Little Women, an opera by Mark Adamo using his own libretto based on the Louisa May Alcott novel, opens this season at Fort Worth Opera. The production runs Nov. 22-24. https://fwopera.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SVo0000009Wa9MAE
Under the baton of its incoming chief conductor, Klaus Mäkelä, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra performs the U.S. premiere of a new work by Ellen Reid at Carnegie Hall on Nov. 22. Lisa Batiashvili will play Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and the evening ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/11/22/Royal-Concertgebouw-Orchestra-0800PM
French composer Guillaume Connesson has written a new Cello Concerto, which will receive its U.S. premiere on Nov. 22-23 at the hands of Gautier Capuçon, as guest soloist with the Philadelphia Orchestra. Stéphane Denève conducts this thoroughly French program, which also includes Augusta Holmès’ “La Nuit et l’amour” from her Ludus pro patria and Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/symphonie-fantastique/
On Nov. 22 members of the San Diego Symphony will give the city’s premiere of the chamber opera Tres Minutos. The opera, by composer Nicolás Lell Benavides and librettist Marella Martin Koch, imagines the story of a brother and sister who share DNA but not citizenship. When one is deported, questions of identity, duty, and […]
Pianist and composer Stephen Hough makes his debut with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center on Nov. 24. The program combines Liszt’s virtuosic sonata with works by Chopin and Cécile Chaminade. Hough is joined by the enthralling Viano Quartet for the world premiere of his Piano Quintet. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/an-evening-with-sir-stephen-hough/
Musicians of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra will present the world premiere of a new work by Daniel Bernard Roumain, who also curates and performs in this Nov. 24 program featuring three of his pieces. Allison Loggins-Hull’s Homeland, inspired by the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico, as well as Brittany J. Green’s shift.unravel.BREAK are also scheduled in […]
On its North American tour, the Berlin Philharmonic will stop at Chicago’s Symphony Center on Nov. 26 to mark the 200th anniversary of Anton Bruckner’s birth. Kirill Petrenko will conduct one of the composer’s grandest works, his Fifth Symphony. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/scp-featured-concerts/berliner-philharmoniker/
The New York Philharmonic, conducted by Kazuki Hamada (making his debut with the orchestra), will give the U.S. premiere of Dai Fujikura’s Entwine Nov. 27-Dec. 1. Young piano star Yunchan Lim plays Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 in this program that ends with Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/lim-yamada/
The Dallas Symphony will present the U.S. premiere of Kris Bowers’ For a Younger Self, featuring violinist Charles Yang. Markus Moschner also conducts Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony, From the New World, in this Nov. 29-Dec. 1 program. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/dvoraks-new-world-symphony-2/
