjeilo fill out the program. https://content.thespco.org/events/hymns-of-bantu-with-abel-selaocoe/ The Minnesota Orchestra will play the world premiere of Steve Heizeg’s EcoSaga, subtitled Concerto in Three Landscapes. Conducted by Thomas Søndergård, this Sept. 26-27 program will feature cellist Anthony Ross playing Three Meditations from Bernstein’s Mass, as well as Bartók’s beloved Concerto for Orchestra. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-and-ross On Sept. 26-27, the Grand Rapids Symphony will present a program with the theme “The French Masters." Marcelo Lehninger conducts orchestral works by Ravel, Tailleferre, and Debussy, while Sergei Babayan solos in Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2. https://www.grsymphony.org/the-french-masters The Cleveland Orchestra’s season opener, Sept. 26-28, includes the U.S. premiere of Urworte (Original Words) by Bernd Richard Deutsch, featuring the Cleveland Orchestra Chorus. Franz Welser-Möst conduct this program, which continues with "Salome’s Dance" from Strauss’ Salome and concludes with Ravel’s Boléro. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-01-ravel/ | 1 event,On Sept. 27-28, the contemporary-music ensemble Eighth Blackbird will join the Des Moines Symphony’s season opener for Viet Cuong’s Vital Sines. The program begins with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture and ends with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/season-debut-triumph-tchaikovsky-5/ | 1 event,In a program called “A Ravel Birthday Celebration” on Sept. 28, musicians from Toledo Symphony will perform three of the composer’s chamber works: the Introduction and Allegro for Harp, Flute, Clarinet, and String Quartet; the String Quartet; and the Piano Trio. https://www.artstoledo.com/events/2025/09/28/toledo-symphony/a-ravel-birthday-celebration/276/#BuyTickets |
| 0 events, | 0 events, | 0 events, | 1 event,The Boston Symphony starts its series celebrating the 125th anniversary of their home venue, Boston, Symphony Hall, & the BSO in 1900, on Oct. 2-4. Andris Nelsons conducts Debussy’s Nocturnes and Mahler’s Symphony No. 4. Soprano Nikola Hillebrand is the soloist. https://www.bso.org/events/oct-2-4-debussy-mahler?performance=2025-10-02-19:30 | 3 events,Cristian Măcelaru makes his debut as the Cincinnati Symphony’s new music director on Oct. 3-4. He will conduct a program that includes Anna Clyne’s Abstractions, Gershwin’s Piano Concerto in F Major (featuring Hélène Grimaud), and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2526-cso-season/cristian-mcelarus-debut/ Holland Performing Arts Center in Omaha is turning 20, and the Omaha Symphony is helping to throw it a birthday party on Oct. 3. Other participants include River City Mixed Chorus, Salam Church Choir, Markey Montague, Dani Cleveland, and more. https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/holland-20th-anniversary The Philadelphia Orchestra will perform the world premiere of a new work by John Adams on Oct. 3-5, a commission by the orchestra. Principal guest conductor Marin Alsop leads the program, which also includes Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto, played by Yunchan Lim, and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/marin-alsop-and-yunchan-lim | 2 events,Oregon Symphony has a new artist-in-residence, violinist Simone Porter. She’ll debut in that role on Oct. 4-5, playing Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1. David Danzmayr also conducts Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.orsymphony.org/productions/2526/rachmaninoffs-symphony-no-2 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 | 0 events, |
