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- [Italian Opera's Historic First Flowering In NY, Recaptured With Flair](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/20/italian-operas-first-flourish-in-new-york-recaptured-with-flair/) - NEW YORK – Italian opera in New York began in earnest 200 years ago with a visit by the great Spanish tenor-composer Manuel García's troupe. The training program Teatro Nuovo offered stylish recreations of Don Giovanni and Il turco in Italia.
- [Bach Festival's Original American Salute: Music Of Indigenous Peoples](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/09/bach-festivals-original-american-salute-music-of-indigenous-peoples/) - EUGENE, Ore. – With two programs of classical music in choral and symphonic form inspired by indigenous folk cultures, the Oregon Bach Festival illustrated how music of the Americas continues to pull from roots that extend wide and deep,
- [Glass' Lincoln Tribute Reflects A Great Leader In His Own Quiet Words](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/08/glass-lincoln-tribute-reflects-great-leader-in-minimal-language/) - LENOX, Mass. – The premiere of Philip Glass' 15th Symphony (Lincoln), once meant for the National Symphony at the Kennedy Center, was given by the Boston Symphony led by Karen Kamensek with baritone Zachary James in Lincoln's voice.
- [By Any Name, Bach Fest Keeps Currency Of J.S. In Blend Of Other Voices](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/20/by-any-name-bach-fest-keeps-currency-of-j-s-in-blend-of-other-voices/) - CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. – As this summer's event attested, the Carmel Bach Festival honors its brand not by clinging to its namesake but by putting him in juxtaposed play with new or neglected composers, an off-the-pedestal collage.
- [The Battle Of Boston: Critic's Words Resound In 'Defending The Music'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/06/the-battle-of-boston-critics-words-resound-in-defending-the-music/) - BOOK REVIEW – Michael Steinberg (1926-2009) was the straight-shooting, widely read critic for The Boston Globe from 1964-1976. This volume of more than 300 of his reviews and essays is an extraordinary collection of musical commentary.
- [Silver Screen Concert Reflects Starring Roles For Women Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/17/silver-screen-concert-reflects-starring-role-of-women-composers/) - PERSPECTIVE – Chandra Dancy, right, is among several women composers of film scores whose work will be played in a mixed-media event with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra at the Ravinia Festival, co-curated and led by Marin Alsop.
- [New And Diverse Works Tell World Of Stories At Chamber Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/03/new-and-diverse-works-tell-world-of-stories-at-chamber-music-festival/) - NEW YORK – Playing on the democratic expression "every vote counts," this year's Chelsea Music Festival acknowledged America's 250th birthday under the theme "Every Story Counts," as five composers shared new pieces.
- [With Summer Triumphs, Iowa Opera Showcases Quality And Versatility](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/15/with-3-summer-hits-iowa-opera-displays-its-quality-versatility/) - INDIANOLA, Iowa – Under the creative leadership of Michael Egel, Des Moines Metro Opera has earned a placed alongside Glimmerglass and Santa Fe. Productions of King Roger, Tosca, and Of Mice and Men find the company in peak form.
- [Sound For Sore Ears: Ravinia Festival Pavilion Gets A Major Makeover](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/14/sound-for-sore-ears-ravinia-fest-pavilion-gets-major-makeover/) - HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – The $70 million renovation encompasses the renamed Hunter Pavilion stage and acoustic shell, seating, backstage facilities, utilities, lighting, and production technology. Ravinia is the Chicago Symphony's summer home.
- [Beckett's 'Endgame' Gets An Operatic Spin As Wry As The Original](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/01/becketts-endgame-gets-an-operatic-spin-as-wry-as-the-original/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Even without visual aids, a new concert recording of György Kurtág’s 2018 opera Fin de Partie conveys the composer's detailed attention to Beckett's expressive idiom in a Hungarian performance led by Markus Stenz.
- [In A Recording Profile, Music Of Many Faces Has Snapshot Moment](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/10/in-a-recording-profile-chameleon-composition-gets-close-up-snapshot/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Heard live, Dutch composer Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato leaves much for performers to decide. Hence the piece is ever renewing. Now a recording. freezing a single interpretation, creates another perspective.
- [An Early-Music Veteran Keeps Edge On The Old At Vibrant Baroque Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/30/an-early-music-veteran-keeps-edge-on-the-old-at-vibrant-baroque-fest/) - NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. – Violinist Elizabeth Blumenstock, artistic director of the Baroque Music Festival of Corona del Mar, brings an aura of authenticity and intimacy to her period-style concerts. She also sees a bright Baroque future.
- [Very Today 'Walküre,' Penderecki Celebration Highlight Baltic Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/07/10/very-today-walkure-tribute-to-penderecki-highlight-baltic-festival/) - SOPOT, Poland – In a mix of opera and concert presentations over the course of a week, the festival offered a wide-ranging program that reflected its artistic ambitions, commitment to Polish culture, and appetite for experimentation.
- [Paris' Musical Culture Showcases Its Splendor In A Time Of Transition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/26/paris-musical-culture-in-time-of-transition-sparkles-across-city/) - PARIS – With Esa-Pekka Salonen poised to become music director of the Orchestre de Paris in 2027, outgoing director Klaus Mäkelä, who has built something remarkable here, led the orchestra in a concert buoyed on Technicolor waves of sound.
- [London Zeal For Music Tells As Crowds Cheer 'Peter Grimes,' Wagner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/24/london-zeal-for-music-tells-as-crowds-cheer-peter-grimes-wagner/) - LONDON – Two powerful performances that drew charged public response, Britten's opera led by Jakub Hrůša and a London Symphony Wagner concert under Simon Rattle, left little doubt that these classical traditions remain vibrant here.
- [Bountiful Chamber Fest Buffs Stellar Tradition With Grand New Piano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/23/bountiful-chamber-fest-wraps-a-long-tradition-around-grand-new-piano/) - ROCKPORT, Mass. – Pianist Jon Kimura Parker opened the 45th Rockport Chamber Music Festival with three gentle Brahms intermezzos played on a brand-new Hamburg Steinway, and then a plethora of ensemble works filled the air.
- [Rossini's 'Cenerentola,' Centuries-Late Premiere Reward Paris Excursion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/22/operas-familiar-new-yet-very-old-delight-on-excursion-to-paris/) - PARIS – The Palais Garnier's La cenerentola dispensed with the oft-encountered farce to plumb the opera's real drama, while the Opéra Bastille mounted what seems to be the actual premiere of Antonia Bembo's 1707 Ercole amante.
- ['Ancient Mariner' Redux: Violist As Narrator, And Thirsting For Real Depth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/20/ancient-mariner-redux-violist-as-narrator-and-thirsting-for-real-depth/) - CANBERRA – Conductor-violist Lawrence Power added the role of speaker in Garth Knox's The Ancient Mariner, a dramatic concerto based on Coleridge's epic poem, with the Australian Chamber Orchestra. Missing was a true actor.
- [Ojai Festival Observes Milestones, Transition As It Marks 80th Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/18/ojai-festival-observes-milestones-transition-as-it-marks-80th-year/) - OJAI, Calif. – Among peak moments of this year's four-day festival was a stellar performance of Ligeti's Violin Concerto by Leila Josefowicz with the Colburn Orchestra under Esa-Pekka Salonen, who served as the event's music director for 2026.
- [Montreal Orchestra Displays Rapport With Diversity Of Americana](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/17/montreal-orchestra-shows-rapport-with-variety-of-americana/) - MONTREAL – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, artistic director of the Orchestre Métropolitain, tested the cross-border appeal of sundry American composers, including Gershwin's Concerto in F with pianist Hélène Grimaud, all to good effect.
- [Its Dark Clouds Behind, SF Symphony Displays New Zest In French Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/29/as-gallic-spirit-chases-clouds-sf-symphony-patrons-revel-in-light/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Internal turbulence and a gloomy outlook had suddenly turned to pervasive optimism when guest conductor Stéphane Denève closed out the season with a glittering mix of Poulenc's Organ Concerto and Saint-Saëns.
- [Chamber Music Festival Pairs Creative Agenda With Surprising Venues ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/16/offbeat-chamber-fest-with-an-offhand-vibe-unfolds-way-off-path/) - MONTEREY, Calif. – In novel locales, a lecture-demonstration became a foray into early-music performance practice, and a concert probed Schubert's late Quintet in C. Both reflected Cindy Wu's vision for Sunkiss'd Mozart's Summerfest.
- [100 Years Ago, Electric Recording Injected New Spark In Music's Legacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/15/100-years-ago-electric-recording-injected-new-spark-into-sonic-legacy/) - PERSPECTIVE – In 1926, the classical recordings industry became possible. Replacing a primitive, temperamental recording horn with microphones revealed new depth of sound, allowing us to widen our perspective on the art of making music.
- [Composers Coach Talks Art Of Nurturing Youth On New 'Classical Gas'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/13/young-composers-coach-talks-game-on-weins-podcast-classical-gas/) - PERSPECTIVE – Augusta Read Thomas is the noted mentor for the DeGaetano Composition Institute, a program for young composers founded by the Orchestra of St Luke’s. She explores the ambitious project in a conversation with host Gail Wein.
- [Mahler 'Resurrection' Gets Personal Spin By Singer Turned Maestro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/12/mahler-resurrection-gets-personal-spin-by-singer-turned-maestro/) - ATLANTA – Nathalie Stutzmann, who made her name as a contralto and recorded the pivotal alto solo in Mahler's Second Symphony with Seiji Ozawa, capped four years as Atlanta Symphony music director with a reading of fierce intensity.
- ['Parsifal' Semi-Staged, Sort Of Costumed, But Musically The Holy Grail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/11/parsifal-semi-staged-sort-of-costumed-but-musically-the-holy-grail/) - BUDAPEST – Conductor Ádám Fischer, who founded "Budapest Wagner Days" 20 years ago to recreate the Bayreuth Festival spirit in concert presentations of Wagner operas, led a masterful account of Parsifal at Béla Bartók Concert Hall.
- [Long 'Twilight' Journey Into Wagner As Atlanta Tops Off 'Ring' Operas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/10/long-twilight-journey-into-wagner-as-atlanta-tops-off-ring-operas/) - ATLANTA – In a city that has become a destination for Wagnerians, Atlanta Opera completed a four-year traversal of the epic Ring cycle with a production of Götterdämmerung that captured the tragic interactions of flawed human beings.
- [Such Sweet Sorrow: Parting Party Rolls On For Dudamel, LA Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/09/such-sweet-sorrow-parting-keeps-rolling-for-dudamel-la-phil/) - LOS ANGELES – Principals of the orchestra took the spotlight as the Never-Ending Gustavo Dudamel Farewell Tour reached a crescendo with concerts that were supposed to be his “farewell” to Walt Disney Hall as the Phil's music director.
- [A Percussion Virtuoso Turns Sprinter, Chasing Instruments In Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/09/a-percussion-virtuoso-turns-sprinter-chasing-instruments-in-concerto/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Scottish percussionist Colin Currie joined forces with the Oregon Symphony and music director David Danzmayr for a dazzling account of Danny Elfman's complex, high-speed, and physically sprawling Percussion Concerto.
- [Sofia 'Ring' Answers Multifaceted Challenge With Intimate Fantasy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/07/sofia-ring-captures-wagnerian-grandeur-in-an-intimate-house/) - SOFIA, Bulgaria – Plamen Kartaloff, director of the Sofia Opera and Ballet, uses his jewel of an opera house as a showcase for Bulgarian singers, and his intelligently staged Ring tetralogy is a worthy destination for Wagner fans around the world.
- [Sarah Kirkland Snider’s 'Hildegard' Wins Critics' Nod As Best New Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/05/sarah-kirkland-sniders-hildegard-wins-critics-nod-as-best-new-opera/) - BREAKING NEWS – Snider doubled as composer and librettist for her work based on the life of the 12th-century German abbess Hildegard von Bingen. The annual award is conferred by the Music Critics Association of North America.
- [Chicago-Based Critic Hannah Edgar Named Winner Of Littler Prize](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/04/chicago-based-critic-hannah-edgar-named-winner-of-littler-prize/) - BREAKING NEWS – The prize is named for, and supported by, William Littler, a longtime writer for the Toronto Star. It is awarded annually by the Music Critics Association of North America for excellence in writing by younger critics.
- [Sinking Petals, Ozone, Nature's Quiet Sorrow: Songs Of The Earth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/02/sinking-petals-ozone-natures-quiet-sorrow-songs-of-the-earth/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On a new recording, tenor Nicholas Phan, with pianist Myra Huang and the Jasper Quartet, offers a compendium of works contemplating the world around us by modern composers and the likes of Schubert and Ives.
- [Post-Minimalist Threads Reveal Wide Range Of Influence On New Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/08/post-minimalist-threads-reveal-wide-range-of-impact-on-new-music/) - BROOKLYN – The diversity of fresh works at Bang on a Can's Long Play Festival illustrated how minimalism descended from encounters among American composers, jazz musicians, and improvisers in the classical traditions of India.
- [Sea To Shining Sea: New Music To Brighten America's Celebrations](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/02/sea-to-shining-sea-new-music-to-enhance-celebration-of-america/) - PERSPECTIVE – O Beautiful Unity by Leigha Amick, right, is among numerous works commissioned from a diverse array of composers, established and emerging, to mark the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
- [Early Menotti Comedy Accents Stage Offering At Diverse Spoleto Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/06/01/early-menotti-comedy-accents-stage-offering-at-diverse-spoleto-fest/) - CHARLESTON, S.C. – The festival is celebrating America's 250th anniversary with 17 days of events including Menotti's The Old Maid and the Thief, Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas, and the Scottish Ballet’s Mary, Queen of Scots (pictured at right).
- [After 20 Magic Years, James Conlon To Exit LA Opera With 'Flute' ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/30/up-tempo-james-conlon-20-years-with-la-opera-is-everywhere-at-once/) - LOS ANGELES – Mozart's opera will be the sign-off for the company's popular artistic leader, who also has shone as podcaster, pre-performance lecturer, and program essayist. "I liked everybody here," he said of his long-ago first impression.
- [Rossini's 'Viaggio,' Buoyed By Slapstick, Burdened By Baggage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/27/rossinis-viaggio-buoyed-by-slapstick-slowed-by-its-excess/) - SALZBURG – Barrie Kosky's new staging of Il viaggio a Reims at the Salzburg Whitsun Festival sets out to lend the multicultural characters more psychological depth but goes overboard in a bid to make the opera amusing in modern terms.
- [Worlds And Time Apart, Works Of Two Cultures Create Concert Bridge](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/26/worlds-and-time-apart-music-of-two-cultures-create-concert-bridge/) - NEW YORK – When Lou Harrison's 1959 gamelan-based violin concerto met Nathalie Joachim's Le présent éternel, exploring her heritage as the American daughter of Haitian immigrants, the two works connected at a NY Phil new-music event.
- [That's A Wrap: Dudamel Closes His LA Run With A Spectacular 'Walküre'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/25/thats-a-wrap-dudamel-closes-his-la-run-with-a-spectacular-walkure/) - LOS ANGELES – Capping 17 years at the LA Phil's helm, before departing for the NY Phil, Gustavo Dudamel led a visionary, timeless, and superbly cast semi-staged production, one of the most thrilling events in Disney Hall’s storied history.
- ['The Post Office,' Opera Tied To Gay Issues, Has Ring Of Dead Letter File](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/22/the-post-office-opera-tied-to-gay-issues-has-ring-of-dead-letter-file/) - NEW YORK – Laura Kaminsky’s new opera, seen at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, boasted a fine cast of singers and well-crafted music. Touting conciliatory social awareness, it portrays the gay-marriage debate with nothing new to say.
- [Maestro Subs In Mahler, And The Effect Conjures An Orchestra's Bloodline](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/21/maestro-subs-in-mahler-and-the-effect-conjures-an-orchestras-bloodline/) - SAN FRANCISCO – When Herbert Blomstedt, conductor laureate of the SF Symphony, was unable to lead performances of the Mahler Ninth, David Robertson (pictured) stepped in with an account that would have honored the late MTT.
- [A Storyteller Of Parts, He's Everyman's Entree To Trove Of Great Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/20/a-storyteller-of-parts-hes-everymans-entree-to-trove-of-great-music/) - PERSPECTIVE – Gerard McBurney is a composer, arranger, writer, and most recently creative consultant to the San Diego Symphony. He's also music's advocate: "If you tell the right story, they’ll say, ‘Okay, I'll give it a try,' and it can be beautiful."
- [Pintscher Turns Debut Into Fanfare Event With Copland 3rd Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/20/pintscher-turns-debut-into-fanfare-event-with-copland-3rd-symphony/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Conductor Matthias Pintscher made a splash of sonic delights with the Oregon Symphony in Copland’s symphony (with its "Fanfare for the Common Man") and, with soloist Alessio Bax, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3.
- [Latest On Classical Gas: Bassoonist-Conductor Is A One-Woman Band](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/26/bassoonist-conductor-turns-one-woman-band-ensemble-talks-to-wein/) - PERSPECTIVE – Speaking with Classical Gas host Gail Wein, enterprising bassoonist Rebekah Heller recalls getting the conducting bug and also dives into a forthcoming album of works for multiple bassoons and how she plays all the parts herself.
- [On An Opera Canvas, Artists Dream In Color, But Drama Isn't So Rosy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/19/on-an-opera-canvas-artists-dream-in-color-but-drama-isnt-so-rosy/) - NEW YORK – Despite sumptuous staging, a lush score, and strong performances, Gabriela Lena Frank's El Ultimo Sueño de Frida y Diego (The Final Dream of Frida and Diego) at the Met never quite fulfills the promise of catharsis and resolution.
- [After Long Directorship, Venerable Festival Likes Playing It Year By Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/15/after-long-directorship-cincinnati-may-festival-playing-it-year-by-year/) - PERSPECTIVE – Since James Conlon's prodigious service as music director of the Cincinnati May Festival (1979-2016), the event has thrived on single-season directors. This year Grammy-winning soprano Julia Bullock runs the show.
- [No Sets, No Costumes, But Music, Imagination Fire Concert 'Turandot'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/13/no-sets-no-costumes-but-music-imagination-fire-concert-turandot/) - MONTREAL – Arguably the most visually lavish of all operas, this epic love story might seem an odd choice for the concert hall, but the Orchestre philharmonique et choeur des mélomanes reminded us of the splendor in Puccini’s score.
- [Like Back In The Day: Two Opera Stars Unite For A Dazzling Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/11/like-back-in-the-day-two-opera-stars-unite-for-a-dazzling-recital/) - NEW YORK – In an old-fashioned, high-energy, and much-applauded event, beloved Met Opera regulars soprano Erin Morley and tenor Lawrence Brownlee sang 19th-century Italian and French arias and duets with pianist Malcolm Martineau.
- [Cleveland Orchestra's Portrait Of A Composer Profiles Community Ties](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/08/striking-profile-of-allison-loggins-hull-in-cleveland/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In a live recording, three works by Allison Loggins-Hull, who immersed herself in community outreach while serving as a fellow at the Cleveland Orchestra from 2022-2025, provide a striking impression of an important composer.
- [Recalling Van Cliburn's Moscow Triumph With Melodrama And A Wink](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/07/recalling-van-cliburns-moscow-triumph-with-melodrama-and-a-wink/) - KALAMAZOO, Mich. – For its 35th anniversary, the Gilmore International Piano Festival unveiled American Sputnik, with music by Evan Mack and libretto by Mark Campbell and built on Cliburn-linked works by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.
- [Dudamel, Approaching NY Phil Directorship, Displays A New Poise](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/04/as-dudamel-approaches-new-york-directorship-new-poise-rules-podium/) - NEW YORK – No longer the 20-something whiz kid who put El Sistema on the map, Gustavo Dudamel showed a more contained podium demeanor in his Philharmonic program featuring Ellen Reid's Earth Between Oceans and Stravinsky's Firebird.
- [In Paean To Mythic Idyll, A Recording Embraces Spirit Of The Baroque](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/03/126777/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Early-music ensemble Les Délices led by oboist Debra Nagy has put together an engaging album of secular cantatas by Rameau, Handel, and others sung with grace by soprano Hannah De Priest, plus Baroque sonatas.
- [Michael Tilson Thomas (MTT Or Just Michael), The Nonstop Adventurer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/01/michael-tilson-thomas-mtt-or-just-michael-the-nonstop-adventurer/) - PERSPECTIVE – The formidable conductor, who died at 81 on April 22, always exuded a childlike enthusiasm and wonder for whatever came his musical way. To some, he was "our Elvis." To me, he was simply Michael. I’m sure that I’m not alone.
- [Mozart's 'Idomeneo' Gets Regal Treatment, Even In Semi-Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/05/01/mozarts-idomeneo-gets-regal-treatment-even-in-semi-staging/) - BOSTON – The Boston Baroque orchestra plus chorus and a half-dozen soloists, led by David Bates and focused by Bill Barclay’s insightful direction, explored the king's return from the Trojan War and the effect of his vows en route.
- [Ultimate Monodrama: Singer Also Conducts Tragic 'Voix Humaine'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/30/ultimate-monodrama-singer-also-conducts-tragic-voix-humaine/) - NEW YORK – In Poulenc's orchestral setting of Cocteau's intimate scenario of a woman breaking up with her lover by telephone, Barbara Hannigan successfully pushed the risk factor by doubling as vocalist on the podium with the NY Philharmonic.
- [Sleeping Beauty Opera Is A Wake-Up Call For An Intrusive Smoocher](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/29/sleeping-beauty-opera-is-a-wake-up-call-for-this-meddling-shmoocher/) - PHILADELPHIA – In the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty, the curse is cast, but one kiss changes everything, and everyone lives happily ever after. In Gregory Spears' Sleepers Awake, the girl and townsfolk ask what this guy's doing in their story.
- [Flamboyant Virtuoso, Wang Lights It Up As Pianist-Plus-Conductor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/27/yuja-wang-flamboyant-virtuoso-lights-it-up-as-pianist-plus-conductor/) - COSTA MESA, Calif. – Leading the Mahler Chamber Orchestra from the keyboard, in a program highlighted by Prokofiev's fierce Second Piano Concerto, Yuja Wang displayed the envelope-pushing that seems to be her larger career goal.
- [Like Second Nature: Danish String Quartet, Choir Explore Thoreau](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/24/like-second-nature-danish-string-quartet-choir-explore-thoreau/) - NEW YORK – The Danish National Girls' Choir joined the string foursome in a concert capped by David Lang's in wildness, with a text based on American philosopher H.D. Thoreau's 1851 essay "Walking" plus lines by Hans Christian Andersen.
- [Amid Boston Symphony Upheaval, Mälkki Leads Needed Break For Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/23/amid-boston-symphony-upheaval-malkki-leads-needed-pause-for-music/) - BOSTON – The premiere of Andrew Norman’s double piano concerto Split with pianists Lucas and Arthur Jussen, on a program under Susanna Mälkki, offered relief from the public outcry over the termination of music director Andris Nelsons.
- [Athens State Orchestra Plays Concert Honoring U.S. Semiquincentennial](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/23/athens-state-orchestra-plays-concert-honoring-u-s-semiquincentennial/) - ATHENS – The classical bond of cultures between Greece and the United States was celebrated in a program fashioned on the concept of nostos: nostalgia and homecoming expressed through songs, rhythms, and dances that reflect tradition.
- [Proto-AI In A Music Box: Mystic Schreker Opera Receives Vibrant Revival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/17/proto-ai-in-music-box-mystic-schreker-opera-gets-a-vibrant-revival/) - HALLE, Germany – The Halle Opera presented Franz Schreker's rarely performed Das Spielwerk und die Prinzessin (The Music Box and the Princess), about a mysterious box that can influence people either in a good way or for ill.
- [Revisiting An Old Haunt, Nomadic LA Ensemble Takes On A Fresh Sheen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/16/nomadic-chamber-group-revisiting-an-old-haunt-takes-on-a-fresh-sheen/) - LOS ANGELES – Since its founding in 1968, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has been a bit of a vagabond, with no single venue to call its own. But in an intimate performance with violinist Anne Akiko Meyers, the group sounded right at home.
- [Shape-Shifting 'Canto' Converts Concert Into Austere, Heady Ritual](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/15/concert-as-heady-ritual-elusive-canto-ostinato-elicits-a-collective-quiet/) - SEATTLE – Since its premiere in 1979, Simeon ten Holt's Canto Ostinato for four pianos has taken on other forms while becoming a cult classic. A version with the quartet Sandbox Percussion bespoke the minimalist work's ineffable charm.
- [In Light Of Premiere, Ives' Piquant 'Question' Affords A Calm Answer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/13/in-light-of-premiere-ives-piquant-question-makes-gentle-impression/) - NEW YORK – George Lewis' colorful and often noisy …ohne festen Wohnsitz, for large orchestra with massive percussion, debuted in a New York Philharmonic concert led by Kwamé Ryan where The Unanswered Question was relatively polite.
- [Medieval Combat Game Takes Boston Camerata Down Video Pathways](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/08/video-combat-adventure-takes-early-music-group-down-narrative-byways/) - BOSTON – As leader and narrator, Anne Azéma guides her esteemed cohort across familiar ground of 13th-century music of courtly love and legend, but this time for the strategic computer role-playing game Legends of the Round Table.
- [Saariaho's 'Innocence,' Viewed At Met Distance, Loses Personal Urgency](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/09/saariahos-innocence-viewed-at-met-distance-finds-power-diminished/) - NEW YORK – An unflinching dissection of school-shooter trauma, the opera was bound to hit deep levels of identification. Some audience members left in tears. But it's a fragile flower vulnerable to the objectivity of staging in the Met's vast house.
- [Taking On Prokofiev With Pianistic Means, But Wit Waxes, Wanes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/06/taking-on-prokofiev-with-means-aplenty-but-wit-that-waxes-wanes/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On an album titled simply Prokofiev, British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason generously profiles the composer with a mix of genres including the Third Piano Concerto. But am I hearing Prokofiev or the virtuoso pianist?
- [3 Glass Operas Played On 2 Pianos, Accented By A Suite Of Scents](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/04/03/3-glass-operas-played-on-2-pianos-accented-by-a-suite-of-scents/) - LOS ANGELES – As pianists Katia and Marielle Labèque performed arrangements from Orphée, La Belle et la Bête, and Les Enfants terribles, listeners could sniff "scent cards" purported to add another dimension to the musical moments.
- [Ancient Gilgamesh Epic, Told Across Ages, Finds A Fresh Voice As Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/31/ancient-gilgamesh-epic-told-across-ages-finds-a-fresh-voice-as-opera/) - CERRITOS, Calif. – This saga of a transfigured king from the second millennium B.C. has animated at least seven operas. An innovative addition, Derrick Skye’s Gilgamesh: The Opera, received its world premiere by Lyric Opera of Orange County.
- [5 Winds Caress Legacy Of Nadia Boulanger And Her Musical Progeny](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/29/winds-caress-the-legacy-of-pedagogue-boulanger-and-her-musical-progeny/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The celebrated French pedagogue taught an amazing array of students. A new CD titled Nadia, by the Houston-based ensemble WindSync, explores music by Boulanger and composers who honed their craft with her.
- [Fauré Requiem Meets Musical Incarnations Of The Seven Deadly Sins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/27/faure-requiem-meets-musical-incarnations-of-the-seven-deadly-sins/) - NEW YORK – “Sins and Grace” was the title of a MasterVoices program that paired the heavenly aura of Fauré’s work with a new choral sequence: Seven: A Cycle of Sins, by seven composers drawn from the realms of jazz, opera, and Broadway.
- [A Flourish Of Operas Embraced In Intimacy, Committed To Tradition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/27/a-flourish-of-operas-in-an-intimate-venue-all-framed-in-tradition/) - SARASOTA, Fla. – During Opera Lovers Weeks, Sarasota Opera is mixing a lavish new Merry Widow with remountings of Il trovatore, Susannah, and La bohème, all reflecting the look and the time intended by the original creators.
- [New On Classical Gas: Seeing Clara Schumann Through A Modern Lens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/25/seeing-clara-schumann-through-a-modern-lens-author-on-classical-gas/) - PERSPECTIVE – In a chat with Gail Wein, author Sarah Fritz, whose book Madame Composer: The virtuosic genius of Clara Schumann will be out in October, explains her fascination with the 19th-century composer-pianist, already famous at 18.
- [On An Ambitious Spring Trek, Singer And Pianist Cycle Through Schubert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/25/on-an-ambitious-spring-trek-singer-and-pianist-cycle-through-schubert/) - VANCOUVER - In a mini-residency for the Vancouver Recital Society, baritone Benjamin Appl and pianist James Ballieu performed the song cycles Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise plus the 14 songs collectively titled Schwanengesang.
- [Trove Of Recordings Draws Back Curtain On Legacy Of Radu Lupu](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/24/trove-of-recordings-draws-curtain-back-on-hidden-art-of-radu-lupu/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The celebrated pianist known for his perfectionism died in 2022 at age 76, leaving behind many unreleased recordings. The revealed gems of this new six-disc set range from Mozart and Schubert to Pictures at an Exhibition.
- [Oratorio Of The Oceans Blows Spray Of Imagery Evoking Climate Change](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/23/oratorio-of-the-oceans-blows-spray-of-imagery-touching-climate-change/) - BOSTON – The eight voices of Lorelei Ensemble, augmented by electronics, performed Christopher Cerrone's Beaufort Scales, which mixes terms that describe levels of ocean winds with references to wind and weather by Melville and other writers.
- [Across Pair Of Concerts And 4,800 Miles, Japan Links Up With Finland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/05/across-pair-of-concerts-and-4800-miles-japan-links-up-with-finland/) - TOKYO – In concerts at Suntory Hall two days apart, the Japan Philharmonic led by 85-year-old Ken-ichiro Kobayashi delivered a powerful Sibelius Second, and Finland-based native son Tateno Izumi, 88, played a program for the left hand.
- [Irish Baroque Orchestra, Countertenor Bring Heat To Early Classical Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/19/irish-baroque-orchestra-countertenor-bring-heat-to-early-classical-fare/) - NEW YORK – Listeners were promised a salacious journey into the picaresque 18th-century world of castrato Giusto Ferdinando Tenducci. What countertenor Hugh Cutting and the band led by Peter Whelan delivered was a knockout concert.
- [Brave Company Tames Beastly Film/Stage Tale Of Cocteau/Glass 'Belle'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/19/brave-company-tames-beastly-film-stage-blend-of-cocteau-glass-belle/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Adding live stage action to Cocteau's 1946 film La Belle et la Bête, the plucky Opera Parallèle had costumed cast members singing Philip Glass' overlay of music for the characters as the movie's progress was paused.
- [New Music's In NY Air; Philharmonic Taps That Theme With Variations](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/18/new-musics-in-ny-air-philharmonic-taps-that-theme-with-variations/) - NEW YORK – Amid the zeal for new sounds, the Philharmonic led by Gustavo Dudamel premiered orchestrations of Frederic Rzewski's 36 piano variations on "The People United Will Never Be Defeated," written by a group of composers.
- ['Midsummer' Marriage: Orchestra, Actors Meet In A Shakespeare Romp](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/16/midsummer-marriage-orchestra-actors-meet-for-shakespeare-romp/) - HONOLULU – At the Hawai’i Symphony Orchestra’s Sounds of Shakespeare Festival, the orchestra led by Dane Lam combined with the Manoa Valley Theatre to stage A Midsummer Night's Dream featuring Mendelssohn's music.
- [An Operetta Confection Revived Amid Splendor Of Song (And Laughter)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/17/a-korngold-operetta-confection-revived-amid-sound-of-song-laughter/) - NEW YORK – Korngold's The Silent Serenade, a seldom-seen romantic farce with all the silliness and ornateness that befits Viennese operetta, made its U.S. debut in a charming production by students at the Mannes School of Music.
- [Carlisle Floyd At 100: Music World Celebrates American Opera Legend](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/12/carlisle-floyd-at-100-music-world-celebrates-operas-quiet-legend/) - PERSPECTIVE – The composer of Susannah and Of Mice and Men, a self-effacing artist who died in 2021, will be widely honored in performances. "He wasn't going to toot his own horn, but we kind of are," said the director of the centennial effort.
- [Fraught With Concepts, Met's New 'Tristan' Is Still One For The Ages](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/11/mets-new-tristan-fraught-with-concepts-still-one-for-the-ages/) - NEW YORK – Amid director Yuval Sharon's visually busy albeit sumptuous production, soprano Lise Davidsen delivered a vocally glorious Isolde to lead a strong cast and a superb orchestral performance under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
- [Never Mind Smetana's Comedic 'Bride'; Catch Laughs Of 'Two Widows'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/10/never-mind-smetanas-comedic-bride-catch-laughs-of-two-widows/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Naxos' fine new release of Dvě vdovy (The Two Widows) offers an opportunity to get to know in modern sound a compelling romantic comedy by Bedřich Smetana, his last completed opera (1874) before deafness set in.
- [Lim's 'Goldbergs' On CD: Letting Romanticism In To Sing Bach's Rhetoric](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/08/lims-goldbergs-on-cd-letting-romanticism-in-to-sing-bachs-argument/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In his live recording of the Goldberg Variations at Carnegie Hall, Yunchan Lim lets a controlled Romanticism into the line, not as indulgence but as a way of allowing Bach's counterpoint to sing without ceasing to argue.
- [Revival Of 'Akhnaten' Attests To Durability Of Glass' Visionary Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/06/revival-of-akhnaten-attests-to-durability-of-glass-visionary-opera/) - LOS ANGELES – LA Opera's radiant remounting of its 2016 production made a case that the third in Glass' "portrait" trilogy of people who changed history in science (Einstein on the Beach), politics (Satyagraha), and religion is made of sturdy stuff.
- [An Opera About Teens Mirrors Gun Violence In Image Of Greek Tragedy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/05/an-opera-about-teens-mirrors-gun-violence-in-image-of-greek-tragedy/) - PITTSBURGH – Since the 1999 Columbine High School shooting, more than 390,000 students in the U.S. have experienced gun violence at school. This is the reality that composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist Crystal Manich probe in Time to Act.
- [Oh, You Kid! As Young Musicians Rise, Slatkin Shows Veteran Finesse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/04/oh-you-kid-as-young-musicians-rise-slatkin-shows-veteran-finesse/) - MONTREAL – Young artists are common on classical-music guest rosters these days, but in a concert with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conductor Leonard Slatkin at 81 was a natural in music across a wide spectrum of styles.
- [Send-Up Of Opera Seria By An 18th-Century Wit Who Knew It First Hand](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/03/send-up-of-opera-seria-in-18th-century-by-team-who-knew-it-first-hand/) - VIENNA – The conventions of Italian tragic opera are spoofed in Florian Gassmann’s L’opera seria, staged here for the first time since its 1769 premiere. “An accursed business!” exclaims the impresario. “You’d be crazy to get involved.”
- [LA And Dudamel Revisit A Latin Ballet Spectacle, This Time With Dancers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/03/02/la-dudamel-reprise-a-latin-ballet-spectacle-this-time-with-dancers/) - LOS ANGELES – The Brazilian troupe Grupo Corpo joined the Philharmonic for Gabriela Ortiz’s feminist ballet Revolución diamantina (Glitter Revolution), which dramatizes protests in Mexico City in response to police brutality toward women.
- [Joy Amid A Mélange: Music Of Hilda Paredes Sparks A Refreshing CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/27/joy-amid-sonic-tumult-music-of-hilda-paredes-sparks-a-refreshing-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In three premiere recordings played by Freiburg-based Ensemble Aventure, the Mexican-born composer melds the musics of early Latin America with those of modern Europe, with a backdrop of cutting-edge electronics.
- [3 Monodramas Explore Multifaceted Characters Cast In Orchestral Light](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/25/3-monodramas-explore-multifaceted-characters-against-orchestral-light/) - BOSTON – To believably conjure a character, develop gestures, and maintain tension in the spare front of stage, with no props is a tour de force. With the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, three singers probed deep into classic figures.
- [On Final Tour, Assads Flash Virtuosity, Probe Their Brazilian Roots](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/25/on-final-tour-assads-flash-virtuosity-probe-their-brazilian-roots/) - EVANSTON, Ill. – Brothers Sérgio and Odair Assad, who have been performing together as a guitar duo for six decades, often with other artists, were at their best in an intimate recital hall, just the two of them, direct and unadorned, brilliant as ever.
- [Pain, Peril Of Gay Love In McCarthy Era Vividly Etched On Opera Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/23/pain-peril-of-gay-love-in-mccarthy-era-vividly-etched-on-opera-stage/) - SEATTLE – Fellow Travelers, Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce's opera about the anti-queer witch hunt of the 1950s, began its 10th-anniversary tour at Seattle Opera. The story and music have only grown in power since I attended the premiere.
- [A Half-Size Orchestra Takes Off-Angles On Quasi-Iconic Classics](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/22/a-half-size-orchestra-takes-off-angles-on-beethoven-schumann/) - SEATTLE – With much of the band across town collaborating on a Seattle Opera production, the Seattle Symphony and music director Xian Zhang ventured into Beethoven's Fourth Symphony and the Schumann Cello Concerto with Jan Vogler.
- [With An Eye To Future, LA Ensemble Shows It's Thriving In The Present](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/20/with-an-eye-to-future-la-ensemble-shows-its-thriving-in-the-present/) - LOS ANGELES – A change of musical leadership looming and (another) new home in prospect, the LA Chamber Orchestra served up a concert of characteristic range and polish with Fazil Say as the soloist in Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.
- [Music Bright And Veiled Melds Into Grand Blaze Of Renaissance Rome](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/18/lights-bright-veiled-meld-into-grand-blaze-of-renaissance-rome/) - NEW YORK – The Marian Consort’s program “City of Echoes: Rome in the 16th Century” illuminated works by Josquin, Palestrina, and Lassus, as well as Vicente Lusitano and Jean Mouton, whose music has seen nearly 500 years of unjust neglect.
- ['Death Of Gesualdo' Frames Antique Music In Very Distant Action](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/18/death-of-gesualdo-frames-antique-music-in-very-distant-action/) - NEW YORK – In the long, long theatrical space of a church, director Bill Barclay and the British early-music ensemble The Gesualdo Six teamed up for a music drama rich in musical rewards but a challenge visually from a football field away.
- [Early Verdi Tragedy Set In Food Delivery Culture. (Fries With That?)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/17/verdis-luisa-miller-as-fast-food-opera-fries-with-that/) - VIENNA – In the Vienna State Opera's rare revival of Luisa Miller, the heroine works at a food-delivery company whose headquarters are decked out in bright yellow and red. The musical performance argues for wider access to the work.
- [Song Recital Reshaped: Three Events Tap Into History, Spirituality, Wit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/16/song-recital-reborn-three-events-tap-into-history-courage-wit/) - NEW YORK – Most of today’s recitalists have expanded the canon beyond classical standards to offer personal and often surprising artistic statements. I attended three such programs in New York, each more stimulating than the last.
- [Performance Can Take Music Down Pathways Blazed By Circumstance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/14/performance-can-take-music-down-pathways-blazed-by-circumstance/) - PERSPECTIVE – The strident urgency of James Ehnes' turn through Sibelius' Violin Concerto with the Minnesota Orchestra, soon after the fatal shooting of Renee Good by ICE agents, bespoke a long history of music's expressive shape-shifting.
- [Salonen Horn Concerto Nods To Bruckner, Then Salonen Doubles Down](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/13/salonen-horn-concerto-nods-to-bruckner-then-maestro-salonen-nods/) - BOSTON – Esa-Pekka Salonen's double tribute, with the Boston Symphony and soloist Stefan Dohr (right), began with the North American premiere of his Horn Concerto, which echoes Bruckner, then pivoted to the Fourth Symphony.
- [Budapest Mahler Third, Sprawling And Specific, Is A Carnegie Highlight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/09/sprawling-yet-intimate-budapest-mahler-third-is-a-carnegie-highlight/) - NEW YORK – Having lived with Mahler for years, Budapest Festival Orchestra founder-director Iván Fischer renders challenges invisible and mishaps unimportant thanks to his big picture of the work. It was one of the hall's great evenings this season.
- [Wish For Social Justice In Troubled Times Gets A Spirited Concert Amen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/09/wish-for-social-justice-in-troubled-times-gets-a-diverse-concert-amen/) - BEAVERTON, Ore. – In a program entitled What Is Your Hand in This? reflecting on America's 250th birthday and including works by enslaved people, bass-baritone Davóne Tines and the nuevo-Baroque ensemble Ruckus explored who we are.
- [Musical Culture Reigns In Dutch Competitions For Piano And Violin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/07/value-of-musical-culture-holds-center-stage-at-two-dutch-competitions/) - UTRECHT – Liszt Utrecht 2026 and the Netherlands Violin Competition presented two perspectives on how competitions work when they are designed as cultural ecosystems nurturing artistic growth and public engagement.
- [Frankfurt Opera Trek: Baroque To 'Carmen' To A Holocaust Flashback](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/05/in-frankfurt-opera-trek-baroque-carmen-lead-to-holocaust-flashback/) - FRANKFURT – Three operas over as many evenings at Oper Frankfurt revealed why the company has repeatedly been honored as Germany's top opera house. The shows also displayed the breadth of American talent here.
- ['Oklahoma!' — No, Wait, It's 'Manon!' Done With Exclamatory Concision](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/04/oklahoma-no-wait-its-manon-done-with-exclamatory-concision/) - NEW YORK – Heartbeat Opera's 90-minute, one-act distillation of Massenet's tragedy parlays a Broadway vibe into a musically rewarding take on the tale, offering ample edge as well as boundless energy. It's even been exuberantly retitled.
- [No Time For Rehearsal, Pianist Tosses Off Grieg Concerto In Grand Style](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/03/no-time-for-rehearsal-pianist-tosses-off-grieg-concerto-in-grand-style/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – When the scheduled soloist injured her hand, multi-prize winner Ying Li caught a flight from New York to join the Oregon Symphony on stage and deliver a bravura performance with conductor David Danzmayr.
- [When Hahn Bows Out, Kyrgyzstan Violinist Polishes Up Prokofiev](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/02/02/hilary-hahn-bows-out-from-russian-concerto-a-russian-answers-call/) - VIENNA – Stepping in for Hahn, who was to play Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto but had to cancel, violinist Alena Baeva (right) appeared with London's visiting Philharmonia Orchestra led by principal conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali.
- [New Recording Displays Sensual Component In David Lang's Choral Art](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/30/new-recording-displays-sensual-component-in-david-langs-choral-art/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The album performed by The Crossing chamber choir captures Lang’s ability to blend minimalism with emotional resonance, drawing listeners to a place where recurring text and minimal harmony hold the allure of simplicity.
- [Adams Piano Concerto: Emblem Of Americana Amid All-American Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/29/adams-piano-concerto-emblem-of-americana-amid-all-american-fare/) - LOS ANGELES – While we have yet to define John Adams' place in American music, on a program he conducted with the LA Philharmonic, he wasn't shy about linking his latest piano concerto, After the Fall, to works by Ives, Harris, and Copland.
- [NASA's Golden Record, Dash Of Ligeti Help Give Dance Event A Lunar Lift](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/28/nasas-golden-record-dash-of-ligeti-help-give-morris-dance-lunar-lift/) - BERKELEY, Calif. – The earth may hold the moon in place, but that orb exerts its own pull on the earth’s artists, Mark Morris among the latest. His 55-minute dance, titled MOON, revealed its fascinating draw in a performance at UC-Berkeley.
- [Braving Cold Rewarded In Bracing Concerts Of Tchaikovsky, Film Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/27/tchaikovsky-or-movie-fare-guest-maestros-reward-braving-cold/) - MONTREAL – Large crowds turned out when the rival Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and Orchestre Métropolitain, both under young, little known guest conductors, gave contrasting concerts of classical standards and movie music.
- [Nights In Opera Gardens Of Spain: Delights From Zarzuela To 'Wozzeck'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/10/nights-in-opera-gardens-of-spain-magic-from-zarzuela-to-wozzeck/) - PERSPECTIVE – Spain isn't the first place North Americans think of when it comes to opera, but the country can furnish rich experiences in the art form. In one week, I experienced unforgettable evenings in the two leading musical centers.
- [In Mixed Bag At NY Phil, Adès Caps Concert With Gloomy Musical Sermon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/26/in-mixed-bag-at-ny-phil-ades-caps-concert-with-gloomy-musical-sermon/) - NEW YORK – What began as one of the orchestra's most stimulating concerts, led by composer Thomas Adès, ended with his lugubrious vocal work America: A Prophecy, whose lecturing text had these New Yorkers scrambling for the exits.
- [Joan Tower, 87, Joins Gail Wein's Podcast For Remarkable Look Back](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/24/joan-tower-87-joins-podcaster-gail-wein-in-a-remarkable-look-back/) - PERSPECTIVE – In this edition of "Classical Gas," the distinguished composer says her highest honor came when the Library of Congress decided to hold her manuscripts in a dedicated collection, giving her work a permanent home.
- [A New Coleridge-Taylor Discovered, Composer Worthy Of Her Father](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/23/another-coleridge-taylor-discovered-a-composer-worthy-of-her-father/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Pianist Samantha Ege's recording with the BBC Philharmonic dedicated to the impressive music of Avril Coleridge-Taylor (1903-1998) isn't so much a resurrection as it is the revealing of an important British composer.
- [Concert 'Daphne' Etches Beauty, Dramatic Power Of Strauss Opera Rarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/21/concert-daphne-tells-beauty-and-power-of-strauss-opera-rarity/) - SEATTLE – The assertion by Seattle Opera's first-year general and artistic director James Robinson that Strauss' seldom seen opera is "one of the composer's greatest achievements" was borne out by the quality of this semi-staged production.
- [Choral Guru Rutter, 80, Celebrates His Birthday In U.S. With Royal Phil ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/21/choral-guru-rutter-80-celebrates-his-birthday-in-u-s-with-royal-phil/) - ORLANDO – The concert at Steinmetz Hall, with the British choral director and composer John Rutter leading the orchestra in his own works, was a singular event on the U.S. tour, which will see music director Vasily Petrenko on the podium.
- [Everything's Up To Date In Concert 'Oklahoma!' As Elan Meets Swing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/20/everythings-up-to-date-in-concert-oklahoma-as-elan-meets-swing/) - NEW YORK – A starry cast collaborated with the Orchestra of St. Luke's led by Rob Berman, using Robert Russell Bennett's original orchestrations, in a highly enjoyable, freshly homespun treatment of the evergreen musical at Carnegie Hall.
- [Well, That's Just Ducky: Relishing The Absurd In A Wacko, Quacko Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/19/well-thats-just-ducky-relishing-the-absurd-in-a-wacko-quacko-opera/) - BROOKLYN – What to Wear, an avant-garde opera by composer Michael Gordon with a text by Richard Foreman, drew a sold-out crowd ready to revel in having absolutely no idea what was going on. And splash in the middle was this duck.
- [High-Tide Expectations, But Salonen And LA Phil Only Create A Washout](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/15/high-tide-expectations-but-salonen-and-la-phil-only-produce-a-washout/) - LOS ANGELES – From the opening work, Sibelius' The Oceanides, the conceptually appealing program fashioned by Esa-Pekka Salonen, newly appointed as the Philharmonic's creative director, suffered from a steady deficit of vitality and flow.
- [2,700 Insights: CVNA's Expert Reviews Deliver World Of Music To You](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/14/123946/) - PERSPECTIVE – Since its founding in 2013, Classical Voice North America has posted some 2,700 articles, forming a permanent archive of events worldwide. Here's a sampling of work by 45 writers in 2025 that you might have missed.
- [Revitalizing Light Falls On Neglected Works Of Romantic Master Hiller](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/14/ferdinand-hillers-symphonies-on-cd-a-major-rediscovery/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The music of 19th-century German composer Ferdinand Hiller achieved success in his own time only to vanish later. Two symphonies, the early F minor and the mature E minor, have been revived on an impressive CD.
- [No Rock In Sight, This Brünnhilde Finds A Spot In Orchestra's Choir Loft](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/13/no-rock-in-sight-this-brunnhilde-finds-spot-in-orchestra-choir-loft/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The effect was impressive and glorious when soprano Christine Goerke took her solitary place behind and above the 88-piece Oregon Symphony led by David Danzmayr for a concert program titled 'Wagner's Greatest Hits."
- [In A Concert Squeeze, Barber's 'Vanessa' Still Flashes Dramatic Edge](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/12/in-a-concert-squeeze-barbers-vanessa-still-flashes-dramatic-edge/) - BOSTON – While the Boston Symphony Orchestra production combined a crowded stage with two choruses stuffed into the lobby, soprano Jennifer Holloway, left, and mezzo-soprano Samantha Hankey summoned the opera's lyric potency.
- [Remembering A Fire's Devastation, Violinist Offers Balm Of Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/09/remembering-a-fires-devastation-violinist-offers-balm-of-music/) - PACIFIC PALISADES, Calif. – Exactly one year after a catastrophic fire that claimed 12 lives and destroyed 6,833 homes, this community mounted a commemoration concert, an event largely credited to resident soloist Anne Akiko Meyers.
- [Opera As Battleground: Author Sees Lyric Stage In Never-Ending Struggle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2026/01/07/opera-as-battleground-author-sees-lyric-stage-in-never-ending-struggle/) - PERSPECTIVE – In her new book Opera Wars, Caitlin Vincent takes on issues facing an opera world that she depicts in constant conflict as ego-driven composers, librettists, directors, and singers all endeavor to dominate the stage.
- [Of Kings And Comets And Diverse Delights: Revisiting 'Amahl'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/23/of-kings-and-comets-and-diverse-delights-revisiting-amahl/) - NEW YORK – Gian Carlo Menotti's beloved Christmas opera Amahl and the Night Visitors has made a welcome reappearance in a touching chamber production at Lincoln Center starring Joyce DiDonato as a disabled boy's mother.
- [Mäkelä Affirms Chicago Promise With Thriller Of A Beethoven Seventh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/22/makela-affirms-chicago-promise-with-vivacious-beethoven-7th-symphony/) - CHICAGO – While Klaus Mäkelä's previous appearances with the Chicago Symphony had been impressive, the music director-designate's first Beethoven, crisp and fluent, struck a new note: the clear augury of a formidable association.
- [Adès Opera, Recycled As Symphony, Headlines A Terse Minnesota CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/17/ades-opera-recycled-as-symphony-headlines-terse-minnesota-release/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In its brief, albeit impressive, debut disc with conductor Thomas Søndergård, the Minnesota Orchestra pairs the 22-minute symphony, drawn from The Exterminating Angel, with the composer's still-shorter Violin Concerto.
- [Young Cellist, Pianist Tap Into Depth, Range Of A Concert Adventure](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/16/young-cellist-pianist-tap-into-depth-range-of-a-concert-adventure/) - SAN DIEGO – From the classicism of Haydn and Beethoven and the late-Romanticism of Barber to the modernism of Shostakovich, cellist Benett Tsai and pianist Rodolfo Leone delivered a compelling program presented by the La Jolla Music Society.
- [A Celebration Of Pärt, With Järvi 'Dynasty' Of Conductors On Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/22/a-celebration-of-part-with-jarvi-dynasty-of-conductors-on-podium/) - PÄRNU, Estonia – In an early tribute to Arvo Pärt’s 90th birthday Sept. 11, the 2025 Pärnu Music Festival reflected the composer's vital, career-long connection to the Järvi clan of maestros: patriarch Neeme and sons Paavo and Kristjan (right).
- [Choral Recording Series Spotlights 13 Women Composers Of Canada](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/15/choral-recording-series-spotlights-13-women-composers-of-canada/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Quebec’s Ensemble ArtChoral, led by founder Matthias Maute, is on a mission to record “the history of choral singing through six centuries.” The latest release features only works by Canadians. The composers are all women.
- [Chamber Music Offers Welcome Respite From Hong Kong Hurly-Burly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/12/chamber-music-offers-welcome-respite-amid-hong-kong-hurly-burly/) - HONG KONG – Amid the hustle and bustle of cars, trucks, and jackhammers, a concert of works by Locatelli, Tartini, Vivaldi, and Beethoven felt like a breath of fresh air. Added to the mix was soothing Satie and the calm moves of flow artist Chris Lam.
- [Elegy For 'Disappeared' Transfigures The Horror In Lyrical Remembrance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/11/song-of-the-reappeared/) - CHICAGO – Matthew Aucoin's Song of the Reappeared, given its premiere by soprano Julia Bullock and the Chicago Symphony led by Petr Popelka, embraces Chilean poet Raúl Zurita's epic verse commentary on Chile's long reign of terror.
- [As Season Winds Down, Spirit Of The New Buoys South American Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/10/as-season-winds-down-zest-for-the-new-buoys-south-american-music/) - PERSPECTIVE – This year has seen the emergence of new musical leadership in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile. The latter city has also seen the opening of a new concert hall. The end of the season was fascinating in both centers.
- [With A French Flourish, Les Arts Florissants Bundles Baroque Noëls](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/09/les-arts-florissants-with-french-flourish-offers-baroque-noels/) - BROOKLYN – New York’s holiday concert season began with the welcome return of William Christie and his Baroque ensemble, a force in the revival of 17th- and 18th-century French music. The program offered a dose of pure French sound.
- [Ravel's Impressionism Meets Neoclassical Side In A Celebratory Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/08/ravels-impressionism-meets-his-neoclassicism-in-celebratory-concert/) - NEW YORK - The chamber orchestra Pegasus, led by founding director Karén Hakobyan, offered an arc of works that showed Ravel’s many facets and put him in a historical context that reflected the composer’s oddly contradictory melding of styles.
- [Sugarplum Silly: Musicians Muse On Diet Of Yuletide 'Nutcrackers'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/04/sugarplum-silly-musicians-muse-on-diet-of-nutcrackers/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Most people, if they see The Nutcracker, do it once a season. But playing every performance is just the job description for the San Francisco Ballet Orchestra, which will play – no, embrace – the enduring hit 35 times in December.
- [Out, Out, Viol Spots: Bach's Luster Dulled In Antique Transcriptions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/02/out-out-viol-spot-bachs-riches-lost-in-antique-transcriptions/) - MONTREAL – The modern piano is a common vehicle for Bach performance, and Stokowski's arrangements still hang on. But the antiquarian effect on sundry pieces by a consort of viols was a walrussy sameness, the tempo usually moderato.
- [Autumn Fest Celebrates Artistic Innovation With Zeal Of A Rite Of Spring](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/12/01/autumn-arts-festival-celebrates-innovation-like-a-rite-of-spring/) - PARIS – Every September through December since 1972, Paris has opened its doors to Festival d’Automne, a nomadic, multidisciplinary event dedicated to the new and harnessing the French audience’s voracious appetite for discovery.
- [Chamber Series, Rocked By Pandemic, Reaffirms Promise Of New Vitality](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/28/chamber-series-rocked-by-pandemic-reaffirms-promise-of-resurgence/) - GLENDALE, Calif. – The longstanding Dilijan Chamber Music Concert Series, quieted by Covid only to be revived in 2024 under new auspices, confirmed its resiliency and upheld its traditional link to Armenian music in November programs.
- [Shadowed Masterpiece Revealed In Full Light With A Stirring 'Jenůfa'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/27/shadowed-masterpiece-revealed-in-full-light-with-a-stirring-jenufa/) - MONTREAL – The Opéra de Montréal production of Janáček's towering drama, directed by Atom Egoyan and conducted by Nicole Paiement with Marie-Adeline Henry in the title role, reflected great credit on the company and its artists.
- [Young Artists' Concert An Embracing View Of 'Democracy in Music'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/24/young-artists-concert-an-embracing-view-of-democracy-in-music/) - NEW YORK – Contemporary Americana was the dominant theme of a performance by members of the Curtis New Music Ensemble, who offered mostly works by living composers representing an extensive range of backgrounds, races, and styles.
- [Music For Saxophone Evokes Emotional Swirl Summoned By The Wind](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/24/concerto-for-saxophone-evokes-emotional-swirl-summoned-by-the-wind/) - SEATTLE – Steven Mackey's concerto Anemology, embracing the way a saxophonist’s manipulation of air and breath can generate whole musical structures, was given its premiere by soloist Timothy McAllister and the Seattle Symphony.
- [Chinese Epic Character Brings Its Charm, Antics, Attitude To Opera Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/20/chinese-epic-character-brings-its-charm-antics-attitude-to-opera-stage/) - SAN FRANCISCO – An enthusiastic capacitry audience heard the San Francisco Opera's premiere of The Monkey King, a spectacular adaptation of the 500-year-old tale with music by Huang Ruo and libretto by David Henry Hwang.
- [Two Albums Celebrate Iconoclastic Erik Satie With Stylish Adaptations](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/19/two-albums-celebrate-iconoclast-erik-satie-in-stylish-adaptations/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The French miniaturist is getting a burst of attention in 2025, the 100th anniversary of his death. New recordings include guitarist Xuefei Yang's Chapeau Satie and jazz vocalist Tessa Souter's Shadows and Silence.
- ['Cosi' As Reality Show, Rare Donizetti Updated (With A Pregnant Pause)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/17/cosi-as-reality-show-rare-donizetti-updated-with-a-pregnant-pause/) - MILAN – At La Scala, it was Mozart with onstage cameras, jumbo screens, a control room, and a studio audience, all in a setting dominated by a bubblegum palette. Up the road, in Bergamo, Donizetti's Caterina Cornaro looped through time.
- [Puerto Rican Orchestra, Legacy Of Casals, Plays A Joyful Boston Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/17/puerto-rican-orchestra-legacy-of-casals-makes-celebratory-boston-debut/) - BOSTON – Sixty-seven years after legendary cellist and conductor Pablo Casals led the first performance of the ensemble he created, the Orquesta Sinfónica de Puerto Rico, its festive concert thrilled an audience at Symphony Hall.
- [Strauss Junior At 200: Soul Of A City, Emblem Of Era In Gauzy Recall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/14/strauss-junior-at-200-soul-of-a-city-emblem-of-era-in-gauzy-recall/) - VIENNA – Johann Strauss II embodies the paradoxes of Viennese musical culture, its extravagance and conservatism. Celebrations have revealed the composer as a projection for ahistoricism as well as political correctness.
- [Crawl Extravaganza: Shaw Quartets Flow In Concerts Across Venues](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/13/crawl-extravaganza-shaw-quartets-flow-in-concerts-across-venues/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The intrepid ensemble 45th Parallel Universe adapted the time-honored pub crawl, taking concertgoers to three different locales for hour-long concerts devoted to the complete string quartets by Caroline Shaw.
- [Beethoven 9th, Freshly Framed, Its Message Charged With Urgency](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/10/beethoven-9-freshly-framed-its-message-charged-with-urgency/) - NEW YORK – Raphaël Pichon, the French countertenor-turned-conductor, led a compelling performance at Carnegie Hall by the Orchestra of St. Luke's and the Clarion Choir that addressed the question: What does this music mean now?
- [Surveying Scaled-Down Art Of British Composer Known For His Grandeur](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/12/surveying-scaled-down-art-of-british-composer-known-for-his-grandeur/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – While the name Herbert Howells may evoke sweeping works like Hymnus Paradisi and Missa Sabrinensis, conductor David Hill offers a more intimate perspective on the album Sine Nomine with the vocal ensemble Ikon.
- [Hildegard von Bingen, Medieval Radical Now Become Opera Heroine](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/11/hildegard-von-bingen-composer-and-visionary-and-now-opera-heroine/) - BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. – The world premiere of Sarah Kirkland Snider's Hildegard offered a peek, at once historically spot-on and indulgently fanciful, at the astonishing life of the 12th-century German abbess, composer, writer, and visionary.
- [Wild 'Mandarin,' Intense 'Bluebeard' Conjoined As Lurid Bartók Twin Bill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/05/wild-mandarin-dark-bluebeard-framed-as-lurid-bartok-twin-bill/) - MADRID – Béla Bartók believed that his sexually charged ballet-pantomime The Miraculous Mandarin was the perfect companion piece to his opera Bluebeard’s Castle (right). A collaboration between two companies illustrated the point.
- [Some Sins, Some Jazz: Concert Portrait Of One City's Rich Musical Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/05/some-sins-some-jazz-concert-portrait-of-one-citys-rich-musical-life/) - PORTLAND – Storm Large was the soloist for Weill's The Seven Deadly Sins on the Oregon Symphony's "Sounds Like Portland" concert with David Schiff's jazzy piano concerto stirred into a mix with the overture to (what else?) Tannhäuser.
- [Nilsson Prize Cites Aix For Artistic Excellence And Opera Development](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/04/nilsson-prize-honors-aix-for-artistic-excellence-and-opera-development/) - STOCKHOLM – Making a rare exception, the Birgit Nilsson Prize committee conferred its triennial award not on an individual but on the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in a ceremony that included a performance by soprano Matilda Sterby (right).
- [Conjuring Varèse In 100 Flute Commissions, On 'Classical Gas' Podcast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/11/04/conjuring-hundred-ways-of-looking-at-a-flute-on-classical-gas-podcast/) - PERSPECTIVE – Inspired by Edgard Varèse's paradigm-shifting work for solo flute, Density 21.5, flutist Claire Chase has pushed to the mid-point of a herculean project she calls Density 2036. She dives into the venture with Gail Wein.
- [Celebrating 50 Years, Music School Spotlights Its Own With Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/31/celebrating-50-years-music-school-spotlights-its-own-with-premieres/) - HOUSTON – A musical powerhouse boasting graduates in orchestras across the nation, the Shepherd School of Music at Rice University hits the half-century mark with a plethora of events and seven new works by its composition faculty.
- [After A Long Absence, 'Parsifal' At SF Opera Approaches Holy Grail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/29/after-long-absence-parsifal-at-sf-opera-approaches-holy-grail/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Music director Eun Sun Kim presided over a glorious, well-paced, and deeply moving production that featured a top-flight cast of singers directed by Matthew Ozawa, with imaginative costumes enhancing the spectacle.
- [As S. Korea's Birth Rate Drops, Classical Music Needs A Creative Refit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/24/as-s-korea-birth-rate-falls-classical-music-needs-creative-boost/) - PERSPECTIVE – With births historically scant in a nation of just over 50 million, the implications are not good for beginner pools, youth orchestras, even instrument makers. The task is to re-engineer a musical ecosystem tailored to reality.
- [On All-Sibelius Program, Symphonies Ruled, But Violin Concerto Soared](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/23/on-all-sibelius-program-symphonies-ruled-but-violin-concerto-soared/) - MONTREAL - Violinist Lisa Batiashvili delivered a concerto performance at once songful and virtuosic with the Orchestre Métropolitain led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, as prelude to a concert recording of the Sixth and Seventh Symphonies.
- [Maestro, Sound System Both Take First Bow On Londoners' Tour Of U.S.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/21/maestro-sound-system-share-debut-on-london-orchestras-tour-of-u-s/) - BERKELEY, Cal. – The Finnish conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali, leading the Philharmonia Orchestra, made his Bay-area debut at UC Berkeley’s Zellerbach Hall, which touted the first orchestral outing of its upgraded sound system.
- [Birthday Concert Turns Into 'Living Room' Party For Esperanza Spalding](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/21/birthday-concert-turns-into-living-room-party-for-esperanza-spalding/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The singer, bassist, and composer, a Portland native and five-time Grammy winner, celebrated her 41st in grand style with the Oregon Symphony, drawing a nearly full house to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
- ['Tannhäuser' Twice: Seduction, Deliverance In Vienna And Geneva](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/20/tannhauser-times-two-productions-at-odds-vienna-and-geneva/) - PERSPECTIVE – Philippe Jordan led the Vienna State Opera production starring Clay Hilley in the title role, while Mark Elder presided over a staging at the Grand Théâtre de Genève as understudy Samuel Sakker (right) met the part's demands.
- [Flowing Robes, Fluent Performance, And Fresh Approach To J.S. Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/17/flowing-robes-fluent-performance-and-fresh-perspective-on-j-s-bach/) - NEW YORK – Pianist Christopher O'Riley, looking a bit messianic in flowing white attire designed for maximum comfort, pedaling with bare feet, offered a thoroughly considered, highly personal account of Book II of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
- [Spreading Its Wings, Concert World Enfolds Composers On Margins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/14/re-attuned-to-tonality-concert-world-takes-in-marginalized-composers/) - VIENNA – The Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra's program of music by Alexander Zemlinsky and Lili Boulanger illustrated the modern embrace of composers once viewed as too conservative by progressives, but too adventurous by the public.
- [At Indigenous Art Show, Composer Offers Works For The Eye And The Ear](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/14/at-indigenous-art-show-composer-offers-works-for-the-eye-and-the-ear/) - BOSTON – Raven Chacon accepts many different descriptors: visual artist, performance artist, sound artist, composer. Two of his graphic scores and a sonic installation appear in a new exhibition at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art.
- [A Sleeper Awakes: Met 'Sonnambula' Roused By Some Glorious Singing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/09/sonnombula-at-the-met-is-no-sleeper-glorious-singing-is-wake-up-call/) - NEW YORK – Two decades after his house vocal debut in La traviata, Rolando Villazón makes his directorial debut with a puzzling view of Bellini's problematic opera enlivened by some of the most splendid singing heard at the Met in a long time.
- [Women Rule In Concert That Co-stars Piccolo, Pergolesi 'Stabat Mater'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/08/women-rule-in-concert-that-co-stars-piccolo-pergolesi-stabat-mater/) - CHICAGO – It wasn't quite an all-women affair, the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's concert conducted by Daniela Candillari, but close to it as Jennifer Gunn soloed in Thea Musgrave's Piccolo Play on a program with a Baroque paean to the Virgin Mary.
- [Capturing Magic Spell Of Ravel's Pluperfect Portrait Of A Little Brat](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/07/capturing-magic-spell-of-ravels-perfect-plus-portrait-of-little-rascal/) - SAN DIEGO – Rafael Payare led the San Diego Symphony Orchestra in a musically lustrous and visually resourceful concert version of L'enfant et les sortilèges, with mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as the naughty kid who is fantastically reformed.
- [A Deep Dive Into Chopin After Splashing Surface Of Grieg And Schumann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/06/deep-dive-into-chopin-after-splashing-surface-of-grieg-and-schumann/) - MONTREAL – Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes capped his recital program with a sharply defined excursion through Chopin's 24 Preludes, Op. 28, but that was preceded by rather bookish accounts of the Grieg Sonata and Schumann's Carnaval.
- [Australian Brings Baton, Charm, Ranging Taste To New Post In America](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/03/australian-brings-baton-and-lots-of-energy-to-new-podium-in-america/) - GREENSBORO, N.C. – Christopher Dragon, the affable, buoyant, and enthusiastic new music director of the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra, readily embraces pop and film music – everything: "Orchestras need to adapt to this modern time."
- [Quartet Of Productions A Stellar Start For New Boss At Zurich Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/01/quartet-of-productions-a-stellar-start-for-new-boss-at-zurich-opera/) - ZURICH – Just into Matthias Schulz's first season as artistic director, Zurich Opera was named Opera House of the Year 2025 by Opernwelt magazine. The four creative stagings I saw made clear that Schulz expects to uphold that standard.
- [Hanging On Every Note And Tantalizing Silence Of String Quartet Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/10/13/hanging-on-every-note-and-tantalizing-silence-of-string-quartet-cycle/) - NEW YORK – Deploying extended techniques that produced sundry effects of grinding, scraping, and squeaking, augmented by lots of silence, the JACK Quartet played three works by German composer Helmut Lachenmann, who turns 90 in November.
- [Early-Music Recordings Capture Antiquity And Its Modern Reflections](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/30/early-music-recordings-capture-antiquity-and-its-modern-reflections/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – One album shifts the spotlight from William Lawes' familiar instrumental works to his lesser known vocal music. Another, pairing a vocal sextet with a trumpet, traces an arc from the Middle Ages to recently commissioned pieces.
- [Scaling Grand Premiere, Dudamel Begins Final Ascent With His LA Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/29/scaling-grand-premiere-dudamel-begins-final-ascent-with-la-phil/) - LOS ANGELES - With a resounding account of Ellen Reid's new Earth Between Oceans and a bracing assault on Strauss' An Alpine Symphony, Gustavo Dudamel opened his last season as music director before taking over the NY Philharmonic in 2026.
- [Conductor On The Fly Pauses To Give Mahler Breath, Scope Of Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/25/conductor-on-the-fly-pauses-to-give-mahler-breath-scope-of-life/) - MONTREAL – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, marking 25 years as artistic director and principal conductor of the Orchestre Métropolitain, led a monumental yet nuanced account of the Third Symphony that at full power nearly swept listeners out of the hall.
- [Hands Made For Baton Shaped Conductor Who Takes Reins In Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/25/pre-career-adjustments-nudged-conductor-who-now-takes-seattle-reins/) - SEATTLE – Xian Zhang's teacher in China thought her hands were too small to major in piano, says the woman newly installed as the first female music director of the Seattle Symphony. But conducting, Zhang adds, '"just came naturally."
- [An 'Amazing' Operatic Adventure At The Met Distills An Epic Novel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/23/an-amazing-operatic-adventure-lifts-curtain-on-mets-new-season/) - NEW YORK – The world premiere of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, by composer Mason Bates and librettist Gene Scheer, featured sophisticated graphics in a rewarding reduction of Michael Chabon's sprawling Pulitzer Prize winner.
- [Baritone Braves Illness To Celebrate The Spirit Of Greenwich Village](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/22/baritone-braves-illness-to-celebrate-the-spirit-of-greenwich-village/) - NEW YORK – At the eighth Village Trip festival, honoring the community's arts, both historical and current, James Martin powered through three world-premiere song cycles, including a diverse group of Americana by David Amram, 94 (right).
- [Songs Without Words: Reimagining Poulenc For Violin And Piano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/20/songs-without-words-reimagining-poulenc-for-violin-and-piano/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Can the lyrical art of Poulenc’s songs be captured instrumentally, sans the poetry of Anouilh, Apollinaire, and others? A new album by violinist Hongyi Mo and pianist John Etsell spins a string of answers in the exquisite affirmative.
- [A Maverick As Virtuoso Inaugurates New Organ With Irrepressible Flair](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/17/a-maverick-as-virtuoso-stamps-restored-organ-with-irrepressible-flair/) - NEW YORK – Almost a quarter century after the devastation of Sept. 11, Manhattan’s Trinity Church dedicated its new pipe organ with a recital by Anna Lapwood, the “TikTok organist" and an ascendant champion of the king of instruments.
- [Seattle's New Maestro Makes Cautious Debut With Hits, Some Misses](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/16/seattles-new-maestro-makes-cautious-debut-with-hits-some-misses/) - SEATTLE – Xian Zhang began her tenure as Seattle Symphony music director with a concert designed to please, joining pianist Simon Trpčeski in a glorious account of Grieg's Concerto in A minor. Works by Smetana and Wagner fared less well.
- [Dudamel Gives NY Phil Audience Zesty Preview Of Directorship Ahead](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/15/dudamel-gives-ny-phil-audience-zesty-preview-of-directorship-ahead/) - NEW YORK – Gustavo Dudamel doesn't officially become New York Philharmonic music and artistic director until 2026, but his season-opening concert with the orchestra Sept. 11, mixing Ives and a premiere, was the sort of fare I'd hoped for.
- [Celebrating Art Song, Concerts Honor Music Quieted In Modern Era](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/10/celebrating-art-song-concerts-honor-a-form-missing-in-modern-era/) - CHICAGO – Amid shrinking music education and changing tastes, the audiences for art song have dwindled. But in programs titled War and Peace, Art Song Chicago, with tenor and guiding spirit Nicholas Phan (right), renewed its advocacy.
- [Evocation Of The Andes Takes Listeners To Peak In Summer Fest Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/09/evocation-of-the-andes-takes-listeners-to-peak-on-string-quartet-bill/) - PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Gabriela Lena Frank's 2001 string quartet, Leyendas: An Andean Walkabout, which reflects her mother's Peruvian heritage, was a highlight of the 2025 Music on the Strait, held in this small city northwest of Seattle.
- [Chi-cago, Chi-cago, That Musicological Town: Let Me Show You Around](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/10/chi-cago-chi-cago-that-musicological-and-musical-town/) - CHICAGO – Amid highlights of a vibrant autumn season was the convergence of more than 1,700 historians, theorists, composers, and recording artists, even as Lyric Opera and Chicago Opera Theater staged two versions of the Fidelio story.
- [Fest Within A Festival Touts Chamber Music At A Passionate Pitch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/02/fest-within-a-festival-offers-chamber-music-at-a-passionate-pitch/) - PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. – Over the last decade, the Olympic Music Festival has run a two-week chamber program mixing young musicians with professionals. This year's fare boasted heated whirls with works by Franck and Rachmaninoff.
- [Countertenor, A Funky Band, And Arcane Rep. Impression: Meh-Plus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/31/countertenor-a-funkyband-and-arcane-rep-impression-meh-plus/) - JOLIETTE, Quebec – Against the bucolic setting of the Lanaudière Festival, countertenor Franco Fagioli sang arias by mostly obscure composers with the period-instrument Orchestre de l’Opera Royal de Versailles led by Stefan Plewniak.
- [Wagner At Bayreuth: Ringing Traversal From 'Lohengrin' To 'Siegfried'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/08/wagner-at-bayreuth-ringing-traversal-from-lohengrin-to-siegfried/) - BAYREUTH – The 2025 Bayreuth Festival, which annually celebrates Wagner's music dramas, was a mix of pleasures and provocations, a menu that included Parsifal (pictured at right) and a new production of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.
- [Cellar Music: Pairing Beethoven, Wine Lends Sparkle To Vintage Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/17/cellar-music-pairing-beethoven-wine-lends-sparkle-to-vintage-fest/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – For lovers of wine and chamber music, an ideal event would offer both, and that’s the beauty of the Willamette Valley Chamber Music Festival, which celebrated its 10th anniversary in bucolic settings near Portland.
- [Coming-Of-Age Memoir Chronicles Life Abloom  Amid Musical Legends](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/02/coming-of-age-memoir-as-backstage-view-of-conductors-at-the-top/) - BOOK REVIEW – In her observant and personal book I Knew a Man Who Knew Brahms, writer, broadcaster, and arts consultant Nancy Shear looks back six decades to her place in the royal swirl of Stokowski, Ormandy, and Rostropovich.
- [A Classical Guitarist's Unlikely Concert Tour Unveils A Chinese Star](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/27/a-classical-guitarists-unlikely-concert-tour-unveils-a-chinese-star/) - CHARLOTTE, N.C. – A national solo tour by any classical guitarist, let alone a Chinese female guitarist, is unusual. But not far into a recital that swung from Albéniz to popular Americana, the virtuosic Xuefei Yang was drawing whoops.
- [With Buoyant Concerto For Orchestra, Marsalis Hits All The Right Notes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/11/with-buoyant-concerto-for-orchestra-marsalis-hits-all-the-right-notes/) - LOS ANGELES – Wynton Marsalis' latest creation for symphony orchestra, which received its U.S. premiere at the Hollywood Bowl under Rafael Payare, is a lot of fun. And for now, the familiar influence of Duke Ellington seems to have fled.
- [With A Swell Of Voices, Recording Embellishes Florence Price Legacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/25/with-a-swell-of-voices-recording-embellishes-florence-price-legacy/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Having recorded all of her symphonies, conductor John Jeter, a Price devotee, now embraces a rarely heard aspect of the composer's musical skill: her choral works. Three pieces are world-premiere recordings.
- [Martinů's Dreamscape: Revisiting The Creepy Comedy Of 'Julietta'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/22/revisiting-the-elusiveoperatic-dreamscape-of-martinus-julietta/) - ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON – The extra focus of minimal stage trappings allowed this prodigious, complex opera to succeed at the Bard Festival of Music, with a young cast and the American Symphony Orchestra conducted by Leon Botstein.
- [Fairies And Foolishness As G&S Romp 'Iolanthe' Lights Up Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/08/fairies-and-foolishness-as-gs-romp-iolanthe-lights-up-carnegie-hall/) - NEW YORK – Ted Sperling led his MasterVoices and a number of Broadway luminaries in a satisfying performance of Gilbert and Sullivan's 1882 comedy. Though the audience was disappointingly small, the response was positive.
- [Poiesis Quartet Wins Competition, But Just Getting There Is A Win](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/09/04/poiesis-quartet-wins-competition-but-just-getting-there-is-a-win/) - BANFF, Alberta – While the Cincinnati-based foursome hauled away some $500,000 (Canadian) in prizes at the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition, the event is a reliable career boost for every ensemble invited to participate.
- [Early Music Fest Spins Timeless War Between Puppets And Masters](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/20/early-music-festival-revisits-old-contest-of-puppets-masters/) - INNSBRUCK – Under the thematic banner "Who holds the strings?," the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music juxtaposed singers with marionettes, examining power relations among mortals in a revival of Caldara's 1718 opera Ifigenia in Aulide.
- [When Venezuelans Get Waylaid, LA Phil Turns To A Starry Workaround](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/15/when-venezuelans-get-waylaid-la-phil-finds-a-starry-workaround/) - LOS ANGELES – Salvaging what appeared to be another cultural embarrassment perpetrated in far-off Washington, D.C., the LA Phil, conductor Elim Chan, and violinist James Ehnes stood in for the Hollywood Bowl's unavailable guests.
- [Two Concerts Tell Tale Of Classic Adventures At Summer Festivals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/13/two-concerts-tell-tale-of-classic-adventure-at-summer-festivals/) - CHICAGO – Typically set in a relaxed atmosphere and drawing open-minded audiences, festival programming tends to veer from regular-season convention. Such was the case on consecutive days at Chicago's Grant Park and Ravinia.
- [Still Bravura Band At 50, Australians Celebrate In Spirit Of New Promise](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/12/bravura-band-at-50-australians-celebrate-in-look-ahead-mode/) - CANBERRA – Mixing a world premiere with works by Gershwin and Shostakovich featuring pianist Alexander Gavrylyuk, the Australian Chamber Orchestra and longtime leader Richard Tognetti opened their next chapter with familiar fire.
- [Quartet Founder Talks Beethoven, Bob Dylan On New 'Classical Gas'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/10/quartet-founder-talks-beethoven-bob-dylan-on-new-classical-gas/) - PERSPECTIVE - Joining Gail Wein on her podcast, violinist Colin Jacobsen, co-founder of the Brooklyn Rider string quartet and a composer, explores the foursome's new enterprise called "Citizenship Notes," honoring the nation's birth.
- [Ever The Star, Fleming's Light Transfigures Death At 'Milestones' Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/08/still-the-star-flemings-light-transfigures-death-at-milestone-festival/) - SAN DIEGO – In a triumph of artistry and taste, soprano Renée Fleming performed Richard Strauss' Four Last Songs at the La Jolla Music Society's SummerFest. Another take on finality came in Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time.
- [At Festival By Numbers, Adding Vocal Program Lifts Pleasure Quotient](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/06/in-festival-by-numbers-adding-vocal-program-lifts-pleasure-quotient/) - MENLO PARK, Calif. – Music@Menlo, which has always come up with fresh umbrella themes, chose numerology for its 23rd season: duet, trio, quartet, etc. In the midst of it all, they inserted "Let's Add Voices," and that's where I figured in.
- [In Spirit Of Harmony, Pacific Northwest Fests Showcase Their Wares](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/06/in-spirit-of-harmony-northwest-music-fests-showcase-their-wares/) - PERSPECTIVE – In a corner of the classical music world that features cooperation rather than competition, the Seattle Chamber Music Society and Chamber Music Northwest accented their musical smorgasbords with a bit of sharing.
- [The Ninths Of Mahler, Beethoven: Two Worlds Converge At A Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/05/the-ninths-of-mahler-beethoven-two-worlds-converge-at-a-festival/) - BOULDER, Colo. – To close its 49th season, the Colorado Music Festival Orchestra under Peter Oundjian offered the classical grandeur of Beethoven, with chorus and soloists, countered by Mahler's purely orchestral music of farewell.
- [Mediterranean Music: Chamber Festivals Put Accent On Togetherness](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/08/01/mediterranean-music-at-two-chamber-fests-accent-on-togetherness/) - PERSPECTIVE – At pianist Beatrice Rana's ninth Classiche Forme festival in Italy, the keyboard became a heartbeat rather than a spotlight, while pianist Filipe Pinto‑Ribeiro's 11th Verão Clássico & Academia balanced mastery with master classes.
- [Josephine Baker Meets Leoncavallo's Clowns; Depth Trumps Verismo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/30/josephine-baker-meets-leoncavallos-clowns-or-verismo-meets-depth/) - ST. LOUIS – Union Avenue Opera's contrast between composer Tom Cipullo’s complex portrait of the chanteuse and Leoncavallo’s lurid tale of betrayal and passion was perhaps too strong to make the combo work as a double bill.
- [Smetana Bicentennial, U.S. Opera Premiere Both Arrive A Bit Late](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/29/smetana-bicentennial-u-s-opera-premiere-both-arrive-a-bit-late/) - ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, N.Y. – If North America largely missed last year's 200th anniversary of the composer's birth, conductor Leo Botstein made amends leading the first U.S. staging of Smetana's 1868 rescue opera Dalibor.
- [Fresh Voices, Concepts Illuminate Bel Canto In Pair Of Opera Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/27/fresh-voices-concepts-illuminate-verdi-bellini-in-sparkling-concerts/) - NEW YORK – Teatro Nuovo concluded this year’s six-week bel canto boot camp with a polished account of Verdi's original Macbeth and a view of Bellini’s La Sonnambula that offered a vivid illustration of the project's educational goals.
- [Gothic 'Vanessa': Barber's Opera Pared To Its Stark, Chilling Core](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/22/barbers-vanessa-scaled-back-to-its-gothic-chilling-core/) - WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass. – In a concise, emotionally charged production at the Williamstown Theater Festival, Heartbeat Opera combined an excellent cast with minimal staging and effective lighting to conjure a tale of passion, self-delusion, and loss.
- [After Modulating Away From Key Center, Fest Puts The B Back In Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/18/after-modulating-away-from-key-center-fest-puts-b-back-in-bach/) - EUGENE, Ore. – Under new artistic leadership, the 2025 Oregon Bach Festival, titled "Uncovering Bach," has returned to the music of its main man after several years of drifting through programs that had little to do with Johann Sebastian Bach.
- [Elegant Quartet Affirms Grosse Fuge As Fixture (See Cellphone For Info)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/17/elegant-quartet-affirms-grosse-fuge-as-fixture-see-cellphone-for-info/) - ORFORD, Quebec – Through an all-Beethoven concert in an intimate hall, the Calidore String Quartet displayed big-picture confidence and attention to detail. But with printed programs fashionably absent, a screen would have to do.
- [Two Venerable Pianists Bring Insight Of Years To Tchaikovsky, Rzewski](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/16/two-venerable-pianists-bring-wisdom-of-years-to-tchaikovsky-rzewski/) - NEW YORK – Some 174 years of accumulated pianistic wisdom unfolded over two recitals when Jerome Lowenthal, 93, and Ursula Oppens, 81 (right), played expansive works, reminding their listeners that music knows no retirement age.
- [NY's Summer Festivals Offer Wide Appeal, And They're Priced To Sell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/15/nys-summer-festivals-offer-wide-appeal-and-theyre-priced-to-sell/) - NEW YORK – New York City’s 2025 summer festival season is proving to be the most exciting in quite a few years, on the experimental side, often theatrical, and at prices that invite a wider public than might afford main stage concerts.
- [Capping Berlin's Opera Season, Two Excursions Into The New And Bold](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/14/capping-berlins-opera-season-two-excursions-into-the-bold-creative/) - BERLIN – Ample government subsidies have allowed German companies to take risks, and that spirit has been bolstered by the enthusiasm of a young, hip audience quite different from the older crowd that shows up for more traditional fare.
- [Midsummer Bach Fest Flits From Mendelssohn To 'Art Of Fugue' In Bits](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/24/midsummer-bach-dream-flits-from-mendelssohn-to-art-of-fuge-in-bits/) - CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. – With the magical opening bars of A Midsummer Night’s Dream overture, the Carmel Bach Festival launched its 88th season, ushering its audience into a world far from the summer's heat, storms, and politics.
- [Lalo Schifrin: Reflecting On A Stylish Composer And A Personal Loss](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/10/lala-schifrin-reflecting-on-a-stylish-composer-and-a-personal-loss/) - PERSPECTIVE – As you get older, the departures of people who played significant roles in your work and imagination become more numerous and saddening. Certainly Schifrin's passing on June 26 affected me this way – and more than I expected.
- [Double Dealing: Sharp Contrast In Two Takes On 'Queen Of Spades'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/08/pique-dame-in-spades-vienna-and-berlin-offer-sharply-different-views/) - PERSPECTIVE – Pique Dame (Queen of Spades) was Tchaikovsky’s favorite of his works, and this summer one could see it twice in the span of a week: at the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Vienna State Opera, where Anna Netrebko was thrilling.
- [Ariel Quartet Embarks On Beethoven Journey, Exploring Its Own DNA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/07/ariel-quartet-embarks-on-beethoven-journey-exploring-its-own-dna/) - PERSPECTIVE – "His music is one of the main reasons we do what we do," says Jan Grüning, violist with the ensemble in residence at the Cincinnati College-Conservatory. Their CD release of the Op. 18 quartets launches a complete cycle.
- [Eclectic Festival Mixes Historical 'Siegfried,' Spin On Shostakovich](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/06/loves-in-festival-air-along-with-wagner-and-a-spin-on-shostakovich/) - DRESDEN – Jan Vogler, right, artistic director of the Dresden Music Festival since 2009, offered Wagner's opera in concert on period instruments, a fado singer, and a concept of Shostakovich's Fifth Symphony blending musicians with dancers.
- [In Polished Simplicity, 'Ring' Cycle Reflects Heroic Performances](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/03/in-polished-simplicity-ring-cycle-reflects-heroic-performances/) - VIENNA – The Vienna State Opera staging, seen June 20-28, was a mesmerizing musical journey with impassioned, high-volume conducting from Philippe Jordan and a gifted cast. Tenor Andreas Schager sang both Siegmund and Siegfried.
- [Dissonance Of Threads Tangles A 'Jazz' Opera, With No Jazz In Weave](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/02/dissonance-of-threads-tangles-a-jazz-opera-with-no-jazz-in-weave/) - NEW YORK – The premiere of The Tin Angel, an opera by composer Daniel Asia and novelist-cum-librettist Paul Pines, was an intriguing experiment touched by eloquent poetry, but it suffered from a tumult of characters and thematic ambitions.
- [Hosting Cliburn Players Turns Fort Worth Into Dynamic "Pianotown"](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/10/hosting-cliburn-aspirants-turns-fort-worth-into-harmonious-pianotown/) - FORT WORTH - Professionals at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, which just ended its 17th keyboard extravaganza, work full time to keep the multifaceted event humming as volunteers provide vital support around the city.
- [A Rare Baroque Opera, Intimate But Epic, Gets Grandly Serious Revival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/07/01/a-rare-baroque-opera-intimate-but-epic-gets-grandly-serious-revival/) - CHICAGO – The Haymarket Opera Company, which in its 15-year history has risen to North American prominence among Baroque producers, took another ambitious leap with a stylishly detailed staging of Leonardo Vinci's Artaserse.
- [Symphonic Spectacles Display High Standard Of Polish Orchestras](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/27/showcasing-spectacle-of-grand-symphonies-polish-orchestras-shine/) - PERSPECTIVE – Most cities in Poland have at least one orchestra, with Warsaw, Katowice, and Krakow home to three of the best. And like the country itself, they rose from the ashes of World War II and the dark days of Soviet control.
- [Departing On Track 16: Board Here For The Best View Of Odd Liszt Trek](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/26/departing-on-track-16-board-here-for-the-best-view-of-odd-piano-trek/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Pianist Leif Ove Andsnes' new recording, in part with the Norwegian Soloists' Choir, is a curious mix. To find immediate reward, I suggest jumping in late for his sublime account of Liszt's Six Pensées poétiques, or Consolations.
- [Versatile Baritone Wins Prize For Art Song In Montreal Competition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/04/versatile-baritone-wins-prize-for-art-song-in-montreal-competition/) - MONTREAL – Prevailing in a field of 24 singers, Colombian-born Laureano Quant, who resides in Chicago, snagged a $10,000 (Canadian) cash award in capturing the Art Song Prize at the 2025 Concours musical international de Montréal.
- ['Don't Go!' But Salonen Has Left The Building, His Mahler Still Ringing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/16/dont-go-but-salonen-has-left-the-building-mighty-mahler-ringing/) - SAN FRANCISCO – It was a bittersweet evening in the City by the Bay. Esa-Pekka Salonen, a huge catch for the San Francisco Symphony in 2020, led a tremendous Mahler Second, the swan song of his shockingly abbreviated term as music director.
- [Rebecca Wishnia Wins William Littler Prize For Work By Younger Critics](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/29/rebecca-wishnia-wins-william-littler-prize-for-music-criticism/) - BREAKING NEWS – The San Francisco-based violinist and critic is the first winner of the award named for, and supported by, William Littler, a longtime writer for the Toronto Star and member of the Music Critics Association of North America.
- [Beyond 'Carmen': CDs, Book Widen Perspective On Bizet's Creative Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/11/beyond-carmen-cds-book-widen-perspective-on-bizets-prodigious-art/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The Center for French Romantic Music has released the sixth in its Portraits series, this one a bundle of four discs and book offering five hours of fascinating works by the short-lived composer that are little known to music lovers.
- [Pianist Beatrice Rana, Virtuoso With The Gift Of Master Story-Teller](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/19/pianist-beatrice-rana-virtuoso-with-the-gift-of-master-story-teller/) - PERSPECTIVE – What distinguishes Rana’s playing is an exceptional technical mastery coupled with singular freedom of expression. One can hardly connect her poise at the piano with the power and intensity that emerge from the instrument.
- [In Hungarian Recording Of Mythic French Opera, Style Reigns With King](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/25/language-is-hungarian-style-authentic-french-in-mythic-lalo-opera/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – This account of Lalo's Le roi d'Ys, another enterprise of the historically meticulous foundation Bru Zane, boasts a fine cast featuring a Dutch soprano and an American mezzo-soprano long adept in French repertoire.
- [Brash, Brassy Schuller Ignites Season Finale Capped By French Flair](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/24/brash-brassy-schuller-ignites-season-finale-capped-by-french-flair/) - SEATTLE – The Seattle Symphony's 2024-25 season closer, under conductor emeritus Ludovic Morlot, may have been entitled "Ravel Boléro," but in sum it showcased this tandem shining light on both new and well-established repertoire.
- [In Early-Music Festival's Flight From The Chaos, Love And Beauty Prevail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/20/at-boston-early-musics-escape-from-the-chaos-love-and-beauty-prevail/) - BOSTON – The Boston Early Music Festival's weeklong feast of Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque music, offered in period performances by world-class ensembles, came as a welcome and gratifying respite in these parlous times.
- [Mahlerpalooza: 10-Day Fest Drew 5 Orchestras, Fans From...Everywhere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/23/mahlerpalooza-10-day-fest-drew-5-orchestras-fans-from-everywhere/) - AMSTERDAM – For the third time in its history, the Concertgebouw presented Mahler's complete symphonies, this time played by high-profile ensembles from Budapest, Tokyo, Chicago, and Berlin as well as the Concertgebouw Orchestra.
- [Philip Glass At Large: From Knowing Hands, Music Grand, Intimate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/27/philip-glass-at-large-from-knowing-hands-music-grand-intimate/) - NEW YORK – Philip Glass, 88, is best performed by those who haven’t known a world without him. One such, Gustavo Dudamel, led Glass’ Symphony No. 11 with the NY Philharmonic. Another qualifier, Brooklyn Rider, played Glass quartets.
- [Music's Mainly Mozart, Musicians Are All Stars, Sum Is Unmixed Delight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/23/musics-mainly-mozart-musicians-are-all-stars-sum-is-rediscovered-joy/) - LA JOLLA – The 21 musicians on stage for Mainly Mozart's first 2025 concert personified the allure of the festival's "all-star orchestra" concept: largely concertmasters or principals representing some of the top ensembles from across the U.S.
- [Tawdry, Perverse, Yes, But 'Counterfeit Opera' Is Weather-Proof Hoot](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/13/tawdy-perverse-yes-but-counterfeit-opera-is-weather-proof-hoot/) - NEW YORK – Despite intrusions of rain, and with skeletal staging and musical accompaniment, this updated adaptation of a popular 18th-century entertainment, produced at Little Island, was an energetic charmer that prevailed over conditions.
- [Schiff On His Boycott: 'If I Were A U.S. Citizen, I Would Move To Canada'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/27/schiff-on-his-boycott-if-i-were-a-u-s-citizen-i-would-move-to-canada/) - PERSPECTIVE - "What has been lost is a sense of decency. It’s a new system of values or rather of a lack of values," said 71-year-old pianist András Schiff, explaining his cancellation of U.S. concerts two months into Donald Trump's presidency.
- [Sweeping Change Puts An Irresistible New Face On Spoleto Festival USA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/09/sweeping-change-puts-irresistible-new-face-on-spoleto-fest-usa/) - CHARLESTON – The most awesome classical-music event this season, intertwining 27 new works by living composers with J.S. Bach’s Six Cello Suites, was Alisa Weilerstein’s FRAGMENTS. Also must-see was Britten's Turn of the Screw.
- [Soprano On Schoenberg And Moonstruck Pierrot: Wein's Classical Gas 2.0](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/17/classical-gas-episode-2-lucy-shelton/) - PERSPECTIVE – In her second podcast, Gail Wein chats with soprano Lucy Shelton, who brings her vast experience with modern music to bear in demonstrating the radical sung-speech vocalism Schoenberg used in his atonal Pierrot lunaire.
- [As Orchestra, Um, Brass Gathers, Golden Tribute Is Paid To Marin Alsop](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/17/as-orchestra-um-brass-gathers-golden-tribute-paid-to-conductor-alsop/) - SALT LAKE CITY – At the 80th national conference of the League of American Orchestras, which drew representatives of 630 ensembles, the league conferred its annual Gold Baton Award and highest honor on the veteran conductor.
- [Aspen Festival To Mark 75 Years As Wellspring Of Musical Nourishment](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/24/aspen-music-festival-will-mark-75-years-of-musical-nourishment/) - ASPEN – More than 250 performances, master classes, lectures, and other events are planned for this celebratory season. Founded in 1949, the festival will offer special reminiscence concerts to welcome alumni spanning more than 50 years.
- [For Jerusalem Quartet, Shostakovich Cycle Is   Dive Into Elusive Layers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/17/for-jerusalem-quartet-shostakovichs-cycle-is-deep-dive-into-layers/) - PERSPECTIVE – Ahead of the ensemble's complete turn through the 15 works April 21-30 in Cleveland, its founding cellist, Kyril Zlotnikov, reflected on an arc of music not even begun until well into Shostakovich's often perilous artistic life.
- [Salome Is Fraught Sum Of Her Younger Selves In Met's Radical Version](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/02/salome-painted-as-sum-of-her-younger-selves-in-mets-radical-version/) - NEW YORK - This awesome, perhaps even brilliant take on Strauss' opera, created by Claus Guth and starring Elza van den Heever, utilizes multiple incarnations of Salome at various ages, making Oscar Wilde's lurid spin on the biblical tale new.
- [On A German Sojourn: Mixed Night Of Mahler, Mozart In A Brash Romp](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/05/on-a-german-sojourn-earthbound-mahler-and-mozart-in-a-brash-romp/) - PERSPECTIVE – Sakari Oramo led the Berlin Philharmonic in an uneven pairing of the Adagio from Mahler's 10th Symphony and Das Lied von der Erde, while in Munich the Bavarian State Opera offered a spicy take on Così fan tutte.
- [New-Wave Conductor's Chicago Concert Shows Sea Change On Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/23/new-wave-conductors-chicago-concerts-tell-sea-change-on-podium/) - CHICAGO – The energy of Lahav Shani's program with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra reflected how younger conductors are forging a new sound world. Shani, a 35-year-old Israeli, is a friend of CSO music director-designate Klaus Mäkelä, 28.
- [G.I. Jack (The Ripper): Opera Sketches A Killer Who Wasn't A Happy Kid](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/18/g-i-jack-the-ripper-opera-spins-tale-of-killer-who-wasnt-a-happy-kid/) - VIENNA – Theater an der Wien offered the premiere of Voice Killer by composer Miroslav Srnka and librettist Tom Holloway, based on the historical record of an American soldier who was hanged after strangling three women in 1942.
- [Pied Piper (On Flutes) Leads Ojai On A Long, Winding Road To Fun](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/12/pied-piper-on-flutes-leads-ojai-on-a-long-winding-road-to-fun/) - OJAI, Calif. – Claire Chase, multi-flutist and music director of the 2025 Ojai Festival, presided over four crammed days of music-making. Most concerts took place in the ever-ambient (sounds of crickets, birds, frogs) outdoor Libbey Bowl.
- [Payare, Going Big, Links 'Erde' Of Mahler, Earth Of Indigenous Cultures](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/06/03/montreal-so-going-big-again-links-worlds-of-mahler-native-cultures/) - MONTREAL – Leading the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, music director Rafael Payare made compelling connections between Das Lied von der Erde and two world premieres that reflected the history and trials of Canada's native peoples.
- ['What Belongs To You' Captures Critics' Prize For Best New Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/28/what-belongs-to-you-captures-critics-prize-for-best-new-opera/) - BREAKING NEWS – David T. Little's monodrama, "a poetic and sensitive work that conveys the chaos of adult desire and the traumas of gay childhood," is the winner of the 2025 Award conferred by the Music Critics Association of North America.
- [Artfully Manic Delivery Of Comic Opera Proves Salieri Was No Joke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/27/artful-serious-delivery-of-comic-opera-proves-salieri-was-no-joke/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – A recording of Cublai, gran kan de’ Tartari is the sixth Salieri CD release by Christophe Rousset and his ensemble, Les Talens Lyriques, who seem bent on undoing damage done to the composer by the film Amadeus.
- [To Be 'Hamlet,' Or Not? Spin On An Early Opera Bends Knee To The Bard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/25/to-be-hamlet-or-not-spin-on-an-early-opera-conflates-with-the-bard/) - VIENNA – The first Hamlet opera, composed in 1705 by the long-forgotten Francesco Gasparini, whose Ambleto is based not on Shakespeare but on their common source, got a Shakespearean refit for its revival at the Theater an der Wien.
- [Aspiring Composers Get A Leg Up; Audiences Are On Their Feet, Cheering](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/22/young-composers-get-a-leg-up-audiences-are-on-their-feet-cheering/) - MINNEAPOLIS – For the lucky composers chosen to participate in the Minnesota Orchestra's Composer Institute, performance of their music is only the culmination of an intense, multi-day immersion in diverse cultural life of an orchestra.
- [Barrage Of Jazz Riffs Deepens The Blue In Gershwin's 'Rhapsody'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/21/barrage-of-jazz-riffs-deepen-the-blue-in-gershwins-rhapsody/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Pianist Makato Ozone made a splashy debut with the Oregon Symphony in a jazz-infused performance. Under conductor Kevin John Edusei, the pianist, whose fans flooded the hall, wove in his own electrifying improvisations.
- [Love, Light, Letters: Song Cycle Embraces Painter, Photographer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/19/love-light-letters-song-cycle-embraces-painter-photographer/) - NEW YORK – Kevin Puts' The Brightness of Light, a setting of correspondence between Georgia O'Keefe and Alfred Stieglitz tracing the arc of their relationship, was performed by Renée Fleming and Rod Gilfry with the New York Philharmonic.
- [Percussion Recording Becomes Memorial For Featured Tabla Master](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/19/percussion-recording-becomes-memorial-for-spotlighted-tabla-master/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Third Coast Percussion's 20th anniversary album was transfigured when the celebrated tabla player Zakir Hussain died two months after his recording sessions for his own work Murmurs with the Chicago-based group.
- ['Die Frau Ohne Schatten' Sinks In A Cumbersome Production Sans Taste](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/16/woman-without-shadow-confronts-a-production-sans-taste-relevance/) - AMSTERDAM – Katie Mitchell, director of Strauss' fairy tale at the Dutch National Opera, has dismissed Hugo van Hofmannsthal's libretto as "dated and misogynistic," declaring her own largely unfortunate take a “feminist sci-fi thriller.”
- [Pulled From Shadows: 'Simon Boccanegra' As Verdi's Original Vision](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/15/simon-boccanegra-in-verdis-first-vision-pulled-from-shadows/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – It's usually the 1881 revival version that one encounters, and the impression not surprisingly betrays something spliced from two eras of Verdi's life. Now Mark Elder leads an integrated recording of the work written in 1857.
- [Not For End Of Time: With Nod To Messiaen, A Quartet For Our Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/12/not-for-the-end-of-time-but-quartet-for-our-time-with-nod-to-messiaen/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The Anzû Quartet, combining violin, cello, clarinet, and piano as Messiaen did in his Quatuor pour la fin du temps and dedicated to new music using that specific mix, makes its recording debut with two high-intensity works.
- [Marsalis Adds Personal Flair To Film Honoring Jazz Legend Armstrong](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/22/marsalis-adds-personal-flair-to-film-honoring-jazz-legend-armstrong/) - SAN DIEGO – At a screening of the 2010 silent film Louis, fellow New Orleans-bred trumpeter Wynton Marsalis sat in with a 13-member band to play music he'd written or arranged from originals by Duke Ellington, Jelly Roll Morton, and others.
- [Young Stars Performing Youthful Compositions Adds Up To Rare Delight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/05/01/rising-stars-playing-youthful-compositions-proves-radiant-delight/) - ABU DHABI – Four of the world’s leading young string players treated the Abu Dhabi Festival to effusive, radiantly virtuosic performances of miniature works by Schubert, Sibelius, and Glière that are seldom encountered in concert settings.
- [Early-Music Group Casts Engaging New Light On 17th-Century Charmers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/30/early-music-group-casts-engaging-new-light-on-17th-century-charmers/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Codex Rost, a recording of stylishly arranged sonatas and other movements played by violinist Catherine Aglibut and her ensemble, Open Chamber Berlin, makes it easy to grasp the original appeal of these obscure works.
- [Intimate Opera Canvas Painted With A Mother's Crisis Of Resolve, Pain](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/29/motherhoods-painful-art-splashed-on-intimate-canvas-of-chamber/) - PITTSBURGH – Jennifer Higdon's opera Woman with Eyes Closed, based on a Rotterdam art theft and premiered at Pittsburgh Opera, is an intense family drama that probes the question of what lengths a mother would go to protect her child.
- [Mixing Edge, Sensitivity, String Quartet Meta4 Ventures Beyond Canon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/28/mixing-edge-sensitivity-string-quartet-meta4-ventures-beyond-canon/) - SAN DIEGO – As their unusual name (from first-name initials) hints, the Finnish ensemble Meta4 is not your grandfather’s string quartet. At the University of California San Diego, the group offered an eclectic program that has become rare.
- [In A Land Of The Tallest And The Mostest, This Festival Was Middling](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/24/in-land-of-the-tallest-and-the-mostest-this-festival-was-middling/) - DUBAI – One of the seven members of the United Arab Emirates, this modern-day city-state, bursting with growth, is home to the InClassica International Music Festival, where concerts in a gorgeous opera house offered variable rewards.
- [Seattle Opera's New General Director Bows With Season To DEI For](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/24/seattle-operas-new-general-director-bows-with-season-to-dei-for/) - SEATTLE – Alongside The Pirates of Penzance and Carmen, James Robinson's lineup for 2025-26 includes the LGBTQ+ opera Fellow Travelers and the Gay Apparel holiday show hosted by tenor John Marzano in his drag persona, Anita Spritzer.
- [Boston Baroque's Most Original Instrument, Its Founder, Stepping Down](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/23/boston-baroques-most-original-instrument-its-founder-stepping-down/) - BOSTON – Martin Pearlman was in his twenties when he established the period-instrument group then known as Banchetto Musicale. Half a century and many Grammy Awards later, he will retire after a run April 24-27 of Handel's Ariodante.
- [In 'Good News Mass,' Gospel And Blues Mix With Echo Of Bernstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/22/good-news-mass-mixes-gospel-blues-classical-with-echo-of-bernstein/) - LOS ANGELES – American composer and activist Carlos Simon acknowledges that his bountiful, hourlong, 16-movement work, which received its premiere by the LA Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel, owes a debt to Bernstein's 1971 Mass.
- [Transcending Death Only To Watch Life Fray, All On An Opera Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/21/transcending-death-only-to-see-life-fray-all-on-an-opera-stage/) - NEW YORK – Walking home one evening, Godfrey Rainbird, contented married father of two, is struck by a car and dies. Three days later, he miraculously returns to life. That's the setup for Aaron Siegel and Mallory Catlett's opera Rainbird.
- [In Met Opera's Revival, 'Barbiere' Emerges Trim And Musically Charged](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/18/in-met-operas-revival-barbiere-emerges-with-clean-refreshing-shave/) - NEW YORK – The seventh re-appearance of Bartlett Sher's broad and colorful 2006 staging proved an energized and refreshing standout among the Met's revivals this season, with an impressive podium debut by Giacomo Sagripanti.
- [In An Operatic Spectacle Of Courtly Amusements, Two Biblical Bros Bond](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/14/in-operatic-spectacle-of-courtly-diversions-biblical-guys-bonding/) - TORONTO – Marc-Antoine Charpentier's David and Jonathan (1688), revived by Opera Atelier, spotlighted tenor Colin Ainsworth and mezzo-soprano Mireille Lebel in the title roles with Tafelmusik as the pit band led by David Fallis.
- [Of Bees And Piazzolla: Dances Familiar, Bizarre Animate A Violin Album](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/14/of-bees-and-piazzolla-dances-familiar-exotic-fill-album-for-solo-violin/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – “I have found myself at the intersection of music and dance for over 15 years,” says violinist Michael Jinsoo Lim, who is concertmaster of Pacific Northwest Ballet and the featured artist on a far-reaching CD titled Kinetic.
- [Recording Sheds Light On Piano Concertos By Women History Forgot](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/11/recording-sheds-light-on-piano-concertos-by-women-history-forgot/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Conductor Odile de la Martinez and pianist Samantha Ege collaborate on a pairing of the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra in Two Uninterrupted Speeds by Julia Perry and Concerto for Piano and Strings by Doreen Carwithen.
- [In Concert For Strings, Historical Style Melds With A New Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/10/in-concert-for-strings-historical-style-melds-with-a-new-concerto/) - NEW YORK – The program by Sejong Soloists with violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony was an exercise in reaching into the past, a perspective that applied even to the premiere of a double concerto by Israeli-born composer Avner Dorman.
- [Seen In Royal Intimacy, Donizetti's Belle 'Fille' Conquers French Hearts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/09/allons-enfants-donizettis-belle-fille-conquers-french-hearts/) - VERSAILLES – Jean-Romain Vesperini’s brilliant and fizzy new production of La fille du régiment, for L’Opéra royal du château de Versailles, is a mix of wit, humor, and musical vitality. The ornate and lively 18th-century theater offers an added treat.
- [The Saga Of Anne Frank, Sharply Framed Within Gripping Opera For One](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/07/story-of-anne-frank-potently-framed-within-visceral-opera-for-one/) - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Soprano Kathleen Farrar Buccleugh offered a vocally nuanced performance in Opera Birmingham's staging of Grigory Frid’s visceral monodrama with a text culled from the Jewish girl's diary, written while she was in hiding.
- [In A 'Così Fan Tutte' Refitted For Our Time, Mozart Encounters AI](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/06/in-a-cosi-fan-tutte-refitted-for-our-time-mozart-encounters-ai/) - DETROIT – Yuval Sharon’s new production at Detroit Opera reimagines a story that when played straight, he says, feels out of date at best and an apologia for prejudice at worst. Staged as Despina's revenge, it's a robotic AI deep dive.
- [After A Long Absence, Tchaikovsky's 'Iolanta' Makes Colorful Return](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/02/tchaikovskys-iolanta-makes-colorful-return-after-a-long-absence/) - VIENNA – The one-act opera is being mounted at the Vienna State Opera for the first time since Gustav Mahler conducted it in the 1900-01 season. Soprano Sonya Yoncheva makes a vocally rich and nuanced role debut to head a stellar cast.
- [Festival's Wide Scope Offers Classical Music Writ On Intimate Scale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/01/festivals-wide-scope-finds-classical-music-on-an-intimate-scale/) - SAVANNAH – The 2025 Savannah Music Festival is focused on genre-bending artists and works, and where once the Atlanta Symphony was featured annually, chamber music rules, and soloists, like pianist Michelle Cann (right), hold center stage.
- [Weill-Lerner 'Love Life' Dusted Off, Buffed Up, Made Fascinating Again](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/04/01/weill-lerner-love-life-dusted-off-buffed-up-made-fascinating-again/) - NEW YORK – Recklessly ambitious, bewilderingly epic, the 1948 Kurt Weill-Alan Jay Lerner musical has been periodically resurrected as visionary theater. This smart revival boasts two knockout leads in Kate Baldwin and Brian Stokes Mitchell.
- [Orchestra Is Way Over The Moon With Its New Conductor At Controls](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/30/with-its-new-conductor-orchestra-soars-over-moon-and-then-some/) - SEATTLE – In the first program led by Xian Zhang since her appointment last fall as music director-designate, the Seattle Symphony delivered a supercharged performance of Holst's The Planets enhanced by high-definition images from NASA.
- [Son Of Native American 'Shell-Shaking Culture' Talks Roots On Podcast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/28/son-of-native-american-shell-shaking-culture-talks-roots-on-podcast/) - PERSPECTIVE – On Gail Wein's podcast Classical Gas, Chickasaw American composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, whose works are performed around the world, describes native influences in his music for orchestra and stage.
- [Shattering Convention, Two Engaging Singers Redefine Voice Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/27/shattering-convention-two-engaging-singers-redefine-voice-recital/) - NEW YORK – In separate performances, American soprano Karen Slack (pictured) and Singaporean-British mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, both Grammy winners this year, offered skillfully tailored programs over an exciting range of music.
- [Amid Blast And Balm, String Troupe Maps Out A Walk On The Wild Side](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/26/amid-blast-and-balm-string-troupe-maps-out-walk-on-the-wild-side/) - NEW YORK – Courage and fortitude aren’t typical listening requirements spelled out in pre-performance talks, but at the Darkness Sounding festival, the LA-based Wild Up string collective led by Christopher Rountree warranted fair warning.
- [With A Searing 'Salome,' Opera Company Shows It's Back In The Dance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/25/with-searing-salome-revived-company-shows-its-back-in-the-dance/) - SAN DIEGO – Eleven years after a near-implosion, the 60-year-old San Diego Opera is alive and well. Strauss’ Salome, part of a three-opera season, affirmed a company that can offer an imaginative, well-executed production to a nearly sold-out hall.
- [2 Off-The-Wall Operas, One Starring A Cello, One A Singing Dummy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/23/two-off-the-wall-operas-stretch-the-concept-one-throws-in-singing-dummy/) - NEW YORK – In an evening called "SOLOperas" (maybe pronounced "solo operas"), Experiments in Opera swung from the micro-personal to the cosmic with Jason Cady's This Is Not About Natalie and Anna Heflin's The INcomplete Cosmicomics.
- [Musing On Busoni: Pianist Gets At Roots Of An Undervalued Master](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/20/musing-on-busoni-pianist-gets-at-roots-of-an-undervalued-master/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Pianist Jiayan Sun’s new album Ferruccio Busoni and His Muses looks backward at the personalities who influenced him and forward at the progressive ideas that animated this singular, eclectic, and visionary composer.
- [In Timely Revelations, Recordings Celebrate The March Of Women](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/19/in-timely-revelations-recordings-celebrate-the-march-of-women/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – March is Women’s History Month, and two new recordings salute female composers who should be much better known than they are: instrumental works by Fernande Decruck and songs by Agathe Backer Grøndahl.
- ['The Shining' As Opera Is Mad, Brutal, Tragic In A Horrifically Good Way](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/17/the-shining-as-opera-is-mad-brutal-tragic-in-a-horrifically-good-way/) - PORTLAND, Ore – Based on Stephen King’s horror novel, the opera by composer Paul Moravec and librettist Mark Campbell, which underscores the psychological background of its main characters, glowed in Portland Opera's intense production.
- [As Tradition, Virtuosity Command Center Stage, A Festival Seeks Identity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/17/tradition-virtuosity-hold-center-stage-as-festival-seeks-identity/) - ADELAIDE – On its third artistic director in as many years, the 2025 Adelaide Festival reverted to a formulaic look that has sustained it through 64 years but still struck sparks with a Saariaho opera and a prodigious avant-garde flamenco work.
- [A 'Cosi' Full Of Laughs (The Girls Are Clued In) But Still Edged With Pain](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/13/a-cosi-full-of-laughs-the-girls-are-clued-in-but-edged-with-pain/) - LOS ANGELES – The San Francisco Opera's screwball 2021 version of Mozart's Cosi fan tutte, now ported over to the LA Opera, offers a refreshingly humorous feminist take with an excellent cast of singers led by James Conlon.
- [Starry 'Indigo Heaven' Concerto Is Principal Clarinet's Sparkle Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/12/clarinets-purple-prose-indigo-heaven-concerto-has-its-starry-premiere/) - CHICAGO – Besides delivering clutch solos in big orchestral works, principal players also thrive in the concerto spotlight, as Chicago Symphony clarinetist Stephen Williamson did in the premiere of Christopher Theofanidis' evocative essay.
- [Music Fest Summons Its Summer Warmth In The Intimacy Of Winter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/11/music-fest-summons-its-summer-warmth-in-the-intimacy-of-winter/) - SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Established three decades ago as a summer enterprise, the Sun Valley Music Festival in recent years has spread its winter wings with indoor chamber concerts, this year curated by and spotlighting pianist Joyce Yang.
- [Double Dose Of 'Norma' Offers Rewards But Also Begs Serious Questions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/10/double-dose-of-norma-offers-rewards-but-also-begs-serious-questions/) - VIENNA – While productions at the Vienna State Opera and the Theater an der Wien are both very strong, in light of budget cuts across Europe, it would make sense for the latter, more intimate house to shift focus to operetta or the Baroque.
- [A Powerful 'Moby-Dick' Seizes The Met Stage (Don't Call Him Ishmael)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/08/a-stormy-moby-dick-seizes-the-met-stage-dont-call-him-ishmael/) - NEW YORK – Tenor Brandon Jovanovich heads the cast as the vengeful and obsessive Capt. Ahab in composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer's adaptation of Herman Melville's novel. But the adventure's sole survivor has been renamed.
- [Old Companions Muti, Vienna Phil Light It Up Once More At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/06/old-companions-muti-vienna-phil-light-it-up-once-more-at-carnegie/) - NEW YORK – Over the course of three different programs at Carnegie Hall, conductor Riccardo Muti and the Vienna Philharmonic, a collaboration that dates back more than half a century, offered nothing less than kaleidoscopic musical riches.
- [Orchestra Takes Deep Dive Into Watery Image Of Mankind's Destiny](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/04/orchestra-takes-deep-dive-to-watery-image-of-mankinds-destiny/) - CHARLOTTE, N.C. – John Luther Adams' Become Ocean, played by the Charlotte Symphony under Yaniv Dinur, was an elaborately staged musical reflection on how life emerged from the seas and could return there sooner than we might imagine.
- [Touring U.S., London SO Parades British Classics (With Bernstein, Mahler)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/03/touring-u-s-london-so-parades-british-classics-with-bernstein-mahler/) - NAPLES, Fla. – In his first season as chief conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra, Antonio Pappano is emphasizing homegrown music, and his theme has been evident in the LSO’s tour concerts in California and Florida.
- [Back From Injury, Hahn Offers Brahms Concerto Of Rare Personal Depth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/03/02/back-from-injury-hahn-offers-brahms-concerto-of-rare-personal-depth/) - NEW YORK – Violinist Hilary Hahn returned from a six-month, injury-related hiatus with a distinctive account of the Brahms with the NY Philharmonic under Matthias Pintscher, showing how far she has evolved since I first heard her in the mid-'90s.
- [Amid Candy Hawkers, Spirited New-Music Fest Offers Plenty Of Crunch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/28/amid-candy-hawkers-a-new-music-festival-with-plenty-of-crunch/) - MONTREAL – The candy at one concert of the biennial Montreal/New Musics Festival was free, each wrapped piece bearing the title of a composition. This ambitious series on the theme "Music and Images" was no ordinary event.
- ['Magic Flute' Animation Mirrors Vocal Vitality In Winning Kosky Revival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/26/magic-flute-animation-mirrors-vocal-energy-in-winning-kosky-revival/) - SEATTLE – Judging from the packed audience at this Seattle Opera presentation, director Barrie Kosky's mixture of delightful animation and copious silent-film references continues to speak to opera lovers and curiosity-seekers of all ages.
- [Soft Were The Sounds, Their Meaning Tacit, That The Takács Spun](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/25/soft-were-the-sounds-their-meaning-tactic-that-the-takacs-spun/) - TORONTO – In a performance of Beethoven's String Quartet Op. 18, No. 1, and Brahms' Piano Quintet with Stephen Hough (pictured), the venerable Takács Quartet pushed its wonted understatement close to too little of a good thing.
- [Mahler Venture Begins On Pathway Of Songs, Symphonic Fragments](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/24/dudamel-leads-venture-on-mahler-pathways-in-songs-symphonic-bits/) - LOS ANGELES – Gustavo Dudamel led the LA Philharmonic's three-week "Mahler Grooves" opener with the First Symphony's discarded "Blumine," the Adagio from the Tenth, and songs with Ekaterina Gubanova and Simon Keenlyside.
- [Oliveros' Otherworldly Opera Illuminated As Improv Tour De Force](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/21/oliveros-otherworldly-opera-illuminated-as-improv-tour-de-force/) - LONG BEACH, Calif. – A non-traditionalist in the mold of John Cage, Pauline Oliveros left much to the performers' imagination. Long Beach Opera's production of El Relicario des Animales caught the work's mystically weird perspective on nature.
- [From Diversity's Palette, String Quartet Evokes Vibrant Impressions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/20/dipping-into-palette-of-diversity-leaving-colorful-impression/) - OBERLIN, Ohio – Like their namesake, the Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, the all-female Cassatt Quartet creates art with women at the center. With Brahms and Shostakovich, the foursome offered Dorothy Rudd Moore's Modes.
- ['Lysistrata' As Opera: Musical Riches Power Pitched Battle Over Sex](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/19/lysistrata-as-opera-musical-riches-power-pitched-battle-over-sex/) - BOSTON – Composer/librettist Mark Adamo's take on Aristophanes' bawdy comedy, semi-staged by Odyssey Opera and the Boston Modern Orchestra Project conducted by Gil Rose, comes to grips not only with war but also with fate and identity.
- [Ascending Countertenor Wins The Crowd In Big Solo Debut: At Home](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/17/ascending-countertenor-wins-noisy-approval-in-big-solo-debut-at-home/) - NEW YORK – Brooklyn native Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen aced his first hometown solo recital, a varied program at Carnegie's intimate Weill Hall. His panache and artistry, with pianist John Churchwell, drew listeners' vociferous approval.
- [Historically Apt Practice Spreads Across Epochs, Adding Musical Insights](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/16/historically-apt-practice-spreads-across-epochs-adding-musical-insights/) - PERSPECTIVE – Is there anything to be discovered from historical-instrument performances of Wagner's Ring Cycle or Mahler’s Symphony No. 9, or from music so ancient that any performance is a speculative act of co-composition? Yes, plenty.
- [Another Scarlatti Takes Limelight In Oratorio Of Daniel In The Lion's Den](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/14/another-scarlatti-takes-limelight-in-oratorio-of-daniel-in-the-lions-den/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The imaginative work by Francesco Scarlatti, in its premiere recording by the Armonico Consort under Christopher Monks, displays the influences of Handel as well as the composer's famous older brother Alessandro.
- [On New Tracks, Silkroad Traces Multiethnic Cost Of America's Railways](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/11/on-new-tracks-silkroad-traces-multiethnic-cost-of-americas-railways/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In the13 musical narratives of American Railroad, Silkroad frames the labor and sacrifices, the hidden stories, of the Irish, African American, Chinese, Native American, and Japanese who built the transcontinental railroad.
- [Soprano Ascends To Puccinian Heights With Lyric Opera Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/11/soprano-rises-to-puccinian-heights-with-lyric-opera-of-chicago-orchestra/) - CHICAGO - Sondra Radvanovsky cemented her standing as one of our major operatic artists with a thrilling program, "The Puccini Heroines," comprising 12 arias and encores performed with spotless technique and artistic panache.
- [Heartbeat's 'Salome' Balances Intimacy And Power In Vivid Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/10/heartbeats-salome-balances-intimacy-and-power-in-vivid-staging/) - NEW YORK - The low-budget production of Strauss' potboiler by Heartbeat Opera left the original 100-minute run time nearly intact while reducing the enormous score to eight players of reed instruments and two busy percussionists.
- ['Die Tote Stadt' Reveals Intimation Of Its Depth In Semi-Staged Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/04/die-tote-stadt-finds-at-least-half-life-in-semi-stage-concert/) - BOSTON – Korngold's post-Freudian operatic psychodrama demands to be an organic unit: theater, music, ideas. The Boston Symphony's version, led by Andris Nelsons with Christine Goerke and David Butt Philip, gets at most of that.
- [In Concert Of Thrillers, Salonen Leads His New Bravura Opus For Organ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/02/02/in-concert-of-thrillers-salonen-leads-his-new-bravura-opus-for-organ/) - CHICAGO – Esa-Pekka Salonen, who enjoys a rare double as eminent conductor and composer, shepherded the Chicago Symphony and organist Iveta Apkalna in his Sinfonia concertante, part of a dazzling mix with works by Strauss and Bartók.
- [Concert Is Minimalist, Premiere Elementary: 'Copper Variations'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/31/concert-is-minimalist-premiere-elementary-copper-variations/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – On a program with the world premiere of Andy Akiho’s motoric but playful new work, the ensemble 45th Parallel Universe offered a kaleidoscope of minimalist-influenced music by Philip Glass, Steve Reich, and Daniel Wohl.
- [Pierre Boulez At 100 Honored In Concerts Writ Large And Small](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/30/pierre-boulez-at-100honored-in-concerts-writ-large-and-small/) - NEW YORK – A program by Brooklyn’s Talea Ensemble embraced Boulez's creative life from the original 1945 Notations, and the New York Philharmonic under David Robertson spotlighted the composer at his peak with Pli selon pli.
- [Danish Maestro Brings Accent Of Authenticity To Nordic Music Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/23/danish-maestro-puts-stamp-of-authenticity-on-nordic-music-fest/) - MINNEAPOLIS – While Nielsen concertos figured notably in the Minnesota Orchestra's two-week festival led by music director Thomas Søndergård, the focus was on works by living composers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, and Iceland.
- [In New Piano Concerto, John Adams Wades Into Flow Of Consciousness](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/22/flow-of-piano-concertos-from-adams-widens-into-stream-of-consciousness/) - SAN FRANCISCO – What might technically be called his fifth piano concerto, After the Fall, premiered by the San Francisco Symphony under David Robertson with soloist Vikingur Òlafsson, proved to be fresh, fluent, and instantly attractive.
- [Johann Strauss Bonbon Unwrapped As A Tasty Bicentennial Confection](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/21/johann-strauss-bonbon-unwrapped-as-a-tasty-bicentennial-confection/) - VIENNA – Das Spitzentuch der Königin (The Queen's Lace Handkerchief), a frothy operetta about a self-indulgent king-to-be in Portugal, received a bold staging at the Theater an der Wien to celebrate the composer born in 1825.
- [Berlioz's Grand 'Troyens' Scaled To Concert Stage Revels In Vocal Heroics](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/20/berliozs-grand-troyens-scaled-to-concert-stage-is-heroic-in-vocal-scope/) - SEATTLE – Ludovic Morlot conducted the Seattle Symphony's concert version of the last portion of Berlioz's vast opera with the Seattle Opera Chorus as J'Nai Bridges and Russell Thomas scored twin triumphs in role debuts as Dido and Aeneas.
- [In An Exotic Travelogue, Wafting Down Silk Road With Oslo Wind Players](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/29/in-an-exotic-travelogue-wafting-down-silk-road-with-oslo-wind-players/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On a superb CD, the Oslo Kammerakademi performs two colorful works it commissioned, plus two by Saint-Saëns and André Caplet, all evoking Eastern lands from China to Persia (today: Iran), Afghanistan, and Mongolia.
- [The Boy Mozart's Riot Of Royalty, Vocal Bling: 'Mitridate' Video Glitters](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/17/the-boy-mozarts-riot-of-royalty-vocal-bling-mitridate-video-glitters/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – This December 2022 taping of the 14-year-old composer's first important opera, a vocal high-wire act, features Les Musiciens du Louvre led by Marc Minkowski at the Staatsoper Berlin. Its lofty musical values deserve notice.
- [In Dreamscape Concert, French Maestro Weaves Legends And Mysteries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/28/concert-as-dreamscape-french-maestro-invokes-phantasmagorical-fare/) - NEW YORK – In an evocative program of Romantic songs and choruses titled "My Dream," 40-year-old countertenor-turned-conductor Raphaël Pichon led the Orchestra of St. Luke's, soprano Ying Fang, and baritone Christian Gerhaher.
- [With Just Piano, Mozart In Vast Space, Yundi Li Strikes A Personal Note](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/16/with-just-piano-mozart-in-vast-space-yundi-li-fosters-air-of-intimacy/) - VANCOUVER – Some presenters might have hesitated over Li's all-Mozart recital in the cavernous old Orpheum Theatre, a refurbished 1920s movie palace seating 2,780, but the pianist managed to create an atmosphere of intimacy.
- [2 Composer-Performers Merge Personalities In Rarefied Concert Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/27/composers-as-performers/) - ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Multi-talented composers Caroline Shaw (who sings and plays viola) and Gabriel Kahane (singer-pianist) showcased their new, albeit well-traveled, collaborative work Hexagons, on Jorge Luis Borges' fanciful text.
- [Saint-Saëns Immersion Showcases Orchestra Aglow In Spiffed Up Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/14/saint-saens-immersion-showcases-an-orchestra-aglow-in-spiffed-up-hall/) - SAN DIEGO – Nearly half a season into upgrades at Jacobs Music Center, the San Diego Symphony displayed its musical growth in Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony with soloist Weichang Zhao and Violin Concerto No. 3 with concertmaster Jeff Thayer.
- ['Emperor' Meets Kings: Beethoven, Ellington With Towering Fanfare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/14/emperor-meets-kings-beethoven-ellington-and-towering-fanfare/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Under the banner "Leaders and Pathbreakers," the Oregon Symphony bundled Ellington's Three Black Kings and Beethoven's Emperor Piano Concerto with Joan Tower's Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman.
- [In Whirligig Of Time, Opera Spins Together Crises Of Generations](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/13/in-whirligig-of-time-opera-spins-together-crises-of-generations/) - NEW YORK – Several truths were revealed at the world premiere of the chamber opera Eat the Document at the HERE Mainstage: Everything changes. Everything stays the same. Opera and musical theater are not strictly separate genres.
- [Renaissance Man Looks Into Music's Mirror And Sees Humanity's Image](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/08/renaissance-man-looks-into-musics-mirror-and-sees-image-of-humanity/) - BOOK REVIEW – In his book We Are Music, the polymath John Sharpley grapples with the meaning of music, and the multicultural embrace of his process poses an invitation to examine who we are through this timeless, pervasive medium.
- [Classical Critic Found Own Way Into Craft Via Creative Portal Of Jazz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/21/classical-critic-found-rare-entree-to-craft-via-creativity-of-jazz/) - BOOK REVIEW – Mark Stryker, former classical and jazz music critic for The Detroit Free Press and author of Jazz from Detroit, says he fell in love with jazz at age 9 and progressively made his way back from new music to Mozart and Beethoven.
- [Profile Of A Monk, Cast In Resonant Lines Of Renaissance Polyphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/06/a-monks-life-echoed-in-the-resonant-art-of-renaissance-polyphony/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Over the course of its 30 tracks, augmented by texts and printed program, the Brabant Ensemble’s new recording, A Monk’s Life, unfolds as a luminous and intriguing biography of a nameless monk in late-Renaissance Germany.
- [Explorers And A Mixed Vocal Troupe Dig Into New 'Aida' At The Met](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2025/01/03/explorers-and-somewhat-successful-vocal-troupe-revisit-aida-at-the-met/) - NEW YORK – Required of a good Aida are lavish pageantry and strong voices. This politically aware production, dotted with modern explorers, offers spectacle but some uneven singing. Yet with more performances, the show could reach its potential.
- [Challenging Art Of Ives Launches New Podcast Hosted By Gail Wein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/20/podcast-episode-1-testing/) - PERSPECTIVE – The still-controversial composer, born 150 years ago, believed that "music should not come easily," says Donald Berman, president of the Charles Ives Society, the debut guest on Wein's Classical Gas series on our website.
- [Paris Voices: A Sojourn From Modernism To Raw Take on 'Rigoletto'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/24/paris-voices-a-sojourn-from-modernism-to-raw-take-on-rigoletto/) - PARIS – From the Baroque to deconstructed Verdi and an 80th birthday salute to William Christie (right), a week in Paris offered insights into the presentation of vocal music, warhorse and rarity alike. In the mix, modernist works stood out.
- ['Gurrelieder,' Grandiose But Gentler Schoenberg, Blossoms Under Mehta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/18/gurrelieder-grandiose-but-gentler-schoenberg-blossoms-under-mehta/) - LOS ANGELES – The gigantic, 110-minute symphonic song cycle-cantata, arguably the biggest and baddest of its time, received a magnificent performance by Zubin Mehta, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and a cast of hundreds.
- [When Debussy, Ravel Meet Poets, Colloquy Doesn't Quite Rhyme](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/16/when-debussy-ravel-meet-poets-colloquy-doesnt-quite-rhyme/) - NEW YORK – The program "Letters to a Young Poet," with the Diderot String Quartet and two reciters, intermingled works by Debussy and Ravel with letters exchanged between Rainer Maria Rilke and the younger writer Franz Kappus.
- [Czech Phil's Splendid Concerts At Carnegie Take On Festive Aura](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/13/czech-phils-splendid-concerts-at-carnegie-take-on-festive-aura/) - NEW YORK – The orchestra's three concerts, with music director Semyon Bychkov and soloists including pianist Daniil Trifonov, offered works by Dvořák and Janáček performed amid banners and floral arrangements in honor of Czech Music Year.
- [Denk Celebrates Ives, That Thorny American, In Anniversary Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/11/denk-celebrates-ives-that-thorny-american-in-anniversary-recital/) - PERSPECTIVE – Pianist Jeremy Denk will pay tribute to the composer's boisterous, dense, and unapologetically American music, performing Ives' Sonata No. 2 (Concord) on a program Dec. 12 in New York celebrating the 150th year of his birth.
- [Gravity Meets Brilliance: Traversing Beethoven's Violin-Piano Sonatas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/09/gravity-meets-poetry-traversing-beethovens-violin-piano-sonatas/) - SEATTLE – In the intimacy of a 536-seat recital hall, violinist James Ehnes and pianist Orion Weiss performed the full cycle of 10 sonatas over two concerts presented by the Seattle Chamber Music Society, of which Ehnes is artistic director.
- [Amid The Tour Baggage, Clear Signs Of A Bond Between Maestro, Band](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/04/amid-the-tour-baggage-clear-signs-of-a-bond-between-maestro-band/) - PERSPECTIVE – Even for the much-traveled Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, its recent European trek with music director Rafael Payare stands out for a critical consensus that conductor and orchestra are always on the same page.
- [The Met's 'Frau' Unfurls Bounty To Be Savored Again — And Again!](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/03/met-frau-ohne-schatten-unfurls-a-bounty-to-be-savored-again-and-again/) - NEW YORK – How great, indeed thoroughly exciting, is this Metropolitan Opera revival of Strauss' Die Frau ohne Schatten? Like many others I know, I went home and purchased seats for more than one subsequent performance.
- [Royal Concertgebouw, Mäkelä Parade Colors To Kick Off U.S. Tour](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/20/concertgebouw-orchestra-makela-parade-colors-in-first-concert-of-u-s-tour/) - ORLANDO, Fla. – It was a night full of orchestral swells, deep rumblings, and colossal fortes as Amsterdam’s revered ensemble invoked Mahler and Schoenberg to launch a six-date tour led by Klaus Mäkelä, its chief conductor-designate.
- [Smoking Performances At U.K. Opera Houses Now Under Political Fire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/29/smoking-performances-at-u-k-opera-houses-now-under-political-fire/) - PERSPECTIVE – Opera as an art form has been under attack from bureaucrats and cost-cutters on all ends of the British political spectrum as elitist. But this visitor found Britain retains an admirable range of classical vocal experiences.
- [Schoenberg Anniversary Celebrated In Concerts That Honor Modernists](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/27/schoenberg-anniversary-celebrated-in-concerts-that-honor-modernists/) - VIENNA – Upon Arnold Schoenberg’s 150th birthday, in the city where premieres of his music set off public scandals, the annual festival Wien Modern set out to consider the relationship between experimental scores and community.
- [Embracing, Unvarnished Jolie-As-Callas Biopic Hits A High B-Plus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/25/truthful-effortless-callas-the-movie-hits-a-high-b-plus/) - PERSPECTIVE – The new film about Maria Callas (simply titled Maria), starring Angelina Jolie, is reasonably authentic and well made. What's more, Callas fans can be grateful that Jolie’s Oscar-baiting work means the movie will be seen.
- [Northern Lights: Polished Singers Spark Two Canadian Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/05/northern-lights-singers-distinctive-fare-sparks-two-canadian-concerts/) - VANCOUVER – Vancouver Recital Society offered exceptional vocal programs back to back: a local premiere by soprano Barbara Hannigan with pianist Bertrand Chamayou and Schoenberg by Hila Baggio with the Israeli Chamber Project.
- ['Hamlet' Opera Revived, But In Sooth, This Play Was Not The Real Thing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/24/opera-company-aims-at-revival-of-hamlet-but-it-was-not-to-be/) - MONTREAL – For a successful production of Ambroise Thomas' once hugely popular 1868 opera, singers need to act with their voices as well as with their bodies, but this crucial element was sadly lacking in Opéra de Montréal's enterprise.
- [Noon To Midnight Bash: Mix Of Musical Genres With A Beer Lubricant](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/20/noon-to-midnight-bash-musical-genres-mixed-with-a-beer-lubricant/) - LOS ANGELES – In the latest edition of the LA Philharmonic's adventurous musical marathon, elements that made past festivals pop remained in place. $12 got you a day of events cutting across jazz, electronic strains, art installations.
- [Letters Sung Of Love Found, Lost By Juliets And All Their Romeos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/19/letters-sung-of-love-found-lost-by-juliets-and-all-their-romeos/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The Juliet Letters, an evocative collection of songs for the lovelorn by English rocker Elvis Costello and the Brodsky Quartet, opened the Portland Opera season with vocal performances accompanied by string quartet.
- ['Dream Of Red Chamber' In Revised Opera Guise Delivers New Intimacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/12/02/dream-of-red-chamber-in-revised-opera-guise-is-newly-resplendent/) - MINNEAPOLIS – Bright Sheng's opera based on an epic Chinese novel received a lavish production for its San Francisco Opera premiere in 2016. A scaled-down version, newly staged at the University of Minnesota, refocuses the story.
- [One Singer's Memorable Turn As Another Whose Memory Is Fading Away](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/18/lucy-sheltons-memorable-turn-as-aging-opera-star-whose-memory-is-fading/) - NEW YORK – Soprano Lucy Shelton, 80, stars as a retired opera singer in early-stage dementia and living with her adopted son in Lucidity, an intimate one-act opera by composer Laura Kaminsky and librettist David Cote produced by On Site Opera.
- [Majesty, Poetry Signal Davidsen's Arrival As Claimant To La Tosca](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/15/majesty-poetry-signal-davidsens-arrival-as-claimant-to-la-tosca/) - NEW YORK – Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen is the latest in a short list of Nordic voices, including Karita Mattila and Birgit Nilsson, who have taken on Puccini's heroine. Her role debut at the Met came amid a run of Toscas from Berlin to Vienna.
- [Grand Dame Von Stade Makes New Recording, And Declares It Her Last](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/14/von-stade-50-years-on-makes-a-new-recording-but-declares-it-her-last/) - PERSPECTIVE – Frederica von Stade, 79, made her first recording in 1975 with Leonard Bernstein and the New York Philharmonic. She says her latest, new works with Musica Viva NY led by Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez, will close that long chapter.
- [Bryce Dessner's 'Solos' Recording Is A Paradox: It's About Connections](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/12/bryce-dessners-solos-album-is-a-paradox-its-all-about-connections/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The guitarist-composer's latest project is deeply personal, a series of solo works that Dessner calls an “intimate diary.” These miniatures represent special rapport – with a musician, a city, family, all honoring collaboration.
- [Ambitious Album Casts Light On The Composer Inside Conductor MTT](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/11/ambitious-album-project-illuminates-composer-inside-conductor-mtt/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – With Michael Tilson Thomas' 80th birthday looming in December, his far-ranging compositions are finally being unleashed upon the world in a handsomely produced four-CD, five-hour set containing most of his music.
- [Musical Cultures Meld In Renaissance-Based CD Creatively Spiced](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/07/musical-cultures-meld-in-renaissance-based-cd-creatively-spiced/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Although the music on Pilgrimage: Musical Journey of Kryštof Harant to Jerusalem / circa 1600 is almost 500 years old, the album’s message of cross-cultural parallels and joyous interaction is a needed balm today.
- [A Singer Sees The Light In Dark World Of Music Suppressed By Nazis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/06/singer-sees-the-light-in-dark-world-of-music-suppressed-by-nazis/) - PERSPECTIVE – "I fell into a rabbit hole learning about 20th-century composers who found themselves marginalized due to the events of the Second World War,” said tenor Ian Koziara of his new recording devoted to songs once silenced.
- [Día De Los Muertos: Supercharged Concert Rings With Festive Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/11/05/dia-de-los-muertos-pulsing-la-phil-concert-was-one-to-wake-the/) - LOS ANGELES – Día de los Muertos (Day of The Dead) is a Mexican holiday Nov. 1-2 that's catching on north of the border. The LA Phil offered a celebratory program of colorful, propulsive music led by Gustavo Dudamel.
- [Beleaguered Orchestra And New Music Director Hitch Wagon To Mahler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/29/beleaguered-orchestra-and-new-music-director-hitch-wagon-to-mahler/) - PASADENA, Calif. – It was a long, rocky road the Pasadena Symphony Orchestra traveled to get to its first concerts with Brett Mitchell installed as music director. Mahler's Symphony No. 1 capped the program in lavish Ambassador Auditorium.
- [Shedding Words, Two Ensembles Articulate Charm Of Early Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/28/shedding-words-two-ensembles-articulate-charm-of-early-music/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On imaginative CDs featuring instrumental arrangements of vocal works, Lautten Compagney Berlin and Concerto Scirocco display more differences than similarities. And both of these endeavors are worth hearing.
- [New England Dreaming: Small City's Dedication Has Orchestra Thriving](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/25/new-england-dreaming-small-citys-dedication-has-orchestra-thriving/) - SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – Can a city of 155,000 support a professional orchestra? The Springfield Symphony, which has flourished for more than 80 years, tapped its regional roots in a winning concert led by artistic adviser Mei-Ann Chen.
- [Recording, Reassessing Saariaho Opera Whose Worth Is Still Unknown](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/24/recording-reassessing-a-saariaho-opera-whose-worth-is-still-a-question/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The late composer was crestfallen when her second opera, Adriana Mater, got a modest reception. A new recording by the San Francisco Symphony under Esa-Pekka Salonen promises to recharge the conversation.
- [In Concerto 'Fandango,' Violin Spins Old Forms Into Bright New Dances](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/23/in-concerto-fandango-violin-spins-old-forms-into-bright-new-dances/) - VANCOUVER – With the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra led by Andrew Litton, violinist Anne Akiko Meyers energized Mexican composer Arturo Márquez’s traditionally fashioned concerto and its wealth of idioms expressive of Latin America.
- [Conductor Eun Sun Kim, Emerging Wagner Star, Leads Dazzling 'Tristan'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/21/with-her-baton-as-wand-emerging-wagner-star-leads-a-magical-tristan/) - SAN FRANCISCO –The San Francisco Opera's music director, just signed to an extension through 2031, shaped a knockout performance in her first go at Tristan und Isolde with Simon O'Neill and Anja Kampe in the ill-fortuned lovers.
- [Project To Celebrate New Music Outshines Compositions It Honors](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/31/project-to-celebrate-new-music-outshines-compositions-it-honors/) - MONTREAL – Prizes offered by the Canadian-based Azrieli Foundation are generous, the juries impressive, the performances first-rate. And the applicant pool is international. The prizewinning works at a gala choral concert were hit and miss.
- [Greek Wins Conducting Competition; Japanese Hosts Merit Gold, Too](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/19/greek-wins-conducting-competition-japanese-hosts-merit-gold-too/) - TOKYO – Kornilios Michailidis captured the 2024 Tokyo International Conducting Competition with a heated turn in Shostakovich’s Tenth Symphony. British conductor Riley Court-Wood was runner-up in this superbly organized triennial event.
- [Death Of Garcia Lorca, More Gritty Than Grand, Brings Flamenco To Met](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/17/death-of-garcia-lorca-more-gritty-than-grand-brings-flamenco-to-met/) - NEW YORK – Osvaldo Golijov’s entrancing Ainadamar is really a chamber opera, maybe not an opera at all, with flamenco dancers and non-traditional voices. But it belonged in this grand opera house, even in less than ideal conditions.
- [Robeson Compendium: Like Trailblazing Artist, CD Set Is Monumental](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/16/paul-robesons-complete-columbia-rca-hmv-and-victor-recordings/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – A package of 14 CDs plus a 158-page coffee table book includes every recording from 1925-'58 by Paul Robeson, a towering figure who also had a major stage and film career and was a prominent labor and civil rights activist.
- [Spirituals Are Bountiful But Drama Is Slight In Opera On Fisk Singers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/15/tricked-out-as-opera-spiritual-journey-of-fisk-jubilee-singers/) - SEATTLE – Creator and director Tazewell Thompson stitched together a generous collection of 40 spirituals for Jubilee, something of a quasi-operatic theater piece that lacked a solid narrative arc as it unfolded to begin a run at Seattle Opera.
- [Casting An Eerie Light On Music Amid Bones, Dust, And Sarcophagi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/14/casting-an-eerie-light-on-music-amid-bones-dust-and-sarcophagi/) - NEW YORK – The Light After, presented in the crypt beneath the Cathedral of St. John the Divine, initiated a new series from Death of Classical, which uses eerie venues like catacombs and cemeteries. This spot was particularly effective.
- [Orchestra As Lead Voice Rings True In Crowning A Concert 'Ring' Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/11/orchestra-as-lead-voice-rings-true-in-conclusion-of-concert-ring-cycle/) - DALLAS – With performances of Siegfried and Götterdämmerung, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra under Fabio Luisi capped off an ambitious, even history-making Wagner project usually reserved for full staging in opera houses.
- [Percussion Ace Shows Gifts As Composer With Glittering Cello Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/10/percussion-ace-showshis-musical-range-with-a-zesty-cello-concerto/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Music director David Danzmayr led the Oregon Symphony and soloist Jeffrey Ziegler in the West Coast premiere of a concerto by virtuoso percussionist-composer Andy Akiho that struck sparks of rhythmic intensity and wit.
- [Maker Of Multifaceted Art, Venerable Monk Spreads Her Net Anew](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/09/maker-of-multifaceted-art-venerable-monk-spreads-her-net-anew/) - NEW YORK – Meredith Monk has been creating, performing in, and recording multi-disciplinary music-based works for more than 60 years. At age 81, she offered the U.S. premiere of her expansive performance piece and installation Indra’s Net.
- [Three Decades Later, Hamelin Revisits Depths Of The 'Hammerklavier'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/07/three-decades-later-hamelin-revisits-depths-of-the-hammerklavier/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – After a 1993 performance of Beethoven's notoriously difficult Piano Sonata Op. 106, Marc-André Hamelin dropped the work for nearly 30 years. Now it reappears on a CD that reflects the authority of an artist in his sixties.
- ['Auferstehen,' Indeed: Refurbished Hall Rises To Grand Mahler Second](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/07/auferstehen-indeed-refurbished-hall-rises-to-grand-mahler-second/) - SAN DIEGO – With a performance of Mahler's massive and sonorously complex Resurrection Symphony, the San Diego Symphony Orchestra under music director Rafael Payare unveiled the $120-million transformation of its concert hall.
- [Opening With Flourish, Alabama SO Goes Big With Saint-Saëns Third](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/10/02/a-new-music-director-leads-alabama-so-in-new-season-flourish/) - BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – Well-balanced performances of Barber's Violin Concerto with the Australian teen Amaryn Olmeda and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony bespoke qualities the orchestra has sustained through a decade under Carlos Izcaray.
- [Cultish 'Listeners' Gets Lighter Shade of Dark As F-Bombs Rain Down](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/30/no-fs-in-darkness-but-bombs-abound-in-cultish-the-listeners/) - PHILADELPHIA – En route to Opera Philadelphia, Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners, about toxic modern America, has softened into something pungent with dark comic edges. But how many times can we hear the f-word sung before it turns artificial?
- [Illicit Love As Passion And Tragedy Inflames Opera Amid The Faithful](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/30/infidelity-as-passion-and-tragedy-inflames-opera-amid-the-faithful/) - BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Set in a Mennonite community in Northern Mexico, Silent Light by composer Paola Prestini and librettist Royce Vavrek creates a weave of ecstasy, guilt, and heartbreak in a production marking National Sawdust's 10th year.
- [Orchestra's 'Wake Up!' Sets Up Season Opener That's 'Pictures'-Perfect](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/27/orchestras-wake-up-sets-up-season-opener-thats-pictures-perfect/) - TORONTO – Right out of the gate, the Toronto Symphony Orchestra and Gustavo Gimeno renewed dazzling chemistry in Carlos Simon's Wake Up! concerto and finished with a brilliant Pictures at an Exhibition – not the Ravel version.
- [Show Time! Renovated Movie Theater Set For Concert Hall Close-Up](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/26/show-time-renovated-movie-theater-set-for-concert-hall-close-up/) - PERSPECTIVE – When the San Diego Symphony Orchestra inaugurates the newly refurbished Jacobs Music Center on Sept. 28, it will mark the transformation of one of America’s great movie palaces into a state-of-the-art concert venue.
- [War's Horror, Up Close And Lyrical: 'Grounded' Takes Wing At The Met](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/25/wars-horror-up-close-and-lyrical-grounded-takes-wing-at-the-met/) - NEW YORK – What happens to the soul of an Air Force pilot when she gets an intimate view of the destruction she rains down on once-unseen targets? That's the churn summoned by composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist George Brant.
- [As Bruckner Turns 200, Fleshing Out The Ninth With Prelude, Epilogue](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/24/as-bruckner-turns-200-fleshing-out-the-ninth-with-prelude-epilogue/) - MONTREAL – The Orchestre Métropolitain and Yannick Nézet-Séguin observed the composer's bicentennial with a version of the unfinished Ninth Symphony prefaced by a new choral work and "completed' by Bruckner's Te Deum.
- [After Opening Plaudits, Even Best New Operas Face An Unsure Future](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/20/after-opening-plaudits-future-can-be-unsure-even-for-best-operas/) - PERSPECTIVE – Awards are great, says one recipient of the annual prize for best opera from the Music Critics Association of North America, but more performances are the goal. A follow-up revealed some winners surging, others stalled.
- [Reliving The Nightmare Of 'Handmaid's Tale' As Bleak, Harrowing Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/18/reliving-the-nightmare-of-handmaids-tale-as-grim-harrowing-opera/) - SAN FRANCISCO – A revival of Poul Ruders and Paul Bentley’s opera based on Margaret Atwood's futuristic story about women reduced to child-bearers in a theocratic United States, the San Francisco Opera's take was unsettling in its clarity.
- [Mahler On Home Turf: 7th Symphony Heard At Site Of Czech Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/18/mahler-on-home-ground-7th-symphony-heard-atsite-of-czech-premiere/) - PRAGUE – Jakub Hrůša led members of the Czech Philharmonic and Bamberg Symphony Orchestra on the exhibition grounds where the Seventh was first performed in 1908. Mahler's main language was German, but he was a native of Bohemia.
- [Orchestra In Transition Serves Latin Licks, But 'Rhapsody' Isn't Bluesy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/17/orchestra-in-transition-serves-latin-licks-but-rhapsody-isnt-bluesy/) - SEATTLE – After naming Xian Zhang as its music director-designate, the Seattle Symphony opened its season with conductor emeritus Ludovic Morlot leading an upbeat Spanish/Latin program capped by a tepid Gershwin Rhapsody in Blue.
- [Even Greatest Voices Can Succumb To Nerves Or Imbibing Nasty Stuff](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/13/even-greatest-voices-can-fall-to-nerves-or-consuming-bleach/) - PERSPECTIVE – The tenor drank bleach, and one of the great singing careers of that era ended in an instant. With the biopic Maria Callas, which focuses on the years after her voice loss, the fragile lives of singers have taken center stage.
- [Through Different Prism: Rachmaninoff, Wagner As Festival Novelties](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/11/at-lucerne-fest-wagner-and-rachmaninoff-viewed-through-a-glass-weirdly/) - LUCERNE – A Rachmaninoff concert by the Lucerne Festival Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly hardly captured the composer, and a historically informed Walküre, brought from Dresden and led by Kent Nagano, seemed mainly an anomaly.
- [Vänskä And Minnesota Wrap Mahler Cycle With Sonically Glorious Third](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/10/vanska-and-minnesota-wrap-mahler-cycle-with-sonically-glorious-third/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – It took longer than intended, but Osmo Vänskä’s valedictory recording project with his former ensemble, the Minnesota Orchestra, was finally completed this year. It may be the best-sounding Mahler cycle on discs.
- [Recapturing The Magic In Three Eclectic Ballets By A Neglected Master](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/05/cd-recaptures-magic-in-the-eclectic-ballets-of-a-neglected-master/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Founding conductor Gil Rose leads the Boston Modern Orchestra Project in a CD devoted to works by Chicago native John Alden Carpenter (1876-1951) that reflect influences ranging from Tin Pan Alley to "serious music."
- [Born Of A Competition, String Quartet Festival Carves Its Own Niche](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/04/born-of-a-competition-string-quartet-festival-carves-its-own-niche/) - BANFF, Alberta – The Isadore String Quartet and the Viano Quartet, recent winners of the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition, returned to the site of their triumphs as guests of a festival sprung from the celebrated competition.
- [In Valley 6,000 Feet Up, Gem Of A Music Festival Sparkles Four Decades](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/25/in-valley-6000-feet-up-music-fest-flourishes-amid-a-sea-of-flowers/) - SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Situated in this flower-laden resort town, the Sun Valley Music Festival is unlike anything else in its posh setting: It's free. Writers from the Music Critics Association of North America had a close look at the spirited event.
- [Youthful Mozart Opera, With Some New Twists, Is Glittering Vocal Show](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/09/16/youthful-mozart-opera-some-wrinkles-added-is-dazzling-vocal-show/) - BOSTON – Mitridate, written when Mozart was 14, consists mainly of a parade of arias notable for their punishing tessitura and relentless coloratura. The starry cast at Boston Lyric Opera met every challenge with uniform brilliance.
- [Weinberg Opera Rarity And 'Hamlet' In Concert Score High At Salzburg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/22/weinberg-opera-rarity-a-very-french-hamlet-score-high-at-salzburg/) - SALZBURG – This year’s Salzburg Festival boasts an impressive variety, from a new staging of Weinberg’s The Idiot, the summer's hit, to recitals and a concert treatment of Thomas’ opera Hamlet – in which the melancholy Dane is crowned king!
- [Peering Into The Void: Concert Fare Explores Realm Of Mental Health](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/15/peering-into-the-void-concert-fare-explores-realm-of-mental-health/) - NEW YORK – The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center tapped into this year's Summer for the City theme with Schumann and the world premiere of Hannah Kendall’s He stretches out the north over the void and hangs the earth on nothing.
- [Global Youth Ensembles Fill Carnegie Hall With Vibe Of Art And Energy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/14/global-youth-ensembles-fill-carnegie-hall-with-vibe-of-art-and-energy/) - NEW YORK – Some of the summer's most exhilarating music-making emanated from 700 young musicians from five continents and 35 countries forming seven orchestras, a joyful meeting of minds at World Orchestra Week.
- [At A Mountain Festival, Opera Meets Musical As Puccini, Weill Converge](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/12/on-a-mountain-stage-opera-meets-musical-as-puccini-meets-weill/) - CENTRAL CITY, Colo. – In this historical mining town, Central City Opera's 92nd summer season brought together Kurt Weill's 1947 "Broadway opera" Street Scene and Puccini's La fanciulla del West, both presented in inspiring productions.
- [Seeking Higher Crest, Escher String Quartet Rides Wave Of Bartók](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/09/seeking-higher-crest-escher-string-quartet-rides-wave-of-bartok/) - PERSPECTIVE – To stake its claim as one of the world’s top string quartets, the Escher played all six of Bartók’s quartets in a single three-hour March concert in New York. Its second such marathon will take place Aug. 11 in Santa Fe.
- [Opera At Glimmerglass, From Madcap G&S To Verismo, Faithless Gods](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/08/opera-at-glimmerglass-from-madcap-gs-to-verismo-faithless-gods/) - COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – In its first summer season devised by new artistic and general director Rob Ainsley, the festival mixes a vaudevillian Pirates of Penzance with potent accounts of Pagliacci, La Calisto (pictured) and the grisly Elizabeth Cree.
- [Festival Performance, Listeners On Point For Mahler 7th Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/06/mahler-seventh-finds-performance-on-point-festival-audience-too/) - JOLIETTE, Quebec – An audience of more than 3,300 at the Festival de Lanaudière gave their undivided attention to the challenging five-movement score played by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare.
- [Strait But Not Narrow: Washington Music Fest Transcends Mainstream](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/04/strait-but-not-narrow-northwest-music-fest-transcends-mainstream/) - PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Situated on the edge of Olympic National Forest, a ferry ride from Victoria, B.C., the thriving two-week Music on the Strait festival featured pianist Jeremy Denk in music of Beethoven and parts of Ives' Concord Sonata.
- [TIME:SPANS Promises Relief From August Heat At Cool New-Music Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/02/relief-in-hot-august-timespans-offers-cool-new-music-fest/) - NEW YORK – August in New York City is hot and humid. That may be one reason why the esoteric offerings at the TIME:SPANS festival draw so well. The ninth edition unfolds Aug. 10-24 at the air-conditioned DiMenna Center for Classical Music.
- [Multifaceted Concerts Honor Koussevitzky As Tanglewood's Founder](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/08/01/multifaceted-concerts-honor-koussevitzky-as-tanglewoods-founder/) - LENOX, Mass. – The Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Andris Nelsons saluted the 150th birthday of Russian-born composer-conductor Serge Koussevitzky, the BSO's longtime music director and progenitor of the Tanglewood Music Festival.
- [At Tanglewood Festival, New Music's Diversity Spoke In Many Accents](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/30/at-tanglewood-festival-new-musics-diversity-speaks-in-many-accents/) - LENOX, Mass. – In six concerts, Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music, curated by veteran composers Tania León and Steven Mackey, offered works by two dozen composers embracing a wide array of distinctive styles.
- [Mehta, 88, And Old Pal Zukerman Reunite For Mozart At Modern Bowl](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/29/mehta-88-and-old-pal-zukerman-reunite-for-mozart-at-updated-bowl/) - HOLLYWOOD – Conductor Zubin Mehta was back on the Hollywood Bowl stage after a 31-year absence, leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic. With him in the refurbished venue was a friend and familiar partner, violinist Pinchas Zukerman.
- [Spontini Opera Revival Preserves Music, Adds Screams, Tosses Story](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/25/spontini-opera-revival-preserves-music-adds-screams-tosses-story/) - PARIS – Unheard at the Paris Opera since 1854, La vestale returned to the Bastille stage, entrusted to the fashionable, wildly imaginative American-born director Lydia Steier. She and dramaturg Olaf A. Schmitt clearly felt unbound by the original story.
- ['10 Days In a Madhouse' Named Best New Opera By Critics Association](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/24/10-days-in-a-madhouse-named-best-new-opera-by-critics-association/) - BREAKING NEWS – The work by composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch, based on an exposé of asylum abuses, is the winner of the 2024 Award for Best New Opera conferred by the Music Critics Association of North America.
- [Visionary Koussevitzky Will Be Celebrated In Tanglewood Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/22/visionary-koussevitzky-will-be-celebrated-in-tanglewood-concerts/) - To mark the 150th anniversary of the birth of Koussevitzky, the Boston Symphony Orchestra is presenting a weekend full of programs to celebrated the conductor.
- [Flourish Of Beethoven's Last Piano Sonata Gives Pulse To Summer Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/22/flourish-of-beethovens-last-piano-sonata-shows-vitality-of-summer-music/) - TORONTO – For 19 years, Toronto Summer Music has been filling the off-season gap with chamber music and recitals reflected in Ukrainian pianist Vadym Kholodenko's program fashioned around Beethoven's Op. 111 and accented by Prokofiev.
- [It's A Suite Of Brilliance As Conductor, Orchestra Co-star On Dazzling CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/22/convergence-of-mastery-as-composer-conductor-orchestra-light-up-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – American composer Elizabeth Ogonek's three-part All These Lighted Things fits neatly between famous suites by Prokofiev and Ravel in a recording by the greatly undervalued Antwerp Symphony with its conductor Elim Chan.
- [Manic 'Barber,' Blistering 'Salome,' Plus Premiere: Opera In Quiet Iowa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/22/manic-barber-fraught-salome-and-premiere-opera-in-quiet-iowa/) - INDIANOLA, Iowa – In an adventurous 52nd season, Des Moines Metro Opera also caught the nightmarish quality of Pelléas et Mélisande (pictured) and offered the world premiere of composer Damien Geter's American Apollo.
- [In The Rainy Northwest, New Festival Conductor And Breath Of Fresh Air](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/20/in-the-rainy-northwest-new-festival-conductor-and-breath-of-fresh-air/) - BELLINGHAM, Wash. – The seemingly complicated business of finding a new music director for the Bellingham Festival of Music turned out to be an easy task. In his first summer here, Brazilian-born Marcelo Lehninger has proved to be a fine fit.
- [20th-Century American Operas Receding From View On Nation's Stages](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/16/20th-century-american-operas-widely-neglected-by-major-u-s-companies/) - PERSPECTIVE – Even as the presence of new operas has expanded, and works from the distant past endure, what has gotten squeezed out are classic American operas from before the 1987 premiere of John Adams' Nixon in China.
- [New Video Of 'Rusalka' Is Appealing Evidence Of Its Rising Popularity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/10/new-dvd-of-rusalka-is-appealing-evidence-of-its-rising-popularity/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – There are now several plausible video versions from which to choose. Opus Arte's new version, filmed at London's Royal Opera in 2023 and starring Asmik Grigorian with Semyon Bychkov conducting, has considerable virtues.
- [In Leadership Turmoil, Oregon Bach Festival  Showcases Its Vitality](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/08/oregon-bach-festival-in-leadership-turmoil-showcases-its-vitality/) - MOUNT ANGEL, Ore. – Though dogged by a seven-year interlude without an artistic director, the 54-year-old festival reveled once again in joyful performances of the music of Bach and a generous display of audience enthusiasm.
- [On Small Stage, British 'Ring' Cycle Scores Big On Imagination, Quality](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/05/on-small-stage-british-ring-cycle-scores-big-on-imagination-quality/) - MORETON-IN-MARSH, U.K. – The Longborough Festival, an upstart opera company located west of London, has pulled off a seriously professional effort in a 500-seat house. Anthony Negus led a fine, mostly British cast and a 60-piece orchestra.
- ['Beethoven Effect,' Still Felt Across Generations, Sparks A Chamber Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/03/beethoven-effect-still-felt-across-centuries-sparks-chamber-fest/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The great composer's enduring influence is being explored in works by a wide range of his musical descendants, with concerts across the city through July 28, all part of the Chamber Music Northwest 2024 Summer Festival.
- [As Vocalists Sink Teeth, Words And Genres Get Pushed, Pulled, Chewed](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/02/as-vocalists-sink-teeth-words-and-genres-get-pushed-pulled-chewed/) - KATONAH, N.Y. – At the Caramoor Festival, the ensemble Roomful of Teeth offered a genre-ignoring, playfully provocative program with titles like Psychedelics, On Stochastic Wave Behavior, and "GaNaDaRaMaBaSa AJaChaKaTaPaHa."
- [Bach Festival, Newly Adventurous, Turns Its Spotlight On Monteverdi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/01/bach-festival-newly-adventurous-turns-its-spotlight-on-monteverdi/) - CHARLOTTE – The Charlotte Bach Festival not only went conductor-less for its nine-day run, but also capped this year's spurt of offbeat programming by turning away from the traditional grand Bach finale in favor of Monteverdi's Vespers of 1610.
- [Applying Modern Prism, CD Shifts Perspectives On Women Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/26/through-modern-prism-cd-shifts-perspectives-on-women-composers/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On their album Venus Rising, percussion ensemble Trio SR9 and singer-composer Kyrie Kristmanson offer innovative arrangements that refocus centuries of music by women from Hildegard von Bingen to the present.
- [Britten Opera Revels In Dream Al Fresco Setting, And In Midsummer, Too](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/07/15/britten-opera-revels-in-dream-al-fresco-setting-and-in-midsummer-too/) - WORMSLEY ESTATE, U.K. – A Midsummer Night’s Dream, with its intimate forest setting, is the perfect summer-festival opera. How fitting to see it at Garsington Opera, an al fresco enterprise located in a woods between London and Oxford.
- [Plucky Chamber Festival Stays The Course Even If The Chamber Is Hot](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/26/plucky-chamber-festival-stays-the-course-even-when-the-chambers-hot/) - PORTSMOUTH, N.H. – The Halcyon Music Festival, founded here by Heng-Jin Park in 2014, narrowly weathered the pandemic, but the intimate event has found a base of chamber-music buffs who have braved both Covid and high heat sans relief.
- [Puccini Opera Marathon, Romanian Style, Honors Centennial Of His Death](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/25/puccini-opera-marathon-romanian-style-honors-centenary-of-his-death/) - BUCHAREST – While opera companies worldwide have acknowledged this year's centennial of the composer's death, the Bucharest Opera Festival presented eight staged productions and other events with 1,500 vocal and auxiliary participants.
- [96-Hour Opera Project Serves Up Premiere Plus A Creative Competition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/20/96-hour-opera-project-delivers-premiere-and-a-creative-competition/) - ATLANTA – In Atlanta Opera's annual festival, composers and librettists vie with 10-minute scenes staged before judges and a live audience. The winning team gets a premiere; this year's event began with a work by the 2022 winners.
- ['Thrill Of A Lifetime':  Critic As Chorister Sings Bach At Leipzig Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/19/thrill-of-a-lifetime-a-critic-as-chorister-sings-bach-in-leipzig/) - LEIPZIG – The author, a regular contributor to Classical Voice North America, grew up singing in church choirs. He is a member of the Bach Cantata Choir of Portland, Ore., one of five U.S. choral groups invited to Leipzig's 2024 Bachfest.
- [In Mashup, Monteverdi Collides With Modern Opera On A Turntable](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/18/in-mashup-monteverdi-collides-with-modern-opera-on-a-turntable/) - LOS ANGELES – The latest gambit from opera director Yuval Sharon juxtaposes Monteverdi's The Coronation of Poppea with George Lewis’ new opera The Comet, based on an Afro-futurist short story by W.E.B. Du Bois. To a degree, it works.
- [In Return To Music Fest, Uchida Brought Mix Of Vision And Sublime Art](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/13/uchidas-poetic-vision-profound-art-animate-24-ojai-music-festival/) - OJAI, Calif. – After a 20-year absence, the Japanese-born British pianist-conductor Mitsuko Uchida, 75, returned to the Ojai Music Festival as director and performer, playing three Mozart concertos with the Mahler Chamber Orchestra.
- [Rare Tchaikovsky Opera Displays Charms Before Killing The Characters](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/12/rare-tchaikovsky-opera-has-its-charms-leaves-nearly-everyone-dead/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Seldom seen in the west, The Enchantress, a lengthy drama that mixes abuse of power and betrayal, is the novel subject of a DVD from Oper Frankfurt directed by Vasily Barkhatov and conducted by Valentin Uryupin.
- [New 'Dr. Caligari' Score Applies A Jazzy Patina To Silent Horror Classic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/06/new-dr-caligari-score-puts-a-jazzy-spin-on-silent-horror-classic/) - NEW YORK – Composer Jeff Beal has created new music for the 1920 German film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The fresh musical overlay had its U.S. premiere screening at Carnegie Hall played live by a pick-up group of top-notch jazz musicians.
- [Art, Life, Mayhem, Art: Opera About Massacre Blurs Lines Of Imitation](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/05/art-life-or-life-art-opera-about-mayhem-isnt-imitation-anything/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Innocence, the last of Kaija Saariaho’s five operas, grapples with the soul-wrenching crisis of mass shootings. It is an amazing, at times harrowing, theatrical and musical experience at the San Francisco Opera.
- [Percussion Concerto Keeps Soloist Hopping Amid A Sonorous Array](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/06/04/concerto-for-percussion-keeps-soloist-hopping-amid-a-sonorous-array/) - CHICAGO – Procession, by Chicago Symphony composer in residence Jessie Montgomery, proved to be high musical theater and a 20-minute athletic event for CSO principal Cynthia Yeh at the premiere led by Manfred Honeck.
- [Opera Taps Into Terror Of A Child's World Spun By Forced Immigration](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/31/opera-taps-into-terror-of-a-childs-world-spun-by-forced-immigration/) - CHARLESTON, S.C. – Layale Chaker’s Ruinous Gods, an experimental chamber opera that premiered at Spoleto Festival USA, follows a traumatized girl through fearful dreams and into the underworld as hope struggles with despair.
- [Revisiting A Watershed: Glass' ‘12 Parts’ Given 50-Year Concert Revival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/30/revisiting-a-watershed-glass-12-parts-given-50-year-concert-revival/) - NEW YORK – Philip Glass’ epic Music in Twelve Parts marked his transition from his earlier, more austere (if hypnotically compelling for devotees) minimalism into a far wider range of expression. A Town Hall concert recalled the 1974 premiere.
- [In Grotesque 'Salome,' Lise Davidsen Leaves Marker For The Ages](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/29/in-grotesque-salome-lise-davidsen-leaves-a-marker-for-the-ages/) - PARIS – Even within director Lydia Steier's lurid concept of sensation for sensation's sake, Davidsen's stratospheric performance affirmed her place as the peerless soprano of her time in a diva legacy extending from Callas to Sutherland.
- [On A Break From Audio, Fabulous Live Sound Of Opera And Concert Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/28/on-a-break-from-audio-fabulous-live-sound-of-opera-and-concert-hall/) - PERSPECTIVE – During my annual coverage of the Munich High End audio show, I managed to catch two great performances: the Beethoven Ninth by the Vienna Philharmonic at the Musikverein and Tannhäuser at Munich's Bayerische Staatsoper.
- [From Bach To Spirituals, Water Theme Flows In Multimedia Immersion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/24/from-bach-to-gospel-water-is-everywhere-in-multimedia-immersion/) - NEW YORK – Shall We Gather at the River, a world premiere directed by Peter Sellars, combined three Bach cantatas and five African American spirituals bound by the element of water and its association with cleansing, thirst, relief, and peril.
- [An Emergency Maestro Retrieves Met's 'Orfeo' From Opera Underworld](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/23/an-emergency-maestro-retrieves-mets-orfeo-from-opera-underworld/) - NEW YORK – When British conductor Christian Curnyn, a Baroque specialist, dropped out "due to illness," J. David Jackson stepped in to dispatch Gluck's opera starring Anthony Roth Costanzo (pictured) and Ying Fang as Orfeo and Euridice.
- [Maestro Takes A Stand With Frenetic Bruckner (Musicians Stand, Too)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/22/maestro-takes-a-stand-with-frenetic-bruckner-musicians-stand-too/) - BERLIN – With his own orchestra called Utopia, 112 players from 20 countries including Russia and Ukraine, Teodor Currentzis led the mostly standing troupe in an assault on Bruckner's Ninth that left no room for spiritual transcendence.
- [Not Quite Traditional: 'Ring' Without The Rhine, But Rewards Are Golden](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/31/not-quite-traditional-ring-without-rhein-but-thrills-are-golden/) - ZURICH – At its best, live opera is a visceral experience. Zurich Opera delivered just that with Wagner’s full Ring cycle. Conductor Gianandrea Noseda led the Philharmonia Zürich with a fine cast headed by Tomasz Konieczny's Wotan.
- [Motets From History's Shadows Are Diamonds In Rough Performance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/21/motets-from-historys-shadows-treasures-that-dont-yet-glisten/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In 1598, Orfeo Vecchi published the third volume of his Motets for Six Voices, stunning examples of late-Renaissance polyphony that have been recorded for the first time, albeit imperfectly, by Cappella Musicale Eusebiana.
- [Extending The Embrace Of Beethoven's 'Fidelio' By Attuning To The Deaf](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/20/widening-the-embrace-of-beethovens-fidelio-by-including-the-deaf/) - LOS ANGELES – Reprising a 2022 venture, Gustavo Dudamel and the LA Philharmonic offered a concert version of the opera with double casting: singers mirrored by silent actors who convey text and musical emotion through sign and gesture.
- [Chinese-American Kid Chases U.S. Army Life: Devastation As Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/17/chinese-american-kid-in-u-s-army-as-opera-a-tragedy-what-else/) - NEW YORK – In An American Soldier, a world-premiere opera by composer Huang Ruo and librettist David Henry Hwang, Private Danny Chen's path is charted from youthful eagerness to a sergeant's ruthless bullying and Danny's suicide.
- ['Juniper Tree,' Terrifying (In Terrific Way), Brings Grimm Fable To Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/16/juniper-tree-terrific-in-terrifying-way-brings-grimm-fable-to-opera/) - ORLANDO – Sumptuous costumes and makeup and oversized puppets took center stage in the Opera Orlando production of this dark fairy tale of infanticide, cannibalism, and reincarnation with a score jointly by Philip Glass and Robert Moran.
- [As Orchestra Searches For Helmsman, Vänskä Proves It's Not Adrift](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/25/as-orchestra-searches-for-helmsman-vanska-proves-its-not-adrift/) - SEATTLE – The Seattle Symphony's two-year absence of a singular guide at the helm inevitably leads to concerns that musicianship may suffer, but the forces sounded absolutely on course in the hands of guest conductor Osmo Vänskä.
- [Amid The Chaos Of War, Music As Documentary Observes The Homeless](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/15/amid-the-chaos-of-war-music-as-documentary-casts-light-on-homeless/) - NEW YORK – The underreported displacement of 100,000 Artsakh-Armenians and the basic need to protect family are central in Mary Kouyoumdjian's Homeless, a fusion of photos, oral history, and music premiered by the New York Philharmonic.
- [Countertenor's Recital 'Don't Look Back' Looks Well Beyond The Box](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/13/countertenors-recital-dont-look-back-peers-well-beyond-the-box/) - NEW YORK – When Anthony Roth Costanzo devises a program, you never know what will happen. His recital at the Morgan Library and Museum drew on scores held there, to which he added narration and effective visual elements.
- [A Vocal Constellation Affirms Star Power Of Competition Winners](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/13/a-vocal-constellation-affirms-star-power-of-competition-winners/) - NEW YORK – A recital featuring the international winners of the Gerda Lissner Foundation Vocal Competitions in 2023 and 2024 showed that the opera and concert world need not worry. The new wave of talent is as impressive as it is plentiful.
- [A Veiled Treasure: Redesigned Church As Intimate Concert Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/09/reconfigured-church-has-new-starring-role-as-intimate-concert-hall/) - MONTREAL – Few outsiders may be aware of a beautiful little 465-seat concert venue known as Bourgie Hall, in the heart of downtown. A gem architecturally, visually, and acoustically, it was designed for solo recitals and chamber music.
- [Out Of A Covid Project, Mozart Piano Sonatas Eloquent And Complete](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/08/out-of-a-covid-project-mozart-piano-sonatas-eloquent-and-complete/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Post-pandemic, pianist Orli Shaham has been releasing portions of her streamed cycle on CDs. The six volumes of all 18 sonatas, coming this summer as a set, offer a comprehensive display of brilliance and honesty.
- [Making Surprise Debut As Murderous Medea, Naturally She Killed It](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/07/making-surprise-debut-as-murderous-medea-naturally-she-killed-it/) - TORONTO – There were gasps when Canadian Opera Company's audience heard that favorite Sondra Radvanovsky would be replaced by an unfamiliar Italian, Chiara Isotton, as Cherubini's vengeful icon. The gasps soon became cheers.
- [Orchestra Enters 'Ring' At Center Stage, Etching Images In Wagner Gold](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/06/orchestra-enters-ring-at-center-stage-with-glittering-gold-results/) - DALLAS – Augmented by 21 guest players and a full roster of singers, the Dallas Symphony Orchestra made a fine beginning to its novel concert cycle of the Ring operas with Das Rheingold and Die Walküre led by Fabio Luisi.
- [Scaling Strauss Twice, And Matching Peaks In The 'Alpine Symphony'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/03/scaling-strauss-twice-and-matching-peaks-in-the-alpine-symphony/) - FRANKFURT – Just a few days apart, both the Frankfurt Opera and Museum Orchestra and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra played Strauss' monumental work at the Alte Oper. Both delivered one astonishing moment after another.
- [Beach's Grand Mass Dusted Off, Cut Down, Its Fresh Vision Intact](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/30/beachs-grand-mass-dusted-off-cut-down-its-fresh-vision-intact/) - VANCOUVER – In what was likely the work's first performance in Canada, the Vancouver Cantata Singers and Allegra Chamber Orchestra presented an effective and convincing adaptation of Amy Beach's splendorous Grand Mass in E-flat major.
- [Desolation Illustrated: Frozen, Deathly Vistas Of 'Sinfonia Antartica'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/29/frozen-deadly-vista-desolation-illustrated-in-sinfonia-antarctica/) - SEATTLE – Vaughan Williams' Symphony No. 7, enhanced by photos and journal readings from Robert Scott's ill-fated expedition, conjured a convincingly brutal soundscape in a performance by the Seattle Symphony led by Gemma New.
- [Adams-Sellars 'El Niño' Blows Onto Met Stage With Look Of A Fixture](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/26/adams-sellars-el-nino-blows-onto-met-stage-with-look-of-a-fixture/) - NEW YORK – With a lavish set by Lileana Blain-Cruz and a superb cast led by Marin Alsop, this complex collage opera from 2000 (the title refers to the boy Jesus) had a strong Met premiere. Familiarity could make it a deserved favorite.
- [Even In Twilight Years, Andrew Davis Brought Lifelong Zest To Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/25/at-80-andrew-davis-still-exuded-vitality-of-an-irrepressible-youth/) - APPRECIATION – This was a shocker. Not because 80 is an unseemly age at which to make an exit, but because Andrew Davis, the British conductor who died April 20, had cut such a convivially youthful figure onstage for so many decades.
- [All Hands On Deck: Orchestra Shares Stage With 'Rheingold' Singers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/24/all-hands-on-deck-in-rheingold-singers-mingle-with-orchestra/) - CALGARY – For its first go at any of Wagner's Ring dramas, Calgary Opera moved the considerably expanded orchestra from a cramped pit and onto the action space, front and center amid an uneasy flow of gods and giants and Rhinemaidens.
- [Nadia Boulanger Opera, Despite Cuts, Displays Teacher's Own Mastery](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/23/nadia-boulanger-opera-despite-cuts-attests-to-pedagogue-as-composer/) - NEW YORK – La ville morte should have been the sensation of 1914 Paris but for the hand of fate. More than a century later, the only opera composed by the influential teacher was given its New York premiere by Catapult Opera Company.
- [Jesus' Death: A Drama Drawn Lean For Harp, Mark Morris Dancers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/22/jesus-death-a-drama-drawn-lean-for-harp-mark-morris-dancers/) - BERKELEY – Set to Nico Muhly's cycle The Street, inspired by 14 poems by Alice Goodman and here renamed Via Dolorosa, Morris' dance had its quietly beautiful world premiere on a program with the dance of another death: that of Socrates.
- [Batons, Bowings, Beats: A Maestro's New Guide To Modern Masterworks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/05/01/batons-bowings-beats-a-maestros-new-guide-to-modern-masterworks/) - BOOK REVIEW – Leonard Slatkin’s new book belongs to a distinguished tradition, reflecting a lifetime of study and podium experience at the highest level. And it can be absorbed by anyone with a working knowledge of how to read music.
- [A Cacophony Of Voices, Human And Planetary: Songs Of World As One](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/19/a-cacophony-of-voices-human-and-planetary-songs-of-world-as-one/) - PERSPECTIVE – Composer Matthew Aucoin's new Music for New Bodies, directed for the stage by Peter Sellars, is a “synesthetic song cycle” that reflects the interconnectedness of individuals and collective humanity with the wider natural world.
- [Saint-Saëns And Ravel With True French Flair As Langrée Storms LA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/18/saint-saens-and-ravel-with-true-french-flair-as-langree-storms-la/) - LOS ANGELES – Conductor Louis Langrée seems to have found a potent connection with the LA Philharmonic. His pairing of Ravel's Ma mère l’Oye and Saint-Saëns' Organ Symphony sparked one of the longest curtain-call ovations I've heard here.
- [Baritenor's CD Traces Glittering Paths That Led Opera To Wagner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/17/baritenor-cd-traces-glittering-paths-that-led-opera-to-wagner/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In his latest recital disc, In The Shadows, the eternally curious baritenor Michael Spyres surveys some of the Bayreuth bard’s antecedents, and also recaps his own vocal journey as he embarks on the Wagnerian canon.
- [Oratorio As Snapshots: Images From A Lifetime Framed In Words, Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/16/oratorio-as-snapshots-number-our-days-looks-back-on-frames-of-life/) - NEW YORK – We take for granted our ability to snap, and immediately see, dozens of photos a day. Composer Luna Pearl Woolf and librettist David Van Taylor’s Number Our Days: A Photographic Oratorio recalls a different time.
- [Conducting Laureate Shows Flair For Mahler With Third Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/15/mahler-conducting-prize-winner-displays-rapport-in-sublime-3rd-symphony/) - SEATTLE – In 2016, Kahchun Wong won first prize in the Gustav Mahler Conducting Competition with his take on the Third Symphony. That rapport with the composer was evident in a sublime account of the Third with the Seattle Symphony.
- [Canadian Orchestras Create Spate Of CDs With Uneven Results](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/11/canadian-orchestras-create-spate-of-cds-with-uneven-results/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Competition is keen for the Mahler and Strauss recorded by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal under Rafael Payare. And do we need Gustavo Gimeno's Turangalîla-Symphonie with the Toronto Symphony?
- [Racial Injustice Echoes In Music Before Solace Of Mozart's Requiem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/09/racial-injustice-echoes-in-music-before-solace-of-mozarts-requiem/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – The first half of the Oregon Symphony program led by David Danzmayr featured pieces by William Grant Still and James B. Wilson that reflected on racism. The mood was softened by a moving account of the Requiem.
- [Amid An Opera's Dark Waters, Musicians And A Critic Swim For Shore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/09/amid-an-operas-dark-waters-musicians-and-a-critic-swim-for-shore/) - DETROIT – Four orchestra players withdrew after learning of scenes of sexual horror and horrible death in Detroit Opera's production of Missy Mazzoli's Breaking the Waves. It's an impressive spectacle, but I felt both complicit and harmed.
- [Music Director To Be, Mäkelä Turns Chicago Into A Rocking Scene](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/05/music-director-to-be-makela-turns-chicago-into-a-rocking-scene/) - CHICAGO – Two days after the Chicago Symphony announcement, 28-year-old Klaus Mäkelä got a wild welcome and made an auspicious start, leading a program of high-intensity Shostakovich, the Tenth Symphony and Cello Concerto No. 1.
- [Sampling Art Of Song, Will Liverman Leaves Final Lyric To His Mom](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/03/sampling-art-of-song-will-liverman-leaves-final-lyric-to-his-mom/) - PERSPECTIVE – The baritone's new album Show Me the Way, with pianist Jonathan King, is shared by a variety of guest artists, but the last word goes to Will's mother, gospel singer Terry Liverman, accompanied by her versatile son at the piano.
- [The Ormandy Mystique Captured In A Box, But Then Again, Not Really](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/02/the-ormandy-mystique-captured-in-a-box-but-then-again-not-really/) - PERSPECTIVE – Whatever conclusions arise in the ever-evolving reputation of Eugene Ormandy and his Philadelphia Orchestra era, a new 88-CD box covering the years 1958-1963 is likely to prove everybody to be absolutely right and dead wrong.
- [Even Lacking Visuals, Handel's Vivid Music Illustrates 'Alcina' CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/01/renewing-handel-series-les-musiciens-du-louvredeliver-a-vibrant-alcina/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Conductor Mark Minkowski’s period-instrument orchestra, Les Musiciens du Louvre, has recorded many Handel operas since its founding in 1982, but nothing in two decades. For Baroque opera fans, this Alcina is good news.
- [Chemistry Feels A Little Late (At Curtain Call) In Met Return To 'Rondine'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/29/chemistrys-a-bit-late-at-curtain-call-as-met-revives-rondine/) - NEW YORK – Three singers new to the Met offered accomplished debuts, but soprano Angel Blue and conductor Speranza Scappucci, both gifted artists, seemed outside their comfort zones in Puccini's ostensibly uncomplicated but very tricky work.
- [Multigifted Timo Andres Morphs From Pianist To Composer For Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/27/multigifted-timo-andres-morphs-from-pianist-to-composer-for-premier/) - LOS ANGELES – A leading composer-pianist of his generation, Andres was at Disney Hall one night playing Philip Glass etudes, then returned as John Adams led the LA Philharmonic in Andres' quasi-concerto Made of Tunes with pianist Aaron Diehl.
- [Mälkki Meets Mahler And Raises Her Flag As Conductor At Forefront](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/26/malkki-meets-mahler-and-raises-flag-as-maestro-at-forefront/) - CHICAGO – While Susanna Mälkki has led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra effectively on several occasions, her account of Mahler's Symphony No. 4 was of another order, affirming her place among today's preeminent conductors.
- [Quasi-Robotics Concert, Where AI Perhaps Stood For Almost Involved](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/04/08/at-a-robotics-concert-ai-might-have-stood-for-almost-involved/) - SAN FRANCISCO – The 10th season of the San Francisco Symphony's SoundBox series ended with a conceptually fascinating program called “Press Play,” curated by “Carol Reiley and her robots.” But it needed more AI compositions.
- ['Endgame' As Opera: Wait Finally Ends For Kurtág Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/03/15/endgame-as-opera-wait-finally-ends-for-kurtag-work/) - AMSTERDAM – The musical adaptation of Beckett's play, begun by György Kurtág in 1990 and repeatedly deferred, got an airing at the Dutch National Opera. A more ideal marriage of text and music could hardly be imagined.
- [Concert Retraces Paths Of Chou Wen-chung, Composer As Patriarch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/25/concert-retraces-paths-of-chou-wen-chung-composer-and-patriarch/) - NEW YORK – Among diverse internationally known Chinese composers, Chou is revered as a musical father. A broad perspective on his works was offered at a centennial concert by Continuum Contemporary Music conducted by Joel Sachs.
- [Five Pianists Parade Their Perspectives On Theater Of Glass Etudes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/22/parade-of-pianists-offer-perspectives-on-glass-diverse-etudes/) - LOS ANGELES – Lighting design and the rhythm of stage entrances conjured the solemn purpose of a ritual as the pianists rotated through Philip Glass' 20 Etudes, with each playing two pieces at a time and stagehands deftly switching benches.
- [Prize In Hand, Recital On Hold, Singer Makes In-Person Debut At Last](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/20/prize-in-hand-recital-on-hold-singer-makes-in-person-debut-at-last/) - VANCOUVER – Mezzo-soprano Ema Nikolovska, a winner of the annual Borletti-Buitoni Trust prize for young artists, initially had to make a virtual appearance with the Vancouver Recital Society. Her onstage performance was worth the wait.
- [Youth Orchestra Marks Decade With A Concert Uniting Starry Alumni](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/20/national-youth-orchestra-alumni-reassemble-for-10th-anniversary-concert/) - NEW YORK – To celebrate the 10th anniversary of NYO-USA, the National Youth Orchestra, Carnegie Hall assembled alumni from the program to create the NYO-USA All-Stars, with conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin and pianist Daniil Trifonov.
- [Comic Additive Helps Revive Early Bernstein Flop 'Trouble In Tahiti'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/18/trouble-in-tahiti-that-dark-bernstein-failure-shines-in-comic-mating/) - MINNEAPOLIS – As foil to the dark misery of the couple in Tahiti, Minnesota Opera paired it in a double bill with Service Provider, a very funny take on cellphone mania that also deals with the same marital problem of a failure to communicate.
- [On Outside, Looking In: Music Honors Cultures At Margins Of Society](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/18/on-outside-looking-in-concert-honors-cultures-enduring-at-the-margins/) - NEW YORK – Life is a cabaret. For outsiders, it’s also a struggle that has long acted as creative inspiration. The American Composers Orchestra explored that inspiration in a concert at Carnegie Hall called America in Weimar: On the Margins.
- [Focus On Bright Stars, Ambitious Arts Festival Creates A Constellation](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/15/focus-on-bright-stars-ambitious-arts-festival-creates-a-constellation/) - ADELAIDE – To offset other risks, the venerable Adelaide Arts Festival offered two shows directed by favorites of the annual event, Robert Lepage's treatment of Stravinsky's The Nightingale and Barrie Kosky's setting of The Threepenny Opera.
- [Sound Of Nordic Music Echoes Through Festival Touching Diverse Styles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/13/sound-of-nordic-music-echoes-through-festival-touching-diverse-styles/) - BOSTON – The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s Music of the Midnight Sun Festival, with four concerts spanning two weeks, explored music of Scandinavia ranging from Grieg's Peer Gynt to works by Sibelius and Anna Thorvaldsdottir.
- [Sampling The Century, Music From Japan Goes On Generational Venture](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/12/breaking-covid-silence-music-from-japan-takes-look-across-generations/) - NEW YORK – In its third live festival in New York City since lockdown, the organization celebrated its 49th season with a survey of “Japanese Contemporary Music: Past and Present,” including five composers spanning more than a century.
- [From Rear Perspective, Rotterdam Philharmonic Creates A Potent Sound](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/11/from-rear-perspective-rotterdam-philharmonic-creates-a-potent-sound/) - ORLANDO – Led by principal conductor Lahav Shani, the visiting orchestra proved to be a powerhouse of calibrated precision in Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet. It was my first time sitting in the grand-tier chorus section, facing the conductor.
- [Cage's Opera Potpourri: Mixed Bundles Of Hits Offered In Playful Vibe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/10/cages-opera-potpourri-mixed-bundles-of-hits-sung-with-intimate-vibe/) - DETROIT – Detroit Opera's Yuval Sharon bravely staged John Cage’s Europeras 3 & , in which singers perform arias of their choice, pianists play opera transcriptions, and record players provide instrumental sections, all determined by chance.
- [Sounding The Long Fall Of Belle Epoque, From Bruckner To Schoenberg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/07/sounding-the-long-fall-of-belle-epoque-from-bruckner-through-berg/) - NEW YORK – In three March concerts at Carnegie Hall, conductor Franz Welser-Möst led the Vienna Philharmonic in programs that outlined a sea-change course from the Bruckner Ninth though the Mahler Ninth to the Second Viennese School.
- [2 Canadian Orchestras Combine In Symphony Honoring WWII French](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/06/2-canadian-orchestras-combine-in-symphony-honoring-wwii-french/) - TORONTO – The occasion brought together orchestras from Quebec City and Ottawa with a choir from Toronto, all led by Alexander Shelley, in Jacques Hétu's Fifth Symphony, a tribute to liberty modeled on Beethoven's choral Ninth.
- [Pipa, Amid Color Riot, Stars In Concerto That Casts A Wide Spotlight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/05/pipa-amid-color-riot-sounds-off-in-a-virtual-concerto-for-orchestra/) - NEW YORK – Soloist Wu Man joined The Knights chamber orchestra under Eric Jacobsen in the world premiere of Du Yun's Ears of the Book, a work bristling with instrumental combinations in a personalized series of 10 "Polaroid" movements.
- [Myth Remade As Opera: Eurydice Rules The Tale, Leaves Orpheus For Dad](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/04/eurydice-needing-a-chat-with-dad-dies-the-rest-is-aucoins-operatic-twist/) - BOSTON – The collaboration between composer Matthew Aucoin and playwright Sarah Ruhl turns the legend into Eurydice's story. A condensed Boston Lyric Opera production features Sydney Mancasola as Eurydice with a mind of her own.
- [Classical, Jazz Orbits Cross In Visionary Art Of Mary Lou Williams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/03/01/classical-jazz-orbits-cross-in-visionary-art-of-mary-lou-williams/) - MIAMI – Slowly but surely, the music of the multitalented jazz pianist-arranger-composer is inching its way into the American classical canon. A New World Symphony festival exploring the Harlem Renaissance marked a big step forward.
- [Finesse, Subtlety Shape Music On CDs Devoted To Danish Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/28/finesse-subtlety-shape-music-on-cds-devoted-to-nordic-composers/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – A delicate, ambiguous sound world of silence and pale light, evident in works by Hans Abrahamsen (right), Per Nørgård, and Bent Sørensen on three discs, evokes a contemporary shadow play on the music of Sibelius and Nielsen.
- [Met Resurrects 'Forza' In Stark New Look, And A New Force Is With It](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/28/met-resurrects-forzain-stark-updating-and-a-new-force-is-with-it/) - NEW YORK – Once a staple at the Met, Verdi's La forza del destino, his most tragic and ambitious opera, has lost favor. But it returns recharged in Mariusz Treliński's apocalyptic production with the electrifying Lise Davidsen as Leonora.
- [Oratorio 'Émigré' Recalls Jews Fleeing Germany Into Chinese Embrace](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/26/oratorio-emigre-recalls-jews-fleeing-germany-into-chinese-embrace/) - NEW YORK – Fashioned as a love story, the new work by composer Aaron Zigman (right) and librettist Mark Campbell will receive its North American premiere by the N.Y. Philharmonic, chorus, and soloists led by Long Yu on Feb. 29.
- ['Days Of Wine, Roses' As Musical For 2, Seen Through A Glass Darkly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/26/days-of-wine-roses-as-musical-for-2-seen-through-a-glass-darkly/) - NEW YORK – Like two people stranded at sea, Joe and Kirsten (Brian d'Arcy James and Kelli O'Hara) are blissfully happy in this high-intensity lyric drama by Adam Guettel and Craig Lucas, until their drinking makes their joie de vivre go smash.
- [Hardly April, But Opera Displays Its Revitalizing Blooms In City Of Light ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/23/its-february-in-paris-but-operas-in-blossom-and-teeming-with-vigor/) - PARIS – In an era when so many opera companies are struggling to fill seats and dialing back risk, it was salutary to see very fine Paris Opera offerings of Bellini's Beatrice di Tenda (right), Verdi's La traviata, and Handel's Giulio Cesare in one week.
- [Freshening Up Josquin With A Scholarly Flair, Down-To-Earth Clarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/21/freshening-up-josquin-with-a-scholarly-flair-down-to-earth-clarity/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On a disc of motets and chansons, Cut Circle under Jesse Rodin achieves a deeply human sound, not rarefied or operatic, that makes Josquin’s emotional use of rhythm and dissonance feel like a friend telling you a secret.
- [Handel With A Cultural Asterisk: Concert Adds Counterpoint Of Slavery](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/19/handel-with-a-cultural-asterisk-concert-notes-counterpoint-of-slavery/) - NEW YORK – "Handel: Made in America," offered by an imposing lineup of Black singers and instrumentalists, came with a sharp reminder that the composer's British patrons grew wealthy from the slave trade and that he invested in the trade.
- [International Harmony Via Cultural Exchange: It's Major In Minor Steps](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/16/international-harmony-via-cultural-exchange-major-in-minor-steps/) - PERSPECTIVE – The victory by pianist Van Cliburn (pictured with Nikita Khrushchev) at the 1958 Tchaikovsky Competition helped to calm the Cold War. Even In today's fractious world, cultural exchanges offered in good faith are worthwhile.
- [Early Music Ensemble Takes Instructive Trek Through Mozart's Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/16/early-music-ensemble-takes-instructive-trek-through-mozarts-time/) - NEW YORK – Keyboardist and conductor Kristian Bezuidenhout presided over a concert by the student period-instrument group Juilliard415 that cross-referenced works by Mozart and two of his contemporaries, Joseph Kraus and J.C. Bach.
- [After Long Covid Delay, New(ish) Adès Concerto And Champion Hit Town](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/15/after-4-year-covid-delay-newish-ades-concerto-and-champion-hit-town/) - LOS ANGELES – An early victim of the pandemic was the LA Philharmonic premiere in April 2020 of Thomas Adès’ then-new Piano Concerto led by the composer with soloist Kirill Gerstein. Finally, this classically built virtuoso romp had its local day.
- [Seiji Ozawa, Exceptional And Inspiring, Left His Stamp On Music World](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/14/seiji-ozawa-exceptional-and-inspiring-left-his-mark-wherever-he-went/) - APPRECIATION – In a career spanning half a century, the Japanese conductor, who died Feb. 6 at age 88, first took Toronto by storm, then turned a blazing light on the Boston Symphony, the Berlin Philharmonic, and the Vienna State Opera.
- [Angst, Misery, Murder, And Loud Orchestra In 'Elektra' To Remember](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/13/angst-misery-murder-and-a-loud-orchestra-in-memorable-elektra/) - DALLAS – In the title role of Strauss' grisly opera, soprano Marjorie Owens swung her ax with joy and displayed a voice equal to the musical and dramatic demands, though the audience couldn't always hear her in this Dallas Opera production.
- [Singers Unseen, Sober Tone Unstinting, 'Passio' Was Lengthy Challenge](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/09/singers-unseen-tempos-inflexible-parts-passio-was-lengthy-challenge/) - NEW YORK – I wanted to like Arvo Pärt's setting of the Passion according to St. John, but an hour and a half of its stately, non-contrapuntal, gorgeous sonorities, with the Experiential Orchestra and voices led by James Blachly, sapped my energy.
- [Musical 'Map' Explores Byways, Underbrush Of Self-Styled Artist's Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/07/iconoclastic-composers-map-meanders-through-underbrush-of-life-lived/) - NEW YORK – “I don’t want to be part of any movement I didn’t start!” Thus spake Scott Johnson, whose work for soprano and string quartet received its premiere at a tribute event for the composer, who died in 2023 at age 70.
- [As Composer Reflects On Life Of His Mother, Memory Meets Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/07/as-composer-celebrates-life-of-his-late-mother-memory-meets-music/) - SEATTLE – Steven Mackey's Memoir, which received its Pacific Northwest premiere, extends a thread of tributes to his parents. The work for narrator and chamber group also continues his pursuit of links between music and remembrance.
- [Sets, Cast, And Chorus Were Great. Music And Libretto, Not So Much](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/06/sets-cast-and-chorus-were-great-music-and-libretto-not-so-much/) - MONTREAL – A dramatic arc to unify its assorted scenes and a score that delved beneath the surface might have pushed Opéra de Montréal's world premiere of La Reine-garçon, by Julien Bilodeau and Michel Marc Bouchard, over the top.
- [Beethoven Makeover: 1st Symphony Keeps Its Panache As Piano Trio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/05/brash-young-beethovens-debut-as-symphonic-lion-rings-anew-as-piano-trio/) - CHICAGO – The all-star ensemble of pianist Emanuel Ax, violinist Leonidas Kavakos, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma have been performing and recording the symphonies arranged for three. The brash First retained that spirit in a lithe, agile new form.
- [In Concert That Touted Courage, Even Stand-In Maestro Showed Pluck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/01/even-stand-in-conductor-showed-pluck-in-concert-that-celebrated-courage/) - PORTLAND – The Oregon Symphony program exploring fortitude featured Hans Abrahamsen's piano work for the left hand as well as music by Louise Farrenc and Schumann. Unscheduled on the podium was German conductor Markus Stenz.
- [An Oboe Ode To Joy: Youth Meets Diversity In A Profusion Of Delights](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/12/an-oboe-ode-to-joy-youth-meets-diversity-in-profusion-of-delight/) - SEATTLE – Artistry and camaraderie shared top billing at Oboe / Oboe, a high-spirited concert presented by Emerald City Music, whose creative series aspires to open classical music to younger and more diverse audiences and performers.
- [Museum Monodrama: In A Displaced Temple, An Alienated Performer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/01/museum-monodrama-alienated-artist-sings-in-a-displaced-temple/) - NEW YORK – The Egyptian Temple of Dendur, housed at the Metropolitan Museum, inspired Lebanese musician Hamed Sinno's Westerly Breath, a psycho-political memoir on the personal odyssey of this charismatic LGBTQ+ activist.
- [Through Diverse Voices Over Millennia, Cantata Invokes Spirit Of Mercy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/02/01/from-diverse-voices-over-millennia-cantata-invokes-spirit-of-mercy/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – With six languages under his belt, composer Daniel Knaggs is keenly aware of every aspect of text, a sensitivity that serves him well in the world-premiere recording of his Two Streams, featuring the Houston Chamber Choir.
- [Closing A Mahler Circle, MTT Returns To His Old Band For A Grand Fifth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/30/closing-mahler-circle-mtt-takes-leave-of-his-old-band-with-grand-5th/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Michael Tilson Thomas, the longtime music director of the San Francisco Symphony, made his debut here at 29 with the Ninth Symphony. Fifty years later, now battling brain cancer, he led notably measured Mahler.
- [It Wasn't Just The Music That Faded Away In This Phantasmagorical Gig](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/30/it-wasnt-just-the-music-that-faded-away-in-this-phantasmagorical-gig/) - PRINCETON, N.J. – The trumpeter materialized in different parts of the virtual room before simply disappearing. Flutists sprang up and vanished. This immersive, illusory concert by the Mahler Chamber Orchestra reset the idea of closeness.
- [Shock Of Shostakovich Is Tempered In Concert Sans Lurid Stage Action](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/29/shocking-shostakovich-sans-opera-stage-bits-mixed-marvel-in-concert/) - BOSTON – Strangulation, sex, betrayal, suicide. The incendiary opera Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk brings it all. But in a Boston Symphony account led by Andris Nelsons, the only visible action came when soprano Kristine Opolais shed her nylons.
- [Pushing Opera's Limits, Prototype Fest Shifts Its Daring To Larger Canvas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/25/pushing-operas-bounds-prototype-festival-shifts-to-large-scale-ventures/) - NEW YORK – From the start, Prototype sought out creative artists doing nontraditional work. Three new works bespoke a quest to tell stories that resonate deeply within contemporary society, even if they go beyond the viewer's comfort level.
- ['X' At Last Marks Spot For Anthony Davis In World Of Modern Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/24/for-anthony-davis-it-seems-x-may-at-last-mark-his-spot-in-opera/) - EVANSTON, Ill. – When the New York City Opera premiered Anthony Davis’ first opera, X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X, in 1986, his career seemed poised for launch. It didn't happen. But a Met staging in 2023 has brought vindication.
- [Women At Center Stage In Flurry Of Concerts By Ensembles Large, Small](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/23/women-at-center-stage-in-flurry-of-concerts-by-ensembles-large-small/) - VANCOUVER – Tianyi Lu conducted the Vancouver Symphony in the Canadian premiere of Jennifer Higdon's Mandolin Concerto (composer at right) in three venues, and the Sitkovetsky Trio offered Julia Adolphe's new Etched in Smoke and Light.
- [A Saga Trimmed To Fit: 'Das Rheingold' Glitters In Sly Concert Version](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/23/saga-trimmed-to-fit-rheingold-glitters-in-sly-concert-version/) - LOS ANGELES – How do you turn a concert hall into an opera house? The LA Philharmonic under Gustavo Dudamel had a "fully staged" answer at Disney Hall. It helped that venue architect Frank Gehry was also the Rheingold scenic designer.
- [Offbeat, Even Illusory, Instrumental Flora Still Work Musical Charms](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/22/off-beat-even-illusory-instrumental-flora-still-work-musical-charms/) - NEW YORK – It’s rare that the stage setting for a recital looks like the tropical greenhouse at the botanical gardens. Rarer still, the plants are the primary instruments. That was the scene for the premiere of a song cycle by Angélica Negrón.
- [Trip To Greek Homeland Mingles Nostalgia With A Fierce 'Lady Macbeth'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/17/visit-to-greek-homeland-summons-nostalgia-and-a-fierce-lady-macbeth/) - ATHENS – As a native of Greece who has lived abroad for more than half of his life, this writer always gets a particular feeling being back amid the intimacy of Greek musical institutions, this time to witness Shostakovich's raw satire.
- [Young Conductor Soars With Orchestra's Legacy In Tchaikovsky Triumph](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/16/young-conductor-soars-with-orchestras-legacy-in-tchaikovsky-triumph/) - PHILADELPHIA – The Tchaikovskian blood that flows through the Philadelphia Orchestra helped 26-year-old Polish conductor Anna Sułkowska-Migoń, winner of the 2022 La Maestra competition, achieve a knockout Fifth Symphony.
- [Quartet Mulled Summit Before Beginning Climb To Beethoven CD Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/10/quartet-mulled-summit-before-beginning-climb-to-beethoven-cd-cycle/) - PERSPECTIVE –To record that matchless body of string quartets, said the first violinist of the Dover Quartet, stamps a group "trying to carry the torch" of great ensembles. The Dover completed its well-received cycle on the Çedille label in 2022.
- [Beloved Maestro, Back On Home Ground, Talks Vernacular Americana](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/08/beloved-maestro-backon-home-ground-looks-to-vernacular-americana/) - PERSPECTIVE – Leonard Slatkin, music director of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra from 1979-96 and relocated to the city since 2018, will lead concerts of works displaying non-classical influences by American composers and others.
- [Schubert Song Cycles, Recycled In Lyric Glory Of Marginalized Mezzo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/04/schubert-song-cycles-re-cycled-in-full-glory-of-marginalized-mezzo/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Mezzo-soprano Inez Matthews (1917-2004) belonged to a generation of Black singers blocked from much classical work, but she pursued a career. Her restored recordings of Die schöne Müllerin and Winterreise bear attention.
- [In An Unlikely Kinship, Shostakovich Echoes Heavy Metal On Disc](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2024/01/02/kinship-in-stress-heard-as-shostakovich-brushes-with-heavy-metal-on-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Rachel Barton Pine, virtuoso violinist and self-admitted passionate metalhead, couples Shostakovich's Violin Concerto No. 1 with fellow violinist-metal fan Earl Maneein's concerto, which aims to bridge heavy metal and classical.
- [Adams-Sellars Retelling Of Christmas, Reframed Small, Still Gripping Tale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/27/adams-sellars-retelling-of-christmas-reframed-small-still-gripping-tale/) - NEW YORK – In El Niño: Nativity Reconsidered, a condensed version of the 2000 opera-oratorio El Niño, soprano Julia Bullock teamed with countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo and bass-baritone Davóne Tines for a visceral performance.
- [Purcell CDs Showcase Historical Music-Making In Vibrant New Frames](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/19/purcell-cds-showcase-spirit-of-early-music-in-sparkling-new-frames/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – New recordings of Dido and Aeneas by La Nuova Musica and fantasias by the John Holloway Ensemble serve as a reminder that Purcell’s music can be both a gem of historical performance and a playground for exploration.
- [Japanese Orchestras, Polished And Thriving, Rival Best In The West](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/13/japanese-orchestras-polished-and-thriving-rival-best-in-the-west/) - PERSPECTIVE – Not many music lovers outside Japan are aware of the treasure trove of great orchestras this country possesses. Virtually every concert I have heard in Japan over the past decade has been a highly gratifying experience,
- [The Tangled Baroquery Of Handel's 'Rodelinda,' Made Clear And Brilliant](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/12/handels-rodelinda-tangle-of-baroquery-sorted-and-burnished/) - NEW YORK – In this 18th-century Game of Thrones, the men scheme for power, betray each other, and try to use the women as pawns. The English Concert's take on the opera, with Lucy Crowe as Rodelinda, merited crowns all around.
- [Three For The Show: Spate Of Sondheim, Old And, Well...‘Here We Are’](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/11/three-for-the-show-spate-of-sondheim-old-and-well-here-we-are/) - PERSPECTIVE – Two years after his death at 91, New York offers a Sondheim trifecta that includes boffo revivals of Sweeney Todd and Merrily We Roll Along as well as the posthumous Here We Are. But ticket prices are piggy-bank breaking.
- [Fluid Time, Cosmic Love Meet In Rare Encounter With Epic  ‘Turangalîla’ ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/08/fluid-time-cosmic-love-messiaens-xxxxxx-turangalila-revisited/) - MONTREAL – For all its renommée, Messiaen’s Turangalîla-Symphonie is a once-in-a-while kind of piece. Rafael Payare led a brash performance by the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal that bespoke the presence of 103 musicians onstage.
- [Aussies Around Globe Gather As All-Stars For An Ardent Mahler Ninth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/06/in-worldwide-gathering-australian-musicians-forge-ardent-mahler-9/) - SYDNEY – The Australian World Orchestra consists of Australians from distant points who meet annually in their homeland. This year, founding conductor Alexander Briger presided over a blood-on-the-floor performance of Mahler.
- [Callas At 100, Dazzling Beacon Of Time Past, Still Bel Canto Lodestar](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/05/callas-at-100-dazzling-beacon-of-time-past-still-lodestar-of-future/) - NEW YORK – At the Museo del Barrio, near the hospital on Fifth Avenue where the soprano was born to Greek parents in 1923, musicologist Will Crutchfield led a symposium tied to his Teatro Nuovo project "Callas: Past and Future."
- [In Multifaceted Concert, The Timeless Narrative Of Yuletide Shines Anew](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/04/amid-concert-rigors-the-simple-message-of-christmas-story-prevails/) - SEATTLE – For its novel retelling of the Christmas story, Early Music Seattle united the Boston Camerata and the Medieval Women’s Choir in massive St. James Cathedral. The beauty of the presentation transcended its tricky logistics.
- [Concert As Storytelling: Others May Play Notes, Parlando Conjures Tales](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/30/concert-storytelling-innovative-ensemble-focuses-on-narrative/) - NEW YORK – Ian Niederhoffer wants classical music to survive and flourish. That's why he founded the string orchestra Parlando, now in its fourth season, an ensemble that uses historical narrative to ensure connection with its audience.
- [With Touring Berliners, Young Stand-In Maestro Stands Out In Brahms ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/29/with-touring-berliners-young-stand-in-maestro-stands-out-in-brahms/) - TORONTO – When Daniel Barenboim could not lead Staatskapelle Berlin on its North American tour, subs were summoned, two of them famous. But on the podium here was an obscure 34-year-old Lithuanian, Giedrė Šlekytė. She was brilliant.
- ['Modern,' Really Modern Works Provide Spark In Concert's Historical Arc](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/27/modern-and-really-new-works-spark-vitality-in-chamber-concert-fare/) - VANCOUVER – In two provocative concerts, the Turning Point Ensemble, a musical collective, lived up to the mission of composer-conductor Owen Underhill to promote works by current composers while sustaining the legacy of the 20th century.
- [To Orchestra In Need, Guest Conductor Brings Affinity Of An Old Friend](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/12/07/for-orchestra-in-need-guest-conductor-looks-the-part-of-bff-indeed/) - SEATTLE – in its search for a new music director, the Seattle Symphony has played under the wide-ranging styles of seven different conductors this season, but the high-level playing under David Robertson conveyed an aura of mutual comfort.
- [In Lenny's Garden: 'Maestro' Tunnels Deep Into A Magical Persona](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/27/maestro-in-lennys-garden-film-taps-deep-into-conductors-persona/) - MOVIE REVIEW – Far better than expected, the Leonard Bernstein biopic starring, directed, and co-written by Bradley Cooper is an Oscar-baiting artwork unto itself. It's not for nothing that Carey Mulligan, as Bernstein's wife, gets top billing.
- [Balanchine's NYC Ballet Leaps To 75th Year, Still Looking Bold, Brilliant](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/21/balanchines-nyc-ballet-leaps-to-75th-year-still-looking-bold-brilliant/) - PERSPECTIVE – The works of George Balanchine, founding artistic director of City Ballet, pass from generation to generation through a lineage of dancers going back to the master himself. A fall season of Balanchine deserves a 21-gun salute.
- [Amazon Opera Journey Widens Met's Embrace (With Guilty Pleasures)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/20/boat-trek-down-amazon-taking-met-to-new-place-delivers-guilty-pleasure/) - NEW YORK – Just before the Met Opera premiere of Florencia en el Amazonas, someone shouted, “¡Viva l’ópera en español!” – a first at the house in nearly a century. The audience responded with cheers. In the end, approval came with a roar.
- [Vocal Fireworks Abound As Visiting Critic Revels In The Glories Of Madrid](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/17/vocal-fireworks-abound-as-visiting-critic-revels-in-the-glories-of-madrid/) - MADRID – The Teatro Real lived up to its splendid reputation as an innovative, important company. After a stimulating week, one might even argue the renovated theater has surpassed Barcelona's Gran Teatre de Liceu as Spain's opera showplace.
- [Mysterious Dutchman Meets Dramatic Match In 11th-Hour Senta Sub](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/16/mysterious-dutchman-meets-dramatic-match-in-11th-hour-senta-sub/) - PITTSBURGH – When the scheduled Senta fell ill, soprano Alexandria Shiner flew in from South Africa, arriving two days before opening night of Pittsburgh Opera's The Flying Dutchman. After off-stage rehearsal, she went on to sing the role.
- [Pan-Am Music Fosters Breaking Down Walls: 'Sponsored By Mexico'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/15/pan-am-music-fosters-breaking-down-walls-sponsored-by-mexico/) - LOS ANGELES – The welcoming sign greeted patrons as singer-songwriter Silvana Estrada and other Mexican composers were saluted by the LA Phil and conductor Gustavo Dudamel at the California Festival of mainly Pan-American fare.
- [Stravinsky's Wild 'Rite,' Long Absent, Returns With Some Spring In It](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/14/stravinskys-wild-rite-long-absent-returns-with-real-spring-in-it/) - ORLANDO – Not since 2012 had the Orlando Philharmonic tackled The Rite of Spring. In that interval, the orchestra moved to a new hall and acquired a new music director, Eric Jacobsen, who led a compelling account, seething and turbulent.
- [Vocalist, String Quartet Give Schubert A Shuffle And Turn Up All Aces](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/13/singer-string-quartet-reshuffle-schubert-and-turn-up-all-aces/) - NEW YORK – In a concert connecting songwriters from two centuries apart, mezzo-soprano Anne Sofie von Otter and the quartet Brooklyn Rider spun Schubert's Quartet in D minor (Death and the Maiden) by weaving in a series of his songs.
- ['Omar,' Operatic Portrait Of An Enslaved Scholar, Proves Staying Power](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/10/in-new-staging-omar-operatic-tale-of-slave-affirms-staying-power/) - SAN FRANCISCO – As Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ new opera runs its course through American stages, it has been gathering steam. San Francisco Opera's impressive and moving account made a solid case that Omar is built to last.
- ['Antony And Cleopatra' Second Time Around: Love's More Wonderful](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/09/antony-and-cleopatra-second-time-around-loves-more-wonderful/) - BARCELONA – With Julia Bullock restored to her intended role, John Adams' Shakespearean opera on the ill-starred affair between the Roman general and the Egyptian queen was more gripping here than in the San Francisco premiere.
- [Master Of The Theorbo And A Dazzling Vocalist Polish Baroque Gems](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/07/master-of-the-theorbo-and-a-dazzling-vocalist-serve-up-baroque-gems/) - NEW YORK – The French-Italian mezzo-soprano Lea Desandre and theorbo virtuoso Thomas Dunford, who've been making music together since 2015, offered a 70-minute concert of gentle and intimate fare, then finished with a rock beat.
- [Eclectic Ukrainian Band Blends World Of Styles Into Musical Quilt Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/08/eclectic-and-then-some-ukrainian-brand-weaves-variety-into-crazy-quilts/) - ANN ARBOR, Mich. – The four-member "ethnic chaos" ensemble DakhaBrakha (loosely give-take) combines Western jazz, hip-hop, avant-garde ideas, and Ukrainian folk music into something quite fresh, as a packed auditorium witnessed.
- [Malcolm X Opera Vital Sign Of Met's Resolve To Embrace Diversity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/06/malcolm-x-opera-vital-sign-of-mets-resolve-to-diversify-its-appeal/) - NEW YORK – The company premiere of Anthony Davis’ X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X is a triumph that showcases an amazing array of Black talent. Change is happening fast at the Met, and management deserves credit for its urgency.
- [Ridiculous Virtuosity: Modern-Music Troupe Crackles And Dazzles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/03/ridiculous-virtuosity-contemporary-ensemble-showcases-its-panache/) - AMSTERDAM – The Netherlands' Asko|Schönberg ensemble, a multi-instrumental powerhouse, displayed its stylistic dexterity and exceptional ability to respond to any challenge in a concert featuring a world premiere at the Concertgebouw.
- [Disney Hall At 20 Years Gets A Heroic Fanfare Led By Composer-Hero](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/11/02/disney-hall-at-20-years-gets-a-heroic-fanfare-led-by-composer-hero/) - LOS ANGELES – Esa-Pekka Salonen, music director of the LA Philharmonic when its still dazzling new home opened in 2003, was back to lead the world premiere of his expanded fanfare now titled Tiu, which derives from Old Nordic for 20. Get it?
- [(Re)imagine That! Beloved Musicals Given New Gloss For New Age](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/31/reimagine-that-beloved-musicals-given-new-gloss-for-new-age/) - LONDON – An exhibition exploring how classic musicals have been adapted, together with three vibrant productions, demonstrated how gifted directors can make familiar favorites fresh again while honoring the original creators' intentions.
- [Handel Buffs Have Their Moment With A Pair Of Stylish Choral Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/29/handel-buffs-have-their-moment-with-a-pair-of-smartly-styled-concerts/) - NEW YORK – Jeannette Sorrell led the New York Philharmonic and her own Apollo's Singers in Israel in Egypt, and the touring English Baroque Soloists and Monteverdi Choir under Dinis Sousa performed L’Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.
- [Curtis Institute @ 100: Spinning The Pandemic Into A High-Tech Leap](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/27/curtis-institute-100-spinning-the-pandemic-to-high-tech-advantage/) - PHILADELPHIA – The famed music school founded in 1924 by Mary Louise Curtis Bok sent its students home when Covid struck in 2020 – but sent with them green screens, recording gear, and instructions in a game-changing digital pivot.
- [With Blizzard Of Notes, Wizardly Pianist Proves Too Much Is Just Right](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/24/with-blizzard-of-notes-wizardly-pianist-proves-too-many-are-just-right/) - NEW YORK – The grumpy complaint "too many notes" might be applied to pianist Alexandre Kantorow's Carnegie Hall recital of effusive works by Brahms, Liszt, and others were it not such a thoughtful, brilliant, and exhilarating surprise.
- [Skewering The Critics: It's Wry Retribution For Long History Of Vitriol](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/23/history-of-bad-calls-critics-skewered-for-getting-it-wildly-wrong/) - LOS ANGELES – It was only a matter of time before some alleged victims of critical abuse would counter with an entertainment. Thus The Music Critic, a reading with music starring John Malkovich, takes aim at the merchants of venom.
- [As The Emerson Exits, Several Fine Quartets Are Poised To Ascend](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/20/as-the-emerson-exits-other-brilliant-quartets-poised-for-eminence/) - PERSPECTIVE – With concerts Oct. 21 and 22 at New York’s Alice Tully Hall, the Emerson String Quartet will end its celebrated 47-year career. The Dover Quartet (right) is among younger groups displaying the potential to hit such heights.
- [A Simpatico Pair Meet Again In Gershwin, But It Don't Mean A Thing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/19/when-east-meets-west-in-gershwin-concerto-sum-is-plenty-of-nothin/) - LOS ANGELES – Russian-German pianist Igor Levit and Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan had partnered happily before, but their reunion in the semi-classical, semi-jazz Concerto in F with the LA Philharmonic was not a swinging affair.
- ['Walküre,' shrunk to fit compact opera house, still an exhilarating ride](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/18/walkure-shrunk-to-fit-compact-opera-house-still-exhilarating-ride/) - VICTORIA, British Columbia – Pacific Opera Victoria's production, using an arrangement for 43 musicians led by a stand-in conductor making his Wagner debut, parlayed solid musical leadership and a fine cast into a full-hearted, splendid event.
- [Shostakovich Concertos Forge Fierce Connection Between Eras Of Terror](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/17/fraught-with-emotion-shostakovich-concerts-link-eras-of-upheaval/) - BOSTON – With cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Latvian-born conductor Andris Nelsons led the Boston Symphony in both Shostakovich concertos, an emotional reminder of the link between the composer's harrowing time and the present.
- [Three Virgins Walk Into A Bar...Er, Throne Room, In Opera With A Unicorn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/16/three-virgins-walk-into-a-bar-er-throne-room-in-opera-about-unicorns/) - NEW YORK – Kate Soper’s fresh and witty chamber opera The Hunt, for three sopranos, violin, ukulele, and electronic sounds, uses a medieval legend, tweaked with 21st-century detail, to examine the role of women in a patriarchal world.
- [You're Doin' Completely Fine, Oklahoma! (On CD That's Not So Complete)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/10/youre-doing-completely-fine-oklahoma-on-this-incomplete-recording/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – A new recording, touted as all-in, indeed contains every note from the original 1943 musical, and it's played as it was written. But without the essential dialogue, we get only a superficial sense of what the story is about.
- [Baroque Meets Drag When A Bass-Baritone Delights As 'Countess'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/10/in-baroque-drag-show-baritone-as-a-countess-delivers-in-royal-style/) - SEATTLE – Center stage stood, sang, bantered, and pranced the towering bass-baritone John Taylor Ward, a dedicated early-music vocalist and creator of The Countess, a drag persona who on this occasion sang Purcell, Handel, and others.
- [As Music Director Bows, A Welcoming City Turns Red, White, And Thrilled](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/05/as-music-director-bows-a-welcoming-city-turns-red-white-and-thrilled/) - MINNEAPOLIS – The tallest buildings that make up the skyline of Minneapolis displayed sparkling red and white, the hues of the Danish flag, as Thomas Søndergård took up the baton to succeed Osmo Vänskä at the helm of the Minnesota Orchestra.
- [Ever Boldly Baroque, Troupe Brings Its Style To Rare Caccini Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/05/boldly-backward-looking-troupe-lends-high-style-francesca-caccini-rarity/) - CHICAGO – Devoted to the presentation of 17th- and 18th-century operas with both period instruments and period staging, Haymarket Opera Company turned its meticulous craftsmanship to La liberazione di Ruggiero dall’isola d’Alcina.
- ['(R)evolution' Revisited: Steve Jobs Opera Gets A Compelling Renewal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/04/revolution-revisited-steve-jobs-opera-gets-a-vibrant-new-staging/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Highlighted by baritone John Moore's portrayal of Apple's engineering genius, the San Francisco Opera's take on Mason Bates' music drama struck me as more appealing and fresher than the premiere in Santa Fe in 2017.
- [Elemental Recipe Was Not Easy: 5 Composers, Violinist, New York Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/02/elemental-recipe-was-not-easy-5-composers-violinist-and-orchestra/) - NEW YORK – The U.S. premiere of The Elements – the work of Kevin Puts, Edgar Meyer, Jake Heggie, Jennifer Higdon, and Jessie Montgomery – saw all five present to hear violinist Joshua Bell and the Philharmonic conducted by Jaap van Zweden.
- [Octogenarians Meet, And A World Premiere Shows Vitality Of Both](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/10/02/octogenarians-meet-and-a-world-premiere-shows-vitality-of-both/) - CHICAGO – Philip Glass, 86, composer of The Triumph of the Octagon, was not on hand, but very much in attendance to lead the music's elegant unveiling by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra was conductor Riccardo Muti, 82.
- [Schubert Transfigured: Dramatized Song Cycle Taps Heart Of Mortality](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/29/schubert-transfigured-dramatized-swan-song-touches-core-of-mortality/) - NEW YORK – in Doppelgänger, Claus Guth’s staging of Schubert’s Schwanengesang, raw feeling and stark drama trumped the politeness of a recital as tenor Jonas Kaufmann, with a pianist and dancers, embodied a soldier facing death.
- [Heggie's Opera Bounty And Diversity Mirrored In Swell Of Productions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/28/heggies-opera-bounty-and-diversity-reflected-in-swell-of-productions/) - PERSPECTIVE – As the Met Opera unveils an impressive take on Jake Heggie's Dead Man Walking, other companies are cueing works by this lyrical and resourceful composer who keeps pushing to bring new perspectives to his art.
- [60 Years On, Exploring Resonance Between John Cage And Japan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/27/six-decades-later-cage-in-musical-spirit-meets-the-japanese-once-more/) - NEW YORK – In 1962, composer John Cage, the legendary pioneer of "chance" music, stepped off a plane in Tokyo and into an artistic dialogue that will be renewed when the Japan Society presents a festival celebrating Cage and that historic visit.
- [‘10 Days In Madhouse' Isn't Just Opera Of Mad Scenes; It's, Well, Odd ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/27/10-days-in-a-madhouse-isnt-just-opera-of-mad-scenes-its-well-odd/) - PHILADELPHIA – Madness has become such a complicated subject in opera that a new addition by composer Rene Orth and librettist Hannah Moscovitch struggled to encompass everything it wants to say at Opera Philadelphia’s Festival O23.
- [Bird-Catching As Opera: Alfresco 'Nightingale' Offers Sly Morality Tale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/26/bird-catching-as-opera-witty-nightingale-is-alfresco-morality-tale/) - NEW YORK – A witty, lyrical updating of Hans Christian Andersen's classic, Song of the Nightingale by composer Lisa DeSpain and librettist Melisa Tien measures personal indulgence against its effect on the wider world.
- [At Ground Zero, A New Performing Arts Center Enfolds The Multitudes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/25/at-ground-zero-a-new-performing-arts-center-enfolds-the-multitudes/) - NEW YORK – Far-ranging music of faith filled a dedicatory concert at the beautiful new Perelman Performing Arts Center, described by civic leaders as a community center for diverse workers and residents and a place for healing from 9/11.
- [Orchestra Celebrating Its Birth And Its House Also Showcases Growth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/24/orchestra-celebrates-its-founding-120-years-ago-and-displays-its-growth/) - SEATTLE – The Seattle Symphony began its season with a dual anniversary concert marking the 120th year of its founding and a quarter-century in Benaroya Hall. Conductor emeritus Ludovic Morlot's program recalled the original in 1903.
- ['Butterfly' Undergoes Sensitivity Correction, But It's Still 'Butterfly'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/20/butterfly-undergoes-sensitivity-correction-but-its-still-butterfly/) - BOSTON – The setting of Boston Lyric Opera's production, starring soprano Karen Chia-Ling Ho, is World War II America. While the balance of power is better, stereotypes remain, and the primary reason to hear the opera is unchanged.
- [In Bravura Met Recital, Grand Wagnerian Voice Essays Intimate Finesse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/18/in-bravura-met-recital-grand-wagnerian-voice-essays-intimate-finesse/) - NEW YORK – Over the past four years, Met Opera audiences have heard the refulgent-voiced Norwegian soprano Lisa Davidsen, now a favorite, sing the likes of Wagner's Eva and Strauss' Marschallin. Her season-opening recital was a joy.
- [Tapping Into Music As Unconscious Chronicle Of Post-Holocaust Era](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/15/tapping-into-music-as-unconscious-chronicle-of-post-holocaust-era/) - BOOK REVIEW – What do we want to remember, and how should we? What monument or artwork can appropriately perpetuate a memory? These enigmatic questions underlie Jeremy Eichler's perspective on music in the wake of World War II.
- [Thomas Schippers Bio Explores Art, Glamour Of A Meteoric Maestro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/13/thomas-schippers-bio-explores-craft-glamor-of-a-meteoric-maestro/) - BOOK REVIEW – Nancy Spada's new book provides an overdue portrait of the prodigious American conductor, known as much for his movie-star looks as he was for his expertise in opera, who died of cancer in 1977 at age 47.
- [Adams' 'Short Ride,' Like Rest Of Sizzling Concert Fare, Gets Short Shrift](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/11/adams-short-ride-like-rest-of-dazzling-fare-gets-short-shrift/) - SYDNEY – On paper, the Sydney Symphony Orchestra program promised a night of fireworks: John Adams' Short Ride in a Fast Machine, Wynton Marsalis' Violin Concerto (with Nicola Benedetti), and Stravinsky's Firebird Suite. The plan fizzled.
- [Presto! (Or Andante): Between Competitions, A Festival Works Magic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/08/presto-or-andante-between-competitions-a-festival-works-magic/) - BANFF – In 2017, the triennial Banff International String Quartet Competition introduced a recurring string-quartet-plus festival. This year's typically surprising musical adventures drew assorted artists and full houses for eight concerts.
- [Portrait Of A Composer Still Living Tradition Of Elgar, Vaughan Williams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/05/portrait-of-a-composer-still-living-tradition-of-elgar-vaughan-williams/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Composer-pianist Penelope Thwaites, 79, performs at the center of a CD offering a retrospective on her purposefully “retro" body of work. Her music is rightly archived here as a last vestige of a lush British sound.
- [On Vast Montana Vista, Chamber Music Invokes An Unexpected Intimacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/09/05/on-vast-western-vista-chamber-music-offers-embrace-of-intimacy/) - FISHTAIL, Mont. – Located on a 12,500-acre ranch, Tippet Rise Art Center offers music in venues with seating for no more than 150 people. Expansive views and monumental sculptures that punctuate the landscape provide the sublime ambience.
- [Festival Operas Pegged To Yesteryear; Concerts Come Up To Yesterday](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/31/festival-operas-pegged-to-yesteryear-concerts-come-up-to-yesterday/) - SALZBURG – While the Salzburg Festival included operas from the Baroque through the Romantic eras, concerts and recitals tapped into the past century or so but featured only half a dozen living composers. Diversity was nearly a non-issue.
- [In A Sunny Vale Where Hemingway Sheltered, Free Concerts Resound](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/30/in-a-sunny-vale-where-hemingway-hung-out-concerts-fill-the-air/) - SUN VALLEY, Idaho – Offering entirely open orchestra and chamber music programs since its inception nearly four decades ago, the Sun Valley Music Festival has grown into the largest privately funded, admission-free festival in the U.S.
- [Music From The Heart: Intimate Portraits Of Schumanns, Brahms](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/29/music-from-the-heart-intimate-perspectives-on-the-schumanns-brahms/) - PORT ANGELES, Wash. – Capping the 2023 Music on the Strait festival, pianist Jeremy Denk, violinist James Garlick, violist Richard O'Neill, and cellist Ani Aznavoorian offered glowing accounts of works by Robert and Clara Schumann and friend.
- [At The Salzburg Fest, Inspired Concerts And Two Tormented Operas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/23/at-the-salzburg-fest-tormented-opera-and-two-inspired-concerts/) - SALZBURG – While provocative new productions of Martinů and Mozart failed their librettos, uplifting concerts were offered by the Vienna Philharmonic under Riccardo Muti and the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra with Daniel Barenboim.
- [Young Festival Fellows Display Artistry In Music Of Women Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/22/young-festival-fellows-display-artistry-in-music-of-women-composers/) - PORT TOWNSEND, Wash. – The Olympic Music Festival devoted its Aug. 20 concert to three visionary female composers of the past two centuries, with performances that combined seasoned professionals and festival Fellows.
- [How Suite It Is, Or Six Flourishes For Trumpet From Master Marsalis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/21/how-suite-it-is-or-six-flourishes-for-trumpet-from-master-marsalis/) - MONTREAL – The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and principal trumpet Paul Merkelo made a good case for Wynton Marsalis' multi-styled Trumpet Concerto, a six-movement work that scans more as a suite than a true concerto.
- [Marin Alsop At Ravinia: Lim, Mozart Are Magic, Beethoven's A Muddle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/16/marin-alsop-at-ravinia-lim-mozart-are-magic-beethovens-a-muddle/) - HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – The festival's chief conductor led the Chicago Symphony and Cliburn Competition winner Yunchan Lim in thrilling Rachmaninoff and added a charming Magic Flute. An elaborated Beethoven Ninth fared less well.
- [A New 'Ring,' Or Is This 'Rheingold' Just Toe In The Wagnerian Stream?](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/15/a-new-ring-or-is-this-rheingold-just-a-toe-in-the-wagnerian-stream/) - SEATTLE – Seattle Opera's choice of Wagner's Das Rheingold to open its 60th season is cause for celebration for opera fans. But the company's last full Ring was a decade ago, and there's doubt whether Seattle will revive its Wagner ambitions.
- [Kander & Ebb Redux: 'New York, New York' Is Love Note To Big Apple](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/13/kander-ebb-redux-new-york-new-york-a-big-apple-love-note/) - NEW YORK – The new pastiche directed by Susan Stroman closed its doors on Broadway after 110 performances, though the night I attended a packed house cheered to the rafters. The songs, the dances, the spectacle were all worth the price.
- [His NY Years Receding, Gilbert Finds Himself In Several Happy Places](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/09/his-ny-years-receding-gilbert-finds-himself-in-several-happy-places/) - PERSPECTIVE – In the six years since his uneasy exit from the New York Philharmonic, Alan Gilbert has become chief conductor of Hamburg's NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra, music director of the Royal Swedish Opera, and busy guest conductor.
- [Euphoniums, Tubas And Flutes, Oh My How This Music Fest Is Growing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/09/euphoniums-tubas-and-flutes-oh-my-how-this-festival-is-growing/) - GREENSBORO, N.C. – Under music director Gerard Schwarz, the Eastern Music Festival has evolved from an orchestral and chamber music program to embrace educational experiences for young musicians and offer far-ranging repertoire.
- [Operetta And Musicals Nurtured In A Serious Tradition Of Frothy Fun](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/07/operetta-and-musicals-sustained-in-a-serious-tradition-of-frothy-fun/) - WOOSTER, Ohio – Whether it's Gilbert and Sullivan or Lerner and Loewe, Ohio Light Opera approaches its productions with the attention to historical accuracy of an early-music group, from sets and staging to costumes and choreography.
- [In Their Diverse Styles, 4 Women Composers Affirm Music's Vitality](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/02/with-their-eloquent-art-four-women-composers-attest-to-musics-vitality/) - LENOX, Mass. – Composers Tebogo Monnakgotla, Reena Esmail, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir, four distinct voices each with dozens of major works, commanded the spotlight at Tanglewood's Festival of Contemporary Music.
- [Passion Fires The Heart Of Summer Concerts In Chamber Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/08/02/passion-fires-the-heart-of-summer-concerts-in-northwest-chamber-fest/) - SEATTLE – In the heart of summer, the Emerald City becomes a magnet for chamber-music enthusiasts, lured by the quality and variety of the concert bonanza that forms the Seattle Chamber Music Society’s month-long Summer Festival.
- [Mega Flourish Of Horns Lifts 'Alpine Symphony' At Canadian Music Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/31/with-flourish-of-horns-canadian-festival-touts-peak-alpine-symphony/) - JOLIETTE, Quebec – The International Horn Society's annual symposium and the improbable availability of Yannick Nézet-Séguin to conduct Montreal’s Orchestre Métropolitain at the Festival de Lanaudière led to a memorable collaboration.
- [Tennstedt Bio Reveals Great Maestro At Odds With World  and Himself](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/27/tennstedt-bio-shows-great-maestro-at-odds-with-himself-and-world/) - BOOK REVIEW – In his vivid book Klaus Tennstedt: Possessed by Music, author Georg Wübbolt describes how the celebrated conductor, born in East Germany, was his own worst enemy, wracked with self-doubt and given to extreme stage fright.
- [Under New Conductor, Bach Fest Restarts With (Wait For It) Mahler 4th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/26/under-new-conductor-bach-fest-restarts-withwait-for-it-mahler-4th/) - CARMEL-BY-THE-SEA, Calif. – There is a new breeze blowing through the 86th Carmel Bach Festival. In her debut summer as artistic director, Norwegian conductor Grete Pedersen led Haydn's The Creation and the festival's first-ever Mahler.
- [Two Bel Canto Operas Revived, And Both Well Worth The Rediscovery](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/25/two-bel-canto-operas-revived-and-both-well-worth-the-rediscovery/) - NEW YORK – Musicologist Will Crutchfield's summer training and performance series offered Donizetti's tragedy Poliuto and the comedy Crispino e la comare (Crispino and the Fairy Godmother) by brothers Luigi and Federico Ricci.
- [At A Critical Transition, Northwest Music Fest Delivers A Concert Blitz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/24/at-critical-transition-northwest-music-fest-delivers-concert-blitz/) - BELLINGHAM, Wash. – Pacific Northwest fans of orchestral music were offered quite the selection of concerts at the 2023 Bellingham Festival of Music: five different programs led by as many conductors in a wide range of works in 18 days.
- [Dudamel May Be Bound For NY, But His Heart Still Beats In Latin Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/20/dudamel-may-be-headed-to-gotham-but-his-heart-still-beats-in-latin-time/) - HOLLYWOOD – As an LA Philharmonic concert demonstrated, one of Gustavo Dudamel’s key achievements as music director has been the championing of Latin American composers through his Pan American Music Initiative.
- [Eyeful Of Grand Vistas, Earful Of Great Music: Critics Hit Bravo! Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/20/eyeful-of-grand-vistas-earful-of-great-music-critics-hit-bravo-vail/) - VAIL, Colo. – Nestled amid mountain peaks, the town of Vail is practically synonymous with skiing, but in summer it is a classical music mecca centered on the Bravo! Vail Music Festival and its bounty of concerts and music-education events.
- [Decked In Blazing Red, Youth Orchestra Puts USA Stamp On Berlioz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/18/decked-in-red-black-high-tops-youths-put-usa-stamp-on-berlioz/) - NEW YORK – At Carnegie Hall, the musicians of the National Youth Orchestra-USA sported their signature uniform of bright red slacks, black blazers, white shirts, and black-and-white high-top sneakers. Andrew Davis conducted, clad in black.
- [Hamelin Tops Marquee Twofold At Music Fest As Pianist, Composer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/18/pianist-hamelin-shines-as-performer-composer-at-chamber-music-fest/) - SEATTLE – Canadian pianist Marc-André Hamelin, performing in his own Piano Quintet, headlined a July 13 concert of the Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival that added a Beethoven violin-piano sonata and a Brahms string sextet.
- [On Roads Of Friendship, Muti Encourages Youths Toward Global Harmony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/16/on-roads-of-friendship-muti-encourages-youths-toward-global-harmony/) - POMPEI – Annual tours by the Luigi Cherubini Youth Orchestra, led by Riccardo Muti, aim to build cultural bridges between cities affected by war and to create bonds through music. Venues have ranged from Kyiv to Tokyo and Athens.
- [As Tanglewood Opens, Boston Symphony Casts A Spotlight On Diversity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/12/as-its-summer-opens-tanglewood-embraces-the-ideals-of-diversity/) - LENOX, Mass. – In its first programs of the 2023 summer festival, the orchestra led by Latvian music director Andris Nelsons offered works by Iranian Canadian and African American composers, along with core repertoire favorites.
- [Wildfires, Fiddler Crabs: Fest Draws Music From Unheard-Of Resources](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/10/wildfires-fiddler-crabs-festival-finds-music-in-unheard-of-places/) - SAN ANTONIO – The pixels were still wet on the musicians’ iPad displays at a festival of six way-out-there concerts by the Unheard-of//Ensemble, which is devoted mainly to exploring a widening musical universe and unconventional venues.
- [Importance Of Women Composers, Conductors Focus Of Summer Fests](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/05/emergence-of-women-composers-conductors-focus-of-summer-fests/) - PERSPECTIVE – As conductor Marin Alsop features women composers at the Ravinia Festival, other high-profile summer seasons around the country are likewise paying attention to the historically notable contributions of women in classical music.
- ['Turandot,' Heard Just As Puccini Left It, Was Simply The Bee's Knees](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/05/turandot-unfinished-as-puccini-left-it-was-just-the-bees-knees/) - ZURICH – Dropping Franco Alfano's familiar ending, director Sebastian Baumgarten placed the opera in a beehive, which fit neatly into the social stratification of Imperial China. Queen bee Sondra Radvanovsky wore robes of yellow and black.
- [Capping Directorship, Muti Scales Heights Of Beethoven's Epic Mass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/03/capping-directorship-muti-scales-heights-of-beethovens-epic-mass/) - CHICAGO – Riccardo Muti, wrapping up 13 years at the helm, led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in a crystalline account of the Missa solemnis. The conductor, who turns 82 in July, was named CSO Music Director Emeritus for Life.
- [Staged Serenata, If Not Exactly Opera, Proved Exquisite Baroque Gem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/07/01/not-really-opera-but-this-staged-baroque-style/) - CHICAGO – It is difficult to believe that Johann Adolph Hasse heard better artists than Lauren Decker and Kangmin Justin Kim in the title roles of his 1725 Marc’Antonio e Cleopatra, produced with elegance and stylish detail by Haymarket Opera.
- ['West Side Story' Told As Music-Drama, Its Tragic Veracity Intact](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/30/west-side-story-told-as-music-drama-its-tragic-veracity-intact/) - CHICAGO – Music was paramount in the Lyric Opera of Chicago production. Powered by a full-sized orchestra and with Sondheim's still-pungent lyrics drawing extra impact from solid theatrical elements, the experience became visceral.
- [Vänskä's Mahler Second Leaves Dual Impression Of Restraint, Passion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/30/vanskas-mahler-second-a-study-in-flux-between-restraint-and-passion/) - SEATTLE – Capping the Seattle Symphony's season of guest conductors, Osmo Vänskä led a detailed performance that was unwavering in its attention to balance, timbral blend, dynamics, and clarity across the breadth of Mahler's vast structure.
- ['A Torrent Of Light,' Tale Of Rising AI Peril, Wins Critics' New Opera Prize](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/19/torrent-of-light-tale-of-ai-threat-captures-best-new-opera-prize/) - BREAKING NEWS – Evoking a world in which man-made robots threaten humanity, R.U.R. A Torrent of Light, by composer Nicole Lizée and librettist Nicolas Billon, takes the Music Critics Association of North America's 2023 Best New Opera Award.
- [Joplin’s 'Treemonisha' Revived In Canada With A Freshening Makeover](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/19/joplins-treemonisha-revived-in-canada-gets-a-freshening-makeover/) - Arthur Kaptainis reviews the opera "Treemonisha," by Scott Joplin, which was performed at the 2023 Luminato Festival which was performed at the 2023 Luminato Festival
- [Vermeer, Music Offered In A Citadel Of Culture: Vermeer Was Flawless](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/19/vermeer-music-offered-around-amsterdam-no-problems-with-vermeer/) - AMSTERDAM – A prodigious exhibit of Vermeer's paintings was still drawing crowds at 2 in the morning. On the music front, concerts at the Concertgebouw and Rusalka at Dutch National Opera had their moments, but also their issues. Matthew Gurewitsch,
- [Early Music Fest Casts Light On Women, Some Long Lost In Shadows](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/16/early-music-fest-casts-light-on-women-some-long-lost-in-shadows/) - BOSTON – Among peak moments of the weeklong Boston Early Music Festival was Henry Desmarets' opera Circé, with a text by French poet Louise-Genevieve Gillot de Saintonge (1650-1718), the first woman to write a libretto for the Paris Opera. Paul Hyde
- [Energized Spoleto USA Runs Brash Gamut From Barber To Balloon Pops](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/16/energized-spoleto-usa-runs-brash-gamut-from-barber-to-blown-bubbles/) - Perry Tannenbaum reviews the 2023 Spoleto USA, in Charleston, South Carolina, which featured Samuel Barber's "Vanessa," among other highlights.
- [Handed Festival Reins, Multifaceted Musician Pushes Its Boundaries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/14/handed-festival-reins-a-multifaceted-musician-pushes-its-boundaries/) - OJAI, Calif. – As this year's music director of the Ojai Festival, the musical polymath Rhiannon Giddens intriguingly mixed genres, sometimes successfully ignoring perceived musical borders in a diverse week sprinkled with pop-up concerts.
- [Bonds Of Duty, Family, Asian Tradition Clash In Operatic Tale Of A Teen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/12/bonds-of-duty-family-asian-tradition-clash-in-operatic-tale-of-a-teen/) - SEATTLE – Chinese-born composer Huang Ruo's Bound, presented at Seattle Opera, grapples with conflicting values in a bright Vietnamese American girl abandoned by her parents and left to care for her young siblings while trying to excel in school.
- [In The Stillness Of June, A Festival's Bright Trio Serves Up Intimate Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/12/in-the-quiet-of-june-festivals-bright-trio-serves-intimate-fare/) - MONTREAL – Three stellar young (or in one case, youngish) Canadians who had never performed together before relieved the city's fallow concert period in June with personal music-making that ranged from a Beethoven sonata to a Kodály duo.
- [A Violinist Reflects On The Ties Of Composers To Their Home Ground](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/09/under-violinists-glass-4-composers-in-search-of-their-home-ground/) - PERSPECTIVE – Edward Dusinberre, first violinist of the Takács Quartet since 1993, has produced an excellent new book that examines works by Dvořák, Elgar, Bartók, and Britten and the connection they all felt to their native countries.
- [Strauss' Imposing 'Frau' Steps Out Of Shadows Into Spectacle Of Lights](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/07/strauss-imposing-frau-steps-out-of-shadows-into-many-hued-lights/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Given how rarely the work is staged, it's no surprise that San Francisco Opera’s revival of Die Frau ohne Schatten (The Woman Without a Shadow) is drawing patrons from both the U.S. and abroad. Few will leave unrewarded.
- [Bang-Up Mahler Third Brings Montreal Season To A High-Decibel Wrap](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/05/bang-up-mahler-third-brings-montreal-season-to-a-high-decibel-finish/) - MONTREAL – The year just past has been a veritable Mahlerpalooza for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and first-year music director Rafael Payare, who closed their season with a clamorous account of the Third Symphony.
- [In This Season Farewell, An Orchestral Grab Bag Revealed A Silk Lining](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/05/in-season-farewell-a-grab-bag-program-reveals-a-silk-lining/) - VANCOUVER – On paper, music director Otto Tausk’s season ender for the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra had a miscellaneous look, but it all worked in a concert highlighted by Brahms’ Violin Concerto with soloist Stefan Jackiw.
- [Music Festival Retains Tradition While Honing Fresh, Edgy Relevance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/02/bergen-fest-preserves-tradition-while-honing-fresh-edgy-relevance/) - BERGEN – An enduring past-present-future feeling marks Bergen's international festival, where city jewels such as the Philharmonic and Camerata Bergen are on display. This year, the Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen sang the title role in Tosca.
- [Chamber Music Contest Proves Classy Marathon For Polished Ensembles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/06/01/chamber-music-face-off-proves-classy-marathon-for-polished-ensembles/) - OSAKA – Thirty-three ensembles, 98 musicians, and nearly 50 hours of music packed into eight days: That was the Osaka International Chamber Music Competition and Festa 2023, reputedly the largest competition of its kind in the world.
- [Pianist Spans Centuries On CD Featuring Music By Female Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/30/pianist-spans-centuries-on-cd-featuring-music-by-female-composers/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – At Play, the third and final disc in this project by pianist Sarah Cahill, which she initiated in 2018, stands out for the many living composers included. It shows her commitment to the series title, The Future is Female.
- [Slow Food For Thought: Late Beethoven Quartet Mulled At A Snail's Pace](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/26/slow-food-for-thought-late-beethoven-quartet-mulled-at-a-snails-pace/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Slow Beethoven is a recording project – a sonic journey­, a composition­­­, an exploration of reverberation – that transforms the opening fugue of his String Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131, in a new, elongated perspective.
- [A Reconfigured 'Aida,' As Critique Of War In Male-Controlled World](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/24/a-modernized-aida-as-critique-of-war-in-male-controlled-world/) - MUNICH – The production at the Bayerische Staatsoper was so brilliantly conceived and integrated that it felt as if themes intrinsic to the opera had lain dormant for well over a century, awaiting the right genius to bring them forward.
- [Met's All-New 'Flute' Spins Mozart Forward To Freshening Present](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/23/mets-all-new-flute-spins-mozart-forward-to-freshening-present/) - NEW YORK – Soprano Erin Morley and tenor Lawrence Brownlee star in this modern-dress take on The Magic Flute. While it unfolds with the usual mix of parts that are wonderful and others that are not, it's also an ostensible and justifiable hit.
- [Honoring George Floyd, Musical Remembrance Transcends His Death](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/17/honoring-george-floyd-musical-remembrance-transcends-the-killing/) - MINNEAPOLIS – The new work, brea(d)th, by composer Carlos Simon (shown) and librettist Marc Bamuthi Joseph will have its premiere performances May 18-20 by the commissioning Minnesota Orchestra with chorus and speaker.
- [Comical 'Merry Wives' Is The Fantastic Affair Otto Nicolai Imagined](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/16/comical-merry-wives-is-the-fantastic-affair-otto-nicola-imagined/) - VIENNA – The energetic cast and staging by the young director Nina Spijkers brushed the dust off Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor with a winning combination of slapstick humor and high musical standards in a new production at the Volksoper.
- [Finding Musical Grace In Depths Of Slavery's Middle-Passage Horror](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/15/finding-musical-grace-in-depths-of-slaverys-middle-passage-horror/) - CHICAGO – Transfigure to Grace, Jessie Montgomery's fully orchestrated reworking of her 2019 ballet Passage, received its world premiere by Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, where she is composer in residence.
- [Helsinki Phil's Concert At Carnegie Points Up Art Of Susanna Mälkki](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/12/helsinki-phils-returnto-carnegie-reaffirms-star-power-of-malkki/) - NEW YORK – After a 55-year absence, the Finnish orchestra offered a program under Mälkki, its authoritative chief conductor, that included the Sibelius tone poem Lemminkäinen's Return, his Second Symphony, and music by Kaija Saariaho.
- [Early Italian Cembalo Inspires Modern Copy And American Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/11/early-red-cristofori-keyboard-replica-has-a-resonant-u-s-debut/) - STONINGTON, Conn. – An early 18th-century Bartolomeo Cristoforii cembalo, pictured, was inspiration for German maker Kerstin Schwarz. Her modern replica has 54 double-strung keys, hammers of paper andl leather. And yes, it sings.
- [A 'Rheingold' Premiere, Creative And Gleaming, Hints At Possible 'Ring'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/10/rheingold-premiere-creative-and-gleaming-hints-at-possible-ring/) - ATLANTA – Taking a bold step toward a potential complete presentation of Wagner's Ring cycle, Atlanta Opera unveiled a magnificent Rheingold, sung by a cast of superb Wagnerians. As for the other operas, only Die Walküre is slated, in 2024.
- [New 'Giovanni' At Met: Grim And Grinding, And Dramatically Top-Notch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/08/new-giovanni-at-metgloomy-grinding-and-dramatically-top-notch/) - NEW YORK – Crime and punishment permeate Ivo van Hove's new production, with excellent singing, detailed direction, and a visually stimulating update that made this unrelentingly sober version the best Don Giovanni at the Met in decades.
- [In Handy Church Ruin, Verdi's 'Macbeth' Finds Its All-Purpose Setting](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/04/verdis-macbeth-finds-all-purpose-setting-in-highly-adaptable-church/) - TORONTO – The Canadian Opera Company production, starring a suitably anguished Quinn Kelsey, unfolds not on a blasted heath but in a roofless church that is reconfigured to serve as banquet hall, witches cavern, and battlefield.
- [On Tour Down Under, British String Quartet Meets The Didgeridoo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/03/british-string-quartet-meets-didgeridoo-on-its-tour-down-under/) - CANBERRA, Australia – The Brodsky Quartet, veterans of 50 years of music-making together, teamed up with didgeridoo virtuoso William Barton in his Square Circles Beneath the Red Desert Sand, on a bill with Bach and Schubert.
- [35 Years On, Adams' 'Nixon In China' Gets New Looks In Europe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/02/35-years-on-adams-nixon-in-china-gets-new-looks-in-europe/) - PERSPECTIVE – Much like the characters it depicts, Nixon in China has seen its stock repeatedly rise and fall since its Houston premiere in 1987. In recent months, the opera has been revisited in no fewer than five productions on the Continent.
- [When AC Fails, Concert Spotlighting Steel Pan Only Turns Up The Heat](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/02/when-halls-ac-fails-music-for-steel-pan-only-adds-to-the-heat/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Concertgoers were handed bottles of water as they entered for the Oregon Symphony concert featuring Andy Akiho's Beneath Lighted Coffers, for steel pan and orchestra. The scene might have been Trinidad.
- [Honoring Callas At 100, Greek Opera Restages Her Signature 'Medea'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/05/01/honoring-callas-at-100-greek-opera-revisits-her-signature-medea/) - ATHENS – The title role in Cherubini's opera is synonymous with Maria Callas, who revived the neglected work in Florence in 1953. In the Greek National Opera's new tribute production, soprano Anna Pirozzi summons both pathos and stamina.
- [Amid Flourish Of Horns, Maestro Extends Chase Of Haydn's Symphonies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/27/amid-flourish-of-horns-maestro-pursues-quarry-of-all-haydn-symphonies/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – There are big recording projects, and then there’s Giovanni Antonini's plan to record all 107 of Haydn’s symphonies, and to complete the project by the composer’s 300th birthday in 2032. Volume 13 abounds with horns.
- [Music Of Shostakovich Brings Fresh Drama To Silent Film 'Potemkin'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/26/silent-film-potemkin-gets-new-score-from-music-of-shostakovich/) - SEATTLE – Shostakovich did not write the original score for director Sergei Eisenstein's 1925 epic Battleship Potemkin, but music from five of his symphonies has been adapted to the film, and was played at a Seattle Symphony screening.
- [Beatrice Rana Fuses Ferocity And Beauty In 'Hammerklavier' Sonata](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/23/pianist-beatrice-rana-strikes-fire-poetry-in-hammerklavier-sonata/) - TORONTO – I have heard a lot of Beethoven over the years, but never have I heard his daunting Sonata No. 29 in B-flat played with the fire and passion summoned by this Italian pianist – not to mention her almost miraculous technical mastery.
- [Maestro On The Ascent, Rafael Payare Displays Wide Command Of Style](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/20/maestro-on-the-ascent-rafael-payare-displays-wide-command-of-style/) - LOS ANGELES – Rafael Payare may not be quite the classical celebrity that his friend, countryman, and sponsor Gustavo Dudamel is, but he’s coming up fast. Witness his recent program of Still, Wagner, and Brahms with the L.A. Philharmonic.
- [Bruckner Writ Small? Handful Of Floridians Tap Into Heart Of 7th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/19/bruckner-writ-small-handful-of-floridians-to-play-7th-symphony/) - ST. PETERSBURG, FL – Offering what music director Michael Francis calls an intimate rather than intimidating experience, the Florida Orchestra will strip the grand-scaled symphony to the bone April 21-22, with only a dozen musicians.
- [American Opera, Voices Flavor Creative Mix On Stages Across Europe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/18/americans-in-paris-and-on-other-opera-stages-across-europe/) - PERSPECTIVE – John Adams' Nixon in China, with Thomas Hampson in the title role and Renée Fleming as the First Lady, triumphed at Paris' Opéra Bastille while other Americans dotted casts encountered on a continental opera sojourn.
- [Taiwan Philharmonic's U.S. Tour Underscored By Promise Of Passion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/14/taiwan-philharmonics-u-s-tour-comes-with-a-promise-of-passion/) - PERSPECTIVE – The tour April 14-23 marks the first time the orchestra has ventured east of the Mississippi River. Many of the musicians have strong connections to the United States, so excitement is high, says music director Jun Märkl.
- [In Reimagined 'Tosca,' Grand Opera Is Shrunk To A Raw Cabaret Vibe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/12/tosca-reimagined-shorter-and-leaner-with-a-cabaret-band/) - NEW YORK – Eight of the hardest-working people in New York City on April 11 were the members of Heartbeat Opera’s band tasked with capturing Puccini’s lush orchestrations in a modern-day dystopian concept that banished violins entirely.
- [A Different Ring Opera Also Finds A Matchless Hero Cursed By Fate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/12/a-different-ring-opera-still-finds-a-matchless-hero-cursed-by-fate/) - NEW YORK – “I killed a man, and the world forgave me. I loved a man, and the world wants to kill me.“ So sings the aging champion boxer Emile Griffith, haunted by his fatal beating of an opponent in Terence Blanchard's Champion, now at the Met.
- [Music And Movement Meld In Exploration Of 'Marinated Memories'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/11/music-and-movement-meld-in-an-exploration-of-marinated-memories/) - SEATTLE – The joint creation of composer Caroline Shaw and dancer-choreographer Vanessa Goodman, Graveyards and Gardens elaborates the brain's deconstruction, regeneration, and transformation of a repeated pattern or memory.
- [The Oddest Concert: Power Out, Little Light; Finally, Adès' Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/10/the-oddest-concert-no-power-little-light-finally-ades-concerto/) - CHICAGO – What a strange, strange evening. An extended power failure at Orchestra Hall delayed the Chicago Symphony's concert, and part of the program was dropped. But pianist Kirill Gerstein and composer-conductor Thomas Adès prevailed.
- [Embracing Its Audience, A Visionary Orchestra Breaks Cultural Mold](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/07/to-widen-its-audience-a-visionary-orchestra-removes-the-mystique/) - LOUISVILLE – Maybe you know the composer, maybe you don't. It doesn't matter, says Louisville Orchestra music director Teddy Abrams, who shuns talk about standard repertoire as he leads concert adventures in exciting music old and new.
- [Monteverdi's Wandering 'Ulisse' Returns Home To An Updated Scene](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/06/monteverdis-errant-ulisse-comes-home-to-an-updated-scene/) - VIENNA – The Vienna State Opera has charted new territory with a Monteverdi trilogy capped by ll ritorno d’Ulisse in patria, a production more intent on contemporary flair than mining the work's musical and dramatic substance.
- [Vespers Bear Message Of Sorrow, Hope For 'Blessed Earth' In Peril](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/05/vespers-sound-knell-for-the-prospects-of-blessed-earth-in-peril/) - NEW YORK – Increasingly, composers are dealing with issues of climate change. John Luther Adams, 70, got there long ago. His new Vespers of the Blessed Earth was performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Crossing chamber choir.
- [Female Ensemble Gives History Lesson In Merit Of Women Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/04/04/female-ensemble-gives-history-lesson-in-merit-of-women-composers/) - NEW YORK – The Cassatt String Quartet and pianist Magdalena Baczewska, in an impressive program of works by Amy Beach, Florence Price, and Dorothy Rudd Moore, made their case that the creation of good music transcends gender.
- [A Throwback Concert Recalls Triumvirate Of 2nd Viennese School](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/30/back-to-school-concert-of-music-scaled-small-second-viennese-school/) - VANCOUVER – Soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen sang Berg's Seven Early Songs in a concert by the Turning Point Ensemble on a program titled "Vienna, End of an Ear," spotlighting a wide range of works by Berg, Webern, and Schoenberg.
- [Opera Triptych Paints Loneliness, Rage, Hope On A Troubled Planet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/29/opera-triptych-peers-into-culture-tragedy-of-black-gun-violence/) - CHICAGO – Seemingly adrift in Proximity, an opera triple bill at Lyric Opera of Chicago, are the children of a tough neighborhood, two lovers thwarted by technology, and even earth itself, cosmically majestic but endangered in slow burn.
- ['Pelléas et Mélisande' As Resonant Verismo: Dark, Bleak, Beautiful](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/30/pelleas-et-melisandeas-resonant-verismo-dark-bleak-beautiful/) - LOS ANGELES – If Debussy’s grim, nearly tuneless tragedy has the reputation of being a problem for many listeners, a Los Angeles Opera production conducted by James Conlon at least cast the work in its best light: duly stark, altogether first-rate.
- [Worldly Cello Concerto Gathers Its Movements From Three Continents](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/28/worldly-cello-concerto-gathers-its-movements-from-three-continents/) - SEATTLE – Cellist Jan Vogler, co-commissioner of the novel work composed by America's Nico Muhly, Germany's Sven Herbig, and China's Zhou Long, was the soloist in a stunning U.S. premiere with the Seattle Symphony conducted by Yue Bao.
- [Strauss Rarity 'Daphne' Gets A Ringing Revival, Beautiful And Very Loud](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/27/strauss-rarity-daphne-gets-a-ringing-revival-beautiful-and-very-loud/) - NEW YORK – With soprano Jana McIntyre offering a remarkable and tireless performance in the demanding title role, Leon Botstein led his American Symphony Orchestra and a strong supporting cast in a splendid, if noisy, account.
- [Like A Chef In Kitchen, Maestro Loves Mixing His Baroque Ingredients](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/24/like-chef-in-kitchen-maestro-relishes-mix-of-baroque-ingredients/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Julian Perkins, the newly appointed artistic director of Portland Baroque Orchestra, is cooking up some fresh ideas for his first season. One of the dishes he has concocted is an opera pasticcio, basically a musical pie.
- [Bologne Comic Opera, An 18th-Century Gem, Flourishes In CD Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/22/bologne-comic-romance-lamant-anonyme-takes-wing-on-vivacious-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW –L'amant anonyme, the only surviving opera by Joseph Bologne, also known as the Chevalier de Saint-Georges, receives a stylish, charming, and thoroughly vivacious recording by the Chicago-based Haymarket Opera Company.
- [After Gang Rape, Hope In Pakistan: An Opera Honors Transcendence](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/21/rape-survival-hope-in-pakistan-an-opera-honors-transcendence/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Unlike operas where the tragic soprano dies, the heroine of Thumbprint lives. Portland Opera’s production tells the real-life story of Mukhtar Mai, the Pakistani woman who chooses life over shame-induced suicide.
- [Kirchner Letters Paint Composer As Fierce, Inspiring Intellectual](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/06/leon-kirchner-composer-and-intellectual-recalled-in-vivid-book-of-letters/) - PERSPECTIVE – Leon Kirchner was a man of many talents. He was also an adroit writer who inspired others to produce intriguing letters and articles to and about him. Nearly 70 of these documents have been compiled in a fascinating new book.
- ['Le Nozze' Annulled: Mozart's Perfect Opera Gets A Rough Makeover](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/21/le-nozze-annulled-mozart-perfect-comedy-takes-a-hit-in-vienna/) - VIENNA – A new production of Le Nozze di Figaro at the Vienna State Opera was billed as a vehicle for young singers ideally suited to the roles, directed by the much sought-after Barrie Kosky. The result does not live up to either promise.
- [Pianist Remembers Dad With A Little Help From His Composer Friends](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/14/pianist-remembers-dad-with-a-little-help-from-his-composer-friends/) - NEW YORK – The unusual aspect of "Inheritances,” Adam Tendler’s piano recital March 11 in memory of his father, was that all 16 of its short memorial pieces were composed by the pianist’s friends. A spirited audience of more friends was on hand.
- [Vienna Phil, Thielemann Invoke Mighty Bruckner With Rewarding Eighth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/10/vienna-phil-thielemann-invoke-mighty-bruckner-with-rewarding-eighth/) - NEW YORK – Capping a run of three different programs at Carnegie Hall, the Vienna Philharmonic and conductor Christian Thielemann delivered a Bruckner Eighth Symphony that was serious, beautiful, and profoundly resonant.
- [New Opera As Sapling: Glimpse At Machover's Lyric Portrait Of Trees](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/09/new-opera-as-sapling-glimpse-into-machover-lyric-portrait-of-trees/) - NEW YORK – Tod Machover is working on an opera based on Richard Powers’ Pulitzer-winning novel The Overstory. Sejong Soloists, the commissioning ensemble, offered a fragment performed with mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato.
- [Mehta, Now Grand Old Maestro, Flips Switch In A Vibrant Mahler Third](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/08/mehta-now-grand-old-maestro-flips-switch-in-vibrant-mahler-third/) - LOS ANGELES – Zubin Mehta, who is 86 years old and served as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic from 1962-78, led the orchestra in a performance to remember, one marked by drama, drive, poetry, mystery, and tenderness.
- ['Fragments' For Cello: Random Bach, New Bits All Add Up To Very Little](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/05/fragments-for-cello-random-bach-new-bits-all-add-up-to-very-little/) - TORONTO – Cellist Alisa Weilerstein's project Fragments integrates Bach’s cello suites, their movements scrambled, with 27 new commissions to make six hourlong, multi-sensory programs for solo cello. Ambitious, yes, but what's the point?
- [Updated To Instagram, Handel's 'Belshazzar' With Its Tension Intact](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/03/updated-to-instagram-handels-belshazzar-with-its-tension-intact/) - VIENNA – The staging at the Theater an der Wien catapults Handel's oratorio from pre-Christian times to a futuristic landscape in which water is scarce and reality television captures every move of the Babylonian king and his mother Nitrocris.
- [Pursuing The Intensity Of 'Thousand Suns' In Opera World Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/02/thousand-splendid-suns-captures-novels-heat-in-opera-world-premiere/) - SEATTLE – It is hardly an easy task to transform a 367-page novel into a three-hour, two-act opera. Composer Sheila Silver and librettist Stephen Kitsakos have done no less in A Thousand Splendid Suns, about life in war-torn Afghanistan.
- [3 Women Conductors Eclipse Gender Issues In NY Phil Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/03/01/three-women-conductors-eclipse-issues-of-gender-in-new-york-phil-concerts/) - NEW YORK – How long must women conductors wait until they’re simply referred to as conductors? We may be there, to judge from recent programs led by Dalia Stasevska, Ruth Reinhardt, and Nathalie Stutzmann (pictured).
- ['Lohengrin' Once More Glides Onto Met Stage, In Blaze Of Vocal Glory](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/28/lohengrin-once-more-glides-onto-met-stage-in-blaze-of-vocal-glory/) - NEW YORK – An abstract, post-apocalyptic vision of Wagner's medieval tale by director François Girard lacked castle and swan boat, but the singing and playing made the Met's first revival of Lohengrin since 2006 an event to celebrate.
- [Its Humanity In View, 'German Requiem' Gets A Full-Power Treatment](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/24/its-humanity-in-view-german-requiem-gets-a-full-power-treatment/) - GREENSBORO, N.C. – Brahms once quipped: "I'd happily give up the 'German' in the title and just put 'Human.'" Dmitry Sitkovetsky led the Greensboro Symphony Orchestra and Master Chorale in an emotionally charged performance.
- [Embracing The Theater At The Heart Of Cilea's 'Adriana Lecouvreur'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/21/lighting-up-the-theater-at-the-heart-of-cileas-adriana-lecouvreur/) - SYDNEY – Theater about theater holds a special allure for directors and singers. Adriana Lecouvreur does not get performed often, but Opera Australia’s starry cast exuded enthusiasm for the piece in advance of their Sydney premiere.
- [Mäkelä Confirms Why Concertgebouw Smiles While Others Are Pining](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/20/makela-confirms-why-orchestras-are-pining-concertgebouw-smiles/) - CHICAGO – The 27-year-old Finnish conductor Klaus Mäkelä's performance of Mahler's Fifth Symphony with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra left no doubt he will head a major U.S. orchestra. But when? Concertgebouw's already got him.
- [Regional Orchestras 2: Blazing New Pathways In Washington, Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/17/regional-orchestras-2-classics-meet-moderns-in-washington-oregon/) - PERSPECTIVE – While the Vancouver Symphony in Washington is poised to become the city's cultural flagship, the Eugene Symphony in Oregon reflects the vision of its music director in exploring "what a symphony can be in the 21st century."
- [Regional Orchestras 1: After Covid, A Renewed Commitment To Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/16/regional-orchestras-l-in-covids-wake-new-commitment-to-music/) - PERSPECTIVE – “In the midst of these seemingly endless obstacles that come our way, you have a group of musicians who play together with such a sense of community and empathy,” said Eric Garcia, music director of the Boise Philharmonic.
- [Baroque Fare Featured The Band, But A Singer Delivered The Drama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/15/baroque-fare-featured-the-band-but-a-singer-delivered-the-drama/) - NEW YORK – As special guest of the touring Bach Collegium Japan under Masaaki Suzuki, the British baritone Roderick Williams brought considerable artistic intelligence, dynamic skill, and easy ornamentation to arias by Bach and Telemann.
- [The Play Was The Thing For Henry Purcell, Other Restoration Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/14/the-play-was-the-thing-for-henry-purcell-other-restoration-composers/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In its recording Love Restor’d, the British ensemble Ceruleo examines the musical art of later 17th-century England, particularly the way instrumental and vocal music interacted in Restoration works of theater.
- [Tamino From The Past Recalls A Magical Trek Across Stages Of Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/07/a-tamino-from-the-past-recalls-his-magical-trek-across-stages-of-opera/) - PERSPECTIVE – Gran Wilson is not in Oz anymore, or in his native Bessemer, Ala., for that matter. But after a colorful history of performances with far-flung opera companies, the 68-year-old tenor is still singing and pursuing new projects.
- [A Hundred Musicians, One Glorious Sound: Chicago's Grand Band](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/11/a-hundred-musicians-one-glorious-sound-chicagos-grand-band/) - TORONTO – Although the Chicago Symphony Orchestra hadn't played here in 109 years, its recorded legacy was well known. Two concerts led by music director Riccardo Muti proved the current CSO remains an ensemble par excellence.
- [Madrigal Master Cipriano de Rore Celebrated On CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/11/18/madrigal-master-cipriano-de-rore-celebrated-on-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Blue Heron's latest CD set, of Cipriano madrigals in five parts, comes with a wealth of scholarly notes that help the listener understand the challenges of producing its mellifluous polyphonic results.
- [With Canadian Premiere Of 'Jobs,' Opera House Buffs Modernist Profile](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/10/with-canadian-premiere-of-jobs-opera-company-buffs-modernist-profile/) - CALGARY – Embellishing its exceptional history of Canadian premieres of works by contemporary American composers, Calgary Opera presented the country's first look at Mason Bates and Mark Campbell's The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs.
- [Capturing The Intimacy Of 'Figaro' In The Vast Space Of A Modern Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/08/capturing-the-intimacy-of-figaro-in-the-vast-space-of-a-modern-hall/) - LOS ANGELES – The new LA Opera production of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, in the 3,156-seat Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, tested the communicative power of film director James Gray's colorful, burlesque-like take on the work.
- ['Factotum': The Barber, The Criminal, And Vibe Of A Black Urban Scene](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/08/factotum-a-barber-a-criminal-and-a-lust-for-life-in-neighborhood/) - CHICAGO – The opera by Will Liverman and DJ King Rico offers a glimpse into a modern Black community on this city's South Side. A dash of playwright August Wilson also was evident in the enticing world premiere at Lyric Opera of Chicago.
- [A Japanese Tone Poem Conjures Formlessness Of World At Its Dawning](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/06/a-japanese-tone-poem-conjures-shapelessness-of-world-at-its-dawning/) - SEATTLE – Dai Fujikura's Wavering World, drawing on Japanese folklore to express "the humid wetness and wonder of creation," received its world premiere by the Seattle Symphony under Kazem Abdullah. Fujikura, far right, was on hand.
- [Stamping Film Auteur's Satire Of Anti-Semitism With Music's Potency](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/02/revisiting-film-auteurs-satire-of-anti-semitism-with-new-musical-edge/) - LOS ANGELES – The visiting Ensemble Intercontemporain, led by Matthias Pintscher, performed Olga Neuwirth's electronically infused score during a screening of the 1924 silent film Die Stadt ohne Juden (The City Without Jews).
- [On Opera Stage, A Mom Agonizes Over Fate Of Son Driving While Black](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/02/on-opera-stage-a-mom-agonizes-over-fate-of-son-driving-while-black/) - BIRMINGHAM – “You are not who they see” carried a poignant real-world echo through dwb (driving while black), a one-act monodrama by composer Susan Kander and librettist Roberta Gumbel, produced at Opera Birmingham.
- [After Another Buffing, Adams' 'Golden' Opera Is Brighter And Tighter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/02/01/a-john-adams-opera-gets-another-makeover-and-tighter-better-look/) - LOS ANGELES – In what amounted to its third world premiere, John Adams' Girls of the Golden West, presented by the LA Philharmonic with the composer conducting, combined notable and welcome brevity with newly sustained energy.
- [4,000-Year-Old Poetry Resounds Afresh In Very Modernist Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/31/4000-year-old-poetry-resounds-afresh-in-very-modernist-music/) - NEW YORK – Clarice Jensen's The Exaltation of Inanna, a setting of poetic chants by Enheduanna, "the first author known by name in history" and the daughter of a high priestess, received its premiere in a concert at the Morgan Library.
- [A New Violin Concerto As Cosmic Dialogue, Search For Perspective](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/30/a-new-violin-concerto-as-cosmic-dialogue-between-self-other/) - PORTLAND – Erkki-Sven Tüür described his Violin Concerto No. 3, which received its world premiere by the Oregon Symphony under David Danzmayr with soloist Vadim Gluzman, as "an individual trying to find inner harmony with his other self."
- [In Music Of Our Time, Venerable Harpsichord Speaks In New Accents](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/27/in-music-of-our-time-venerable-harpsichord-speaks-in-new-accents/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On a new CD collection of 10 modern harpsichord works by 10 women, the Italian keyboardist Luca Quintavalle offers an eye-opening exhibit of music we didn't know we were missing. The old instrument is not just old school.
- [Ukrainian Orchestra Spreads Cultural Spirit In Extensive U.S. Tour](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/25/ukrainian-orchestra-shares-cultural-spirit-in-extensive-u-s-tour/) - AVON PARK, Fla. – Ever mindful of the horror back home, the Lviv National Philharmonic Orchestra, led by Ukrainian American conductor Theodore Kuchar, hopes to "show the U.S. public our music, our culture, and the greatness of Ukraine."
- [Oberlin Fetes Historic Black Grad, Reviving Oratorio At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/24/oberlin-honors-black-composer-with-his-oratorio-at-carnegie/) - NEW YORK – A concert at Carnegie Hall by the Oberlin Conservatory orchestra and chorus peaked with the oratorio The Ordering of Moses by R. Nathaniel Dett, who in 1908 became the college's first Black bachelor of music recipient.
- [Ligeti's Creative Journey And Influence Retraced In Centennial Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/23/ligetis-creative-arc-and-influence-traced-in-centenary-concert/) - VIENNA – Covering a wide range of works (one for 100 metronomes, pictured), the performance by Klangforum Wien explored the development of Ligeti's highly personal aesthetic and showed how he opened doors for later generations.
- [The Delicacy Of Suicide As Lyric Reflection In Lang's 'note to a friend'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/20/the-delicacy-of-suicide-as-lyric-reflection-in-langs-note-to-a-friend/) - NEW YORK – Based on the writings of Japanese author Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, David Lang’s new opera score and libretto remain true to Akutagawa’s sentiment on being “duty bound to be honest” about the decision to take his own life.
- [Missing 'Part Of Life,' Andsnes Returns To U.S. Concert Touring](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/19/missing-part-of-life-andsnes-returns-to-u-s-concert-touring/) - PERSPECTIVE – An eight-year hiatus from a recital tour in the U.S. has been unprecedented for 52-year-old Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, who begins a nine-city North American swing Jan. 19 in La Jolla, Calif. He finishes Jan. 31 at Carnegie Hall.
- [Finnish Maestro Rouvali Fires Up The NY Phil — And Raises The Roof](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/18/finnish-maestro-rouvali-fires-up-ny-philharmonic-and-the-audience-with-it/) - NEW YORK – In two programs ranging from early Beethoven to Stravinsky and the modernist Anna Thorvaldsdottir, 37-year-old Santtu-Matias Rouvali displayed a keen sense of sonority as a mode of expression, and his listeners roared approval.
- [As String Quartet Vista Shifts, Young Ensemble Springs Up On Horizon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/17/as-string-quartet-vista-shifts-young-ensemble-springs-up-on-horizon/) - EVANSTON, Ill. – The string quartet world has seen significant turnover in recent years. Some noted foursomes are closing out their careers, but fresh faces are emerging such as the Isidore String Quartet, which played an auspicious concert here.
- [Prototype Fest Revives Bold Pre-Covid Spirit In Cluster Of New Operas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/16/in-post-covid-revival-prototype-fest-shows-old-form-in-new-operas/) - NEW YORK – After two seasons hamstrung by the global pandemic, the two-week festival, which has launched an impressive list of convention-defying new works, returned for a triumphant 10th-anniversary series of mostly live performances.
- [Sunning At The Beach As Earth Turns Plastic: Lyric Of An Anti-Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/12/sunning-at-the-beach-as-earth-turns-plastic-lyric-of-an-anti-opera/) - SYDNEY – Sun and Sea, a Lithuanian opera that plays out with a cast lolling on a sandy stage, offers a subtle commentary on mankind's casual neglect of the planet. Seated above the beach, the audience gets a telling view of, well, itself.
- [In Chicago Symphony's Celebration Of Women, Augury Of Sea Change](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/11/in-chicago-symphonys-celebration-of-women-augury-of-a-sea-change/) - PERSPECTIVE – Julia Wolfe's fierce and exultant oratorio Her Story, performed by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lorelei Ensemble led by Marin Alsop, capped CSO weeks that have defined the concert hall ascendancy of women.
- [The Lure Of Barcelona's Architecture Leads To Musical Treasure Trove](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2023/01/06/the-lure-of-barcelona-architecture-leads-to-musical-treasure-trove/) - BARCELONA – On my first visit here, I was thrilled to behold Antoni Gaudí's famed buildings. But I was also captured by Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen as Giorgetta in Puccini's Il tabarro and by German violinist Isabelle Faust's stellar quartet.
- [The Everlasting Fight For Women's Equality: An American Oratorio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/23/the-everlasting-fight-for-womens-rights-an-american-oratorio/) - PERSPECTIVE – Conductor Marin Alsop, who will lead a Chicago Symphony presentation of Julia Wolfe's Her Story, a multimedia work dealing with the generations-long struggle, reflects on the concert drama's import in politically frayed times.
- [Pianist's Autobiography Mirrors His Playing: Perceptive, Refreshing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/22/pianists-autobiography-mirrors-his-playing-perceptive-refreshing/) - PERSPECTIVE – Jeremy Denk’s book Every Good Boy Does Fine is a coming-of-age story: how a gifted child living in a dysfunctional family discovers music and a love of the piano and advances through his youth to a career in music.
- [Inclusion And Handel's Conqu'ring Hero Light NY Hanukkah Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/21/inclusion-and-handels-conquring-hero-light-ny-hanukkah-concert/) - NEW YORK – Curated by countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, the free program heard by 2,000 at the city's largest synagogue offered excerpts from Handel's oratorio Judas Maccabaeus and modern pieces on themes of inclusion and hope.
- [17th-Century Blossoms Strewn By The Handful: Music For Triple Harp](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/16/on-disc-of-triple-harp-17th-century-blossoms-strewn-by-the-handful/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On a new CD titled Laura, after Laura Peverara, a member of the Duke of Ferrara’s celebrated ensemble of women, Marie-Domitille Murez plays a multi-strung instrument that produces a rich, almost orchestral sound.
- [Staatsoper, Volksoper, And The Reframing Of Vienna's Opera Legacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/15/staatsoper-volksoper-and-the-reframing-of-viennas-opera-legacy/) - VIENNA – The opera landscape here, beloved by both locals and tourists for its traditionalism, is in a state of transition. New stagings of Weill's Dreigroschenoper and Wagner's Meistersinger put the wave of revisionism front and center.
- ['Tristan' Project Redux: Multimedia Immersion As A Concert Triptych](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/14/tristan-project-redux-reprocessing-wagner-as-a-concert-triptych/) - LOS ANGELES – It was Back To The Future as the Los Angeles Philharmonic offered a reprise of 2004's semi-staged, three-part multimedia production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde. The cycle directed by Peter Sellars repeats Dec. 15-17.
- [Multi-talented Hannigan Cedes Baton In Display Of Otherworldly Singing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/12/multi-talented-hannigan-cedes-baton-in-display-of-otherworldly-singing/) - MONTREAL – The Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan left the podium to Orchestre symphonique de Montréal music director Rafael Payare but made a distinctive contribution as vocalist in an intriguing program.
- [Violin Concerto Weaves Classic Strands: Fugue, Passacaglia, 'Odyssey'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/08/violin-concerto-weaves-classic-strands-fugue-passacaglia-odyssey/) - TAMPA – The Florida Orchestra and Jeffrey Multer, the concertmaster, gave the premiere of home-grown composer Michael Ippolito's imposing and impressive new work spun from, and sometimes reshaping, heroic narratives such as Homer's epic.
- [Amid Old Friends Again, Emerson Quartet Offers Farewell To Remember](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/07/amid-old-friends-again-emerson-quartet-offers-a-multifarious-farewell/) - VANCOUVER – The celebrated ensemble, formed in 1976 and retiring from the concert stage at the end of this season, played an eloquent valedictory program of Haydn, Schubert, and Shostakovich for longtime hosts the Friends of Chamber Music.
- [Music Was Resonant, Applause Tremendous. Don't Ask About Drama.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/06/when-dramas-missing-but-singings-great-do-you-still-have-opera/) - MONTREAL – La beauté du monde, a new work by composer Julien Bilodeau and librettist Michel Marc Bouchard commissioned by the Opéra de Montréal, displayed greater intention than tension in a tale of Nazi plunder of European art.
- [In Generational Relay, Bright Young Maestro Takes Baton And Flies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/05/in-generational-relay-bright-young-maestro-takes-up-the-baton/) - PERSPECTIVE – Henry Kennedy, a Shropshire lad and graduate of London's Royal Academy of Music, exemplifies a promising new wave of conductors who are acquiring music's great traditions – and wisdom – from the old guard.
- ['The Hours,' New Opera Based On Woolf Novel, Maybe Just Needs Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/02/the-hours-opera-based-on-virginia-woolf-story-maybe-just-needs-time/) - NEW YORK – Kevin Puts' opera, drawn from Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway and presented at the Met Opera, follows Clarissa Vaughan through one day of tribulations, sorrows and epiphanies. It gave a sense that too much was not enough.
- [Resurgent Post-Covid, Opera In South America Gives Voice To Netrebko](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/12/01/resurgent-post-covid-opera-in-south-america-gives-voice-to-netrebko/) - PERSPECTIVE – The season's final operas at Buenos Aires’ Teatro Colón and Santiago’s Teatro Municipal offered a chance to assess how two iconic houses are emerging from the pandemic and to hear the widely banished Anna Netrebko.
- [Gods Behaving Badly, But Stylishly, Ignite CD Of French Opera Rarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/29/gods-behaving-badly-but-stylishly-ignite-cd-of-french-opera-rarity/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – It seems Jean-Marie Leclair (1697-1764) wrote only one opera. But the orchestra and choir of Il Giardino d’Amore, directed by Stefan Plewniak, have polished up this hidden gem, Scylla et Glaucus, to a high sheen.
- [Requiem From A Time Of Plague Has Familiar Ring In World Of Covid](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/28/requiem-from-a-time-of-plague-has-familiar-ring-in-world-of-covid/) - LOS ANGELES – Heinrich Schütz’s 17th-century funeral work received a highly dramatized, and slowly drawn-out, treatment by director Peter Sellars in a performance by the Los Angeles Master Chorale led by Grant Gershon.
- [Descent Into Madness, With Cello Starring As Character From Gogol](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/23/descent-into-madness-with-cello-starring-as-character-from-gogol/) - CHICAGO – Lera Auerbach's new cello concerto, Diary of a Madman, received its U.S. premiere by soloist Gautier Capuçon with Manfred Honeck leading the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, a co-commissioner of the emotionally charged work.
- [Through Paired Prisms, 2 Choral Works Reflect On The American Dream](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/22/choral-works-reflect-on-americas-promise-through-paired-prisms/) - NEW YORK – Bundled together by the Oratorio Society of New York were the world premiere of Paul Moravec and Mark Campbell's A Nation of Others and the first New York performance of Robert Patterson's oratorio Whitman's America.
- [Reminder Of Brilliance: Berliners Bring Mahler To U.S. Concert Halls](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/21/reminder-of-brilliance-berliners-bring-mahler-to-u-s-concert-halls/) - CHICAGO – On a five-city tour stop here, the Berlin Philharmonic led by chief conductor Kirill Petrenko ended its six-year absence with a thrilling Mahler Seventh Symphony that affirmed the orchestra's place among the world's finest.
- [An Epic End Of Days, Created For A Big Tent, In A Resonant Revival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/18/an-epic-end-of-days-created-for-a-big-tent-in-a-resonant-revival/) - VIENNA – Franz Schmidt's ambitious adaptation of The Book of Revelation, which foretells the end of history, was resurrected under conductor Ingo Metzmacher with the Wiener Symphoniker and Wiener Singverein, which gave the 1938 premiere.
- [Verdi's 'Don Carlo(s)' Given Both Treatments In New York, Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/17/verdis-don-carlos-gets-both-treatments-in-new-york-chicago/) - David Shengold reviews two performances of Verdi's Don Carlo at the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago.
- [A 'Buddha Passion': Amid Sound And Fury, Tales Of Self-Sacrifice](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/15/tan-duns-passion-amid-sound-and-fury-spirit-of-self-sacrifice/) - Jason Victor Serinus reviews the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Symphony Chorale performance of Tan Dun's Buddha Passion.
- [3 Swedish Composers Rule Virtual Stage On CD Of Piano Concertos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/11/3-swedish-composers-rule-virtual-stage-on-cd-of-piano-concertos/) - Esteban DIGITAL REVIEW – Pianist Peter Friis Johansson, with the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra under Ryan Bancroft, finds great variety in concertos that span more than 100 years between turn-of-the-century romanticism and minimalism. Esteban Meneses, CVNA, Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, Peter Friis Johansson, Sven-David Sandström, Laura Netzel, Andrea Tarrodi
- ['Goldberg' Perspectives: Bach In Knowing Hands On Piano, Harpsichord](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/10/goldberg-perspectives-bach-in-knowing-hands-on-piano-harpsichord/) - VANCOUVER – Keyboard fans enjoyed a once-in-a-lifetime conjunction of performances when pianist András Schiff and harpsichordist Jean Rondeau, in very different venues, delivered two thoughtful readings of the Goldberg Variations.
- [Mahler Mashup 'Opera' Meets 'Rigoletto'; Jester Wins, And It's No Joke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/08/mahler-mashup-as-opera-meets-rigoletto-jester-wins-and-its-no-joke/) - VIENNA – When the Vienna State Opera presented its devoted patrons with a staged melding of Mahler's Das klagende Lied and Kindertotenlieder opposite Rigoletto, the crowds flocked to Verdi and largely ignored the song-cycle contrivance.
- [An Electrified Concerto Zaps Violin Tradition With Cosmic Fantasy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/07/electrified-concerto-zaps-violin-tradition-with-cosmic-fantasy/) - SEATTLE – Enrico Chapela's Antiphaser, which received its world premiere by violinist Pekka Kuusisto and the Seattle Symphony under Andrew Litton, adds to the Mexican composer's catalog of works inspired by nature and astronomy.
- [At Perfecting Church, Perfect Flow Between Orchestra, Community](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/04/at-perfecting-church-perfect-flow-between-orchestra-community/) - DETROIT – Concert norms went out the window, but energy surged in when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra visited a neighborhood church, embracing its choir, congregation, and kids with a program spanning William Tell and the Supremes.
- [In 3 Recitals, Pianists Take Old-School Turn (With Nary An Encore) ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/03/in-3-recitals-pianists-go-strictly-old-school-with-nary-an-encore/) - PERSPECTIVE – It was heartening to see three recitals in Southern California by pianists from three generations: Stewart Goodyear, 44, András Schiff, 68, and Stephen Kovacevich, 82. The fare was iconic; when they were done, they were done.
- [Plunder, Deceit, Murder. Night Can Be Rough On Cornwall's Rocky Coast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/11/01/love-betrayal-murder-another-rough-night-on-cornwalls-rocky-coast/) - HOUSTON – Houston Grand Opera gave the U.S. premiere of British composer Ethel Smyth’s 1906 opera The Wreckers, the dark tale of a seaside community that survives by reaping the bounty of ships broken on its shores. Bit of killing required.
- [Gazing at Salome Twice, Through His Lens, Hers; One Is, Like, Really Goth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/31/salome-his-and-hers-ones-like-really-goth-is-it-his-work-or-hers/) - PERSPECTIVE – Two productions of Strauss' lurid opera, in Basel directed by Herbert Fritsch and in Paris directed by Lydia Steier, contrasted Alice-in-Wonderland airiness with a heavy dose of ghoulish dystopianism, bloody and grim.
- [Thielemann Ends Long Hiatus From U.S. With Grand Bruckner Eighth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/24/thielemann-long-absent-from-u-s-returns-with-grand-chicago-bruckner/) - CHICAGO – The German conductor Christian Thielemann, celebrated and busily engaged n Europe, had not conducted in the U.S. for 20 years. He led the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a soaring performance of Bruckner's vast work.
- [Cliburn Gold Medalist, Still Teenager, Soars Through Romantic Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/21/cliburn-gold-medalist-still-teenager-soars-with-romantic-fare/) - EVANSTON, Ill. – On a worldwide victory lap after winning the Cliburn Competition, 18-year-old South Korean pianist Yunchan Lim was impressive in a program of Liszt, Mendelssohn, and Brahms, but two quiet encores revealed his true depth.
- [Allan Clayton Probes Storm-Tossed Soul As The Met's Peter Grimes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/18/mets-peter-grimes-is-spellbinding-drama-intimate-and-surging/) - NEW YORK – The British tenor imbued Britten's troubled seafarer with wondrous lyricism, his powerful voice controlled throughout the range, his high notes pure. It was a nuanced portrait that dug deep into Grimes' chaotic, poetic soul.
- [Hot Love, Cold Murder: La Scala's New 'Fedora' Delivers Lyric Scorcher](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/18/love-murder-mystery-updated-fedora-gets-torrid-revival-at-scala/) - MILAN – The Bulgarian Sonya Yoncheva, in a sumptuous and smoldering performance, joins a starry list of sopranos who've been glamorous enough to breathe life into Umberto Giordano’s widowed and wealthy Princess Fedora Romazoff.
- ['Tristan' Redux: Melding Images From Mythology With Fantasy Comics](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/17/tristan-redux-spins-strands-of-mythology-with-fantasy-comics/) - SEATTLE – Soprano Mary Elizabeth Williams and tenor Stefan Vinke sang the title roles in Seattle Opera's first production of Wagner's Tristan und Isolde since 2013, framed by director Marcelo Lombardero’s remarkably effective production.
- [Its Acoustics Reworked, NY Philharmonic's Hall Makes Resonant Return](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/13/acoustics-refurbished-ny-phils-hall-reopens-as-resounding-success/) - NEW YORK – After a troubled history of attempts to improve the sound of David Geffen Hall, the latest redesign was startlingly alive, in big climaxes or pianissimo whispers, during a Philharmonic concert led by Jaap van Zweden.
- [Flair Meets Substance As A Maestro In Purple Leads Carnegie Opener](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/11/flair-meets-substance-as-a-maestro-in-purple-leads-carnegie-opener/) - NEW YORK – Yannick Nézet-Séguin, snazzy in a purple velvet jacket matching Carnegie Hall's purple and scarlet flowers, led the Philadelphia Orchestra in a meaty, if easily digested, program including a Liszt concerto with Daniil Trifonov.
- [NY Phil’s Hall Receives A Gorgeous Makeover; Now, About That Sound](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/10/88704/) - NEW YORK – The latest effort to improve Geffen Hall's troubled acoustics includes a stage set closer to the center of the room, seating behind the orchestra, all seats closer to the stage, and rose and blue decor. The sound? Stay, um, tuned.
- [Some Latin Spice Where Dudamel, LA Phil Once Planned Genuine Fiesta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/06/some-latin-spice-where-dudamel-la-phil-once-planned-genuine-fiesta/) - LOS ANGELES – By concert time of the season opener, the program originally billed as “Dudamel Leads Songs of the Americas” had turned into an evening of Mozart and John Adams, with a dollop of music by Julian Orbon. What happened?
- [As A Musical Olympian, In Sprint And Marathon, Salonen Shows Mettle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/05/as-a-musical-olympian-in-sprint-and-marathon-salonen-shows-mettle/) - PERSPECTIVE – Esa-Pekka Salonen likens the difference between composing and conducting to "running a marathon and a 100-meter race." Concerts in San Francisco and Seattle offered a glimpse of the Finnish artist in both capacities.
- [Reveling At The Proms: Music's Bounty Savored In A Binge Of Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/04/at-the-venerable-proms-reveling-in-the-bounty-of-a-binge-of-concerts/) - LONDON – Plunging into the first full Proms season since Covid closed down this venerable series in 2019, I caught 14 concerts over three weeks. Here are my impressions from diverse programs, starting with two Finnish firebrands.
- [Monteverdi's Timeless 'Poppea,' Captured In Vivid Style Of Its Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/10/03/monteverdis-timeless-poppea-captured-in-vivid-style-of-its-time-2/) - CHICAGO – HIs last opera, L'incoronazione di Poppea, was re-created by accomplished, knowing singers, handsomely costumed, with a tiny band on period instruments: a scintillating production by Haymarket Opera Company:
- [Met's 'Idomeneo' Revival Displays Lasting Charm Of A Ponnelle Classic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/30/mets-idomeneo-revival-displays-lasting-appeal-uf-ponnelles-vision/) - NEW YORK – The production marks a persuasive return to the company's 40-year-old Jean-Pierre Ponnelle design, which together with his work on Mozart's later La clemenza di Tito helped to establish both operas on the international stage.
- [Invoking Contemplative Spirit Of Rothko Chapel, A Ritual Of Mixed Arts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/29/invoking-contemplative-spirit-of-rothko-chapel-a-ritual-of-mixed-arts/) - NEW YORK – Developed from Tyshawn Sorey’s commemorative concert piece for the 50th anniversary of the Houston chapel in 2021, Monochromatic Light (Afterlife) is an arresting blend of chamber ensemble, chorus, and bass.
- [Rossini's Rare 'Otello' Glitters As Vocal Gold, But The Staging Is Gray](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/26/rossinis-rare-otello-glitters-as-vocal-gold-but-as-drama-its-dross/) - PHILADELPHIA – Tenor Lawrence Brownlee (pictured as Rodrigo) set the high standard for a brilliant cast at Opera Philadelphia, but the opera's froth of notes and a monochromatic production left one to wonder: What's the point?
- [Verdi's Early 'Ernani' Soars As Stellar Cast Lights Up Fraught Tale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/25/ernani-in-chicago/) - CHICAGO – Terrific singing and wonderful production values ruled Lyric Opera of Chicago's opener for the 2022-23 season. The tragic story of a love quadrangle featured superlative principals under Lyric music director Enrique Mazzola.
- [Bach's 'Art Of Fugue,' Luminously Analyzed And Masterfully Played](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/24/bachs-art-of-fugue-luminously-analyzed-and-masterfully-played/) - VANCOUVER – To call pianist Filippo Gorini's achievement a performance doesn’t convey the scale of his encompassing project, which included outreach activities, a lecture, and a series of filmed discussions about Bach's relevance today.
- [A 'Lucia' For Everyone: Rust Belt Regietheater As Gesamtkunstwerk](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/23/a-lucia-for-everyone-rust-belt-regietheater-as-gesamtkunstwerk/) - LOS ANGELES – Donizetti’s Lucia di Lammermoor is supposed to be a singers’ opera, but I may never think of it that way again after seeing Simon Stone’s take as a vibrant, theatrically rounded image of lower-middle class American life in 2022.
- [Mahler Ninth In Paris: Dudamel, Opera Band Offer Restrained Drama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/21/mahler-ninth-in-paris-dudamel-opera-band-show-controlled-power/) - PARIS – For the opening concert of the Orchestre de l'Opéra National de Paris 2022-2023 season Sept. 16 at the Philharmonie, music director Gustavo Dudamel delivered a Ninth that was without histrionics or romantic indulgences.
- [Luisi Parlays Strauss Into Dazzling Start As NHK Symphony Chief](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/19/luisi-parlays-strauss-into-dazzling-start-as-nhk-symphony-chief/) - TOKYO – The anticipation was palpable at NHK Hall, a stellar concert facility in the Nippon Hōsō Kyōkai broadcast complex. With an all-Strauss program (Don Juan, the Oboe Concerto, Der Rosenkavalier Suite), Fabio Luisi delivered.
- [Our Critic's Soliloquy On A Shakespearean Opera By John Adams: 'Meh'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/16/our-critics-soliloquy-on-new-shakespeare-opera-by-adams-meh/) - SAN FRANCISCO – The usually imaginative composer's Antony and Cleopatra, written for the San Francisco Opera's centennial, is an outlier, a conventional opera and middle of the road effort that mostly falls short of interesting things to say.
- [Chants Of Hildegard Flower In Creepy Space (With A Furtive Mouse)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/14/hildegard-in-catacombs-chants-with-a-flourish-and-a-furtive-mouse/) - BROOKLYN, N.Y. – Performing in the dark void of the catacombs of Brooklyn’s Green-Wood Cemetery, soprano Daisy Press embellished the 11th-century Hildegard von Bingen's exquisitely beautiful chants with effects of Hindustani ragas.
- [To Celebrate SF Opera's Centenary, John Adams Turned To Shakespeare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/07/celebrating-sf-operas-centenary-adams-turns-to-shakespeare-tragedy/) - SAN FRANCISCO – The company opens its 100th season with the world premiere of John Adams’ Antony and Cleopatra. "John was energized by doing a work that blended the intimate and the public,” said general director Matthew Shilvock.
- [A Charmed New Baton Etches Vivid Arc Of Sibelius' Symphonies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/04/the-arc-of-sibelius-symphonies-ascent-of-a-conducting-star/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Klaus Mäkelä is the most dazzling new star in the conducting firmament. His cycle of Sibelius' seven symphonies with the Oslo Philharmonic shows why, at 26, the Finnish maestro has mesmerized seemingly everyone.
- [In Pastoral Vastness, Grand Art Harmonizes With Music's Intimacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/09/01/in-pastoral-vastness-grand-art-harmonizes-with-intimate-music/) - FISHTAIL, Mont. – Set amid rolling hills, mesas, and grasslands framed by rugged mountains and the vast Montana sky, Tippet Rise Art Center beckons with a unique intersection of pristine nature, large-scale sculpture, and chamber music.
- [When Opera Orchestras Take To Concert Halls, Lyric Energy Abounds](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/24/when-opera-orchestras-tune-to-concert-music-lyrical-surprises-happen/) - PERSPECTIVE – Opera orchestras, whose players are possibly the hardest-working instrumentalists in show biz, don't often enjoy prestige among Beethoven and Brahms audiences, but wide listening experience brings surprising rewards.
- [A Celebrated Festival Embraces Diversity. And A Star Pianist Demurs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/22/a-celebrated-festival-embraces-diversity-and-yet-what-he-said/) - LUCERNE – The buzz of diversity that rules this year's Lucerne Festival is evident in wide-ranging musical idioms and roots. Pianist András Schiff, reaffirming his commitment to the Western canon, said he had no time for the "second rate."
- [Brahms Goes Baroque: Style Turns Murky As Festival Wanders Afield](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/18/brahms-goes-baroque-style-turns-murky-as-festival-wanders-afield/) - LANGLEY, Wash. – At the Whidbey Island Music Festival, director Tekla Cunningham, who performed on Baroque violin, noted that Brahms was not the festival’s usual fare. Given what we heard, this hardly came as a surprise.
- [In Golden Homecoming, Chopin Winner Scores Again As Keyboard Hero](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/17/in-golden-homecoming-chopin-winner-triumphs-again-as-keyboard-hero/) - MONTREAL – Pianist Bruce Liu, a 25-year-old Paris-born Montrealer who last October won gold in the International Chopin Piano Competition, displayed his winning mettle in Rachmaninoff with the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal.
- [Pair Of Mozart Operas, As Summer Concerts, Amuse With Gravitas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/15/pair-of-mozart-operas-as-summer-concerts-amuse-with-gravitas/) - HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – It was an odd coupling offered on consecutive nights at the Ravinia Festival, the proto-Romantic Don Giovanni and an opera seria, La clemenza di Tito, both led by James Conlon, but the match proved compelling.
- [Maestro Marches To His Own Festival Drum - Or In This Premiere, Flute](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/14/maestro-marches-to-his-own-festival-drum-or-in-this-premiere-flute/) - CHICAGO – In his 23 years as conductor of the Grant Park Music Festival, Carlos Kalmar's bold programming has included 22 world premieres. The latest, Christopher Theofanidis’ Flute Concerto, spotlighted soloist Marina Piccinini.
- [Classic Piano Displays Its Enduring Charms In Showcase Performance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/12/classic-pianos-display-their-enduring-charms-in-a-showcase-recital/) - ASHBURNHAM, Mass. – An 1877 Bösendorfer, part of the Frederick Collection of restored grand pianos from the 1790s to 1928, made an impressive performance debut under the hands of pianists Daesik Cha and Clemens Teufel.
- [Celebrating Beethoven, Late But Gloriously, In Norwegian Countryside](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/10/celebrating-beethoven-amid-natural-glory-of-norwegian-countryside/) - ROSENDAL, Norway – Amid a grand spectacle of mountains, meadows, and rushing streams, the 2022 Rosendal Chamber Music Festival, led by pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, offered a pandemic-deferred four days of Beethoven at 250-plus.
- [Frisson Of New Music Puts Al Fresco Edge On S.D. Symphony Summer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/09/frisson-of-new-music-puts-al-fresco-edge-on-s-d-symphony-summer/) - SAN DIEGO – Mason Bates' fanciful multimedia piece Phlharmonia Fantastique capped a program led by Jason Seber that included Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story, which still feels relatively contemporary.
- [Amid Natural Splendor Of Bravo! Vail Festival, NY Phil Invokes Mahler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/04/amid-natural-splendor-of-bravo-vail-festival-ny-phil-invokes-mahler/) - VAIL, Colo. – Led by Jaap van Zweden, a profound account of Mahler's Sixth Symphony marked the pinnacle of the New York Philharmonic's annual residency at this six-week festival tranquilly set in a national forest valley famous for its skiing.
- [Barrier-Breaking Alsop Hands Baton To Women In A Festival Showcase](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/03/barrier-breaking-alsop-hands-baton-to-women-in-a-festival-showcase/) - HIGHLAND PARK, Ill. – Conductor Marin Alsop, who had to blaze her own career path in the 1980s, now boosts a younger generation of women conductors. Several performed at the Ravinia Festival's first "Breaking Barriers" event.
- [Marlboro Music, Where The Old Guard Gathers And Lemonade's Still $1 ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/08/02/marlboro-music-where-lemonade-costs-1-and-fans-line-up-for-tickets/) - MARLBORO, Vt. – In its 71st year, the enterprise founded by Rudolf Serkin, and now co-directed by pianists Jonathan Biss and Mitsuko Uchida, draws musicians who combine serious purpose with a joyful time. A concert was a moving experience.
- [Into The Past, The Dark, The Unconscious: Wryly, Merrily 'Into The Woods'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/29/into-the-past-the-womb-the-unconscious-wryly-merrily-into-the-woods/) - NEW YORK – A limited engagement of the musical, now extended through Oct. 16, marks Broadway's first posthumous Stephen Sondheim revival in the form of a concert staging, though it was announced before his death in November 2021.
- [On A Hot Day, Heggie's 'Decembers' Opera Has Listener Pining For One](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/27/opera-three-decembers-in-summer-heat-leaves-listener-pining-for-one/) - CHATHAM, N.Y. – Jake Heggie's intimate chamber opera Three Decembers, a three-hander about a narcissistic Broadway actress, became two sweaty hours relieved by warm bottled water. Mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala dominated the lead role.
- [Muti's Friendship Series Capped With Concert In Tribute To Ukrainians](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/25/muti-freedom-concerts-capped-with-tribute-to-the-struggle-in-ukraine/) - Ukrainian bandura player returns to soldiering after performing with Riccardo Muti's youth. The Cherubini Orchestra builds cultural bridges to cities wounded by war.
- [Wild Ride At The Bowl: Director Gallops In With A Bold Spin On Wagner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/21/wild-ride-at-the-bowl-as-a-director-rethinks-valkyries-big-moment/) - HOLLYWOOD – Act III of Die Walküre, probably the most-often performed act in Wagner's Ring cycle, saw Valkyries on digital motorcycles in a version by director Yuval Sharon at the Hollywood Bowl with the LA Phil under Gustavo Dudamel.
- [Young Ensemble Mines Wagnerian Nuggets In Enterprising 'Rheingold'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/19/young-artists-mine-wagnerian-nuggets-in-enterprising-rheingold/) - MIAMI – Das Rheingold received an innovative production at the Miami Music Festival, a training program for young singers and orchestral musicians created by conductor Michael Rossi. The cast all sang their roles for the first time.
- [In Flourish Of Sparkles, Yuja Wang Flashes Her Liszt At Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/14/in-flourish-of-sparkles-yuja-wang-flashes-her-liszt-at-tanglewood/) - LENOX, Mass. – They were all back: the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the manicured Berkshires estate, the smiles. And Yuja Wang stepped in for Jean-Yves Thibaudet, bouncing through Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 to the audience's delight.
- [In Cage Choral Music, Bracketing Time And Minding Stopwatches](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/10/in-cage-choral-music-bracketing-time-and-minding-stopwatches/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The bulk of a CD by the Latvian Radio Choir under Sigvards Kļava spotlights music from the latter years of Cage’s long fascination with aleatory procedures and different kinds of indeterminacy, tapping into his ethos of chance.
- [Hollywood Bowl At 100: Multi-Genre History On (What Else?) Vinyl LPs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/07/hollywood-bowl-at-100-multi-genre-history-on-what-else-vinyl-lps/) - ANALOG REVIEW – Despite the limited space of a seven-LP box and selections that could be second-guessed, this might be the most wildly diverse collection of music ever issued. Gustavo Dudamel is among LA Phil music directors represented.
- [Mastery Of Mitropoulos On Generous Display Across 69 Historic CDs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/07/02/mastery-of-mitropoulos-on-generous-display-across-69-historic-cds/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Dimitri Mitropoulos: The Complete RCA and Columbia Album Collection shows the conductor defying his surroundings as much as he adapted to them, and moving in the upper echelons without being fully part of them.
- [Global Issues, Diverse Perspectives Set Edge On 75th Holland Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/30/global-issues-diverse-perspectives-set-edge-on-75th-holland-fest/) - AMSTERDAM – The 75th-anniversary Holland Festival, directed by Emily Ansenk, vibrated with issues of the day­ and acted as a compass for the creative currents at play across Europe. The emotional peak was Tunde Jegede's kora solos.
- ['Red Chamber,' An Epic Chinese Novel, Proves Classic Stuff Of Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/29/dream-of-red-chamber-an-epic-chinese-novel-is-classic-stuff-of-opera/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Great novels may rarely make great opera. But the high emotions and multiple deaths in Dream of the Red Chamber fit the opera profile. An adaptation by Bright Sheng and D.H. Wang is on display at the San Francisco Opera.
- [Tines' American Songs Lift Theme Of 'Truths' At 60th Britt Music Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/29/americana-shostakovich-are-defining-truths-at-60th-britt-music-festival/) - JACKSONVILLE, Ore. – With a voice that can lift you up and carry you heavenward, Davóne Tines created an emotional journey in a cycle of American songs, capped in this "Truths Be Told" program by Shostakovich's 10th Symphony.
- [Mozart's Rake Prowls Crumbling Society In Futuristic 'Don Giovanni'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/27/mozarts-rake-prowls-crumbling-society-in-2080s-don-giovanni/) - SAN FRANCISCO – A new production at the San Francisco Opera is brilliant musically, but director Michael Cavanagh’s setting in "the late 2080s" presents a jumble of ideas that never coalesces into a cohesive whole. Still, it has its moments.
- [With Virus In Retreat, Music Bug Is Back At Southeastern Festivals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/26/with-virus-in-retreat-music-bug-is-back-at-southeastern-festivals/) - PERSPECTIVE – After two years of canceled or severely curtailed performances, summer music festivals in the Southeast are roaring back at 100 percent capacity. Offerings include the opera Stinney: An American Execution in Greenville, S.C.
- [Mining Neglected Veins Of 20th-Century Music, And Turning Up Gems](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/24/mining-forgotten-veins-of-20th-century-music-and-turning-up-gems/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – On one CD, conductor Debora Waldman leads an intriguing array of works by a French woman, Charlotte Sohy, while a second disc brings to light orchestral music by the Ukrainian-born Greek composer Georgios Axiotis.
- [Rallying From Disarray To Pull Together Verdi Requiem To Remember](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/21/seattle-symphony-rallies-from-disarray-to-deliver-a-potent-verdi-requiem/) - SEATTLE – Few pieces seemed to be in place when conductor Giacomo Sagripanti took over the Seattle Symphony's troubled production. But in the end, orchestra, chorus and soloists combined for a performance at once gentle and grand.
- [Shostakovich, Fellow Outcasts Celebrated In CD Of String Quartets](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/20/shostakovich-fellow-outcasts-saluted-in-cd-of-string-quartets/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – In its tribute "to musical troublemakers and outsiders…who wrote music that went dangerously against (regime) tastes," the Netherlands-based Matangi Quartet also plays works by Valentin Silvestrov and Alfred Schnittke.
- ['Red Chamber,' Chinese Epic Of Life's Illusion, Scatters Its Petals Anew](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/20/dream-of-red-chamber-opera-on-lifes-illusion-scatters-its-petals-anew/) - SAN FRANCISCO – In 2016, San Francisco Opera premiered an operatic version of the Chinese literary classic Dream of the Red Chamber, giving the opera a visually spectacular production, which the company has revived for a run through July 3.
- [Nézet-Séguin And Met Orchestra Spread Light Through Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/20/nezet-seguin-and-met-orchestra-spread-light-through-carnegie-hall/) - NEW YORK – Over two nights, the orchestra and singers led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin offered splendorous programs of Strauss, Wagner and Berlioz. The crowds' lusty cheers were well merited by energized, dazzling performances.
- [South Korean Pianist Yunchan Kim, 18, Wins Van Cliburn Gold Medal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/19/south-korean-pianist-yunchan-kim-18-wins-van-cliburn-gold-medal/) - FORT WORTH, Tex. – Along with top honors at this quadrennial piano competition, Lim (center) received $100,000 and concert dates. The silver medal went to Anna Geniushene, 31, of Russia, and the bronze to Dmytro Choni, 28, of Ukraine.
- [3 Cliburn Gamers Roll The Ivories Once More, And Fortunes Change](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/18/3-cliburn-gamers-roll-the-ivories-once-more-and-fortunes-change/) - FORT WORTH, Tex. – In the second concerto performances by three finalists at the Van Cliburn Piano International Competition, this critic reassessed his impressions of, from top, Clayton Stephenson, Ilya Shmukler, and Yunchan Lim.
- [Finalist From Ukraine Lights Up The Cliburn With Blazing Prokofiev](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/16/standout-from-ukraine-lights-up-the-cliburn-in-concerto-finals-round/) - FORT WORTH, Tex. – In the competition finals, the 28-year-old Ukrainian whirlwind Dmytro Choni (far right) made Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3 leap off the page in a stunning display of musical intelligence and keyboard athleticism.
- [In Cliburn Competition Concertos, 3 Pianists Swing For The Fences](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/15/in-cliburn-competition-concertos-3-pianists-swing-for-the-fences/) - FORT WORTH, Tex. – When I arrived at the ballpark, the game was in the eighth inning. At least, that’s how it felt when I got here for the final round of the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition and an intensive spate of concertos.
- [In Sea-Change Summer Of U.S. Music Festivals, Women Rule The Waves](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/13/in-sea-change-summer-of-u-s-music-festivals-women-rule-the-waves/) - PREVIEW – After decades when women were all but absent from concert podiums, the American orchestral world is racing to bring some gender equilibrium to its choices of conductors. Marin Alsop will preside as music director at Ravinia.
- [Spoleto Opera Honors An Extraordinary Slave Whose Life Mattered ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/12/spoleto-opera-honors-an-extraordinary-slave-as-a-life-that-mattered/) - CHARLESTON, S.C. – Spoleto Festival USA gave the belated world premiere of "Omar," an opera by Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels about Omar Bin Said, who left the only known narrative by a slave written in Arabic.
- [Cultures Converge In U.S. Tour By Chinese Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/10/29/cultures-converge-in-u-s-tour-by-chinese-orchestra/) - By Ken Smith PREVIEW – Beijing's NCPA Orchestra has embarked on a six-city U.S. tour to celebrate the 10th anniversary of its National Centre for the Performing Arts. The music paints a larger picture of China’s musical life today.
- [LA Phil Powers Down Its Season With Revival Of 'Power To The People!'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/09/la-phil-powers-down-its-season-with-revival-of-power-to-the-people/) - LOS ANGELES – If repertoire links to the festival's typical activist theme were sometimes tenuous, the program conducted by Gustavo Dudamel did put a progressive spin on the conventional structure of overture, solo feature, symphony.
- [Haitian Musical Legacy Resounds In Vivid Hues Of Orchestrated Songs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/09/haitian-musical-legacy-resounds-in-vivid-hues-of-orchestrated-songs/) - PORTLAND – Nathalie Joachim’s ability to honor tradition and innovate within it was on display in a group of songs from her album Fanm d’Ayiti (Women of Haiti). As flutist and singer, the composer performed with the Oregon Symphony.
- [Brilliant 'Sundial' Etches A Resonant Arc Across An Intimate Experience](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/07/brilliant-sundial-etches-a-resonant-arc-across-an-intimate-experience/) - DALLAS – Samuel Carl Adams' work for string quartet and percussion is all about resonances and acoustical space, and a performance at Meyerson Symphony Center enveloped the audience both musically and psychologically.
- [Ascending To The Stars On Messiaen Trek From The Canyons, Illustrated](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/06/ascending-to-the-stars-in-messiaen-trek-from-the-canyons-illustrated/) - SEATTLE – The experience of Messiaen's Des canyons aux étoiles..., performed by the Seattle Symphony under Ludovic Morlot, was blissfully reminiscent of other rare outings during his eight-year tenure as the orchestra's music director.
- [Maestro, Adored Mentor Putting Down Baton For Retirement's Adventure](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/03/maestro-beloved-mentor-putting-down-baton-for-adventure-of-retirement/) - EVANSTON, Ill. – Bernstein, Kondrashin, and Oistrakh all factored in the remarkable life of conductor Victor Yampolsky, but his hundreds of former students at Northwestern University will tell you he made his biggest impact leading them.
- [Fantasies For Keyboard, Wafting Across Time From A Graf Fortepiano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/06/01/keyboard-fantasies-wafting-across-time-from-graf-fortepiano/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – If you needed a new fortepiano in the early 1800s, Conrad Graf was simply the man to see. Chopin and Liszt thought so, and now we all have a chance to hear one of his splendid creations in a CD from pianist Yi-heng Yang.
- [Rock 'N' Wry Handel: 'Giustino' In The Mojave, Sparked By A Trap Drum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/25/rock-n-wry-handel-giustino-in-the-mojave-propelled-by-trap-drum/) - LONG BEACH, Calif. – Long Beach Opera, recently buffeted by controversy as well as Covid, returned to the Baroque regietheater that branded the company in 1980s with a tradition-rattling al fresco production of Handel's convoluted opera.
- [Adroit Pianist Of Parts Arranges Life Between Stage, Transcriptions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/25/adroit-pianist-of-parts-arranges-life-between-stage-transcriptions/) - PERSPECTIVE – Pianist Vyacheslav Gryaznov has built a formidable reputation for both his technical and creative abilities. Besides concertizing all over the world, he carries on the transcription legacy of Liszt and Rachmaninoff.
- [David Schiff's Complex Musical Lines Lead To Friendly Guy Next Door](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/23/david-schiffs-complex-musical-lines-lead-to-friendly-guy-next-door/) - PORTLAND – The composer's rigorous work ranges all over the musical map, but Schiff, who has two world premieres pending, remains a guy with whom you can sit down and chat about everything except sports. His favorite sport: piano.
- [Voices Of The Enslaved Resound In Multimedia Showcase Of Diversity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/19/voices-of-the-enslaved-resound-in-multimedia-showcase-of-diversity/) - SAN FRANCISCO – A memorable display of racial and gender inclusion was offered in soprano Julia Bullock's project "History's Persistent Voice," works by five women of color played by the San Francisco Symphony conducted by Christian Reif.
- [Violin Concerto Brings Fiery Edge To LA Phil's Pan-American Initiative](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/18/violin-concerto-brings-virtuoso-zest-to-la-phil-pan-american-initiative/) - LOS ANGELES – The concerto by Gabriela Ortiz, inspired by Mexican architecture and played by 18-year-old soloist María Dueñas, progresses from a mysterious Romantic opening movement to a jagged scherzo-finale with a slam-bang finish.
- [Opera 'Hamlet': Fewer Words, Words, Words; Yet Not To Be Missed](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/15/brett-deans-hamlet-scores-the-met-a-palpable-hit/) - NEW YORK – The Met's powerful production of Australian composer Brett Dean's Hamlet, which premiered at the 2017 Glyndebourne Festival with several of the same singers, is well worth seeing. It runs to June 9 with an HD broadcast June 4.
- ['Rheingold' In Zurich, Or Wagner Does Hollywood (Jean Harlow Sighting)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/15/rheingold-in-zurich-or-wagner-does-hollywood-jean-harlow-sighted/) - ZURICH – There are no splashing Rhinemaidens (they cavort with Alberich on a bed) in Andreas Homoki’s Das Rheingold for Zurich Opera. Loge channels Johnny Depp’s Captain Jack Sparrow, and Mime springs from the Three Stooges.
- [A Bravura Performance Of Musical Memorial To A Brave Young Woman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/12/a-bravura-performance-of-a-memorial-concerto-for-brave-young-woman/) - ROCHESTER – Juliana Athayde, concertmaster of the Rochester Philharmonic, played the world premiere of Roberto Sierra's Violin Concerto, written in memory of music director Andreas Delfs' daughter Lydia, who died at age 23.
- [Yiddish Cabaret Echoes In Fresh Form And Spirit Of String Quartet Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/11/yiddish-cabaret-echoes-in-fresh-form-and-spirit-of-string-quartet-fare/) - VANCOUVER – In the intimacy of a synagogue, the Jerusalem Quartet, with Israeli soprano Hila Baggio, offered a nuanced program featuring a work based on cabaret-inspired songs by Ukrainian-born composer Leonid Desyatnikov.
- [Duo Recital By Siblings Mirrors The Rare Story Of A Prodigious Family](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/10/recital-reflects-story-of-musical-family-with-a-special-tale-to-tell/) - NEW YORK – Isata and Sheku Kanneh-Mason, pianist and cellist who offered an impressive program at Carnegie Hall, are among seven siblings, ages 25 to 12, all classically trained on string instruments or piano or both.
- [Rhinestones On Rhine: It's Grand Ole Wagner With Tennessee Twist](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/09/rhinestones-on-rhine-its-grand-ole-wagner-with-tennessee-twist/) - NASHVILLE – Staging Das Rheingold might seem wildly ambitious for Nashville Opera, whose new production opened in a new venue, the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Belmont University. But like the costumes, voices sparkled.
- [Yanks At Fontainebleau: An Embracing Concert Celebrates A Centenary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/06/yanks-at-fontainebleau-an-embracing-concert-celebrates-a-centenary/) - NEW YORK – Founded during World War I, the school at Fontainebleau, near Paris, has a distinguished history as a training center for American musicians. That legacy was honored in an ambitious program spotlighting alumni.
- [Wynton Marsalis Pens Concerto That Swings, Boogaloos — For Tuba!](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/05/wynton-marsalis-pens-concerto-that-swings-boogaloos-for-tuba/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – Choo-choo propulsion, high-energy syncopations, and a big band vibe converged in Marsalis' new concerto played by the Oregon Symphony and principal tubist JáTtik Clark conducted by David Danzmayr.
- [Florence Price Revival Points To Musical Trove With Stature Of Legacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/28/florence-price-revival-points-to-musial-trove-with-stature-of-legacy/) - PERSPECTIVE – While other Black composers also have enjoyed increased attention, the sustained resurgence of Price's music has been likened to the global reclamation of Gustav Mahler by musicians and the public in the mid-20th century.
- [Puts' Spacey 'Contact' Is A Close Encounter For Trio And Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/31/puts-spacey-contact-a-close-encounter-for-string-trio-orchestra/) - ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. – As an opera composer, Kevin Puts tells stories, but that instinct also extends to his latest work for symphony orchestra, a triple concerto called Contact that he wrote for the crossover string trio Time for Three.
- [Adès In Full Bloom: His Epic Ballet 'Dante' Sees Great Promise Realized](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/04/ades-in-full-bloom-his-epic-ballet-dante-sees-promise-realized/) - LOS ANGELES – The LA Philharmonic's U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès' 91-minute work, based on The Divine Comedy, showed the composer as master of complex structure, a large orchestra, and a sweeping range of emotions.
- [Orchestra Breaks Mold With Adventures Into New Worlds Of Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/05/02/orchestra-breaks-mold-with-adventures-into-new-worlds-of-music/) - EDMONTON – Historically, the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra has programmed only a smattering of contemporary composers, but under chief conductor Alexander Prior, new music concerts have broadened the orchestra’s palette.
- [2 Excursions Through Shadowy 'Pelléas' With Different Ideals In View](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/29/edging-into-debussys-elusive-pelleas-from-different-perspectives/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Few operas operate by such singular rules as Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande. Despite similar starting points, two newly released performances are like trees with the same roots that end up turning different autumn colors.
- [Brevard Festival Harmonizes Stars With Young Talent](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2014/06/20/preview-brevard-music-festival-north-carolina-keith-lockhart/) - By Paul Hyde BREVARD, N.C. – Peripatetic Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart leverages his classical clout to draw eminent soloists to this Blue Ridge festival where students play alongside the pros. The 78th summer begins with Itzhak Perlman.
- ['Lucia' In The Rust Belt: Met Abandons Scotland And Scores A Gritty Hit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/25/lucia-in-the-rust-belt-toto-i-dont-think-were-in-lammermoor-anymore/) - NEW YORK – Simon Stone’s production of Lucia di Lammermoor is the boldest attempt ever to bring full-on “regie” theater to the Met, updating the opera to a Rust Belt town beset with drugs, poverty, and a desperate patriarchy. And it works.
- [Reich In Many Words: Images Of The Artist, Still Awaiting The Man](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/20/reich-in-many-words-images-of-the-artist-still-awaiting-the-man/) - BOOK REVIEW – The pioneers of minimalism are getting on in years, and memoirs have been flowing. John Adams wrote one. Philip Glass wrote one. Now Steve Reich has added another, but as is his habit for music, he did it his own way.
- [2 New Bach Passions From Gardiner, Pichon Enhance Digital Options](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/15/two-new-bach-passions-from-gardiner-pichon-enhance-digital-options/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – At Eastertide, it’s no surprise to find the release of two high-profile Bach Passion recordings, the St. John led by John Eliot Gardiner and the St. Matthew under Raphaël Pichon. Both are worthy additions to an already crowded field.
- [Young Composers Meet The Challenge And Hear Their Music Take Wing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/18/young-composers-meet-the-challenge-and-hear-their-music-take-wing/) - Esteban Esteban Meneses reviews the 13th National Young Composers Challenge Composium, for the first time at Steinmetz Hall in Orlando.
- [Toronto Relays: Baton Passed Around As Five Directors Cross Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/14/toronto-relays-baton-handed-around-by-five-ex-conductors-of-tso/) - TORONTO – As the Toronto Symphony played a Dvořák Slavonic Dance, five TSO music directors took turns leading. Pictured, Peter Oundjian, Andrew Davis, Günther Herbig,, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, and Gustavo Gimeno shared the concert.
- [Wielding Terrible Swift Sword Of Words In Art Pitched Against Racism](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/11/unsheathing-terrible-swift-power-of-words-in-struggle-of-racism/) - PORTLAND – My Words Are My Sword, a multi-media work written and performed by actor Phil Darius Wallace with the Portland Chamber Orchestra, delivered a trenchant message about the history of Black people in America.
- [DiDonato Album 'Eden' A Rewarding Return To 'Essence Of Our Being' ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/08/didonatos-cd-eden-a-rewarding-return-to-essence-of-our-being/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Drawing inspiration from nature to forge a way to a better world, mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato's new CD mixes repertoire from four centuries, in moods from confusion and fear to sorrow and optimism.
- [Confessions (And Tips) From An Unrepentant Collector Of Toscanini](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/06/confessions-and-tipsfrom-an-unredeemed-collector-of-toscanini/) - PERSPECTIVE – There was a time in my life when I thought I would be happy to have all the commercial Toscanini records. Then I dreamed of hearing all the conductor's broadcasts (and rehearsals!) at the New York Public Library'.
- [A Pianist Transcribes Her Polytonal Life As Mesmerizing Memoir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/05/a-pianist-transcribes-her-polytonal-life-into-a-mesmerizing-memoir/) - BOOK REVIEW – Montreal-born pianist Janina Fialkowska's memoir A Note in Time is a skillfully drawn portrait that will appeal not only to music lovers and industry insiders but also to anyone who responds to a story well told.
- [Iceland's Dazzling Hall Bathes Concert Life In Sea Of Northern Lights](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/04/01/icelands-dazzling-hall-bathes-concert-life-in-sea-of-northern-lights/) - REYKJAVIK – Harpa Concert Hall and Conference Centre was a long time coming, but since its pre-Covid opening, the spectacular building with multiple performance venues has won the hearts of Icelanders as well as international awards.
- [Not Always Composing To A Libretto, But Ever From The Book Of Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/30/not-always-composing-to-a-libretto-but-ever-from-the-book-of-life/) - CHICAGO – Some composers are happy writing works with generic titles like Symphony No. 2. But as her inventive titles such as These Worlds In Us and Orpheus Undone make clear, Missy Mazzoli wants her music to be about something.
- [Like Hymns To Ukraine: Music's New Meaning In Time Of A Personal War](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/29/like-hymns-to-ukraine-the-resonance-of-music-in-time-of-personal-war/) - PERSPECTIVE – Every concert I’ve heard since the Ukraine invasion has been about the war, no matter what was being played. We all know Ukrainians and will come to know many more as refugees arrive. Rarely has war been so personal.
- [Met's 'Eugene Onegin' Mires Fine Singing In Swamp Of Busy Excess](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/28/mets-eugene-onegin-mires-solid-singing-in-swamp-of-busy-excess/) - NEW YORK – Conductor James Gaffigan and a cast of singers headed by Igor Golovatenko and Ailyn Pérez delivered musically quite well, but this revival of Deborah Warner's 2018 production remains ponderous and overstocked with extras.
- [Composer, Conductor: This Couple Rhymes In Shakespeare Couplets](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/25/composer-conductor-this-couple-rhymes-in-shakespeare-couplets/) - PERSPECTIVE – Hungarian conductor Henrik Nánási will lead the premiere in Fort Worth of a Shakespeare sonnet set by his wife, Veronika Ágnes Fáncsik. It's for two characters: a bass singer as lover and, as the beloved, a clarinet.
- [A Vivid Opera Recreates Hounding, Exoneration Of The Central Park Five](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/24/vivid-opera-recreates-hounding-exoneration-of-central-park-five/) - PORTLAND – Anthony Davis' Pulitzer Prize-winning work, recounting the story of Black and Latino teenagers falsely accused and imprisoned for the rape and beating of a jogger in Central Park in 1989, was staged by Portland Opera.
- [Fresh From Recording Studio, A Pianist At 97 Recalls Prodigious Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/23/ruth-slenczynska-97-new-recording-done-recalls-prodigious-life/) - PERSPECTIVE – "A life in music is a life of imagination," says pianist Ruth Slenczynska. "Nothing in the world was created without imagination." Her new CD My Life in Music just released, she reflects on an extraordinary career.
- [NY Song Fest Returns With Style, Once Again Stretching Boundaries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/26/ny-song-fest-returns-with-style-once-again-stretching-boundaries/) - NEW YORK – Founded in 1988, the New York Festival of Song occupies a unique and valuable niche. The singers at this year's event exemplified the festival's exploration of song and the recruitment and training of gifted interpreters.
- [Agile Voice, Savvy Art Lend Charm To Recital Of Spanish, Latin Song](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/22/agile-voice-polished-art-lend-charm-to-recital-of-spanish-latin-song/) - PHILADELPHIA – Soprano Ana María Martínez and pianist Craig Terry were set to present their program for the Chamber Music Society of Philadelphia when the Covid curtain dropped two years ago. Finally, delightfully, it happened.
- [Bringing Raw Conviction To The Bleak World Of 'Wozzeck' In A Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/20/bringing-raw-naturalism-to-tormented-landscape-of-wozzeck-in-concert/) - NEW YORK – The Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Andris Nelsons, co-starred with Danish baritone Bo Skovhus in the title role and soprano Christine Goerke as Marie in a gritty and persuasive performance at Carnegie Hall.
- [Charlotte SO, Chorale Echo Troubled World: 'Dona Nobis Pacem'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/18/charlotte-so-chorale-echo-troubled-world-dona-nobis-pacem/) - CHARLOTTE – With bombs raining on Ukraine, Vaughan Williams' enduring plea from the 1930s, renewed by the Charlotte Symphony and Charlotte Master Chorale led by Christopher Warren-Green, carried a profound poignancy.
- [Ancient Chinese Myths Invoked In Allegory Of Earth's Climate Change](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/17/ancient-chinese-myths-invoked-in-allegory-of-earths-climate-change/) - BROOKLYN – Huang Ruo’s theater piece Book of Mountains and Seas, for 12 singers and two percussionists, is a reminder that terrifying changes in our planet have been discussed since antiquity. It connects clearly with modern fears.
- ['St. Matthew Passion,' Sung (And Danced) In Its Original Epic Length](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/15/st-matthew-passion-sung-and-danced-in-its-original-epic-length/) - LOS ANGELES – The LA Opera Orchestra and Chorus conducted by James Conlon and Grant Gershon, respectively, presented Bach's score complete, but with a major twist: This version featured dancers from the Hamburg Ballet.
- [An Opera On The Rituals Of Marriage, Refitted To The Scale Of Television](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/10/an-opera-on-the-rituals-of-marriage-refitted-to-dimensions-of-streaming/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Ana Sokolovic's opera Svadba ("Wedding"), adapted for streaming by Boston Lyric Opera, contemplates folkloric preparations for a nuptial ceremony. The trick was to re-scale the stage work as a vivid small-screen experience.
- [A Conductor's Practical Book On Making A Life Of Waving One's Arms](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/03/02/a-conductors-practical-book-on-the-mysteries-of-all-that-arm-waving/) - BOOK REVIEW – Maestro and author Carl Topilow offers advice that is specifically practical in the world of community or student orchestras, one path sometimes taken by young conductors. Topilow created the Cleveland Pops Orchestra.
- [An Imaginative Pianist Hangs Mix Of Pictures At A Virtuosic Exhibition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/28/an-imaginative-pianist-hangs-some-pictures-in-virtuosic-exhibition/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – With Phoenix, Stewart Goodyear’s latest album (out via Bright Shiny Things), the pianist-composer navigates a varied and challenging program, including his own works and an engaging Pictures at an Exhibition.
- [Voices Of Stile Antico Tap Into Deep Roots Of Evergreen Renaissance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/24/voices-of-stile-antico-tap-into-deep-roots-of-evergreen-renaissance/) - NEW YORK – In a program titled "Toward the Dawn," the 12-voice unaccompanied English group, singing mostly in Latin with a sprinkling of French and Italian, solved the trick of devising a concert that's appealing to listeners 600 years on.
- [Botstein, Orchestra Now Frame Stravinsky Like Picasso Cubist Painting](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/23/bostein-orchestra-now-frame-stravinsky-like-picasso-cubist-painting/) - NEW YORK – In a performance-lecture at the Met Museum, musicologist and conductor Leo Botstein drew comparisons between Stravinsky's 1920s Concerto for Piano and Wind Instruments and Picasso's Still Life with a Bottle of Rum (1911).
- [Shrouded In Mystery, Shadowed With Doubt, A Brilliant New Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/22/shrouded-in-mystery-shadowed-with-doubt-a-brilliant-new-opera/) - PITTSBURGH – Rarely does a new opera emerge so perfectly formed, or so musically and visually stunning, as Pittsburgh Opera achieves with In a Grove, an elusive tale from composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann.
- [Jazz Icon Shorter's New Opera On Iphigenia Is More Than A Little Iffy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/20/jazz-icon-shorters-new-opera-on-iphigenia-is-more-than-a-little-iffy/) - SANTA MONICA, Calif. – Wayne Shorter, the 88-year-old saxophone great, revisited a project he began when he was 19. He had some stellar collaborators in bringing the opera to life. I truly regret to report that it’s an ambiguous mess.
- [Von Stade Recalls Life With Cherubino, Role She Owned For Decades](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/18/von-stade-as-cherubino-singer-recalls-50-years-playing-role-she-owned/) - PERSPECTIVE – "I loved Cherubino and loved every time I was able to perform in Marriage of Figaro," said Frederica von Stade, 76. "It was always fun." She made her Met debut in what would become her signature role 50 years ago this month.
- [All In For Modernism, Dauntless Orchestra Celebrates 25 Years](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/17/all-in-for-modernism-a-devoted-orchestra-celebrates-25-years/) - BOSTON – Hundreds of works by a host of composers who can claim many awards, but not much of an audience, have been performed by the Boston Modern Orchestra Project and recorded with founding director Gil Rose.
- [Visiting Ravel, Mahler, Artists Galore Through Archive's Magic Portal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/16/visiting-ravel-mahler-artists-galore-through-archives-magic-portal/) - PERSPECTIVE – The vast Internet Archive, founded in 1996, preserves far-ranging materials online with free access to them. One LP collection alone offers lifelike rolls by renowned pianists as well as recordings by composers and early opera stars.
- [In Pursuit Of A Cycle, Confronting Gloom Of Sibelius' 4th Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/15/in-pursuit-of-a-cycle-confronting-gloom-of-sibelius-4th-symphony/) - Nézet-Séguin and the Orchestre Métropolitain record Sibelius' Fourth live for ATMA Classique label.
- [As Marin Alsop Leads Chicago SO, Ravinia Affirms Their Rapport](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/13/as-marin-alsop-leads-chicago-so-ravinia-affirms-their-rapport/) - CHICAGO – On the same day Alsop led a rewarding concert with the Chicago Symphony at Orchestra Hall, the Ravinia Festival, where the CSO has a summer residency, announced her three-year extension as chief conductor.
- [Shaking The Dustbins Of Neglected Operas, And Gathering Treasure](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/11/shaking-the-dustbins-of-neglected-operas-and-gathering-treasure/) - PERSPECTIVE – Are obscure operas and operettas unjustly forgotten gems or cultural roadkill found on the wayside? Both kinds of discoveries surface constantly, and making those distinctions can mean sharpening one's listening skills.
- [Crumb's Piano Pictures As Vibrant Epitaph For An Enduring Composer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/10/crumb-metamorphoses-vibrant-epitaph-for-an-enduring-composer/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – This review of George Crumb's Metamorphoses Books I and II, played by pianist Marcantonio Barone, was intended as a report on Crumb’s continuing sonic adventures. But with his death at age 92, the review has become a wake.
- [America's Voices Ring Grand And Diverse In Premieres, Retrospect](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/09/americas-voices-ring-grand-and-diverse-in-premieres-retrospect/) - PHILADELPHA – Two world premieres, This Is Not a Small Voice by Valerie Coleman (pictured) and a suite from Matthew Aucoin's opera Eurydice, topped a wide-ranging Philadelphia Orchestra program conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
- [Covid As Music: 'Today And Today And Today...' Then, In Sibelius, Hope](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/06/covid-as-music-today-and-today-and-today-then-in-sibelius-hope/) - SEATTLE – Two momentous events marked the Seattle Symphony's concert. First came the world premiere of Ellen Reid’s pandemic-inspired Today and Today and Today.... In the end, conductor Ruth Reinhardt set a capstone of optimism.
- [In Fresh NY Phil Series, A Countertenor Brings Zest Of Counterculture](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/04/in-fresh-ny-phil-series-a-countertenor-brings-zest-of-counterculture/) - NEW YORK – Anthony Roth Costanzo starred in a world premiere by Joel Thompson, then on the same program joined with trans-genre artist Justin Vivian Bond for a cabaret set. All part of the Phil's series "Authentic Selves: The Beauty Within."
- [Dual Opera Premieres Reflect One Composer's Stage Savvy And Range](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/02/dual-opera-premieres-reflect-one-composers-stage-sense-and-range/) - NEW YORK – In Ricky Ian Gordon's two operas that opened almost together in January, his adaptability lit up stories about the fate of upper-class Jews in 1940s fascist Italy and Black women in 1905 America struggling for a viable future.
- [Kernis' 'Earth' Conjures A Melancholy Portrait Of An Endangered Orb](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/02/01/kernis-earth-paints-melancholy-image-of-our-endangered-orb/) - SEATTLE – Composer Aaron Jay Kernis led the long-delayed world premiere of his work about climate change and its threat to life, performed by tenor Nicholas Phan and a septet, at the Seattle Chamber Music Society's Winter Festival.
- [O Freude! Orlando Tests New Hall On Beethoven: The Answer Resounds](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/31/o-freude-orlando-gets-a-grand-new-hall-and-it-revels-in-beethoven/) - ORLANDO – Steinmetz Hall, a first-class concert venue in downtown Orlando, saw a two-week opening celebration, including a stellar Beethoven Ninth Symphony by London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Edwin Outwater.
- [Playing To Eager Crowd, Resurgent Bang On Can Delivers Winning Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/28/playing-to-eager-crowd-resurgent-bang-on-a-can-delivers-fresh-good-time/) - NEW YORK – The ensemble's first live performance since "before the world changed" was loud, pushy, jazz-inflected, rhythmically simple, appealing, and harmonically familiar. Listeners dug in for a good time.
- [Rising Maestro Leaves That 'Woman' Thing In Stardust Of Her Ascent](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/28/rising-maestro-leaves-that-woman-thing-in-stardust-of-her-ascent/) - PERSPECTIVE – Elim Chan, a 36-year-old Hong Kong native and in-demand conductor across Europe and the U.S., epitomizes the future for women on the podium: "I don’t want my gender to take away from what I can bring to the music."
- [Duke Ellington Tribute Pays Concert Homage To An American Master](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/26/duke-ellington-tribute-pays-concert-homage-to-an-american-master/) - LOS ANGELES – The great jazz composer aspired to have his music played by symphony orchestras. The LA Philharmonic's "Symphonic Ellington" program, led by Thomas Wilkins, was in effect a giant concerto grosso for jazz band and orchestra.
- [Bounding Across Styles, Bates Piano Concerto Honors Era Of Virtuoso](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/17/bates-piano-concerto-stitches-renaissance-to-legacy-of-virtuoso/) - PHILADELPHIA – In a sweep from the Renaissance to the present, Mason Bates' new work met Rachmaninoff head on, all delivered in style by pianist Daniil Trifonov and the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin.
- ['Orfeas21' Puts A Bold Twist On Classic Story Of Monteverdi's 'Orfeo'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/14/orfeas21-makes-a-bold-exit-from-classic-world-of-monteverdis-orfeo/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The new work, a de- and re-construction of Monteverdi's 1607 opera by the Greek creative duo FYTA, taps into LBGTQ+ themes in bringing the myth of Orpheus into the light of modern gender perspectives and conflicts.
- [MTT Surges Back In LA, Even As Omicron Makes Its Fierce Presence Felt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/13/mtt-also-surges-in-la-even-as-omicron-makes-its-fierce-presence-felt/) - LOS ANGELES – Rebounding from surgery for a brain tumor, conductor Michael Tilson Thomas flashed his wonted energy and musical acuity in a concert with the LA Philharmonic. But concerns about the virus seemed to cut into attendance.
- [With Mälkki's Guidance, In Carnegie's Embrace, NY Philharmonic Glows](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/10/under-malkkis-baton-in-carnegies-embrace-ny-philharmonic-glows/) - NEW YORK – Awaiting the makeover of its Lincoln Center home, the Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Mälkki, returned to its original habitat: Carnegie Hall. The sonorous effect was transformative – warm, full, ideally blended.
- [Saga Of Prague's Grand Theaters Played Out As Gilded Historical Drama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/06/saga-of-pragues-grand-theaters-played-out-as-gilded-historical-drama/) - PRAGUE – This culturally rich city boasts three splendid venues – Estates Theatre, State Opera, and National Theatre – that compete not only in their historical and architectural significance but also in their distinctive musical offerings.
- [Richard Freed, Noted Music Journalist And Annotator, Dies At 93](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/04/richard-freed-noted-music-journalist-and-annotator-dies-at-93/) - PERSPECTIVE – Richard Freed, who achieved distinction writing and broadcasting on music for six decades, including stints with The New York Times and Washington Post, died at his home in Rockville, Md., on New Year's Day.
- [Weimar-Era 'Rigoletto' Accents A Dark Tragedy With Luminous Singing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/03/weimar-era-rigoletto-accents-dark-tragedy-with-luminous-singing/) - NEW YORK – When silver confetti rained down on the Met Opera audience on New Year's Eve after Barlett Sher's impressive staging, the onset of 2022 was the least of the celebration. A cast that looked good on paper proved to be even better.
- [On Portland's Vibrant Music Scene, New Is Nourished Everywhere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2022/01/20/on-portlands-vibrant-music-scene-new-is-nourished-everywhere/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – This city has become a busy hub for new music. Its vigorous creativity ranges from chamber ensembles dedicated to contemporary music to companies that explore the latest operas. The place is jumping.
- [Carols Solemn, Joyous, And A Beat Ahead Of The Omicron Humbug](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/24/carols-solemn-joyous-and-a-beat-ahead-of-the-omicron-humbug/) - NEW YORK – Frederick Renz led Early Music New York in a rewarding and far-ranging program of English Christmas music from the 16th and 17th centuries. I was lucky to hear it: Omicron shut down performances set for Dec. 25-26.
- [A Ring Of Authenticity: 'Das Rheingold' Played On Period Instruments](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/23/ring-of-authenticity-wagner-cycle-played-on-period-instruments/) - PERSPECTIVE – Kent Nagano led the early-music ensemble Concerto Köln in a version based on lengthy research by a special committee that sought the sound Wagner might have hoped for when composing the piece in the 1850s.
- [Taking Hike In The Park (Or Memory Lane Stroll) With An App Obbligato](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/20/__trashed-2/) - LOS ANGELES – Ellen Reid's SOUNDWALK is described as a free "GPS-enabled work of public art that uses music to illuminate the natural environment." The path you choose dictates the music you hear. Headphones in place, off I went.
- [A 'Messiah' As Theater, Where Historical Style Meets Modern Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/17/a-messiah-as-theater-where-historical-style-meets-modern-staging/) - NEW YORK – Led by Jeannette Sorrell, founder of the period-instrument ensemble Apollo's Fire, the New York Philharmonic, Apollo's Singers and soloists offered a fluid and (by design) theatrical performance of Handel's beloved oratorio.
- [LA Phil Tops Off Bold, Inclusive Autumn With Splash Of New Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/11/progressive-la-phil-caps-fall-season-with-splash-of-new-music/) - LOS ANGELES – Julia Adolphe’s new violin concerto, Woven Loom, Silver Spindle, received its COVID-delayed premiere in the hands of concertmaster Martin Chalifour. For the fourth time this fall, a woman was on the LA podium.
- [Sprung From Canada, Critic Harvests Bounty In America's Midwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/07/sprung-from-canada-critic-reaps-rewards-in-americas-midwest/) - PERSPECTIVE – When U.S. authorities decided to let Canadians back into their country, I headed to concerts by the Cleveland Orchestra and the Detroit Symphony under new music director Jader Bignamini. Getting back to Canada was the trick.
- [Remembering Steve: The Sky-Filling Giant That Was Sondheim](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/03/remembering-steve-the-sky-filling-giant-that-was-sondheim/) - PERSPECTIVE – As a writer in the early 1980s, I had heard that Steve had no time for the likes of us. My first encounter with him, at a party, seemed to bear that out. Evidently, he knew my byline, and I lost him at hello. Then we became friends.
- [Playing In New Spaces, Dispossessed NY Phil Revels In Fresh Light](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/12/02/playing-in-new-spaces-homeless-ny-phil-heard-in-revelatory-new-light/) - NEW YORK – While its acoustically problematic home David Geffen Hall undergoes major renovation, the New York Philharmonic has shone in the musically friendly environs of Alice Tully Hall and Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center.
- [Eclectic And Inventive 'Eurydice' Whisks Met To, Well, A New Place](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/30/eclectic-and-inventive-eurydice-takes-met-to-well-a-new-place/) - NEW YORK – Matthew Aucoin's opera, based on the same-titled play by Sarah Ruhl, who also wrote the libretto, turns the classic story on its head with a pair of distracted lovers, all set to music unlike anything I've ever heard at the Met.
- ['St. John Passion' For 1: Busy Tenor Sings It All; He Conducts A Bit, Too](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/29/st-john-passion-for-1-busy-tenor-sings-it-all-and-conducts-a-little/) - MONTREAL – Benedikt Kristjánsson undertook the Herculean labor of singing Bach's recitatives of the Evangelist and the exchanges of the Passion characters, including the central dialogue of Jesus and Pontius Pilate, plus the shouts of the crowd.
- [In An Off-Beat Program, Orchestra Shows Pluck With Dual-Harp Rarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/23/in-an-off-beat-program-orchestra-shows-pluck-with-concerto-for-harp/) - SEATTLE – So much about this Seattle Symphony concert was unusual. Hannah Lash's concerto for two harps (a rarity in itself) was one of two featured works by women; the orchestra seating was new; and the conductor was a sub.
- [Black Music Project Bolsters Case For Shift In Concert Repertoire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/19/black-music-anthology-bolsters-bid-for-shift-in-concert-repertoire/) - PERSPECTIVE – The African Diaspora Music Project, created by opera singer and scholar Louise Toppin, has amassed a database of works by Black composers with the goal of moving concert programmers away from old formulas.
- [Sondheim’s 'Follies' Once More Shown In All Its Grandeur](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/11/01/sondheims-follies-once-more-shown-in-all-its-grandeur/) - By Matthew Gurewitsch LONDON – You might say that in Stephen Sondheim's Follies, daytime drama aspires to the condition of Wagner's Götterdämmerung. Aspires to, and, in Dominic Cooke’s National Theatre revival, pretty well achieves it.
- [The Pianist Got Caught In A Vax Snarl; His Sub Was Picture Perfect](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/12/an-emerging-pianist-standing-in-puts-on-quite-an-exhibition/) - VANCOUVER – The Uzbek pianist Behzod Abduraimov, standing in for the vax-vexed Russian Alexander Malofeev, treated a Vancouver Recital Society audience to an intriguing mixed-bag program capped by potent Mussorgsky.
- [After Lengthy Retreat, Gabriel Kahane Cracks Open A Fresh Songbook](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/10/after-lengthy-retreat-gabriel-kahane-cracks-open-a-new-songbook/) - SEATTLE – As he re-emerges from his self-imposed hiatus, the singer-songwriter-pianist (and guitarist) performed selections from the 31 songs he wrote, one each day, during October 2020, a group that varied widely in topic and attitude.
- [A Concert Of Beethoven And Sermons, And Both Rise To Their Message](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/08/a-concert-of-beethoven-and-sermons-and-both-rising-to-their-message/) - PHILADELPHIA – Bass-baritone Davóne Tines delivered the "sermons" – readings from African American writers – as preludes to vocal works, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin led the Philadelphia Orchestra in historically aware Beethoven.
- [Scaled Back, Brahms' 'German Requiem' Still Makes Its Grand Effect](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/05/scaled-back-brahms-german-requiem-still-makes-its-grand-effect/) - TORONTO – Any performance of Brahms’ Ein deutsches Requiem is an occasion, but a concert given by the Toronto Mendelssohn Choir led by Jean-Sébastien Vallée was special: a "chamber version' that was anything but chamber-like.
- [Big Box Of Orpheus CDs Chronicles An Ensemble Sans Leader, Sans Need](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/02/big-box-of-orpheus-cds-chronicles-an-ensemble-sans-leader-sans-need/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Conventional wisdom tells us the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra shouldn't exist at all, let alone for 50 years. But the proof of this conductorless ensemble is in its live concerts and in a comprehensive new 55-CD boxed set.
- [An Ineffable Tone Poem Captures How Wildfire Consumed Small Town](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/31/an-ineffable-tone-poem-captures-how-wildfire-consumed-small-town/) - PHILADELPHIA – Robin Holcomb's 10-minute Paradise, played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under Yannick Nézet-Séguin, unfolds as a series of sonic pictures, a soundtrack to Holcomb's inner dialogue that we don’t actually visualize but feel.
- [Met's 'Meistersinger': An Uneven Return To Time-Worn Tradition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/29/mets-meistersinger-an-uneven-return-to-time-worn-tradition/) - NEW YORK – After the pandemic drought, here were the five-hours-plus of Wagner's only mature comedy, the Met Opera's sole Wagnerian outing this season. If many in the audience seemed thrilled, a lack of rehearsal time was evident.
- [Michael Tilson Thomas Returns To SF Podium In Warm Homecoming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/11/15/michael-tilson-thomas-returns-to-sf-podium-in-warm-homecoming/) - SAN FRANCISCO – His characteristic erect posture unaltered by the recent physical and emotional challenges of brain-tumor surgery, MTT, who turns 77 on Dec. 21, led the San Francisco Symphony in his own music and Schumann's.
- [From Challenging Bits Of 'Mosaic,' Dinnerstein Fashions Whole Cloth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/28/from-challenging-bits-of-mosaic-dinnerstein-fashions-whole-cloth/) - NEW YORK – When composer Richard Danielpour asked Simone Dinnerstein to perform his prodigious piano solo, An American Mosaic, in 2020, this fearless musician conquered his score. In a recent recital, she revisited that tour de force.
- [Chamber-Scaled Return To Normalcy Sets Tone At An Open-Bar Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/27/chamber-scaled-return-to-normalcy-sets-tone-in-chic-open-bar-venue/) - Emerald City Music Jason Victor Serinus
- [In The Stream Of Bach's 'Goldbergs,' Lang Lang Sees Romantic Virtuoso](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/26/peering-into-the-mirror-of-bachs-goldbergs-lang-lang-sees-himself/) - NEW YORK – Bach’s Goldberg Variations have withstood myriad interpretations, and I tried to keep an open mind, but Lang Lang's Romantic flourishes tempted me to join the escapees and make a dash for the Carnegie Hall exits.
- [Bernard Haitink: Master Of Mahler And Bruckner Left Indelible Memories](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/25/bernard-haitink-remembered-memories-by-the-decade-discs-to-cherish/) - PERSPECTIVE – Bernard Haitink, who died Oct. 21 at age 92, was responsible for some of the most memorable performances I have attended. Objective and insightful, he was that rare maestro with an affinity for both Mahler and Bruckner.
- [Directorship Extended, Honeck Shows Affinity For Pittsburgh On CD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/21/directorship-extended-honeck-shows-affinity-for-pittsburgh-on-cd/) - DIGITAL REVIEW - Manfred Honeck, who recently signed a six-year extension as music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, offers a compelling match of Brahms' Fourth Symphony and James MacMillan's Larghetto for Orchestra.
- [Hail, Bright Abode! Life (And Art) Reaffirmed At The Resurgent LA Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/19/hail-bright-abode-resurgent-la-opera-returns-to-wagner/) - LOS ANGELES – Defiantly back in business after a long pandemic-induced hiatus, the LA Opera took a giant step toward normalcy by staging Wagner’s Tannhäuser, the company’s first production of anything by Wagner in eight and a half years.
- [Cloud Over Van Zweden Exit From NY Phil Veils His Gifts As Conductor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/15/cloud-over-van-zweden-exit-from-ny-phil-veils-his-gifts-as-conductor/) - PERSPECTIVE – Jaap van Zweden's six-year stint will have been one of the strangest tenures of any music director of a major American orchestra. New Yorkers never got to know him. But after he departs in 2024, they will be missing a lot.
- [Under Diversity Banner, Sphinx Virtuosi Concert To Celebrate Progress](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/12/under-inclusions-flag-sphinx-virtuosi-concert-to-celebrate-progress/) - PERSPECTIVE – The Sphinx Organization, which has helped to develop a plethora of skilled young classical musicians of color, will present a gala concert Oct. 15 at Carnegie Hall. Artistic director Afa Dworkin reflects on Sphinx's impact.
- [New Maestro Steps Up, With A Little Boost From Hall's Reinforced Sound](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/07/as-pandemic-pulls-back-music-director-steps-up-and-gets-a-sonic-boost/) - PORTLAND, Ore. – It was a night of high emotions as the Oregon Symphony audience welcomed new music director David Danzmayr. Also on display for the first time was the electronically buffed up sound in Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
- [Salonen's Belated Bow As SF Music Director Is A Lit-Up, Bang-Up Event](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/06/salonens-belated-bow-as-sf-music-director-is-lit-up-bang-up-event/) - SAN FRANCISCO – In a debut effectively deferred for one season by the pandemic, Esa-Pekka Salonen's first "real" program came with multi-colored lights, a jazz combo, a thrust stage for dancers, and a fervent response to every piece.
- [Quest For Piano Leads Writer To Adventures, Stories Across Siberia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/10/01/quest-for-piano-leads-writer-to-adventures-stories-across-siberia/) - BOOK REVIEW – In The Lost Pianos of Siberia, British journalist Sophy Roberts, who specializes in remote travel, comes to Siberia with a daunting, complicated, and noble objective: to find the perfect lost piano for a Mongolian concert pianist.
- [Orchestra In Dire Need Of Fixes Found Its Man In Tested Maestro Delfs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/30/rochester-philharmonic-needed-musical-repair-delfs-brought-skill-set/) - ROCHESTER, N.Y. – After long years of problematic musical direction, the Rochester Philharmonic opened its first season under conductor Andreas Delfs, who led a program that displayed well-honed ensemble and a rich orchestral sound.
- [In A Visceral First, Met Opens With Black Opera About Child Sex Abuse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/29/in-a-stark-departure-met-opens-with-raw-opera-on-sex-abuse/) - NEW YORK – Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the first Black-authored opera to be presented at the Met Opera in its 138-year history, is the unflinching and distinctive work of composer Terence Blanchard and librettist Kasi Lemmons.
- [Wordless Mendelssohn Is Backdrop For Stories Of Jews In New World](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/27/wordless-mendelssohn-reframed-as-ballads-of-jews-in-the-new-world/) - NEW YORK – Songwriter Alison Loeb interviewed dozens of her neighbors – German-Jewish immigrants who had fled from the Nazi peril to upper Manhattan. She wrapped their memories in Mendelssohn's Songs Without Words.
- [Chicagoans And Muti, Together Again, Break Silence In Heroic Style](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/25/chicagoans-and-muti-together-again-break-silence-in-heroic-style/) - CHICAGO – Music director Riccardo Muti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra celebrated their return to live, in-person performance for the first time in 20 months with a profound account of Beethoven’s monumental Eroica Symphony.
- [Opera Is Back - Hooray! As For The Rude Voice That Booed: Back Atcha](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/25/operas-back-at-last-crowds-in-seats-and-fans-will-be-fans/) - PERSPECTIVE – In Macduff’s aria mourning his murdered children, at Lyric Opera of Chicago's new Macbeth, tenor Joshua Guerrero offered his heart and soul. Then, amid the cheering, one loud boo. Really? After all we've been through?
- [Behind All The Masks, Vibrant Ojai Fest Brings Out Faces New And Old](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/23/vibrant-ojai-fest-brings-out-faces-new-and-old-never-mind-the-masks/) - OJAI, Cal. – The best news that could have possibly come from the 75th Ojai Music Festival Sept. 16-19 is that it happened at all. After missing a year because of the pandemic, the festival's spirit of adventure was alive again in far-ranging fare.
- [In Gala-Salad Program, Orchestra Dishes Up Return To Concert Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/22/in-gala-salad-program-orchestra-serves-up-return-to-concert-life/) - VANCOUVER – Jauntily dubbed “We’re Back! Gala Performance,” the Vancouver Symphony Orchestra season opener was a mixed bag: a “gala” portion of bits followed by the Tchaikovsky Fifth, all led by music director Otto Tausk.
- [Bernstein's Mass, Once Written Off, Now Enjoys Embrace Of A New Era](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/09/bernsteins-mass-oncewritten-off-now-enjoys-embrace-of-a-new-era/) - PERSPECTIVE – The stylistic cross-pollination that runs through Bernstein's Mass, derided as "cheap and vulgar" five decades ago, has become familiar language. The work will see several performances during this anniversary year.
- [Beethoven Times Two Plus Open Hall Equals Bright Start To Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/20/beethoven-times-three-plus-five-equals-happy-return-to-a-concert-hall/) - HOUSTON – As much a pep rally as a first night, the Houston Symphony Orchestra's 2021-22 season opener under music director Andrés Orozco-Estrada served up a stylish Beethoven Triple Concerto and a blazing Fifth Symphony.
- [New Montreal Maestro Shows Flair For Basics (But Maybe Not French)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/17/new-montreal-maestro-turns-back-to-basics-but-maybe-not-french/) - MONTREAL – At the season opener for the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, music director-designate Rafael Payare received a huge ovation even before the downbeat, a display justified by an affirmative Shostakovich Fifth.
- [Opera's Racial Tragedy Transcends Obstacles Of An Open-Air Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/16/operas-racial-tragedy-transcends-obstacles-of-an-open-air-staging/) - DETROIT – Blue, composer Jeanine Tesori and librettist Tazewell Thompson's intimate and compelling music drama about a Black cop whose teenage son is shot dead by another cop, struggled against conditions in a 6,000-seat arena.
- [Far-Flung String Players Converge (Virtually) For A Festival Homecoming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/15/far-flung-string-players-converge-virtually-for-a-festival-homecoming/) - BANFF, Alberta – After the success of last year's streamed Banff International String Quartet Festival, the 2021 event again went digital, spurred by a “moral obligation to be hand in hand with the artists through this pandemic."
- [Callas, Resurrected, Dies Again (And Again) In Seven Famous Roles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/08/callas-resurrected-dies-again-and-again-in-seven-famous-roles/) - PARIS – The Opéra national de Paris opened its season with 7 Deaths of Maria Callas, a project created by, and starring, performance artist Marina Abramović. The diva's sundry expirations come mostly at the hands of actor Willem Dafoe.
- [Hardships In Sea Lanes: Slavery, Impressment, And All As Lyric Drama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/06/life-in-the-sea-lanes-slavery-impressment-and-all-as-opera-tale/) - NEW YORK – On Site Opera boarded a 19th-century tall ship Aug. 28 for What Lies Beneath, an immersive music theater event weaving the slave trade and other vicissitudes of the high seas into a mournful and affecting program.
- [Village Opera Festival Spotlights Community And Emerging Voices](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/09/02/phoenicia-opera-fest-rises-again-to-meet-pandemics-challenge/) - PHOENICIA, N.Y. – This woodsy hamlet has grown the Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice into an energetic and engaging event that saw productions this summer of Mascagni's L'amico Fritz, Verdi's Rigoletto, and Leoncavallo's Pagliacci.
- [Toasts And Standing O: Berliners Citywide Hail Live Music's Renewal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/31/champagne-standing-o-berliners-citywide-cheer-renewal-of-live-music/) - BERLIN – Though presented in the pandemic's long shadow, stellar concerts by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Konzerthaus Orchestra drew elated audiences who offered Champagne salutes and even (a rarity) got to their feet to cheer.
- ['Sweet Land,' A Searing Revision Of U.S. History, Wins Opera Of The Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/26/sweet-lands-sobering-perspective-on-america-wins-opera-of-the-year/) - BREAKING NEWS - The creation of a diverse team under the collective aegis of The Industry, Sweet Land, invoking America's untold story, is the winner of the 2021 Music Critics Association of North America’s Best New Opera Award.
- [Blomstedt And Williams Close Out Tanglewood On Grand, Wistful Note](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/25/splendid-and-wistful-blomstedt-williams-close-out-tanglewood/) - LENOX, Mass. – The Boston Symphony Orchestra's truncated Tanglewood season concluded with wonderful Brahms conducted by Herbert Blomstedt and a tour of John Williams' great film scores under the composer's baton.
- [Not Bass, Not Baritone, Davóne Tines Revels In A Register All His Own](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/21/not-bass-not-baritone-davone-tines-inhabits-a-register-all-his-own/) - PERSPECTIVE – Tines, who has burst onto the world's music stages, commands a range of more than three octaves, from low D to high E-flat. He says he is neither a bass nor a baritone: “It’s a broader conception of how to think about voice.”
- [From Music's Dim Past, Rediscovered Songbook Casts Telling New Light](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/20/leuven-chansonnier-on-cd/) - PERSPECTIVE – The Leuven Chansonnier, a tiny 600-page volume of 50 secular songs that turned up in a 2014 auction in Belgium, has sharpened our sense of what early music means, how it should be performed, and what it says to us.
- [Elgar's Violin Concerto Twice: The Long And Far From Short Of It](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/19/elgar-violin-concerto-twice-the-long-and-far-from-short-of-it/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Longer than the Beethoven and the Brahms, the expanse of Elgar's concerto has perhaps limited its popularity. Still, in appealing new CDs, Nicola Benedetti and Renaud Capuçon lend the work its full measure of indulgence.
- [Canadian Guitarist's Art On Generous Display In Disc Of Her Own Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/17/canadian-guitarists-art-on-generous-display-in-disc-of-her-own-works/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Kavanagh Plays Kavanagh, the latest album by Dale Kavanagh, rides on the strength of the Canadian guitarist’s impeccable technique, which elevates her work as a composer of short pieces in an engaging style.
- [Glimmerglass Al Fresco: Opera As Brew Of Sunny Voices, Dicey Weather](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/15/glimmerglass-al-fresco-opera-as-mix-of-dicey-weather-sunny-voices/) - COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. – After losing a season to Covid in 2020, the Glimmerglass Festival reopened outdoors as “Glimmerglass on the Grass.” Despite weather that swung from chilly rain to hot sun, there was much to celebrate.
- [New Harbor Front Shell Could Bring Sea Change To San Diego Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/11/new-harbor-front-venue-could-change-game-for-san-diego-symphony/) - SAN DIEGO – Cultural San Diego has a new attraction to compete with the beaches and the Zoo. It's the San Diego Symphony's snazzy and imposing downtown waterfront performance venue known locally as The Shell.
- [Where Ancient Peaks Embrace Old Friends, Music Adds Its Wonder](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/06/grand-tetons-festival-where-ancient-peaks-embrace-old-friends/) - JACKSON HOLE, Wyo. – The Grand Tetons Music Festival, beloved for its natural grandeur, draws a faithful band of musicians from all over the U.S. as well as Europe. Says one veteran player: "I see those mountains and breathe a sense of release."
- [At Desert Crossroads, Stage And Film Collide In An Opera Miniseries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/04/at-desert-crossroads-stage-and-film-collide-in-an-opera-miniseries/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The streaming eight-part series desert in, co-produced by Boston Lyric and Long Beach Opera, spotlights a starry roster of creators and performers. Stay at the desert in, and find your dead lover. (Don't expect happiness.)
- [Glimpsed In Clear Light Of Glass, New Rzewski Proves A Thicket Of Bits](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/08/02/new-work-by-rzewski-falls-short-when-held-up-to-clarity-of-glass/) - NORTH ADAMS, Mass. – The plinks and plunks of Frederic Rzewski’s Amoramaro, written for pianist Lisa Moore’s birthday before the composer died in June, paled in comparison with Philip Glass' fluid Mad Rush, also heard in Moore's recital.
- [War's Private Anguish, Personal Loss Explode In Opera 'Glory Denied'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/31/personal-pain-rage-of-war-unleashed-in-opera-glory-denied/) - GREAT BARRINGTON, Mass. – The Berkshire Opera Festival production pulled no punches, like the work itself by composer Tom Cipullo, about a real-life Green Beret and nine-year POW who returns home from Vietnam to a life in ruins.
- [Adès' Creative Choices Spell Success Despite Trim At New Music Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/29/ades-creative-choices-spell-success-despite-trim-at-new-music-fest/) - LENOX, Mass. – The Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood was reduced to three concerts this year, but composer-curator Thomas Adès still managed variety, programming thirteen works by twelve composers from seven countries.
- [Echoes Of Mahler Ring In Berg Compilation By MTT and SF Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/28/78722/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – The Michael Tilson Thomas era at the San Francisco Symphony is over, but the melody lingers on in CDs. Now added is a Berg disc that includes existing recordings of Three Pieces for Orchestra and the Violin Concerto.
- [Corigliano Premiere Tops Summer Signal That Opera Is Back](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/27/impressive-productions-at-santa-fe-proclaim-opera-is-back/) - SANTA FE, N.M. – John Corigliano's The Lord of Cries, which blends The Bacchae with Dracula, came to the stage in a stunning Santa Fe Opera season also notable for a potent Eugene Onegin: All told, a reminder of what we’ve been missing.
- [Balsom's Star Power Lights Up Musgrave's New Trumpet Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/23/bilsoms-star-powerblights-up-musgraves-new-trumpet-concerto/) - LOS ANGELES – The 93-year-old Thea Musgrave was on hand to wave to the crowd at the LA Phil's U.S. premiere of her Trumpet Concerto -- after British virtuoso Alison Balsom delivered a shining turn through the work with conductor Tianyi Lu.
- [Gubaidulina Drives A Triple Between Sound And Silence](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/03/01/gubaidulina-drives-a-triple-between-sound-and-silence/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Sofia Gubaidulina’s Triple Concerto for Violin, Cello, and Bayan won a boisterous reception in its Boston Symphony Orchestra world premiere. Music director Andris Nelsons also conducted the Shostakovich Seventh.
- [Virtuosic Pintscher Work Debuts With Soloist Weilerstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/03/27/virtuosic-pintscher-work-premieres-with-weilerstein-as-soloist/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Alisa Weilerstein and the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed Matthias Pintscher’s deeply contemplative new nocturne for cello and orchestra, un despertar, inspired by an Octavio Paz poem.
- [Campra’s 'Carnaval' Is A Musical Circus On Teeming Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/06/16/campras-carnaval-is-musical-circus-on-teeming-stage/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Adding to its chain of splendid opera productions, the Boston Early Music Festival offered a stylish account of André Campra’s Le Carnaval de Venise, a tale of love and murderous revenge from the age of Louis XIV.
- [Stylistic Tangling At Tanglewood In Concerto Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/07/15/iyers-trouble-sets-idioms-tangling-at-tanglewood/) - By Keith Powers LENOX, Mass. – In Vijay Iyer’s Trouble, performed by Jennifer Koh with The Knights orchestra, pastoral melodies are overrun by extended techniques that take the work into funk, jazz, or invitingly minimalist textures.
- [Tanglewood Fest Aims Wide Lens At Modern Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/08/17/tanglewood-offers-torrent-of-new-and-recent-fare/) - By Keith Powers LENOX, Mass. - As curated by Jacob Greenberg, Nadia Sirota, and Kathryn Bates, the 2017 Festival of Contemporary Music at Tanglewood drew on composers from their 30-something generation and works from the 20th century.
- [Opera Finds Devil Feeling The Heat, Looking To Chill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/10/02/opera-finds-devil-feeling-the-heat-looking-to-chill/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – In a fanciful imagining of an unpublished final chapter of Revelations, where Lucifer and Hades make another attempt to infiltrate heaven and turn off the power, Julian Wachner’s REV. 23 paints the Devil's frustrations.
- [In With The New, Criers Plan Bold Series Of Firsts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/10/26/far-cry-presents-premiere-of-ruehr-piano-concerto/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – A Far Cry, the string ensemble, is crazy hot. A novel recent project, Music in Migration, featured a new piano concerto by Elena Ruehr inspired by the immigrant journey of the pianist who played the world premiere.
- [This New Opera Wins Points For Esprit De Corpse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2017/11/12/this-new-opera-wins-points-for-esprit-de-corpse/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Burke & Hare, by Julian Grant and Mark Campbell, draws on history to relate an entertaining tale of a grim, thankfully abandoned practice – the creation (by any means necessary) of cadavers for sale to a medical school.
- [Nelsons Summons Compelling Drama Of 'Tristan’s' Act II](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/04/09/nelsons-summons-compelling-drama-of-tristans-act-ii/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON - In concert, Andris Nelsons conducted the Boston Symphony Orchestra with a fine cast of soloists featuring tenor Jonas Kaufmann and soprano Camilla Nylund in the title roles with mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura as Brangäne.
- ['Dr. Atomic' Reaches Ground Zero On New Mexico Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/08/21/dr-atomic-comes-to-ground-zero-in-new-mexico/) - By Keith Powers SANTA FE – A healthy mixture of world-shaking local history plus adventurous and classic repertoire marked this summer's opera and chamber music seasons here. As always, the spectacular scenery and weather were part of the show.
- [Diverse Offerings Set Philly Opera O18 Festival Apart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/10/04/diverse-fare-distinguishes-philadelphia-opera-festival/) - By Keith Powers PHILADELPHIA - Not everything Opera Philadelphia presented proved an artistic success, but this is what opera should look like: a clash of ideas, genres, and a range of stagings, including Lembit Beecher's Sky on Swings.
- [Schoenberg Moves To Tinseltown In Clever New Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2018/11/21/schoenberg-moves-to-tinseltown-in-clever-new-opera/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Tod Machover’s Schoenberg in Hollywood tries to straddle the line between serious biography and parody. The opera works splendidly as theater, thanks in great part to the clever libretto and a score that doesn’t get in its way.
- [Harbison Honored At 80 In Concerts Grand, Intimate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/01/15/harbison-honored-at-80-in-concerts-grand-intimate/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON ‒ The Boston Symphony Orchestra led by Andrew Davis and the Boston Symphony Chamber Players gave a taste of John Harbison's versatility in programs featuring a cornucopia of the American composer's works.
- [Gluck’s Preamble To Trojan War Is Modern In Spirit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/02/18/gluck-opera-paride-ed-elena-at-boston-odyssey-opera-review/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Resisting Cupid proves futile in Paride ed Elena. Helen, the most beautiful of mortal women, tries not to love Paris, but rascal Cupid makes sure she does. Gluck's taut foreshadowing of Troy plays out at Odyssey Opera.
- [Musical Friendship Blossoms In BSO Concerto Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/03/13/musical-friendship-blossoms-into-bso-concerto-premiere/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Thomas Adès conducted the world premiere of his challenging first Piano Concerto with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and his aggressive interpreter, Kirill Gerstein. It goes next to Carnegie Hall and Leipzig.
- [Tale Of A Country Where Everyone Is Evil Or Doomed](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/05/12/review-handmaids-tale-boston-lyric-operaale-opera-in-boston/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Poul Ruders’ bracing score is almost too good for the wretched society depicted in The Handmaid’s Tale, from Margaret Atwood’s novel. Boston Lyric Opera’s venue for its new staging proved effective, if unwieldy.
- [New Tanglewood Center Provides Music Immersion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/08/05/new-tanglewood-center-provides-music-immersion/) - By Keith Powers LENOX, Mass – The Boston Symphony Orchestra, intent on extending Tanglewood's season well beyond its pastoral summers, introduced the Tanglewood Learning Institute with programs on Wagner curated for "curious adults."
- [Extravaganza! Baroque Opera As A Vocal Spectacle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/06/12/orlando-generoso-bemf-extravaganza-a-baroque-opera-as-vocal-spectacle/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – In the dozen substantial roles of Agostino Steffani’s Orlando generoso, superb singers offered an endless stream of engaging recitatives and arias with the Boston Early Music Festival Orchestra led by Robert Mealy.
- [Adès And Friends: Thorny Mod Squad At Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/08/20/ades-and-friends-thorny-mod-squad-at-tanglewood/) - By Keith Powers LENOX, Mass. – With the British composer directing the Festival of Contemporary Music, tough scores and head-spinning ideas were the norm. A delicate look at depression, Richard Ayres’ The Cricket Recovers, opened the weekend.
- [Boston Symphony Honors Old World And Young Talent](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2019/11/25/bso-performs-world-premiere-by-latvian-composer/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – The world premiere of Latvian composer Arturs Maskats’ “My River runs to thee” paid tribute to music director Andris Nelsons’ roots and friendships on a program that also marked a teenager's flawless Symphony Hall debut.
- [Taiwanese Hands Join In Evocative 'Formosan Triptych'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2020/01/18/boston-symphony-premiere/) - By Keith Powers BOSTON – Conductor Yu-An Chang and composer Chihchun Chi-sun Lee reveled in the heritage of their shared Taiwanese birthright when the Boston Symphony Orchestra performed the world premiere of her Formosan Triptych.
- [Prison Life As Opera: Hard-Edged Portraits, Music Of 5 Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/05/29/prison-life-as-opera-hard-edged-portraits-music-of-5-composers/) - BOSTON – A virtual opera in five vignettes, Death by Life was created by White Snake Projects in response to the murder of George Floyd. The libretto uses the words of incarcerated men and women to evoke existence behind bars.
- [Met’s 'Prince Igor' An Exotic Romp Amid The Poppies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2014/02/18/mets-prince-igor-an-exotic-romp-amid-the-poppies/) - By Leslie Kandell NEW YORK - A vivid new production of Alexander Borodin's 'Prince Igor' directed by Dmitri Tcherniakov returns the massive Russian work to the Metropolitan Opera repertoire for the first time since 1917.
- [Bruckner Faces Exodus Following Bounty Of Modern](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2020/02/24/strange-mix-makes-ny-phil-program-a-topsy-turvy-affair/) - NEW YORK - Many audience members who heard the New York Philharmonic play the world premiere of a work by Ellen Reid and songs by Anders Hillborg and Björk with Renée Fleming left before Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony.
- [Saariaho Opera Probes The Tragic Resonance Of Massacre At School](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/22/tragedys-resonance-saariaho-opera-probes-a-massacre-at-school/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Kaija Saariaho"s Innocence, a gripping psychological portrait of a shaken community, reflects her characteristic dream world of saturated harmonies with swings from quietly insinuating power to operatic cataclysms.
- [Cuttings Of Kancheli: When 'Simple' Music Slips Into Shallowness](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/19/excerpts-of-kancheli-when-simple-music-slides-into-emptiness/) - DIGITAL REVIEW –The late Georgian composer Giya Kancheli wrote more than 40 film scores, from which pianist Jenny Lin and accordionist Guy Klucevsek have recorded Kancheli's own excerpts. The experience proved repetitive and sweetly dull.
- [Summer Fests: Warm Air Renews Its Familiar Lure Across Midwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/05/summer-fests-warm-air-renews-familiar-lure-across-midwest/) - PREVIEW – At last, some good news! William Grant Still's opera Highway 1, U.S.A. is among the offerings this summer as Midwest opera and orchestra festivals offer their novel enticements to draw people back into the concert habit.
- [Summer Fests: Diverse Artists, Beethoven Take Center Stage In West](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/10/summer-fests-diverse-artists-share-spotlight-in-revolutionary-west/) - PREVIEW – The inclusion of women and people of color is reflected in the lineup of performers and composers at western music festivals; meanwhile, the pandemic-interrupted observance of Beethoven's 250th anniversary gets back on track.
- [Defying Obviously Long Odds, A Music Garden For Kids Is Blossoming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/14/defying-obviously-long-odds-a-music-garden-for-kids-is-blossoming/) - SAN ANTONIO, Tex.– From a career firefighter’s dream to establish a professional chamber orchestra has emerged a vigorous youth training program based on Venezuela's El Sistema – and out of that a fully fledged chamber ensemble.
- [Ormandy Philly Legend: Outsized Image Forged From Undersized Gifts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/11/ormandy-in-philadelphia-outsized-image-stitched-from-undersized-gifts/) - PERSPECTIVE – Eugene Ormandy's record 44-year tenure with the Philadelphia Orchestra (1936-1980) stretched over sleepy seasons marred by his faulty conducting technique. Some musicians say he wouldn't have a major career today.
- [Its Budget And Season Reduced, SF Opera Is Ready To Sing Again](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/08/its-budget-and-season-reduced-sf-opera-is-ready-to-sing-again/) - SAN FRANCISCO – Shut down since March 2020, the company raises its curtain on fall productions including a new Fidelio designed by Alexander V. Nichols, staged by Matthew Ozawa, and led by Eun Sun Kim in her debut as music director.
- [1921 Tulsa Massacre Memorialized In Music By 4 Black Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/07/1921-tulsa-massacre-memorialized-in-music-by-4-black-composers/) - NEW YORK – The concert titled Pity These Ashes: Tulsa 1921-2021 featured works by Adolphus Hailstork, Jessie Montgomery, Trevor Weston, and Alice Coltrane, whose Prema, transcribed from piano to harp, drew on the jazz tradition.
- [Negro Opera Birthplace Rescued By A Visionary With Preservation Goal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/28/negro-opera-birthplace-rescued-by-a-visionary-with-preservation-goal/) - PERSPECTIVE – Jonnet Solomon, a tax accountant and director of the Steel City Arts Initiative, has worked for decades to save the long-vacant home where Mary Cardwell Dawson established the National Negro Opera Company in 1941.
- [Festival Drama Is Ode To Human Resilience In Face Of Human Frailty](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/07/03/festival-drama-is-ode-to-human-resilience-in-face-of-human-frailty/) - BERGEN, Norway – At this year's Bergen International Festival, Liv Ullmann turned in a compelling performance as an aging woman in the grip of dementia in The American Moth, a multi-arts theater piece by Alan Lucien Øyen.
- [But Was He Happy? This Biography Of Mozart Makes A Case For Yes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/25/but-was-he-happy-when-it-comes-to-mozart-this-biographer-says-yes/) - BOOK REVIEW – Jan Swafford's Mozart biography debunks the myth that Mozart wasn't successful in his day, despite bad doctors, lousy air and crude travel.
- [Pärt’s New Voice Emerges On Disc Of Recent Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2020/11/21/parts-new-voice-emerges-on-disc-of-recent-works/) - DIGITAL REVIEW – Religious fervor and near-operatic passion resound across a CD of six works, four of them written in the 21st Century, performed by the Massachusetts-based choir Gloriae Dei Cantores directed by Richard K. Pugsley.
- [Muti raises his flag over the Chicago Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2010/09/20/muti_raises_his_flag_over_the_chicago_symphony/) - It was a banner night for the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the spectacular public welcoming of conductor Riccardo Muti as its 10th music director. But more than that, at a time when American orchestras are reeling from the effects of an economic slump, it was a profoundly encouraging sign of the health and prospects of classical music. The free concert Sunday evening at Chicago’s handsome Jay Pritzker Pavilion in Millennium Park drew not just a big crowd, it drew a sea of humanity – upward of 25,000 people, according to
- [Tenor Parlays His Craft In Dual Aid To Students, Emerging Professionals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/22/tenor-spins-his-own-art-in-dual-aid-to-students-emerging-professionals/) - PERSPECTIVE – Michael Fabiano and fellow tenor John Viscardi run a non-profit program of their own creation called ArtSmart, which pays gifted young freelance singers to mentor pre-teen and teen students and give them voice lessons.
- [Smart Trifecta Of Fresh Operas Takes The Stage (Make That Parking Lot)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/17/smart-trifecta-of-fresh-operas-takes-the-stage-that-is-a-parking-lot/) - ST. LOUIS – A loopy gloss on Her Majesty's tea with Apollo 13 astronauts, a comic riff on families in pandemic funks, and a post-debate match twixt James Baldwin and William F. Buckley peppered a triple-bill joy at Opera Theatre of St. Louis.
- [Summer Fests: In East, Bard Turns Spotlight On Nadia Boulanger Legacy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/16/summer-fests-in-east-bard-turns-spotlight-on-nadia-boulanger-legacy/) - PREVIEW – Few figures have exerted greater influence on modern music than conductor and composer Nadia Boulanger. Among a range of Eastern U.S. festival themes, the French milieu that shaped her, and her legacy, is Bard's focus.
- [Spoleto Caps An Era With Lively Jolt of New Works and New Plans](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/14/spoleto-ends-an-era-with-infusions-of-new-works-and-artists/) - CHARLESTON – Alisa Weilerstein got into the slow tango groove with Inon Barnatan in the premiere of Osvaldo Golijov's Milonga at a Spoleto Festival USA rich in the contemporary delights. It's Nigel Redden's valedictory season at the helm.
- [Sleuths Pursue Chopin As Genius And Enigma Across Pages Of Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/06/02/in-pursuit-of-chopin-genius-and-enigma-across-pages-of-time/) - BOOK REVIEW – Three recent books about the composer-pianist offer rich insights into his life as man and musician. All three offer much to ponder, and time and again had this reader reaching for a score or a recording to follow up.
- [Up On The Roof: A Glass Opera In Parking Garage (At Pandemic Twilight)](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/05/31/up-on-the-roof-glass-opera-in-parking-garage-and-pandemic-twilight/) - LONG BEACH, Calif. – With COVID times in mind, Long Beach Opera turned Philip Glass' Les Enfants Terribles into a drive-in affair on top of a parking garage – with music, dance, theater, and video in a dizzying swirl of sound, light, and motion.
- [Muti, Chicago SO Select Jessie Montgomery As Composer In Residence](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/2021/04/20/chicago-symphony-picks-jessie-montgomery-as-composer-in-residence/) - CHICAGO – Given this city's diverse musical heritage, ranging from European classicism to the Great Migration, music director Riccardo Muti's choice of an African American woman comes as a notable next step for the Chicago Symphony.

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## Venues

- [Tippet Rise Art Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/venue/tippet-rise-art-center/)
- [Cincinnati Music Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/venue/cincinnati-music-hall/)
- [Stream from Metropolitan Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/venue/stream-from-metropolitan-opera/)
- [Lorem Ipsum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/venue/lorem-ipsum/)

## Organizers

- [Bard Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/organizer/bard-music-festival/)
- [Wigmore Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/organizer/wigmore-hall/)
- [Tippet Rise Art Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/organizer/tippet-rise-art-center/)
- [Lorem Ipsum2](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/organizer/lorem-ipsum2/)

## Events

- [NYC: New Works From The Americas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-works-from-the-americas/) - Three world premieres will be featured in the American Composers Orchestra March 18 program at Carnegie Hall, titled New Virtuoso: Low End Theory. The line-up includes new works by Stephen Hartke, Malachi Brown, Horacio Fernández, Michael Frazier, and Laura Ortman. José Luis Gomez conducts. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2027/03/18/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
- ['Red Dirt' Premieres In Stanford](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/red-dirt-premieres-in-stanford/) - On Nov. 7, the Stanford Philharmonia will premiere Red Dirt | Silver Rain, by Melody Eötvös, conducted by Paul Phillips. The work is a commission from the League of American Orchestras as part of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program, which supports six women and nonbinary composers each year. https://www.americancomposers.org/performances-events/virginia-b-toulmin-commission-by-melody-eotvos-with-stanford-philharmonia
- [Miami: 'Trees' Docu Features Caroline Shaw Score](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miami-trees-docu-features-caroline-shaw-score/) - Trees: A Live Cinema Documentary is a film that will be “assembled on stage” on March 27 at the New World Center. Featuring live music and narration alongside archival footage and interviews with luminaries like Dame Judi Dench, the work will be directed and performed by Sam Green, with music composed by Caroline Shaw. https://nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2026-2027/trees-a-live-cinema-documentary/
- [Baroque In Miami With New World Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baroque-in-miami-with-new-world-symphony/) - “The Baroque + Neo-Baroque” is the title of the Oct. 18 New World Symphony program. It features a somewhat rare instrument, the basset clarinet, played by Miles Haskins. The program considers 18th-century music (Neukomm, Weckmann, CPE Bach) and the later works it inspired (Bloch, Berg, Adès). https://nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2026-2027/the-baroque-plus-neo-baroque/
- [New World Symphony To Play Puts Trio Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-world-symphony-to-play-puts-trio-concerto/) - On Dec. 12-13, Time for Three makes its New World Symphony debut with the Grammy-winning Kevin Puts concerto that the trio inspired. Also on the program: Stéphane Denève conducts Brahms’ Third Symphony and Mazzoli’s Sinfonia (for Orbiting Spheres). https://nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2026-2027/deneve-brahms-3/
- [Chicago: Live Recital Broadcast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-live-recital-broadcast/) - Listen on WFMT Chicago on Aug. 25 as pianist Michael Davidman performs works by Enrique Granados, Frédéric Chopin, Isaac Albéniz, and Michael Abels, live from the Seventeenth Church of Christ, Scientist, Chicago. https://www.wfmt.com/2026/08/25/michael-davidman-piano/
- [Fauré At Bargemusic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/faure-at-bargemusic/) - On Aug. 29, BargeMusic presents Dancing with Fauré. The program of chamber music Fauré’s Piano Quartet No. 1 in C minor, plus works by Bach, Bartók, and Sibelius. https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/mind-heart-and-soul-the-violin-concerto-across-three-centuries-with-mark-peskanov-and-semplice-players/
- [Pittsburgh Closes With 'New' Korngold Suite](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-closes-with-new-korngold-suite/) - A new arrangement by Manfred Honeck and Tomáš Ille of a suite from Korngold’s Die tote Stadt will have its world premiere played by the Pittsburgh Symphony June 11-13. Maria Duenas plays Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and Honeck conducts Sibelius’ Sympony No. 2. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/104570/duenas-plays-prokofiev
- [Beethoven Plus A Premiere In Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-plus-a-premiere-in-pittsburgh/) - On March 19-21, the Pittsburgh Symphony will give the U.S. premiere of a new work by Juri Reinvere. Manfred Honeck also conducts two works by Beethoven: the Violin Concerto with soloist Augustin Hadelich, and the Fifth Symphony. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/104563/beethovens-fifth
- [Pittsburgh Symphony Live On The Big Screen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-symphony-live-on-the-big-screen/) - The Pittsburgh Symphony will give its first-ever concert featuring IMAG (Image Magnification), projecting live video onto large screens in Heinz Hall. The program’s centerpiece is Orff’s Carmina Burana. Feb. 12-14 https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/104560/carmina-burana
- [Pittsburgh Premieres Bates Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-premieres-bates-work/) - A new work by Mason Bates will be given its world premiere by the Pittsburgh Symphony on Nov. 27-29. Music director Manfred Honeck will also conduct Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Alexander Malofeev) and Haydn’s Symphony No. 60, along with some Viennese waltzes. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/104555/strauss-and-tchaikovsky
- [Edusei Debuts On Pittsburgh Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/edusei-debuts-on-pittsburgh-podium/) - On Nov. 6-8, conductor Kevin John Edusei makes his Pittsburgh Symphony debut leading the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto (with James Ehnes) and Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. The program opens with Sophia Jani’s I Wish You Daisies and Roses. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/104554/tchaikovskys-violin-concerto
- [Pittsburgh: An Intimate Concert Experience](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-an-intimate-concert-experience/) - Pittsburgh Symphony’s PSO360 series puts the audience right onstage with the musicians. On Oct. 17 the series opens with cellist Alisa Weilerstein, joined by a chamber ensemble of Pittsburgh Symphony musicians. Repertoire TBA. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/108382/pso360-alisa-weilerstein
- [Aspen: Shaham, Shaham In Ismail Double Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aspen-shaham-shaham-in-ismail-double-concerto/) - At Aspen Music Festival on Aug. 14, pianist Orli Shaham and violinist Gil Shaham will play the new double concerto by Reena Ismail. David Robertson conducts this program, which opens with Strauss’ Wind Serenade and closes with Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-chamber-symphony7/
- [Maine: Festival Concerts at Seal Bay](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/maine-festival-concerts-at-seal-bay/) - The Seal Bay Festival of American Chamber Music in Maine starts its run of five public concerts on Aug. 2. Pianist Steven Beck joins the Cassatt String Quartet for works by Bond, Tower, Forest, Sonenberg, Korde and Hayden Byrne. http://www.sealbayfestival.org/concerts.html
- [Nosky's Baroque In Central Park](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/noskys-baroque-in-central-park/) - On Aug. 4, Nosky’s Baroque Band will play a free program in Central Park as part of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series. Two concertos by Torelli (one for trumpet with Steve Marquardt and one for violin with Aisslinn Nosky) will be joined by works from Corelli, Telemann, and J.S. Bach. https://naumburgconcerts.org/upcoming/noskysbaroqueband
- [NYC: Mozart In The Bandshell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-mozart-in-the-bandshell/) - The Orchestra of St. Luke will play an all-Mozart program as part of the free Naumburg Orchestral Concerts series in Central Park on July 21. Highlights include a selection of arias sung by mezzo-soprano Erin Wagner and Eine kleine Nachtmusik. https://naumburgconcerts.org/upcoming/osl
- [NYC: Delirium And The Four Seasons](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-delirium-and-the-four-seasons/) - The innovative chamber orchestra Delirium Musicum will perform in Central Park on July 7 at the Naumburg Bandshell. The program, which concludes with “Winter” from Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons, also includes works by Zoltán Kodály, Saint-Saëns, Max Richter (his take on the Vivaldi), Gabriella Smith, Philip Glass, and Jessie Montgomery. https://naumburgconcerts.org/upcoming/deliriummusicum
- [The Knights Ride Through Central Park](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/the-knights-ride-through-central-park/) - As part of the Naumburg Orchestral Concerts in Central Park, The Knights and violinist Tessa Lark will play an eclectic range of works by Christina Courtin, Lisa Bielawa, Samuel Barber, Caroline Shaw, and Paul Simon. June 23 at the Naumburg Bandshell, free admission. https://naumburgconcerts.org/upcoming/theknights
- [6 New Works At Kaufman Center, NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/6-new-works-at-kaufman-center-nyc/) - As the culmination of a 10-day residency at I-Park’s annual artists’ retreat, Kaufmann Music Center will present six world premieres on Aug. 23. This year’s ensemble-in-residence is Latitude 49, a Canadian-American group consisting of piano, percussion, violin, cello, clarinet, and saxophone. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/i-parks-composersmusicians-collaborative-residency/
- [Experimental Harp, Electronics Creation in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/experimental-harp-electronics-creation-in-nyc/) - On Sept. 11, National Sawdust presents the NYC premiere of an excerpt from harpist Lara Somogyi’s latest full-length work: a contemporary harp album constructing sonic environments, exploring how time is felt, shaped, and experienced through sound. Elements of the composition include “stacked tape machines, ambient processing, contemporary extended harp techniques, graphic scored symphonic language, string
- [NYC: An Instrumental Take On The First Peruvian Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-an-instrumental-take-on-the-first-peruvian-opera/) - In 1701 Peru, Tomás de Torrejón y Velasco’s La Púrpura de la Rosa became the first opera ever performed in the Americas. The libretto, written by a renowned Spanish poet Pedro Calderón de la Barca, recounts the tragic love story of Venus and Adonis. Music Before 1800 will present the ensemble Relic performing an instrumental
- [NYC: 500-Year-Old Music That's Brand New](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-500-year-old-music-thats-brand-new/) - It’s always exciting when music that’s been lost for ages resurfaces in modern times. On April 18, Music Before 1800 presents master lutenist Paul O’Dette playing from a collection of over 300 late 16th-century Roman lute works that were recently rediscovered. https://www.mb1800.org/concerts/the-knights-of-the-lute
- [NYC Program Explores Baroque Composing Team](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-program-explores-baroque-composing-team/) - The collaborative music of 18th-century composers François Francoeur and François Rebel is the focus of a March 25 Carnegie Hall recital featuring baroque violinist Théotime Langlois de Swarte and harpsichordist Justin Taylor. The duo will also play works by Rameau and Corelli. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2027/03/25/Theotime-Langlois-de-Swarte-Violin-Justin-Taylor-Harpsichord-0730PM
- [NYC: Brahms For 50th Year On The Road](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-brahms-for-50th-year-on-the-road/) - The 2026-27 season marks Anne-Sophie Mutter’s 50th anniversary as a concert violinist. She will celebrate at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 19 by playing the Brahms Violin Concerto with the Munich Philharmonic under newly appointed chief conductor Lahav Shani. The second half of the program is Bruckner’s Fourth Symphony, Romantic. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2027/02/19/Munich-Philharmonic-0800PM
- [Carnegie Fêtes Glass' 90th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/carnegie-fetes-glass-90th/) - Carnegie Hall hosts Philip Glass’ 90th birthday Jan. 31, featuring Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Orchestra of St. Luke’s. Robert McDuffie plays Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1 before the orchestra presents the NY premiere of the Symphony No. 15, Lincoln. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2027/01/31/Philip-Glass-The-90th-Birthday-Concert-0200PM
- [NYC: A New Twist On Mahler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-a-new-twist-on-mahler/) - Carnegie Hall's own ensemble, Decoda, will present the New York premiere of Viet Cuong’s Streamline on Jan. 28 in a program that includes a new “re-imagining” for chamber group of Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer (with soprano Ariadne Greif). Also on the wide-ranging musical menu are works by Caroline Shaw, Björk, Berio, and Britten. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2027/01/28/Decoda-0730PM
- [](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/127819/) - Nashville Opera will premiere the multi-genre family-friendly opera Fortuna the Time Bender vs the Schoolgirls of Doom on Nov. 13-15. When the villainous “Headmaster” threatens the city with his trio of musical minions, it’s up to the time-bending Fortuna and her nerdy apprentice to save the day. https://nashvilleopera.org/fortuna/
- ['Turandot' Returns To Virginia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/turandot-returns-to-virginia/) - Virginia Opera will present Turandot for the first time in 10 years. Performances run March 5-7 in Norfolk and March 12-14 in Richmond. https://vaopera.org/events/
- [Death Goddess To Grace Minnesota Opera Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/death-goddess-to-grace-minnesota-opera-stage/) - When the goddess of Death is cast down to Earth to live as a mortal named Laila Starr, the boundaries between the divine and the human begin to blur. That’s the setting for The Many Deaths of Laila Starr, a new opera by composer Kamala Sankaram and librettist Minita Gandhi. The Minnesota Opera presents the world
- [NC Opera Tries Hand At Gluck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nc-opera-tries-hand-at-gluck/) - For the first time in the company’s history, North Carolina Opera will perform Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice on April 18 in a concert version. Elizabeth DeShong is Orfeo and Magdalena Kuźma sings Euridice, while Gary Thor Wedow conducts. https://ncopera.org/2026-2027-season/
- [Atlanta Opera Brings Peace To WW1 Battlefield](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/atlanta-opera-brings-peace-to-ww1-battlefield/) - Although Kevin Puts’ 2011 version may be better known, there is also a 2007 operatic take on the World War I Christmas truce of 1914, when British and German soldiers put down their arms to sing and celebrate the season for one night. Atlanta Opera will perform Peter Rothstein’s All Is Calm Dec. 2-13. https://www.atlantaopera.org/production/all-is-calm-2026/
- [McGrew's Orfeo Finds Hades In Ontario](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mcgrews-orfeo-finds-hades-in-ontario/) - Tenor Daniel McGrew makes his Canadian debut in the Opera Atelier (Ontario) season opener October 22–25. He will play the title role in a fully staged production of Marc Antoine Charpentier’s The Descent of Orpheus. https://www.operaatelier.com/shows/the-descent-of-orpheus/
- [85th Year For Florida Grand Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/85th-year-for-florida-grand-opera/) - Florida Grand Opera opens its 85th season with a production of Donizetti’s Lucia de Lammermoor Nov. 14-17. https://fgo.org/season26-27/lucia-di-lammermoor/
- [Houston: Chamber Work As Memorial](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-chamber-work-as-memorial/) - On Oct. 20, Chamber Music Houston presents a rarity, Louis Vierne’s Piano Quintet in C minor. In writing this memorial to his son who fell in World War II, Vierne uses his piano quintet to convey deep mourning and powerful defiance. The program will be performed by Quartuor Modigliani plus pianist Fabio Bidini. https://chambermusichouston.org/concerts/2026-10-20-quatuor-modigliani/
- [San Antonio: A Marriage Of Flute, Percussion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-antonio-a-marriage-of-flute-percussion/) - San Antonio Chamber Music Society will open listeners to some innovative sounds on Feb. 7 when it presents the Petrasek Duo (married couple Jessica Petrasek, flute, and Joe Petrasek, percussion). Specific works TBA. https://www.sacms.org/petrasek-duo
- [Dallas Recital To Span 4 Centuries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-recital-to-span-4-centuries/) - It’s not often one gets to hear the music of Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613) played on the modern piano. Richard Goode will do just that as part of his recital for the Dallas Chamber Music Society on Nov. 16. The wide range of composers on offer will also include Mozart, William Byrd, Ignacy Jan Paderewski, and
- [Brooklyn Quartet Rides Into Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/brooklyn-quartet-rides-into-dallas/) - The adventurous string quartet Brooklyn Rider is entering its 20th season, and to celebrate they’ve put together an intriguing mix of music, which can be heard at the Dallas Chamber Music Society on May 3. Post-bop jazz composer Don Byron and American folk icon Bob Dylan share the bill with Haydn, Beethoven, and experimentalist Angélica
- [LACO: New Commission, Exiting Maestro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/laco-new-commission-exiting-maestro/) - The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will play the world premiere of a new work by Kian Ravaei on May 15, a commission through LACO’s Sound Investment project. Also on this program, the final conducted as music director by Jaime Martín, is the Brahms Violin Concerto with James Ehnes and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. https://www.laco.org/events/brahms-beethoven-ravaei/
- [2 New Concertos At LACO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/2-new-concertos-at-laco/) - Two world premieres will be played by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on Nov. 22. The first is Mason Bates’ new Pipa Concerto, played by Wu Man. The second is Eímear Noone’s Flute Concerto, with soloist Benjamin Smolen. Ludovic Morlot also conducts the orchestra in Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. https://www.laco.org/events/east-meets-west/
- [From Beach To Boscom: US Chamber Music In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/from-beach-to-boscom-us-chamber-music-in-nyc/) - On Oct. 13, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents an All-American season opener, covering a range of styles. Works include William Bolcom’s Three Rags for String Quartet, Amy Beach’s Quintet, Op. 67, Bernard Herrmann’s Psycho: A Narrative, and Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/26-27/coplands-appalachian-spring
- [Lincoln Center Gives Two Chamber Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/lincoln-center-gives-two-chamber-premieres/) - The Nov. 12 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center program includes two New York City premieres: one by Mark-Anthony Turnage and one by Samuel Carl Adams. Also on the program are works by Caroline Shaw and Jessie Montgomery. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/26-27/sonic-spectrum-i
- ['Shrouded Hills' At Lincoln Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/shrouded-hills-at-lincoln-center/) - As part of its Sonic Spectrum series, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will play the New York premiere of Benjamin Scheer’s These Shrouded Hills on Jan. 21. John Adams’ Road Movies is also on the program, as are pieces by George Tsontakis and Timo Andres. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/26-27/sonic-spectrum-ii
- [Mozart's Original Sounds At Lincoln Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mozarts-original-sounds-at-lincoln-center/) - “Mozart the Inventor” is the theme of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s March 7 program. It features two combinations of instruments that nobody else was using during Mozart’s time: Clarinet, viola, and piano; and two violins, two violas, and cello. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/26-27/mozart-milestones
- ['Monarch' Premiere Alights In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/monarch-premiere-alights-in-san-diego/) - June 4-6 marks the world premiere of Jimmy López’s Symphony No. 6 (Monarch), with Rafael Payare conducting the San Diego Symphony. Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony completes the program, featuring vocalists Tasha Hokuao Koontz, Nikola Printz, Viktor Antipenko, and Hansung Yoo. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/ode-to-humanity/?performance=10018
- [San Diego's Scandinavia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-diegos-scandinavia/) - Osmo Vänskä leads the San Diego Symphony in an all-Scandinavian program May 22-23, starting with Sibelius’ Pojhola’s Daughter and ending with Nielsen’s Symphony No. 5. Between those works, Alessio Bax will play Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/northern-lights/?performance=10010
- [Cultures Combine In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cultures-combine-in-san-diego/) - On Jan. 23-24 the San Diego Symphony, conducted by Aziz Shokhakimov, will play a program of paired cultures. Two works are by Czechs: Smetana and Dvořák; two are by Hispanics: Ginastera (Argentinian) and Albéniz (Spanish). Simon Trpčeski is the piano soloist for the latter’s Rapsodia española. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/from-prague-to-buenos-aires/?performance=9970
- [Trifonov Debuts In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/trifonov-debuts-in-san-diego/) - Daniil Trifonov makes his San Diego Symphony debut Nov. 14-15 as soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. The program, conducted by Rafael Payare, also includes Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/tchaikovsky-and-shostakovich/?performance=9951
- [Milwaukee Visits 18th Century](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/milwaukee-visits-18th-century/) - The Milwaukee Symphony goes Baroque Nov. 14-15 with a program conducted by Matthew Halls. First up is Rameau’s Suite from Les Boréades, followed by Katherine Young Steele soloing in Bach’s Oboe d’amore Concerto. A sonata by Muffat and Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks round out the program. https://www.mso.org/concerts/royal-fireworks/69594/
- [MKE: Guitar In Focus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mke-guitar-in-focus/) - The Milwaukee Symphony celebrates the guitar in its Jan. 22-23 program. Conductor and curator David Robertson invites seven of the world’s finest crossover guitarists to bring its scintillating repertoire to life. These concerts span genres from classical to rock, with music specifically written for guitar by composers from Joaquín Rodrigo to Frank Zappa. https://www.mso.org/concerts/guitar-celebration/69598/
- [Milwaukee Spotlights English Horn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/milwaukee-spotlights-english-horn/) - In its April 2-4 program, the Milwaukee Symphony’s own Margaret Butler takes center stage with the English horn; Ned Rorem’s concerto, in five brief movements, offers evocative titles such as “Love Letter,” “Perpetual Motion,” and “Recurring Dream.” The second half of the program, conducted by Stephanie Childress, is Holst’s The Planets. https://www.mso.org/concerts/holsts-the-planets/69610/
- [Indy: Tao’s Beethovenian Pairing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indy-taos-beethovenian-pairing/) - Pianist/composer Conrad Tao has written a work called The Hand, meant has a companion to Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Tao will play both works in the Indianapolis Symphony’s Oct. 23-24 program, conducted by Richard Egarr and concluding with Mozart’s 39th Symphony. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/tao-beethoven-and-mozart/
- [Gold-Medal Violinist In Indy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gold-medal-violinist-in-indy/) - Indianapolis Symphony’s season finale on June 18-19 will be conducted by Jun Märkl. On the program are Dance for Martin’s Dream by Michael Abels, Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, and a violin concerto to be chosen and performed by the winner of the 2026 International Violin Competition of Indianapolis. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/schumanns-fourth-symphony/
- ['Vesper Flights' Concerto To Soar in STL](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vesper-flights-concerto-to-soar-in-stl/) - The St. Louis Symphony, with soloist Erin Schreiber, will perform the world premiere of Christopher Stark’s Violin Concerto, Vesper Flights. The April 9-11 all-American program, conducted by Stéphane Denève, will also feature Scott Andrews playing Copland’s Clarinet Concerto. The program’s energetic conclusion will be Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. https://slso.org/event/bernstein-and-copland-american-rhapsody/
- ['Legendary Women' To Grace St. Louis Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/legendary-women-to-grace-st-louis-symphony/) - "Legendary Women" is the theme Jan. 29-30 when the St. Louis Symphony presents Strauss’ Elektra Symphonic Suite and the movement “Salomé” from Trois femmes de légende by French composer Mel Bonis. Anja Bihlmaier conducts, and Yeol Eum Son is the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. https://slso.org/event/salome-and-elektra-legendary-women/
- [Sousa Brings Dvořák To St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sousa-brings-dvorak-to-st-louis/) - Conductor Dinis Sousa makes his St. Louis Symphony debut Dec. 4-5 with Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. Jeremy Denk will play Bartók’s fiery Piano Concerto No. 2. https://slso.org/event/dvoraks-eighth-bohemian-dreams/
- [St. Louis Chorus Turns 50](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-louis-chorus-turns-50/) - The St. Louis Symphony Chorus opens its 50th anniversary season Nov. 14-15 with two works focused on Psalm settings: Mendelssohn’s Psalm 114 (When Israel out of Egypt Came) and Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Conducted by David Afkham, the program ends with Shostakovich's Eighth Symphony. https://slso.org/event/shostakovichs-eighth-beauty-in-darkness/
- [SLSO Premieres 'Proteus Pulse'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/slso-premieres-proteus-pulse/) - Kristiina Poska makes her St. Louis Symphony debut Oct. 16-17 conducting the orchestra in the U.S. premiere of fellow Estonian Ülo Krigul’s Proteus Pulse. Marie-Ange Nguci plays Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 21, and the program ends with Schumann’s Symphony No. 3, Rhenish. https://slso.org/event/mozart-and-schumann-scenes-from-the-rhine/
- [Seattle's Brahms Includes Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattles-brahms-includes-debut/) - In an all-Brahms program, violinist Daniel Lozakovich debuts with the Seattle Symphony playing the Violin Concerto June 17-20. Conducted by Xian Zhang, this concert opens with the composer’s Third Symphony. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26sub18
- [Music Explores Washington State Habitat](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/music-explores-washington-state-habitat/) - The 2025 composition The Elwha River was commissioned by the Seattle Symphony, and the orchestra will revisit it April 2. Composer Annea Lockwood and flutist Claire Chase immersed themselves in the history of the Elwha River habitat in Washington State to create an acousto-electric musical portrait of a resilient ecosystem and a resilient people. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26octave4
- [Mackey Concerto Premieres In Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mackey-concerto-premieres-in-seattle/) - On March 11-13, the Seattle Symphony will give the world premiere of Steven Mackey’s new Concerto for Orchestra. The program, conducted by Xian Zhang, also includes two descriptive orchestral works: Smetana’s The Moldau and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26sub10
- [Seattle: Pianist Debuts With Tchaikovsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-pianist-debuts-with-tchaikovsky/) - Pianist Tony Siqi Yun makes his Seattle Symphony debut Nov. 12-15 playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Music director Xian Zhang also conducts Strauss’ tone poem Also sprach Zarathustra. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26sub4
- [Seattle Symphony Envisions Spring](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-symphony-envisions-spring/) - Just as autumn really starts getting chilly, the Seattle Symphony will offer a hopeful, Spring-themed program Oct. 22-24. Ludovic Morlot conducts Frank Bridge’s Enter Spring, Samuel Adams’ No Such Spring, and Schumann’s Symphony No. 1, nicknamed Spring (and composed in the middle of winter). https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26sub2
- [Quartet And Percussion Premiere In Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/quartet-and-percussion-premiere-in-seattle/) - Members of the Seattle Symphony and percussionist Mari Yoshinaga will give the U.S. premiere of Samuel Adams’ Devotions for String Quartet and Percussion on Oct. 16. Adams’ Etudes for Piano opens the program. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2026-2027/26octave1
- [San Francisco: Adams Work For Electric Violin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-francisco-adams-work-for-electric-violin/) - In his concerto for electric violin, The Dharma at Big Sur, John Adams honors two West Coast composers, Lou Harrison and Terry Riley. With video of California’s mystical landscapes by Deborah O’Grady, the San Francisco Symphony will play its debut performances of this work June 17-18. The program, conducted by Ryan Bancroft, will also include Gabriella Smith’s
- [Dego Plays New Violin Concerto In SF](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dego-plays-new-violin-concerto-in-sf/) - Daniele Rustioni will lead the San Francisco Symphony May 27- 29 in the orchestra’s debut performances of Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco’s Violin Concerto No. 2, The Prophets, featuring Francesca Dego. Also on the program are Berio’s Four Original Versions of Ritirata notturna di Madrid, based on a work by Luigi Boccherini, as well as Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2026-27/An-Alpine-Symphony
- [Blomstedt At 100: San Francisco Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/blomstedt-at-100-san-francisco-symphony/) - The San Francisco Symphony will celebrate the centenary of Herbert Blomstedt by welcoming the maestro to the podium Jan. 14-16. The legendary conductor will lead the orchestra in two symphonies; Schubert’s Third and Bruckner’s Fourth (Romantic). https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2026-27/Herbert-Blomstedt
- [Jacquot Makes SF Podium Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jacquot-makes-sf-podium-debut/) - Conductor Marie Jacquot makes her San Francisco Symphony debut Nov. 13-15. She will conduct the myth-inspired Andromède by Augusta Holmès, Respighi’s Concerto gregoriano (with violinist Sayaka Shoji), and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2026-27/Romeo-and-Juliet
- [New Esmail Work In Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-esmail-work-in-philadelphia/) - After Yuja Wang plays Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Philadelphia Orchestra on May 27-29, the orchestra will present a world premiere. Yannick Nézet-Séguin will conduct a new concerto for orchestra by American composer Reena Esmail https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2026-27-season/yuja-wang-plays-beethoven
- [Phila Premieres Opera Film, Score](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-premieres-opera-film-score/) - Under Marin Alsop, the Philadelphia Orchestra will play Austin Fisher’s score for the world premiere showing of The Party: A New Stop-Motion Opera Film, which is directed by Alex Da Corte. This Feb. 25-27 also includes Honegger’s Pacific 231 and Haydn’s Symphony No. 101, The Clock. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2026-27-season/the-party-a-new-stop-motion-opera-film
- [Bernstein Re-Orchestration In Philly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/127017/) - A world premiere opens the 2026-27 Philadelphia Orchestra season Sep. 25-27. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a new orchestration of the “Symphonic Rituals” from Bernstein’s Mass. In the first half of the program, Alexandre Kantorow will play Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2026-27-season/yannick-leads-symphonic-rituals-from-bernsteins-mass
- [Phila: Symphonies From Different Centuries](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-symphonies-from-different-centuries/) - William Grant Still will be paired with Beethoven on the Feb. 5-7 Philadelphia Orchestra’s program. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Still’s Third Symphony and Beethoven’s Sixth, with Hindemith’s viola concerto Der Schwanendreher (with Choong-Jin Chang) in between. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2026-27-season/yannick-conducts-beethovens-pastoral
- [Strauss Delicacies On Montreal Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/strauss-delicacies-on-montreal-program/) - Rafael Payare leads the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal in an all-Strauss program May 19-20. Works include Death and Transfiguration, Don Juan, and Don Quixote (featuring cellist Alisa Weilerstein). https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/richard-strauss-symphonic-imagination/
- [4+8+8=Montreal Chamber Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/488montreal-chamber-music/) - Members of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will perform Octets by Shostakovich and George Enescu as well as Grażyna Bacewicz’s Quartet for Four Violins. April 16 https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/a-musical-escape-from-warsaw-to-bucharest/
- [Organ Brings Peter, Wolf To Life in Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/organ-brings-peter-wolf-to-life-in-montreal/) - An unusual version of Prokofiev’s Peter and the Wolf will be performed in Montreal on March 2: It’s an arrangement for four-hand organ, with French narration. Organists Isabelle Demers and Jean-Willy Kunz will play the 6489-pipe Grand Orgue Pierre-Béique at the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/peter-and-the-wolf-on-the-organ/
- [Montreal Bach Fest Turns 20](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/montreal-bach-fest-turns-20/) - Kent Nagano helps the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal mark the20th anniversary of the Festival International Bach Montreal on Dec. 8-9. He will lead the four-cantata set known as the “Christmas Oratorio,” with the OSM Chorus and soloists Carolyn Sampson, Olivia Vermeulen, Sebastian Kohlepp, and Derek Welton. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/nagano-conducts-bachs-christmas-oratorio/
- [Montreal: Tharaud Plays 'Bali' Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/montreal-tharaud-plays-bali-concerto/) - Thierry Pécou’s Cara Bali Concerto will be performed by Orchestre symphonique de Montréal and pianist Alexandre Tharaud on Nov. 11. In addition to this gamelan-inspired rarity, the orchestra will play Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade, conducted by Dina Gilbert. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/the-thousand-and-one-notes-of-sheherazade/
- [Payare-Led Mahler In Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/payare-led-mahler-in-montreal/) - The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal season opens with an all-Mahler program Sept. 16-17. Rafael Payare conducts Des Knaben Wunderhorn and Das klagende Lied with vocal soloists Miah Persson, Rose Naggar-Tremblay, Clay Hilley, and Matthias Goerne. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/magnificent-mahler-an-epic-season-opener/
- [NYC's 'Venetian Christmas' Spotlights Concertos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nycs-venetian-christmas-spotlights-concertos/) - Orchestra of St. Luke’s will play an all-Vivaldi program called “A Venetian Christmas” on Dec. 9. The lineup consists entirely of concertos for various combinations of stringed-instrument soloists. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2026/12/09/orchestra-of-st-lukes-chamber-ensemble-0700pm
- ['Tosca' At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tosca-at-carnegie/) - The New York Philharmonice, under Gustavo Dudamel, will present Puccini’s Tosca in concert at Carnegie Hall Nov. 13-15. The opera stars Marina Rebeka and Jonas Kaufmann. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2026/11/13/new-york-philharmonic-0730pm
- [Carnegie Program Celebrates 19th-Century Black Violinist](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/carnegie-program-celebrates-19th-century-black-violinist/) - Bridgetower Project, on Oct. 3 at Carnegie Hall, celebrates the remarkable story of George Bridgetower, the Afro-European violin virtuoso for whom Beethoven originally wrote his Violin Sonata No. 9, long known as the “Kreutzer.” The Beethoven will be played by violinist Ilya Kaler. Also on the program is the world premiere of Paquito D’Rivera’s new
- [SCOTUS Stops At Forth Worth Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scotus-stops-at-forth-worth-opera/) - Fort Worth Opera will present Audrey Chait’s production of Scalia/Ginsburg, by American composer-librettist Derrick Wang. This sharp-witted and unexpectedly moving opera explores the unlikely friendship between U.S. Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Conducted by Stephanie Rhodes Russell, the production stars Peter Scott Drackley and Jennifer Zetlan as the two justices. (Nov.
- [Houston Grand Opera: A New View Of Ancient Egypt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-renews-opera-of-ancients/) - For the first time in 40 years, a new production of Aida will march onto the Houston Grand Opera stage. In Kaneza Schaal’s new vision of the opera, Ailyn Pérez sings the title role, with tenors Jonathan Tetelman and Adam Smith sharing the role of Radames. Conductor Michele Gamba makes his company debut. (Jan. 22-Feb.
- [Kosky's 'Vixen' Comes To Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/koskys-vixen-comes-to-dallas/) - Dallas Opera will bring Barrie Kosky’s production of The Cunning Little Vixen to North America for the first time, with soprano Mirjam Mesak making her American opera debut. (Oct. 30-Nov. 7) https://dallasopera.org/performance/the-cunning-little-vixen/
- [Dallas' New Take On 'Lohengrin'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-new-take-on-lohengrin/) - A new production of Wagner’s Lohengrin will close the season at Dallas Opera. Louis Désiré directs, with Saimir Pirgu in the title role, while Kathleen O’Mara debuts as Elsa. (March 5-13) https://dallasopera.org/performance/lohengrin/
- [Austin Opera Celebrates Día de los Muertos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/austin-opera-celebrates-dia-de-los-muertos/) - Austin Opera has commissioned its first opera: Ofrenda, composed by Jorge Sosa with a libretto by John de los Santos, is “a celebration of family, cultural memory, and Día de los Muertos traditions.” Kristin Bilodeau and Mitch Jones star, with Timothy Myers on the podium. (Oct. 1-4) https://austinopera.org/shows-events/2026-2027-season/ofrenda/
- [Intimate 'Dido' In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/intimate-dido-in-baltimore/) - Opera Baltimore will perform a concert version of Purcell’s Dido and Aeneas with piano accompaniment April 14-16. https://www.operabaltimore.org/20262027-season
- [Pittsburgh: 'Scottish Play' As Knee-Slapper](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-scottish-play-as-knee-slapper/) - Working for the Macbeths, a comic opera by Johanny Navarro and Marcus Yi, will be given its world premiere Pittsburgh Opera. Foul is fair and fair is funny! Enjoy antics and laughter galore in this world premiere operatic comedy that gives voice to the unnamed Gentlewoman in Shakespeare’s Macbeth. (Feb. 27-March 7) https://pittsburghopera.org/season/working-for-the-macbeths
- [Phila Opera Brings Tennessee Williams To Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-opera-brings-tennessee-williams-to-stage/) - Opera Philadelphia will give the City of Brotherly Love’s first production of Suddenly Last Summer, with music by Courtney Bryan and libretto by Gideon Lester and Daniel Fish based on the play by Tennessee Williams. Directed by Fish, starring Mikaela Bennett, and conducted by Nathan Koci. (Oct. 22-25) https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/2627-season/suddenly-last-summer/
- [TV Meets Baroque In Philly Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tv-meets-baroque-in-philly-premiere/) - Sitcom is a new opera with music by Luke Styles and libretto by Alan McKendrick. The work, a neo-baroque comic chamber opera that combines the structures of a modern sitcom with those of baroque opera, will receive its world premiere at Opera Philadelphia. (May 19-23) https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/2627-season/sitcom/
- ['Silent Night' Carols Again At Met](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/silent-night-carols-again-at-met/) - Kevin Puts’ Pulitzer Prize–winning Silent Night was inspired by the true events of the 1914 Christmas truce, when soldiers spontaneously set aside the horrors of the First World War and crossed the trenches to mingle, exchange gifts, and sing carols with the enemy. The Metropolitan Opera presents a new production, directed by James Robinson, featuring
- [A Renewed 'Fanciulla' In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-renewed-fanciulla-in-nyc/) - Puccini’s La Fanciulla del West receives its first new production at the Metropolitan opera in over three decades. The production stars soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor SeokJong Baek, while Keri-Lynn Wilson conducts. (Dec. 31 – Jan. 30) https://www.metopera.org/season/2026-27-season/la-fanciulla-del-west/
- [Met Offers New 'Lincoln'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/met-offers-new-lincoln/) - A new production of Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek’s Lincoln in the Bardo will be presented by the Metropolitan Opera. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts an ensemble cast led by baritone Peter Mattei as Lincoln, soprano Christine Goerke, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, and countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo in this supernatural tale. (Oct. 19 – Nov. 14) https://www.metopera.org/season/2026-27-season/lincoln-in-the-bardo/
- [A Rare Take On Salome, In Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-rare-take-on-salome-in-chicago/) - Massenet’s Hérodiade is rarely performed. Lyric Opera of Chicago will give a concert performance of this version of the story of Salome inspired by Gustave Flaubert’s literary retelling. Conducted by Enrique Mazzola, this production stars Clémentine Margaine and Federica Lombardi. (Feb. 23-28) https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2026-27/herodiade-in-concert/
- [Chicago Welcomes Giddens' 'Omar'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-welcomes-giddens-omar/) - Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning Omar will get its Lyric Opera of Chicago premiere in a production by Kaneza Schaal. Issachah Savage sings the title role in this biographical tale about 19th-century Islamic scholar Omar ibn Said. (Oct. 23-28) https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2026-27/Omar/
- [Afrofuturist Opera In Cincinnati](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/afrofuturist-opera-in-cincinnati/) - Cincinnati Opera will present the premiere of Lalovavi, a work in their commissioning arm, The Black Opera Project, which engages creators to develop new works celebrating Black stories. With music by Kevin Day and libretto by Tifara Brown, this Afrofuturist adventure is set 400 years in the future, telling the story of Persephone, who learns
- [NJ: New Timpani Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nj-new-timpani-concerto/) - The New Jersey Symphony, conducted by Xian Zhang, will play the East Coast premiere of Joseph Pereira’s Timpani Concerto on April 1-4. The soloist will be NJS principal timpanist Gregory LaRosa, for whom the concert was written. The program concludes with Mozart’s Jupiter Symphony No. 41. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/xian-zhang-conducts-mozart
- [Cabezas Plays New Cello Concerto In NJ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cabezas-plays-new-cello-concerto-in-nj/) - Christoph König will lead the New Jersey Symphony in the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s new Cello Concerto March 19-21, with Gabriel Cabezas as soloits. The program concludes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/mahlers-fifth-symphony
- [Boston: Nelsons' Mahler 3](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-nelsons-mahler-3/) - For one night only, April 17, the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus will perform Mahler’s Third Symphony. Andris Nelsons conducts, and mezzo-soprano Tamara Mumford is the soloist. https://www.bso.org/events/april-17-andris-conducts-mahler?performance=2027-04-17-20%3A00
- [Tchaikovsky Symphony Cycle In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tchaikovsky-symphony-cycle-in-boston/) - During the 2026-27 season, the Boston Symphony will perform all six of Tchaikovsky’s symphonies. This special project opens Jan. 7-12 with Andris Nelsons conducting Symphonies 1 and 6 (Pathétique). https://www.bso.org/events/jan-7-12-tchaikovsky-symph-1-6?performance=2027-01-07-19%3A30
- [A Brand New 'Creation' At BSO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-brand-new-creation-at-bso/) - The Boston Symphony will give world premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s Creation on Nov. 12-14. The oratorio sets a libretto by Tony Award-winning playwright David Henry Hwang. Soloists include vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, bass baritone Davóne Tines, and percussionist Cyro Baptista. Eric Jacobsen conducts. https://www.bso.org/events/nov-12-14-golijov-hwang?performance=2026-11-12-19%3A30
- [Boston: Machover Ponders A.I.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-machover-ponders-a-i/) - There are two new works on the Oct. 22-24 Boston Symphony program: The world premiere of Tod Machover’s already and not yet (which incorporates a live AI system to emphasize the individuality of each BSO musician) and the U.S. premiere of Alex Nante’s Ein feste Burg. Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and Fifth Symphony, Reformation, bookend this
- [Gerstein Plays New Concerto In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gerstein-plays-new-concerto-in-boston/) - The U.S. premiere of Francisco Coll’s Piano Concerto (featuring Kirill Gerstein) will be given by the Boston Symphony on Oct. 8-10. Also on this program conducted by Andris Nelsons are two works by Beethoven: the Coriolan Overture and the Seventh Symphony. https://www.bso.org/events/oct-8-10-coll-beethoven?performance=2026-10-08-19%3A30
- [Boston Plays Gubaidulina Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-plays-gubaidulina-premiere/) - The Boston Symphony Orchestra will play the (posthumous) world premiere of Sofia Gubaidulina and Elena Firsova’s Prologue for Orchestra on Sept 24-26 Andris Nelsons also conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 7. https://www.bso.org/events/sep-24-26-mahler-symphony-7?performance=2026-09-24-19%3A30
- [Mozart In Chicagoland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mozart-in-chicagoland/) - 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
- [Adams Meets Beethoven In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/adams-meets-beethoven-in-boston/) - 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
- [Bacewicz Gets Her Due In Minnesota](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bacewicz-gets-her-due-in-minnesota/) - Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969) is getting some well-deserved attention for her chamber music. Members of the Minnesota Orchestra will play her String Quartet No. 4 on April 11 in a program that also includes works by Dvořák and Schubert. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/chamber/dvoak-schubert-and-bacewicz
- [Trifonov Brings Brahms To Twin Cities](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/trifonov-brings-brahms-to-twin-cities/) - An all-Brahms program March 18-20 will give Daniil Trifonov a chance to play the composer’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with the Minnesota Orchestra, conducted by music director Thomas Søndergård. The first half of the program is Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-and-trifonov
- [Minnesota: Dedicatee Performs 'Before We Fall'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minnesota-dedicatee-performs-before-we-fall/) - On Jan. 8-9 with the Minnesota Orchestra, Johannes Moser plays Before we fall, a cello concerto written for him by Anna Thorvaldsdottir. Guest conductor David Afkham returns to the podium with Mozart’s overture to Don Giovanni and Shostakovich’s Eighth Symphony. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/afkham-moser-and-shostakovich
- [Scandinavian Music In Minnesota](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scandinavian-music-in-minnesota/) - Anders Hillborg wrote his MAX Concerto in 2023 for pianist Emanuel Ex. As part of an all-Scandinavian program Nov. 5-7, Jon Kimura Parker will play the work with the Minnesota Orchestra. Thomas Søndergård also leads the orchestra in Grieg’s Norwegian Dances and the Second Symphony of Jean Sibelius. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-parker-and-sibelius
- [Lakes Area Fest Offers Haydn's Passion Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/lake-area-fest-offers-haydns-passion-symphony/) - At the Lakes Area Music Festival on Aug. 19, the Minnesota Orchestra will play a program built on dramatic energy and radiant lyricism. Daniel Hawkins plays Strauss’ Horn Concerto No. 2 following Haydn’s La Passione Symphony No. 49. Poulenc’s Sinfonietta concludes this concert conducted by Christian Reif. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/rentals/lakes-area-music-festival/haydns-passion-symphony
- [Houston Explores Rarely Heard Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-explores-rarely-heard-symphony/) - The Houston Symphony shares a rarity May 28-30: Hans Rott’s Symphony No. 1. That work, a favorite of Mahler’s, will follow a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 with Garrick Ohlsson. Juraj Valčuha conducts. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/beethovens-piano-concerto-no-1/
- [Violin Duo Takes Over In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violin-duo-takes-over-in-houston/) - Everything is for two violins on the April 22-25 Houston Symphony program with husband-and-wife guest violinists Gil Shaham and Adele Anthony. The duo will play Bach’s Concerto for Two Violins in D minor, Avner Dorman’s A Time to Mourn and a Time to Dance, and Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/bach-vivaldis-four-seasons/
- [Beethoven Vies With Stravinsky In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-vies-with-stravinsky-in-houston/) - The second program of the Houston Symphony’s Nature’s Rhapsody Festival contrasts two very different takes on the representation of nature in music. This Feb. 19-21 program finds Juraj Valčuha conducting Beethoven’s Symphony No. 6, Pastoral, and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/nature-festival-beethovens-pastoral-symphony-the-rite-of-spring/
- [Houston Rachmaninoff Tribute Starts With 'Spring'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-rachmaninoff-tribute-starts-with-spring/) - The Houston Symphony opens a two-program Rachmaninoff Festival on Oct. 2-4 with a program featuring baritone Aleksey Bogdanov, who will sing the cantata Spring. Juraj Valčuha will also conduct the Isle of the Dead and the Second Symphony. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/rachmaninoff-festival-rachmaninoffs-second-symphony/
- [Hisaishi, Ott Team Up For Concerto Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hisaishi-ott-team-up-for-concerto-premiere/) - Joe Hisaishi will conduct the Canadian premiere of his Piano Concerto with the Toronto Symphony on May 20-22. The soloist will be Alice Sara Ott. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/hisaishis-piano
- [Tower Sax Work To Get Canada Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tower-sax-work-to-get-canada-premiere/) - The world premiere of a new work by Liam Ritz and the Canadian premiere of Joan Tower’s Love Returns for Alto Saxophone and Orchestra will be presented by the Toronto Symphony on May 13-16. Peter Oundjian will conclude the program with Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/pictures-at-an-exhibition
- [Toronto: Early Beethoven, New Concertos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-early-beethoven-new-concertos/) - The 2026-27 season concludes the two-year Toronto Symphony Beethoven cycle, with the March 25-27 program featuring his Symphonies Nos. 1 and 2. Between those works will be world premieres by Emilie LeBell (a cello concerto with Joseph Johnson) and Kevin Lau (a harp concerto with Heidi Elise Bearcroft. Gustavo Gimeno conducts. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/beethoven-symphonies-nos-1-and-2
- [Toronto Premieres 'Origin Of Colour'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-premieres-origin-of-colour/) - The North American premiere of Jay Capperauld’s The Origin of Colour will take place March 4-7, with the Toronto Symphony conducted by conductor-pianist Maxim Emelyanychev, who will also solo in Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 20, K. 466. The program concludes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/scheherazade
- [New Year, New Work In Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-year-new-work-in-toronto/) - Starting the New Year with a new work, the Toronto Symphony will premiere an Art of Healing Program Commission by Andrew James Clark on Jan. 8-10. Nicholas Sharma conducts a concert that includes Jeneba Kanneh-Mason playing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue and ends with Bizer’s Sympony in C. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/rhapsody-in-blue
- [New Work Opens New Toronto Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-opens-new-toronto-season/) - Toronto Symphony starts its season with a world premiere, Linda Catlin Smith’s The Horizon, on Sept. 24-27. Gustavo Gimeno conducts Debussy’s La mer, and pianist Yuja Wang is the soloist for Prokofiev’s Third Concerto. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/yuja-wang-plays-prokofiev
- [Cleveland: 25 Years Under Welser-Möst's Baton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cleveland-25-years-under-welser-mosts-baton/) - Marking 25 years as Music Director of The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst leads a rousing program of music spanning a century and a half. This Aug. 27 concert includes the Prelude to Act I of Wagern’s Die Meistersinger, the propulsive soundscapes of Bernd Richard Deutsch’s Intensity, and Richard Strauss’s autobiographical tone poem, Symphonia domestica. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/events/welser-most-conducts-strauss
- [Cincy Celebrates Female Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cincy-celebrates-female-composers/) - “Extraordinary Women” is the them of the Cincinnati Symphony’s March 5-6 program. With music director Cristian Măcelaru on the podium, the program includes overtures by Fanny Mendelssohn and Emilie Mayer, Clara Schumann’s piano concerto played by Alexandra Dariescu, and a new Concerto for Orchestra by Errollyn Wallen. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2627-cso-season/extraordinary-women/
- [Ólafsson Premieres Concerto In Cincinnati](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/olafsson-premieres-concerto-in-cincinnati/) - U.S. premiere of Mark Sempson’s Piano Concerto will receive its U.S. premiere by the Cincinnati Symphony and soloist Víkingur Ólafsson on Jan. 8-9. Music director Cristian Măcelaru also conducts Florence Price’s Ethiopia’s Shadow in America and Brahms’ Third Symphony. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2627-cso-season/cristi-conducts-brahms-symphony-no.-3/
- [Cincinnati: Langrée Leads Ravel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cincinnati-langree-leads-ravel/) - Cincinnati Symphony principal trumpet Anthony Limoncelli will give his solo debut with the orchestra Nov. 13-14, playing Henri Tomasi’s Trumpet Concerto. The other works on this program are favorites by Ravel: Ma mère l’Oye, La valse, and Boléro. Music director laureate Louis Langrée conducts. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2627-cso-season/louis-langree-conducts-ravel/
- [New Marsalis Symphony In Cincy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-marsalis-symphony-in-cincy/) - The Cincinnati Symphony co-commissioned Wynton Marsalis’ Symphony No. 5, Liberty (2026), and will give its first CSO performance Oct. 2. In this program conducted by Cristian Mӑcelaru, Nicola Benedetti will be the soloist for Bruch’s Violin Concerto No. 1. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2627-cso-season/marsalis-premiere--bruchs-violin-concerto/
- [Mäkelä's Mahler With Chicago Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/makelas-mahler-with-chicago-symphony/) - The Chicago Symphony’s music director designate, Klaus Mäkelä, will treat concertgoers to a powerful dose of Gustav Mahler on Oct. 1-4. The program consists of the composer’s last completed symphony, the Ninth. https://cso.org/performances/26-27/cso/makela-conducts-mahler-9/
- [Muti Returns To CSO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/muti-returns-to-cso/) - The Chicago Symphony’s music director emeritus Riccardo Muti is back for a visit to the podium, starting with a program Dec. 3-5. The maestro will conduct Strauss’ Oboe Concerto (with CSO principal William Welter) and Dvořák’s Eighth Symphony. https://cso.org/performances/26-27/cso/muti-welter-dvorak-8/
- [Chicago Hosts Pianist's North American Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-hosts-pianists-north-american-debut/) - Austrian pianist Lukas Sternath makes his North American debut in a recital Dec. 6 at Chicago’s Symphony Center. On the program are Schubert’s Wanderer Fantasy, a section of Liszt’s Années de pèlerinage, and Liszt’s transcription of some songs by Schubert. https://cso.org/performances/26-27/piano-recital/lukas-sternath/
- [Chicago: Thibaudet Takes On Khachaturian](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-thibaudet-takes-on-khachaturian/) - 2026-27 Chicago Symphony artist-in-residence Jean-Yves Thibaudet is featured in an interesting program to play with the orchestra Feb. 11-13. The centerpiece is Khachaturian’s darkly Romantic Piano Concerto, bookended by works of Mussorgsky and Zemlinsky. https://cso.org/performances/26-27/cso/thibaudet-the-mermaid/
- [Bates Symphony Revealed In Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bates-symphony-revealed-in-chicago/) - The Chicago Symphony’s 2026-27 composer-in-residence is Mason Bates. The world premiere of his Escapist Symphony will be given by the orchestra Feb. 25-27, under the baton of Manfred Honeck. The second half of the program is Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan. https://cso.org/performances/26-27/cso/honeck-conducts-bates-mahler-1/
- [Chicago: Lang Lang, Järvi Team Up For Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-lang-lang-jarvi-team-up-for-beethoven/) - On three separate programs, March 24-27, piano virtuoso Lang Lang will perform a collection of Beethoven concertos with the Chicago Symphony, conducted by Paavo Järvi. March 24 is Concertos 1 and 4; on March 26 he plays Concertos 2 and 3; and March 27 is the Emperor Concerto, and the orchestra will play Beethoven’s Symphony
- [Atlanta Honors Coretta Scott King](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/atlanta-honors-coretta-scott-king/) - The Atlantic Symphony presents a Tribute to Coretta Scott King for her 100th birthday, April 29-May 1. Conductor Kedrick Armstrong makes his ASO debut with two new works commissioned for the occasion from Carlos Simon and Jasmine Barnes. Also on the program are Loud by Jimmy López, as well as works by Bernstein, Florence Price, and
- [Adam Schoenberg Premiere In Atlanta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/adam-schoenberg-premiere-in-atlanta/) - Atlanta Symphony’s music director laureate Robert Spano spotlights astonishing musical families on April 22-24, including the world premiere of Adam Schoenberg’s Concerto for Body. Another concerto, Mendelssohn’s Double, which Felix used to play with his sister Fanny, will feature brother-sister duo Julie and David Coucheron. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/mendelssohns-double-concerto
- [Atlanta: Sallinen Conducts Sibelius](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/atlanta-sallinen-conducts-sibelius/) - Three very different but equally important innovators in music composition make up the Feb. 25-27 Atlanta Symphony program. Under the baton of Kristian Sallinen, the orchestra will play Thea Musgrave’s Song of the Enchanter, Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto (featuring Alexi Kenney), and Jean Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite https://www.aso.org/events/detail/sallinen-conducts-sibelius
- [Brahms Is Season's Star In Atlanta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/brahms-is-seasons-star-in-atlanta/) - On Oct. 1-4, the Atlanta Symphony opens a season spotlighting the music of Brahms. Music Director Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the composer’s Violin Concerto (featuring up-and-comer Johan Dalene) and the First Symphony. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/opening-weekend-with-nathalie-stutzmann-1
- [Mutter And Friends Premiere Concerto In Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mutter-and-friends-premiere-concerto-in-dallas/) - Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, violist Muriel Razavi, and cellist Kian Soltani will play the world premiere of Golfam Khayam’s new Triple Concerto with the Dallas Symphony April 2-3. Fabio Luisi will also conduct Mahler’s First Symphony, Titan. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/mahler-1-anne-sophie-mutter/
- [Dallas: Mesa Premieres Abels Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-mesa-premieres-abels-concerto/) - The Dallas Symphony will play the world premiere of Michael Abels’ Cello Concerto, featuring the DSO debut of cellist Tommy Mesa. Samuel Lee conducts this March 11-14 program, which concludes with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 8 in G Major. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/bernstein-dvorak/
- [A Bach Debut In Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-bach-debut-in-dallas/) - The Dallas Symphony Chorus will join the Dallas Symphony Orchestra Feb. 12-13 for the organization’s first-ever performance of Bach’s St. John Passion. Music director Fabio Luisi conducts. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/bachs-st-john-passion/
- [Dallas Debuts Puts' 'Contact'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-debuts-puts-contact/) - The Dallas Symphony premiere of Kevin Puts’ triple conerto, Contact, will be performed Oct. 2-4, with Nicolas “Nick” Kendall and Charles Yang on violin and Ranaan Meyer double bass. Kevin John Edusei also conducts Symphony No. 2 in E minor of Rachmaninoff. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/rachmaninoff-time-for-three/
- [Moussa Concerto Gets First Dallas Run](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/moussa-concerto-gets-first-dallas-run/) - On Nov. 21-22, Fabio Luisi will conduct the Dallas Symphony’s first performance of Samy Moussa’s Violin Concerto, featuring Karen Gomyo. The program also includes Mozart’s Paris Symphony No. 31, and two beloved programmatic works: Dukas’s The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and Debussy’s La mer. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/debussys-la-mer/
- [Heroes And Delights For Detroit Closer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/heroes-and-delights-for-detroit-closer/) - The Detroit Symphony’s season closer June 11-13, conducted by Jader Bignamini will brim with power and elegance. First is Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben, then the infectious rhythm of Michael Abels’s Delights and Dances, followed by Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme with cellist Johannes Moser. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/26-27-spring/bignamini-conducts-abels-and-strauss
- [Two Russian Giants In Detroit Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-russian-giants-in-detroit-program/) - In Dobrinka Tabakova’s Orpheus' Comet, a grand fanfare emerges from fluttering orchestral textures. Daniil Trifonov plays Prokofiev’s ferocious Second Piano Concerto in this April 29-May 1 Detroit Symphony program. Jader Bignamini concludes the concert with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/26-27-spring/shostakovich-symphony-no-5
- [Simon Will 'Wake Up' Detroit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/simon-will-wake-up-detroit/) - Carlos Simon’s Wake Up! Concerto for Orchestra is the centerpiece of the Detroit Symphony’s Feb. 18-20 program. With Jader Bignamini conducting, Augustin Hadelich will be the soloist for Brahms’ lush Violin Concerto. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/26-27-winter/augustin-hadelich-plays-brahms
- [Detroit: Bignamini Takes On Mahler 6](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/detroit-bignamini-takes-on-mahler-6/) - On Dec. 4-5 music director Jader Bignamini leads the Detroit Symphony in one of the great orchestral works. Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 in A minor is Mahler without filters--visceral, searching, unforgettable. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/26-27-fall/mahlers-symphony-no-6
- [American Composers In Detroit Spotlight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/american-composers-in-detroit-spotlight/) - The Detroit Symphony will present an all-American program on Oct. 9-11. Peter Oundjian conducts music by Joan Tower, Aaron Copland, and John Adams. Peter Huang plays the violin solo part in Bernstein’s Serenade (after Plato's Symposium). https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/26-27-fall/bernstein-and-appalachian-spring
- [Baltimore Ends Season With Verdi's Mass For Dead](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baltimore-ends-season-with-verdis-mass-for-dead/) - For the Baltimore Symphony’s season closer June 11-13, music director Jonathon Heyward Conducts Verdi’s Requiem. Soloists TBA. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/20358
- [Peering Inside Beethoven's Fifth In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/peering-inside-beethovens-fifth-in-baltimore/) - Marta Gardolińska will conduct a performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony with the Baltimore Symphony May 1-2. The performance will be preceded by a Beyond the Score® presentation about the work, featuring live actors and visual projections, exploring how Beethoven shaped its drama, rhythm, and emotional impact. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/20376
- ['Leningrad' In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/leningrad-in-baltimore/) - Music director Jonathon Heyward will conduct the Baltimore Symphony in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 7, The Leningrad, on March 5-7. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/20351
- [Shaham Premieres Concerto In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/shaham-premieres-concerto-in-baltimore/) - The Baltimore Symphony will present a world-premiere violin concerto by composer-in-residence Jonathan Leshnoff on Jan. 22-23. Gil Shaham is the soloist, with Jonathon Heyward conducting. The program concludes with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/20348
- [Baltimore: Stories From The Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baltimore-stories-from-the-orchestra/) - On Nov. 6-8, the Baltimore Symphony will present an evening of tone poems: Strauss’Don Juan, Ravel’s Shéhérazade (featuring mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron), and Berlioz’s Harold in Italy (with solo violist Lisa Steltenpohl). Jonathon Heyward conducts. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/20344
- [NYPhil: Dudamel Opens First Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyphil-dudamel-opens-first-season/) - The first New York Philharmonic subscription concert of Gustavo Dudamel’s tenure as music director offers a world premiere of a new work at Zosha De Castri. The Sept. 16-19 program opens with John Adams On the Transmigration of Souls and concludes with Prokofiev’s Fifth Symphony, which Dudamel also conducted at his NYPhil debut in 2007.
- [Bassoon Concerto Premieres At NYPhil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bassoon-concerto-premieres-at-nyphil/) - On Nov. 25-Dec. 1, the New York Philharmonic will present the world premiere of a Bassoon Concerto by Kevin Puts (Judith LeClair, soloist). Santtu-Matias Rouvali also conducts Schubert’s Great Symphony No. 9. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2627/rouvali-conducts-schubert/
- [Reich's 90th Birthday In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/reichs-90th-birthday-in-nyc/) - Steve Reich is turning 90, and the New York Philharmonic celebrates that milestone on Dec. 8. David Robertson conducts a program of the seminal composer’s works including Tehillim, a setting of psalms for voices and an orchestra that includes a varied percussion section and two electric organs. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2627/sound-on-reich/
- [NYPhil Premieres Unsuk Chin Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyphil-premieres-unsuk-chin-concerto/) - The New York Philharmonic will play the world premiere of Unsuk Chin’s Trumpet Concerto, with Håkan Hardenberger as soloist. The Jan. 8-10 program also includes Eva Ollikainen conducting Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2627/unsuk-chin-trumpet-concerto/
- [Poetry, Music, Images Coalesce In NYPhil Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/poetry-music-images-coalesce-in-nyphil-premiere/) - Gustavo Dudamel leads a new multimedia work with the New York Philharmonic on March 3-6. Gustavo Santaolalla is the soloist in his own El Payador Perseguido, with a libretto by Alberto Arvelo. It’s a groundbreaking collaboration integrating music, poetry, and imagery into a moving tribute to the human spirit. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2627/el-payador-perseguido/
- [Hahn Debuts Lang Concerto In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hahn-debuts-lang-concerto-in-nyc/) - The New York Philharmonic will premiere David Lang’s new Violin Concerto on April 1-6, with Hilary Hahn as soloist. Elim Chan conducts the program, which concludes with Stravinky’s The Firebird. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2627/hilary-hahn-premieres-david-langs-concerto/
- [Venezuelan Song Cycle at NYPhil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/venezuelan-song-cycle-at-nyphil/) - The world premiere of a song cycle by Gonzalo Grau on texts by Venezuelan poet Rafael Cadenas will be played by the New York Philharonic on May 19-22. Kelley O'Connor is the soloist. Pianist Mitsuko Uchida perform’s Beethoven’s Second Concerto in this program conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, which also includes Mahler’s arrangement for string orchestra of Beethoven’s
- [Ojai Closer: Salonen, Stravinsky, Ligeti](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ojai-closer-salonen-stravinsky-ligeti/) - The final concert of the 2026 Ojai Festival will be conducted by this year’s curator, Esa-Pekka Salonen, on June 14. Works include Salonen’s FOG, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella (with Bridget Esler, soprano, and Eric Finbarr Carey, tenor), and Leila Josefowicz playing the Ligeti Violin Concerto. https://ojaifestival.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SU1000004Tp6TMAS
- [LA Phil New Music 'Rocks' Ojai](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/la-phil-new-music-rocks-ojai/) - “Related Rocks” is the title of the June 13 concert at Ojai Festival. The program features the LA Phil New Music Group and violinist Geneva Lewis playing recent works by Gabriella Smith, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Magnus Lindberg, Anna Thorvaldsdóttir, and John Adams. https://ojaifestival.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SU1000004Tp3FMAS
- [Salonen Premiere At Ojai](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/salonen-premiere-at-ojai/) - Esa-Pekka Salonen’s new work for violin and cello will receive its U.S. premiere on June 11 at the Ojai festival, performed by Geneva Lewis and Jay Campbell. The Attacca Quartet will also be on hand, along with clarinetist Anthony McGill and pianist Conor Hanick, to play works by Reena Esmail, John Adams, and Messiaen. https://ojaifestival.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SU1000004NqGXMA0
- [Ravinia Program Explores Global Motherhood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ravinia-program-explores-global-motherhood/) - At the Ravinia Festival on Sept. 5, Karen Ouzounian’s program called Mayrig explores three generations of mother voices in songs, stories. The work will be presented with immersive projected illustrations and feature cello, oud, viola, bass, piano, and electronics. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/karen-ouzounian-mayrig-260905#showing_744
- [Half-Century Of Dichter At Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/half-century-of-dichter-at-ravinia/) - On Aug. 9, the Ravinia Festival celebrates Misha Dichter’s 50th anniversary as a guest artist there. The legendary pianist will play works by Beethoven, Brahms, Chopin, and Prokofiev. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/misha-dichter-50th-season-260809
- [Ravinia Brings 'Good News Mass' To Midwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ravinia-brings-good-news-mass-to-midwest/) - Carlos Simon’s Good News Mass will receive its Midwest premiere July 31 at the Ravinia Festival. Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony and the Adrian Dunn Singers, plus vocal soloists Kymberli Joye and Zebulon Ellis. Also on the program: Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/dvorak-new-world-simon-good-news-260731
- ['Seraglio' At Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seraglio-at-ravinia/) - Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio will be performed at the Ravinia Festival in a production directed by Harry Silverstein. James Conlon conducts the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus. Cast includes sopranos Kathryn Lewek and Sarah Dufresne and tenor Miles Mykkanen. (July 16-18) https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/mozart-abduction-seraglio-26071618
- [Jazz-Classical Blend Highlights Ravinia Competition Winners](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jazz-classical-blend-highlights-ravinia-competition-winners/) - On June 10, Ravinia Festival presents jazz-classical fusion music created by young composers for the Bridges Composition Competition. Up to three winners are selected annually to receive the David Baker Prize—an award of $2,500 and a week to further develop their music with renowned composer-performers and Steans Jazz co-Artistic Directors pianist Billy Childs, bassist John
- [New Work For Quartet, Rapper In Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-for-quartet-rapper-in-toronto/) - 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
- [Berkeley: Opera Explores Love And Art](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/berkeley-opera-explores-love-and-art/) - American Apollo, an opera by Damien Geter and Lila Palmer, will be presented by West Edge Opera. It imagines a relationship between the celebrated American Portrait artist John Singer Sargent and his muse and model, Thomas Eugene McKeller, a Black hotel worker. Conductred by Kedrick Armstrong and directed by Nataki Garrett. (Aug. 8-16) https://www.westedgeopera.org/americanapollo
- ['Creation' Wraps Up Oregon Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/creation-wraps-up-oregon-bach/) - Oregon Bach Festival’s season closer on July 12 is Haydn’s Creation. Jos van Veldhoven conducts the OBF Chorus and Classical Orchestra, with soloists Ilse Eerens, Julian Habermann, and Tobias Berndt. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/haydn-the-creation
- [Polymath As Multimedia In Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/polymath-as-multimedia-in-oregon/) - A multimedia event on July 5 at Oregon Bach Festival will celebrate the innovations of Leonardo da Vinci. Vivid musical invention and stunning video projections are designed to bring you into the restless mind of history’s greatest polymath. Meanwhile, the OBF Chorus and Modern Orchestra, conducted by Kathy Saltzman Romey, will play Jocelyn Hagen’s The
- [Oregon: Roomful Of Teeth Premieres Tate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-roomful-of-teeth-premieres-tate/) - The world premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate’s Ittinkana' Taloowa' (Friendship Songs) will be presented at the Oregon Bach Festival on July 1 by new-music vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth. Other composers on the program are Gabriela Ortiz and Leilehua Lanzilotti. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/roomful-of-teeth
- [New Work For Oregon Bach's America250](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-for-oregon-bachs-america250/) - Oregon Bach Festival celebrates America250 with a program called “Beyond Borders.” It includes the west-coast premiere of Milad Yousufi’s Humanity, as well as Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with baritone Javier Arrey. Natalia Ponomarchuk conducts this June 28 program. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/beyond-borders-usa250
- [A New Season Dawns At Oregon Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-new-season-dawns-at-oregon-bach/) - On June 27, the Oregon Bach Festival opens with the theme “O Radiant Dawn!” Jenny Wong conducts the OBF Chorus and Modern Orchestra in a collection of morning-related pieces by Bach, MacMillan, Lily Boulanger, and even Dolly Parton. Violinist Augusta McKay Lodge is the featured soloist. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/o-radiant-dawn
- [Caroline Shaw In San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/caroline-shaw-in-san-antonio/) - Grammy-winning composer, singer, and instrumentalist Caroline Shaw comes to San Antonio on April 4 to join innovative chamber ensemble Agarita for a show at Stable Hall that features her acclaimed works. Featuring Suliman Tekalli, violin. https://www.tixr.com/groups/stablehall/events/agarita-ft-caroline-shaw-179724
- [Tanglewood Finale Is An Ode To Joy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-finale-is-an-ode-to-joy/) - The final symphonic concert of the 2026 Tanglewood season on Aug. 23 finds Gustavo Gimeno conducting the Tanglewood Festival Orchestra and Chorus in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Soloists are Mané Galoyan, soprano; Zoie Reams, mezzo-soprano; Ben Bliss, tenor; and Soloman Howard, bass. https://www.bso.org/events/august-23-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-23-14:30
- [Tanglewood: Honoring Graham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-honoring-graham/) - The legacy of influential dancer/choreographer Martha Graham will be in the spotlight at Tanglewood Aug. 14 when the Martha Graham Dance Company is the guest of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Anna Handler. The program includes Rountree’s For Martha (Variations on a Theme of Leonard Bernstein), Copland’s Appalachian Spring, and Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. https://www.bso.org/events/august-14-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-14-20:00
- [Opera At Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/opera-at-tanglewood/) - At Tanglewood on Aug. 1, Andris Nelsons will conduct the Boston Symphony in a semi-staged performance of Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro. Soloists include Hanna-Elisabeth Müller, soprano (Countess); Nikola Hillebrand, soprano (Susanna); Eden Bartholomew, soprano (Barbarina); and Emily D’Angelo, mezzo-soprano (Cherubino). https://www.bso.org/events/august-1-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-01-20:00
- [Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-festival-of-contemporary-music/) - July 27 opens the Tanglewood Festival of Contemporary Music with a program called Nordic Boomers. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra in his own Cello Concerto (featuring Senja Rummukainen) plus works by fellow Scandinavians Hans Abrahamsen and Anders Hillborg. https://www.bso.org/events/july-27-tmco-fest-cont-music?performance=2026-07-27-20:00
- [Mozart To Mahler At Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mozart-to-mahler-at-tanglewood/) - On July 11, Andris Nelsons will lead the Boston Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, featuring soprano Erin Morley. Emanual Ax is the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25. https://www.bso.org/events/july-11-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-07-11-20:00
- [Tanglewood Celebrates Honest Abe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-celebrates-honest-abe/) - Karen Kamensek conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an Abraham Lincoln-themed program July 5 at Tanglewood. Works include Philip Glass’ Lincoln Symphony (No. 15), the Suite from John Williams’ Lincoln film score, and Copland’s Lincoln Portrait. https://www.bso.org/events/july-5-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-07-05-14:30
- [Barber And Adès In Sun Valley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/barber-and-ades-in-sun-valley/) - Gil Shaham is the guest soloist at Sun Valley Music Festival on Aug. 17, playing Barber’s Violin Concerto. Also on this program co-conducted by Alasdair Neale and Euan Shields are excerpts from Thomas Adès’ Dante ballet. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/gil-shaham-plays-barber/
- [Sun Valley: A German Requiem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sun-valley-a-german-requiem/) - On Aug. 9, the Sun Valley Music Festival will present Brahms’ A German Requiem. Alasdair Neale conducts the Festival Orchestra and the American Festival Chorus. The soloists are soprano Christina Pier and baritone Benjamin Appl. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/brahmss-a-german-requiem/
- [Beethoven Concerto Opens Sun Valley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-concerto-opens-sun-valley/) - At the opening concert of the Sun Valley Music Festival, July 27, Alasdair Neale will conduct the Festival Chamber Orchestra. After playing “The Star-Spangled Banner,” the orchestra will launch into Rossini’s rarely heard overture to La scala di seta (The Silken Staircase). Orion Weiss will then be the soloist for Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in
- [Cello Trilogy At Stratford Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cello-trilogy-at-stratford-recital/) - A duo recital July 12 at Stratford Summer Music showcases the talents of cellist Cameron Crozman and pianist Meagan Milatz. They will play works by Enescu, Debussy, and Rachmaninoff, as well as a 1982 set of three pieces by Canadian composer Alexina Louie. https://www.stratfordsummermusic.ca/events/such-stuff-as-dreams
- [Pianist's Birthday Recital At Stratford](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianists-birthday-recital-at-stratford/) - Stratford Summer Music will celebrate the birthday of pianist Janina Fialkowska on Aug. 1 with a solo recital by the birthday girl herself. Fialkowska is scheduled to play works by Schubert, Liszt, Grieg, and Chopin. https://www.stratfordsummermusic.ca/events/janina-fialkowska
- [Stratford: Group Makes Classical Music More Welcoming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stratford-group-makes-classical-music-more-welcoming/) - Opening night of Stratford Summer Music is July 9. The featured artist will be Ensemble Obiora, a dynamic and socially engaged classical music ensemble based in Montréal. Founded with the mission to bring diversity, discovery, and diffusion to the world of classical music, celebrating musicians from a wide range of cultural backgrounds and championing lesser-known repertoire.
- [New-Opera Workshop In Saratoga](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-opera-workshop-in-saratoga/) - Opera Saratoga will present a piano / electronics workshop of a new work called Drift by composer Alyssa Weinberg and librettist J. Mae Barizo. This piece deals with “motherlands, migration, and memory set amidst the pressing crises of our time.” Christopher Allen conducts and Caili Quan directs. (June 21-26) https://www.operasaratoga.org/drift
- [Chicago: Beethoven Meets American Iconography](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-beethoven-meets-american-iconography/) - The final event of 2026 Grant Park Festival takes place Aug. 14-15. Before performing Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Giancarlo Guerrero will conduct two works inspired by important American images: Julia Wolfe’s Liberty Bell and Michael Daugherty’s Mount Rushmore. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/events/beethoven-symphony-no-9/
- [Grant Park Program Contemplates Death](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/grant-park-program-contemplates-death/) - Mozart’s Requiem will be paired with another work inspired by death—John Corigliano’s Symphony No. 1, written during the height of the AIDS crisis—at the Grant Park Festival Aug. 7. Giancarlo Guerrero conducts the Grant Park Orchestra and Chorus. Solists include soprano Janai Brugger and Bass Kelly Markgraf. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/events/mozart-requiem/
- [Chicago: Conductor's Festival Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-conductors-festival-debut/) - Jeri Lynne Johnson makes her Grant Park Festival conducting debut July 15. She will lead the Grant Park Orchestra in Still’s Festive Overture, Ravel’s Piano Concerto (featuring Michelle Cann), and Price’s Symphony No. 3. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/events/ravel-piano-concerto/
- [America Is Focus At Grant Park Opening](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/america-is-focus-at-grant-park-opening/) - The 2026 Grant Park Music Festival opens June 10 with artistic director Giancarlo Guerrero conducting the Grant Park Orchestra in an all-American program. Works include Tower’s Made in America, dances from Bernstein’s West Side Story, and Samuel Barber’s Symphony No. 1. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/events/bernstein-west-side-story/
- [Music@Menlo: Schubert And More Schubert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/musicmenlo-schubert-and-more-schubert/) - The final program of this summer’s Music@Menlo festival, on Aug. 8, presents two monumental works that reveal Schubert stepping into Beethoven’s shadow and emerging with a voice entirely his own. First is the Piano Trio No. 2 in E-flat major, followed by the Octet in F major for Winds and Strings. This concert will also
- [‘Resonance’ Rings With Old And New At Menlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/resonance-rings-with-old-and-new-at-menlo/) - The Music@Menlo program called “Resonance” on July 31-Aug. 1 offers a varied selection of emotionally arresting works, including Josef Suk’s Meditation on an Old Czech Hymn, David Serkin Ludwig’s Three Yiddish Dances, and Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence. https://musicatmenlo.org/event/concert-program-v-resonance/
- [Menlo: Unfolding Music, Telemann To Hough](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/menlo-unfolding-music-telemann-to-hough/) - The West Coast premiere of Stephen Hough’s Piano Quintet will take place at Music@Menlo July 26-28. The program, covering three centuries, also includes works by Telemann, Beethoven, Schumann, and Bartók. https://musicatmenlo.org/event/concert-program-iv-the-unfolding-of-music/
- [Deep Dive Into Beethoven Sonatas At Menlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/deep-dive-into-beethoven-sonatas-at-menlo/) - Pianist Gilles Vonsattel plans to perform all 32 Beethoven piano sonatas at Music@Menlo over the next two summers. The ambitious series opens July 22 with a lecture and performance of Sonatas 1, 4, and 25. https://musicatmenlo.org/event/beethoven-bundle-i/
- [Caramoor: Tao, Knights Explore America](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/caramoor-tao-knights-explore-america/) - Boundary-breaking orchestral collective The Knights joins forces with visionary pianist Conrad Tao for an afternoon of fearless music-making on June 28 at Caramoor. From Margaret Bonds to Aaron Copland, from Jessie Montgomery to George Gershwin, this program sees American composition from many points of view. https://caramoor.org/event/the-knights-conrad-tao-2026
- [Sphinx-Winner Plays Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sphinx-winner-plays-caramoor/) - On Aug. 1 violinist Njioma Grevious will play a recital at Caramoor with pianist Andrew Goodridge. The wide-ranging program includes works by Bach, Prokofiev, Electra Perivolaris, Clarence Cameron White, and others. https://caramoor.org/event/njioma-grevious-andrew-goodridge-2026
- [Philharmonia Baroque Brings Handel To Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/philharmonia-baroque-brings-handel-to-caramoor/) - The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra returns to Caramoor on July 26 for a semi-staged production of Handel’s Tolomeo, re d'Egitto. The opera is led by their music director designate, Peter Whelan, and directed by James Darrah, with Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen in the title role. https://caramoor.org/event/handels-tolomeo-philharmonia-baroque-2026
- [Toronto Fest Opens With Baroque Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-fest-opens-with-baroque-opera/) - Opening night at the Toronto Summer Music Festival is July 9. On hand to celebrate will be early-music company Les arts florissants, performing Charpentier’s La descente d’Orphée aux enfers. This production is conducted by Les Arts Flo founder, William Christie, and directed by Marie Lambert-Le Bihan and Stéphane Facco, with Baroque-inspired choreography by Martin Chaix, https://torontosummermusic.com/event/opening-night-les-arts-florissants/
- [Quartets Across Centuries In Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/quartets-across-centuries-in-toronto/) - Poiesis Quartet will perform at Toronto Summer Music on July 22. Their program will include Brahms: Piano Quintet in F minor, Op. 34, as well as several modern works by Sky Macklay, Maya Irizarry Lambright, and Kevin Lau. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/poiesis-quartet/
- [Toronto: Kahane, Kuusisto Plug In New Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-kahane-kuusisto-plug-in-new-music/) - Innovative electronic music is the focus of Gabriel Kahane and Pekka Kuusisto’s recital at Toronto Summer Music on July 27. Kahane’s own songs and chamber works will be performed on piano, voice, electric and acoustic guitars, harmonium, loops, violin, voice, harmonium, four-string electric violin, loops, and electronics. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/council/
- [Tchaikovsky Chamber Work In Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tchaikovsky-chamber-work-in-toronto/) - Eight top-notch chamber musicians will join forces July 31 at Toronto Summer Music for a program culminating in Tchaikovsky’s Souvenir de Florence, Op. 70. Also on offer are works by Tournier, Debussy, and Kodály. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/souvenir-de-florence/
- [Spoleto: Mozart For USA's Birthday](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spoleto-mozart-for-usas-birthday/) - 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/
- [Opera As Radio At Spoleto USA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/opera-as-radio-at-spoleto-usa/) - 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/
- ['Titan' At Spoleto USA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/titan-at-spoleto-usa/) - The Spoleto Festival Orchestra will play Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan, on June 4. Timothy Myers conducts this program, which also includes Livia Sohn playing Paul Wiancko’s new violin concerto. https://spoletousa.org/events/mahler-symphony-no-1/
- [Glimmerglass Explores 'Lavender Scare' In Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/glimmerglass-explores-lavender-scare-in-opera/) - Gregory Spears and Greg Pierce’s acclaimed opera Fellow Travelers, about the “Lavender Scare” in the 1950s, will be presented at Glimmerglass Opera. The story follows two men whose love becomes a dangerous secret in an era of government surveillance and fear. The production is directed by Kevin Newbury and conducted by Kelly Kuo. (July 18-Aug.
- [Sherwood Forest (For Kids) Comes To Glimmerglass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sherwood-forest-for-kids-comes-to-glimmerglass/) - Robin Hood, a family-friendly opera by Ben Moore and Kelley Rourke, will be performed by Glimmerglass Aug. 2-7, giving local youth performers the opportunity to collaborate with Festival artists and creative teams. Kimberley-Ann Bartczak conducts. https://glimmerglass.org/events/robin-hood/
- [Glimmerglass: Song Cycle Tells Ellis Island Tales](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/glimmerglass-song-cycle-tells-ellis-island-tales/) - Vignettes Ellis Island is a song cycle by Alan Louis Smith inspired by real stories of early 20th-century immigrants. Performances at Glimmerglass take place Aug. 6 and 13. https://glimmerglass.org/events/vignettes-ellis-island/
- [Colorado: Slatkin's All-American](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorado-slatkins-all-american/) - Leonard Slatkin conducts an all-American program at the Colorado Music Festival on July 24. Njioma Grievous is the soloist for John Corigliano’s Chaconne for Violin and Orchestra from The Red Violin. The program also includes Copland’s Rodeo, Gershwin’s An American in Paris, and works by Ron Nelson, Cindy McTee. https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/all-american-copland-gershwin-more/
- [Copland In Colorado](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/copland-in-colorado/) - Conductor Gemma New and clarinetist Ricardo Morales are guests at the Colorado Music Festival on Aug. 2. Morales will solo in Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, and New conducts Prokofiev’s First Symphony and works by Rossini and Ravel. https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/prokofiev-copland-rossini-ravel/
- [Mahler Concludes Colorado Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mahler-concludes-colorado-fest/) - The Colorado Music Festival closes on Aug. 9 with music director Peter Oundjian continuing his tradition of ending the Festival season with a massive Mahler symphony. This year, it’s Symphony No. 3, with mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron. https://coloradomusicfestival.org/concert/mahler-3/
- [NY Phil's Bravo! Vail Opener](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ny-phils-bravo-vail-opener/) - The New York Philharmonic opens its Bravo! Vail season on July 22. The program offers James Ehnes in Korngold’s cinematically inspired Violin Concerto, Britten’s Four Sea Interludes from Peter Grimes, and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Guest conductor Elim Chan leads the orchestra. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/new-york-philharmonic-2/chan-and-ehnes-korngold-violin-concerto
- [Phila Orchestra Bring Adams To Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-orchestra-bring-adams-to-vail/) - In its Bravo! Vail premiere July 15, John Adams’ The Rock You Stand On will be played by the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton of Marin Alsop. The program also includes violin prodigy Himari in Sibelius’ Violin Concerto and selections from Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/the-philadelphia-orchestra-2/alsop-and-himari-sibelius-violin-concerto
- [Weilerstein's Bach Suites At Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/weilersteins-bach-suites-at-vail/) - This is the first of two recitals with Alicia Weilerstein playing the complete Bach Cello Suites (three in each program). At Bravo! Vail, July 13. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/small-ensembles/immersive-experiences/bach-cello-suites-i
- [Bravo! Vail's Beethoven Sonata Series](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bravo-vails-beethoven-sonata-series/) - This July 7 program at Bravo! Vail is the first of seven free recitals of Beethoven Piano Sonatas—by four different pianists. First up is Illia Ovcharenko, whose exact repertoire will be announced in late spring. Upcoming pianists in this series are Ilya Shmukler, Fei-Fei Dong, and Chaeyoung Park. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/community-concerts/communityconcerts-2/beethoven-piano-sonatas-i
- [Bard Festival: 'Mozart's Legacy'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bard-festival-mozarts-legacy/) - Mozart’s Legacy is the title of the Aug. 16 program at Bard Music Festival. A wide span of composers influenced by Mozart will be represented, including Süssmayr, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Richard Strauss. https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p10/
- [The Best Of Mozart At Bard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/the-best-of-mozart-at-bard/) - On Aug. 15, the Bard Music Festival will present a Mozart-centered program called Pinnacle of Achievement. It will include Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24 (soloist to be announced), the String Quartet in G minor, K. 516, and a selection of songs, as well as a quartet by Haydn. https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p8/
- [Viennese Theater Music At Bard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/viennese-theater-music-at-bard/) - The Bard Music Festival will focus on Viennese theatrical music during its Aug. 9 program. Besides works by Mozart, this season’s star, the lineup includes pieces by lesser-known composers such as Ferdinand Kauer (1751–1831), Johann Baptist Henneberg (1768–1822), and Emanuel Schikaneder (1751–1812). https://fishercenter.bard.edu/events/bmf26-p4/
- [America250 At Aspen Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/america250-at-aspen-festival/) - Aspen Music Festival celebrates America’s 250th birthday on Aug. 1 with a program conducted by Teddy Abrams. Yuja Wang will play Barber’s Piano Concerto, and Fleur Barron and Davóne Tines will be the vocal soloists in David Lang’s the wealth of nations. https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-chamber-symphony5 Fleur Barron, mezzo-soprano
- [Aspen: Glover Leads Britten Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aspen-glover-leads-britten-opera/) - On July 20 and 22 at the Aspen Music Festival, Jane Glover will conduct a fully staged production of Britten’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Anthony Roth Costanzo leads the cast in this production directed by Simon Godwin. https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/brittens-a-midsummer-nights-dream1
- [Bernstein Celebration At Aspen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bernstein-celebration-at-aspen/) - Leonard Bernstein will be in the spotlight July 17 at the Aspen Music Festival. The program, conducted by Robert Spano, includes Bernstein’s Three Meditations from Mass (featuring cellist Darrett Adkins), Symphony No. 1 Jeremiah, and Serenade after Plato’s Symposium (with violinist Robert McDuffie). https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-chamber-symphony3
- [All-American Aspen Opener](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-american-aspen-opener/) - The Aspen Festival Orchestra season opener takes place July 5, with an all-American program conducted by Robert Spano. Thomas Hampson, Renée Fleming, and the choir Kantorei will be on hand to sing selections from John Adams’ Nixon in China. The program also includes Copland’s Symphony No. 3. https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-festival-orchestra1
- [Mural Inspires New Music In L.A.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mural-inspires-new-music-in-l-a/) - On March 7, a concert of new works from the Los Angeles Philharmonic: Inspired by Judy Baca’s mural The Great Wall of Los Angeles, Gustavo Dudamel and Gabriela Ortiz bring together 7 composers—Juhi Bansal, Nicolás Lell Benavides, Viet Cuong, Estevan Olmos, Xavier Muzik, and Nina Shekhar—to create a symphonic tribute to the city’s people and history. Includes an original film by
- [Bach Festival Opens At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bach-festival-opens-at-carnegie/) - The Orchestra of St. Luke’s annual Bach Festival opens June 2 with a sinfonia and a canata by Bach plus Mozart’s Symphony No. 25. Paul McCreesh conducts, with countertenor Reginal Mobley featured in the cantata. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/06/02/Orchestra-of-St-Lukes-0700PM
- [Children's Tales Inspire Carnegie Chamber Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/childrens-tales-inspire-carnegie-chamber-concert/) - 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.
- [United In Sound Festival At Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/united-in-sound-festival-at-carnegie-hall/) - 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
- [Premiere at Batiashvili Carnegie Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/premiere-at-batiashvili-carnegie-recital/) - 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
- [NYC: Danish String Quartet and Girls' Choir Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-danish-string-quartet-and-girls-choir-premieres/) - The Danish String Quartet and the Danish National Girls’ Choir for an eclectic program on April 17 at Carnegie Hall. The program includes the U.S. premiere of a work by Rune Tonsgaard Sørensen, the New York premiere of a work by David Lang, and pieces by Caroline Shaw. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/04/17/Danish-String-Quartet-Danish-National-Girls-Choir-0730PM
- [Juilliard Plays Joan Tower Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/juilliard-plays-joan-tower-commission/) - Led by Marin Alsop, the Juilliard Orchestra performs a world premiere by Joan Tower on April 6 at Carnegie Hall. The rest of the program, part of the America250 celebration, is still to be announced. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/04/06/Juilliard-at-Zankel-Hall-0730PM
- [Baroque In L.A.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baroque-in-l-a/) - The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents a Grand Baroque Salon Jan. 17-18, featuring harpsichordist and leader Pierre Hantaï and violinist Margaret Batjer. Works include C.P.E. Bach’s Symphony No. 3, a violin concerto by Leclair, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. https://www.laco.org/events/grand-baroque-salon/
- [L.A.: Sound Investment Turns 25](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/l-a-sound-investment-turns-25/) - On April 11, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will mark the 25th anniversary of their Sound Investment new-works commissioning project. The progrem inlcudes premieres of works by Eric Whitacre and Juhi Bansal as well as well-loved repertoire by Vaughen Williams, Shostakovich, and Prokofiev. Jaime Martín conducts violin soloist Anne Akiko Meyers. https://www.laco.org/events/martin-bansal-shostakovich/
- [Colorado's Lively Latin Celebration Of Death](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorados-lively-latin-celebration-of-death/) - Guest conductor Diego Barbosa-Vásquez leads the Greeley (CO) Philharmonic in an exploration of life and death in a Nov. 1 celebration of Día de Los Muertos. The rhythms and folklore of Latin America will include the salsa, the norteño, the bolero, and the cumbia. https://www.greeleyphil.org/calendar/canciones
- [Carnegie's America@250 Fest Offers New Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/carnegies-america250-fest-offers-new-works/) - The American Composers Orchestra’s March 11 Carnegie Hall program is called “Hello, America: Letters to Us, from Us,” part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival. The ACO will play premieres by composers Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Suzanne Kite, Shelley Washington, Jessie Montgomery, and Brittany J. Green. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/03/11/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
- ['Nordic Seasons' Gets NYC Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nordic-seasons-gets-nyc-premiere/) - Swedish composer Hannah Helgegren’s The Nordic Seasons will receive its New York premiere at Carnegie Hall on Feb. 23, played by the Camerata Nordica Octet. Chamber works by Shostakovich and Mendelssohn are also on the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/02/23/Camerata-Nordica-Octet-0800PM
- [NYC: Spotlight On Native American Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-spotlight-on-native-american-composers/) - Two New York premieres will be featured in the Dover Quartet’s Feb. 10 Carnegie Hall appearance: Jerod Impichcha̲achaaha' Tate’s new orchestration of Pura Fé’s Rattle Songs and Tate’s Abokkoli' Taloowa' (Woodland Songs). Dvořák’s “American” Quartet, written shortly after his “New World” Symphony, completes the program, which opens with Mendelssohn’s Op. 80 Quartet. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/02/10/Dover-Quartet-0730PM
- [NYC: Tines Pairs With Ruckus For Innovative Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-tines-pairs-with-ruckus-for-innovative-recital/) - Experimental early-music ensemble Ruckus pairs with singer Davóne Tines at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 30. The program includes New York premieres of arrangements of a wide range of songs, plus new commissioned works by Tines and Ruckus leader Doug Balliett. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/01/30/Ruckus-and-Davone-Tines-0730PM
- [Sō And Tap Shoes As Percussion At Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/so-and-tap-shoes-as-percussion-at-carnegie-hall/) - Tap dance will be used as a percussive instrument on the Jan. 23 Carnegie Hall appearance by Sō Percussion, featuring dancer Michael J. Love. Works include a world premiere by Bryce Dressner and New York premieres by Love, Caroline Shaw, and Kendall K. Williams. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2026/01/23/So-Percussion-0900PM
- [Dallas: 'There Will Be Blood' For Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-there-will-be-blood-for-quartet/) - Dallas Chamber Music Society welcomes the Danish String Quartet Nov. 17 to play a suite from Jonny Greenwood’s score for the P.T. Anderson film There Will Be Blood. The program opens with Stravinsky’s Three Pieces for String Quartet and closes with Beethoven’s Quartet Op. 135. https://www.dallaschambermusic.org/25/26season
- [Houston: Doric Quartet's 'Light Scattering'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-doric-quartets-light-scattering/) - The Doric Quartet will play Andrea Tarrodi’s 2014 Quartet #3, Light Scattering, on March 26, in a program presented by Chamber Music Houston. Also included are Haydn’s Op. 20, No. 5 and Beethoven’s Op. 74, The Harp. https://chambermusichouston.org/concerts/2026-03-26-doric-quartet/
- ['Spanish Mozart' Work In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spanish-mozart-work-in-houston/) - Chamber Music Houston will present a rarity on Feb. 10: a string quartet by Spanish Basque composer Juan Crisóstomo Arriaga (1806-1826), known as the “Spanish Mozart” because for being a child prodigy who died young. The program also includes works by Haydn and Shostakovich. https://chambermusichouston.org/concerts/2026-02-10-cuarteto-casals/
- [Piano, Winds Team Up In San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/piano-winds-team-up-in-san-antonio/) - WindSync wind quintet will join with pianist Daniel Anastacio on March 1 for a program presented by the San Antonio Chamber Music Society. The concert includes works by Elliott Carter, Kenji Bunch, Quincy Jones, and George Gershwin. https://www.sacms.org/windsync-daniel-anastasio-piano
- [SFCO Program Spans Haydn To New Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sfco-program-spans-haydn-to-new-commission/) - The San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will give the world premiere of Jens Ibsen’s “metal-inspired” Scene Symphony, a work commissioned by the SFCO. The Feb. 27-March 1 program, conducted by Jory Fankuchen, also includes Philip Glass’ Concerto for Harpsichord (featuring Jory Vinikour) and Haydn’s Symphony No. 49. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstage-3-seeing-double-tickets-1425938142369?aff=oddtdtcreator
- [NYC: New Opera Pits Woman Against Wilderness](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-opera-pits-woman-against-wilderness/) - Precipice sets an intimate story of a young woman’s struggle in the epic landscape of America’s mountain west. The opera, based on a concept by Susan Zeeman Rogers, with music by Rima Fand and libretto by Karen Fisher, will receive its world premiere at Prototype Festival. (Jan. 8-11) https://prototypefestival.org/
- [NYC: New Opera On Medieval Abbess](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-opera-on-medieval-abbess/) - Prototype Festival will present the world premiere of Hildegard, an opera with music and libretto by Sarah Kirkland Snider. The story deals with a moment in the life of the 12th-century nun, visionary, and composer. Elkhanah Pulitzer directs and Gabriel Crouch conducts. (Jan. 9-11) https://prototypefestival.org/
- [Jake Heggie Rarity In Eugene](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jake-heggie-rarity-in-eugene/) - 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/
- [SF: New Family Opera Reaches For Stars](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sf-new-family-opera-reaches-for-stars/) - Opera Parallèle presents the world premiere of Hello, Star, by composer Carla Lucero and librettist Jarrod Lee, based on the book by Stephanie V.W. Lucianovic. In this family-friendly opera, a young girl named Celeste is captivated by the call from a bright dying star and tries to reach it before the star fades away. (Oct.
- [San José: Sci-Fi Classic Becomes Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-jose-sci-fi-classic-becomes-opera/) - San José Opera will premiere a work-in-progress called Solaris. Adapted from the classic novel by Stanisław Lem, this new work is being developed under the guidance of music director Joseph Marcheso, with music by composer Stefan Cwik and a libretto by Tony Asaro. Staged reading Oct. 11. https://www.operasj.org/solaris-2
- [SF Opera: New ‘Parsifal’](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sf-opera-new-parsifal/) - For the first time in 25 years, Wagner’s final opera, Parsifal, returns in a brand-new San Francisco Opera production. Matthew Ozawa directs, with Brandon Jovanovich in the title role. (Oct. 25-Nov. 13) https://www.sfopera.com/operas/parsifal/
- ['Rappaccini's Daughter' In Columbus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rappaccinis-daughter-in-columbus/) - 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/
- [Lion and Lotus Festival In Portland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/lion-and-lotus-festival-in-portland/) - On March 3, the Portland Chamber Orchestra’s new artistic director, Deanna Tham, will conduct a program of powerful, vibrant works to celebrate the Lunar New Year. Lion & Lotus: A Festival of Music and Dance features pieces by Oswald Huỳnh, Bright Sheng, and Delius, plus traditional Asian music. The White Lotus Lion Dancers join the
- [American Symphony Explores U.S. Musical Identity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/american-symphony-explores-u-s-musical-identity/) - The American Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the nation’s 250th birthday with an evening of rarities called “Forging an American Musical Identity” on Jan. 30 at Carnegie Hall. Conductor Leon Botstein and the Bard Festival Chorale join forces to perform George Bristow’s Niagara Symphony plus works by Dudley Buck and Harry Burleigh. https://americansymphony.org/2025-2026/forging-an-american-musical-identity/
- [NYC: 1849 'Stabat Mater' Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-1849-stabat-mater-premiere/) - Leon Botstein will lead the American Symphony Orchestra in the U.S. premiere of the 1849 Stabat Mater by Peter Cornelius, with the Bard Festival Chorale. Also on the Nov. 13 program is Cherubini’s Requiem in C minor. https://americansymphony.org/2025-2026/requiem-and-revelation-2/
- [Calgary: Samuel Barber In The Spotlight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/calgary-samuel-barber-in-the-spotlight/) - The Calgary Philharmonic will play three works by Samuel Barber on Nov. 21: Adagio for Strings, Symphony in One Movement, and the Violin Concerto (with Amaryn Olmeda). Two female American composers are also in the lineup: Jessie Montgomery and Missy Mazzoli. Anthony Parnther conducts. https://calgaryphil.com/events/best-of-barber-adagio-more-2025-11-21-730-pm/
- [Québec: Inspired by '1984'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/quebec-inspired-by-1984/) - 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/
- [Canadian Rarity In Québec](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/canadian-rarity-in-quebec/) - The rarely heard Carnaval Overture by Canadian composer Oscar Morawetz, opens Orchestre symphonique de Québec’s Feb. 4-5 program. Under the baton of Clemens Schuldt, James Ehnes plays Brahms’ Violin Concerto, and the orchestra closes with Sibelius’ Second Symphony. https://www.osq.org/concerts/james-ehnes-joue-brahms/
- [All-Canadian Program In Saskatoon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-canadian-program-in-saskatoon/) - In “True North” on Nov. 8, the Saskatoon Symphony celebrates Canadian composers. Karl Hirzer conducts this program with works by Zosha di Castri, Sonny Ray Day Rider, Jean Coulthard, and Samy Moussa. Soloist Bede Hanley plays Gary Kulesha’s Oboe Concerto. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/true-north/
- [In Saskatoon, Bach Meets Ancient Persian Master](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-saskatoon-bach-meets-ancient-persian-master/) - On Feb. 5, Saskatoon Symphony presents cutting-edge early-music/world fusion group Constantinople, exploring works by Bach and 11th-century Persian composer Omar Khayyam, both known for the structural complexity of their compositional methods. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/bach-khayyam/
- [Saskatoon: 'Night Season' Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/saskatoon-night-season-premiere/) - Saskatoon Symphony, under conductor Andrew Crust, will play the North American premiere of Rebecca Dale’s Night Season, featuring cellist Stéphane Tétreault and the Greystone Singers/Aurora Voce. The March 28 concert concludes with Brahms’ First Symphony. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/night-seasons/
- [Nova Scotia: Purcell On Nyckelharpe, Vivaldi On Daf](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nova-scotia-purcell-on-nyckelharpe-vivaldi-on-daf/) - “Vivaldi Meets the Middle East” is an innovative program by Symphony Nova Scotia on Jan. 18. Discover the intersection of baroque and folk with Persian and Swedish music and instruments in this orchestral concert of Middle Eastern and European classics, including works by Vivaldi, Geminiani, Telemann, Purcell, and Mozart as well as traditional music. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/st-andrews-united-church/vivaldi-meets-the-middle-east/
- [Pianist's Nova Scotia Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianists-nova-scotia-debut/) - Ukranian pianist Illia Ovcharenko makes his Symphony Nova Scotia debut March 26 with Shostakovich’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Also on the program are Raven Chacon’s Ashdla’ and Mahler’s First Symphony. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/mahlers-titan-symphony/
- [Violinist's NWS Chamber Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violinists-nws-chamber-debut/) - Violinist Martin Beaver makes his debut with the New World Symphony on Oct. 12 when he joins NWS Fellows in a chamber concert. The program includes works by Schubert, Farrenc, Diamond, and Barber. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2025-2026/chamber-music-farrenc-plus-barber/#/about
- [Miami Celebrates All The Americas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miami-celebrates-all-the-americas/) - Music of the Americas is a program conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto with the New World Symphony and violinist Karen Gomyo on Nov. 22-23. The program includes works by Ginastera, Bernstein, Castellanos, and Contreras. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2025-2026/prieto-music-of-the-americas/#/tickets/26C2
- [Honeck Conducts Mahler In Miami](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/honeck-conducts-mahler-in-miami/) - Need a break from holiday music? Hear Manfred Honeck lead the New World Symphony in Mahler’s Symphony No. 4, which follows Haydn’s 93rd Symphony. Dec. 13-14. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2025-2026/honeck-mahler-4/#/about
- [New World Plays All-Adams Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-world-plays-all-adams-program/) - Stéphane Denève will conduct the New World Symphony in a program of the music of John Adams on Jan. 17-18. Works include The Chairman Dances, Doctor Atomic Symphony, and After the Fall with pianist Víkingur Ólafsson. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2025-2026/john-adams-with-deneve-olafsson/#/tickets/26C3
- [Miami: Focus On Percussion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miami-focus-on-percussion/) - On March 29, members of the New World Symphony will present a program called Percussion: Americans Got Rhythm. Michael Linville conducts, with percussionist and NWS alum Charles Settle as special guest. The program includes works by Henry Cowell, Julia Perry, Alejandro Viñao, and George Hamilton Green. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2025-2026/percussion-americans-got-rhythm/#/program/pulse
- [Harrisburg Takes On Verdi's 'Requiem'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/harrisburg-takes-on-verdis-requiem/) - Soprano Othalie Graham leads the cast of soloists in Verdi’s mighty Requiem with the Harrisburg Symphony April 18-19. Three regional choirs will join forces to make upt he choir: The Susquehanna Choral, and the Concert Choir and Choral Arts Society of Messiah University. Conducted by Stuart Malina. https://harrisburg-symphony-orchestra.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SUd000004VRo1MAG
- [Transformations In Harrisburg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/transformations-in-harrisburg/) - The Harrisburg Symphony will play Stacy Garrop’s little-known work Becoming Medusa Nov. 8-9. It’s part of a program inspired by the theme of transformations, which also includes Britten’s Four Sea Interludes, Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration, and the Suite from Stravinsky’s The Firebird. https://harrisburg-symphony-orchestra.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SUd000004VQrxMAG
- [Barbar, Copland For Grand Rapids U.S. Fête](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/barbar-copland-for-grand-rapids-u-s-fete/) - As America turns 250, the Grand Rapids Symphony and conductor Giancarlo Guerrero will present an All-American program Feb. 6-7. After Julia Perry’s A Short Piece for Orchestra, Alban Gerhardt will solo in Barber’s Cello Concerto, followed by Copland’s Third Symphony. https://www.grsymphony.org/celebrate-america
- [Grand Rapids Features Ravel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/grand-rapids-features-ravel/) - Ravel is the center of attention Jan. 9-10 when the Grand Rapids Symphony plays three of his orchestrals works, including Tzigane with violinist Guido Sant’Anna. The program, conducted by Marcelo Lehninger, opens with Lalo’s Symphonie Espagnole. https://www.grsymphony.org/bolero
- [The Winds Of Grand Rapids](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/the-winds-of-grand-rapids/) - Members of the Grand Rapids Symphony will accompany the Devon Quartet in Erwin Schulhoff’s Concerto for String Quartet and Wind Orchestra on Nov. 7. Then the rest of the orchestra will come onstage for Mozart’s Linz Symphony No. 36, conducted by Marcelo Lehninger. https://www.grsymphony.org/an-evening-concert-with-marcelo
- [French Masters In Grand Rapids](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/french-masters-in-grand-rapids/) - 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
- [Illinois Phil: U.S. At 250 With U.S. Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/illinois-phil-u-s-at-250-with-u-s-composers/) - 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/
- [Beethoven Rings In Illinois's 48th Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-rings-in-illinoiss-48th-season/) - The Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra opens its 48th season Oct. 25. Stilian Kirov conducts an all-Beethoven program, including the Prometheus Overture, the Violin Concerto (with Adé Williams), and the Fifth Symphony. https://ipomusic.org/2025-26-season/
- [Kansas City: A New Trumpet Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kansas-city-a-new-trumpet-concerto/) - Matthias Pintscher conducts the Kansas City Symphony in the U.S. premiere of Toshio Hosokawa’s Trumpet Concerto, Im Nebel, on April 11-12; the soloist is Julian Kaplan. Also on the program are Rachmaninoff’s Spring (with baritone Evan Hughes) and Mendelssohn’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/midsummer-nights-dream/23649
- [Kansas City Continues Rachmaninoff Celebration](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kansas-city-continues-rachmaninoff-celebration/) - On June 5-7, the Kansas City Symphony will present the second of its Rachmaninoff tributes. Besides his Symphony No. 3 and Piano Concerto No. 3 (with Yefim Bronfman), Matthias Pintscher conducts Rachmaninoff-inspired world premieres by Olga Neuwirth and Pintscher himself. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/rachmaninoff
- [Louisville: Mahler 9](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/louisville-mahler-9/) - Teddy Abrams, who recently renewed his contract as music director of the Louisville Orchestra, will conduct the ensemble in Mahler’s Ninth Symphony Jan. 16-17. https://my.louisvilleorchestra.org/teddy-conducts-mahlers-ninth/coffee
- [Las Vegas Premieres Beal Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/las-vegas-premieres-beal-symphony/) - A new symphony by Jeff Beal will receive its world premiere with the Las Vegas Symphony on Jan. 17. Leonard Slatkin also conducts Olga Kern in Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto. https://lvphil.org/events/rachmaninoff-concerto-no-3/
- [New Concerto In Kansas City](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-concerto-in-kansas-city/) - Swedish composer Lisa Streich’s new concerto will receive its world premiere with the Kansas City Symphony on Jan. 31-Feb. 1. The other two works are by Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 2 (Tamara Stefanovich, soloist) and Symphony No. 4, under the baton of Matthias Pintscher. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/beethoven/23639
- [Kansas City: Muhly Vibes To Rachmaninoff](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kansas-city-muhly-vibes-to-rachmaninoff/) - 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
- [Dance, Song, Visuals In K.C.'s 'La Nuite Sombre'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dance-song-visuals-in-k-c-s-la-nuite-sombre/) - 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
- [Accordion Is Star In Toronto Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/accordion-is-star-in-toronto-premiere/) - Led by Paavo Järvi, the Toronto Symphony will perform two North American premieres Oct. 30-Nov. 2: Tõnu Kõrvits’ Dances: Concerto for Accordion and Orchestra (soloist Ksenija Sidorova) and George Morton’s orchestral arrangement of Pēteris Vasks’ The Fruit of Silence, originally a choral work. Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5 concludes the program. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/debussy-and-sibelius
- [Toronto Spotlights NextGen Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-spotlights-nextgen-composers/) - Three composers from the Toronto Symphony’s NextGen Composer program will enjoy world premieres on Nov. 27-30 (one per day): Sophie Dupuis, Darren Xu, and Jesse Plessis. Grieg’s Piano Concerto will feature Denis Kozhukhin, and the program ends with music from Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake. Gustavo Gimeno conducts. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/tchaikovskys-swan-lake
- [Toronto: 'Lilith' Myth Inspires New Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-lilith-myth-inspires-new-work/) - Francisco Coll’s Lilith was inspired by the fiery, rebellious spirit of the mythological female figure. The work will receive its North American premiere with the Toronto Symphony March 12-14, under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno. Two Dvořák works round out the program: the Othello Overture and the Cello Concerto (featuring Pablo Ferrández). https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/dvoaks-cello
- [New Canadian Work In Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-canadian-work-in-toronto/) - Toronto Symphony affiliate composer Liam Ritz’s latest orchestral work will have its world premiere April 23-26. Elina Vähälä will play Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 2, and music director Gustav Gimeno concludes the program with Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/tchaikovskys-fifth
- [Toronto: Selaocoe Premieres Cello Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-selaocoe-premieres-cello-concerto/) - 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
- [Korngold And A New Work in Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/korngold-and-a-new-work-in-toronto/) - After María Dueñas plays Korngold’s Violin Concerto with the Toronto Symphony June 4-7, the orchestra will present the world premiere of a new work by Bekah Simms, promising to be “ethereal, colourful, and hypnotic.” The program, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4, Italian. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/maria-duenas-plays-korngold
- [Tulsa: New Percussion Work Draws From Poem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tulsa-new-percussion-work-draws-from-poem/) - Members of the Tulsa Symphony will play the world premiere of Nathan Daughtrey's Edge of the World on Feb. 21. This work for percussion ensemble was inspired by Brian Andreas’ poem “True Things” and conveys two individuals starting their lives together and looking to the future. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/101-unplugged-4
- [Tulsa Symphony Begins 20th Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tulsa-symphony-begins-20th-year/) - 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
- [Strauss Meets Wagner In Toledo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/strauss-meets-wagner-in-toledo/) - Soprano Angela Meade joins Alain Trudel and the Toledo Symphony for Strauss’ Four Last Songs and Beethoven’s “Ah! Perfido” on Nov. 22. The program opens with Strauss’ Death and Transfiguration and closes with two orchestral excerpts from Wagner’s Tristan and Isolde. https://www.artstoledo.com/events/2025/11/22/toledo-symphony/angela-meade-sings-strauss-beethoven-wagner/286/
- [Phones On For Toledo Concert!](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phones-on-for-toledo-concert/) - The Toledo Symphony’s Feb. 20 program opens with David Baker’s Concertino for Cellular Phones and Symphony Orchestra, in which the audience can participate. But then all phones must be silenced as music director Alain Trudel conducts Sara Davis Buechner in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5, followed by Brahms’ First Symphony. https://www.artstoledo.com/events/2026/02/20/toledo-symphony/beethoven-brahms/301/
- [Happy Birthday, Ravel: Toledo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/happy-birthday-ravel-toledo/) - 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
- [Virginia: New Production Of Heggie's 'Intelligence'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/virginia-new-production-of-heggies-intelligence/) - Virginia Opera will mount a new production of Jake Heggie’s Intelligence. Set in Richmond, VA, the opera is inspired by a gripping true story of espionage, sacrifice, and the fight for freedom in the shadows of the Civil War. Conducted by Adam Turner, and Directed by Kyle Lang. (Jan. 30 – Feb. 15) https://vaopera.org/intelligence/
- ['Miami Concerto' Premieres In Indianapolis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miami-concerto-premieres-in-st-paul/) - Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra will premiere Karen LeFrak’s Miami Concerto for guitar and orchestra, featuring legendary guitarist Sharon Isbin. The Nov. 22 program, conducted by Matthew Kraemer, also includes works by Ibert, Ravel, and Shostakovich. https://www.icomusic.org/concerts/sharon-isbin-guitar-miami-in-motion/
- [Students Join WV Symphony For Shakespeare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/students-join-wv-symphony-for-shakespeare/) - West Virginia Symphony and many young local performing artists will present a program called “Shakespeare On Stage” Feb. 21. WV Youth Symphony will join the pros for William Grant Still’s Serenade, and students from the WVU School of Theatre and Dance will perform scenes from Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet while the orchestra plays music from
- [Virginia Program Explores Music For Peace](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/virginia-program-explores-music-for-peace/) - “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/
- [Virginia: Fifth Symphonies for Leader's Fifth Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/virginia-fifth-symphonies-for-leaders-fifth-year/) - Eric Jacobsen is in his fifth season as music director of the Virginia Symphony. To mark that milestone, the orchestra will perform various composers’ fifth symphonies throughout the season. One of those is Prokofiev’s which they’ll perform Feb. 20-22, along with Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring Clayton Stephenson. https://virginiasymphony.org/event/tchaikovskys-piano-ferguson/
- [Vermont Views Love Through Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vermont-views-love-through-music/) - Love is in the air Feb. 14 when the Vermont Symphony presents a program of music inspired by love, including Frank Zappa’s G-Spot Tornado, Augusta Holmès’ La nuit et l’amour, and Bizet’s Carmen suites. Jennifer Koh will play Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1, with Andrew Crust conducting. https://www.vso.org/vso-event/love-notes/
- [Vermont: Music Against Adversity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vermont-music-against-adversity/) - In a chamber-music recital Oct. 15-17, members of the Vermont Symphony play a variety of music whose composers were inspired by the need to overcome hardship. Hosted and curated by Matt LaRocca. https://www.vso.org/vso-event/jukebox-strength-and-hope-st-johnsbury/
- ['Here And Now' Explores Elements At Bargemusic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/here-and-now-explores-elements-at-bargemusic/) - At the Here and Now Festival at Bargemusic in New York, a unique concert for cello and piano explores the classical elements—Water, Air, Fire, and Earth—through four premieres on Aug. 30. Cellist Rubin Kodheli and pianist Sylvie Courvoisier blend innovative arrangements of classical masterpieces with original compositions. https://www.bargemusic.org/concert/4pm-here-and-now-labor-day-festival-ruben-kodehli-and-sylvie-courvoisier/
- [A Schubert Song Cycle In New York](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-schubert-song-cycle-in-new-york/) - Tenor Travis Benoit and pianist Susan Ryder will perform Schubert’s early song cycle, Die schöne Müllerin on Aug. 24 at New York’s Merkin Hall. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/die-schoene-muellerin-travis-benoitsusan-ryder/
- [Philadelphia Comes to Saratoga](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/philadelphia-comes-to-saratoga/) - The Philadelphia Orchestra tours to Saratoga Aug. 20 for a late-summer performance of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and Sheku Kanneh-Mason solos in Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1. Naomi Woo conducts. https://spac.org/events/philadelphia-orchestra-beethovens-fifth/
- [Yo-Yo Ma, Angélique Kidjo In Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/yo-yo-ma-angelique-kidjo-in-chicago/) - Discover what happens when two superstars meet across cultures with open hearts and boundless curiosity. World-renowned cellist Yo-Yo Ma and five-time Grammy Award winner Angélique Kidjo come together for Sarabande Africaine — a free outdoor concert at Millennium Park on Aug. 26. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/scp-featured-concerts/sarabande-africaine/
- [80th Year For Spokane Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spokane-opens-80th-season/) - 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/
- [New Work Helps Spokane Celebrate U.S.A.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-helps-spokane-celebrate-u-s-a/) - 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/
- [Phoenix Goes All-American](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phoenix-goes-all-american/) - The Phoenix Symphony marks America’s 250th birthday in a special program Feb. 27-March 1, conducted by Mélisse Brunet. Works by Copland, Ives, and Mason Bates, along with Gershwin’s Concerto in F, featuring pianist Stewart Goodyear. https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/shows/celebrating-america-at-250-gershwin-copland-more/
- [Cellist Debuts In Phoenix](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cellist-debuts-in-phoenix/) - Cellist Sterling Elliott makes his Phoenix debut Jan. 9-11 playing Haydn’s Cello Concerto No. 2. Francesco Lecce-Chong leads the program, which also includes Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis and Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/shows/pictures-at-an-exhibition/
- [Phoenix: ‘Christmas Baroque’ With Special Guest, Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phoenix-christmas-baroque-with-special-guest-mozart/) - Celebrate a “Christmas Baroque” with the Phoenix Symphony Dec. 20-21. Corelli and Bach, plus a little Mozart thrown in for good measure. https://www.phoenixsymphony.org/shows/christmas-baroque/
- [Nothing But Gershwin In Chapel Hill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nothing-but-gershwin-in-chapel-hill/) - 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/
- [N. Carolina: Harada Conducts Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/n-carolina-harada-conducts-mozart/) - Continuing its theme of programs devoted to a single composer, the North Carolina Symphony will present an all-Mozart concert Jan. 22-25. Keitaro Harada conducts two opera overtures plus the Symphony No. 35, Haffner, and the Piano Concerto No. 23, with Jeneba Kanneh-Mason. https://ncsymphony.org/events/all-mozart-01-22-26-730pm-wm03/
- ['Great' Mass In NC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/great-mass-in-nc/) - Two mighty works make up the April 10-11 collaboration between the North Carolina Symphony and North Carolina Master Chorale: Rautavaara’s Symphony No. 7, Angel of Light, and Mozart’s “Great” Mass in C Minor. Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts. https://ncsymphony.org/events/mozart-great-mass-04-10-26-8pm/
- [Oakland Opens With New Ragland Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oakland-opens-with-new-ragland-work/) - Oakland Symphony starts its season with the world premiere of Dave Ragland’s Harmony of the Unheard, featuring narration by actor Adebiyi Ojutiku. The Oct. 17 program, under conductor Kendrick Armstrong, also includes Anna Clyne’s this Midnight Hour, Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G (soloist Sara Davis Buechner), and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/25-26-season-subscription/
- ['Humanity Suite' To Premiere In Oakland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/humanity-suite-to-premiere-in-oakland/) - The world premiere of Cava Menzies’ Humanitiy’s Suite will be performed by the Oakland Symphony on Nov. 14. The work will be followed by Verdi’s Requiem. Kedrick Armstrong conducts. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/25-26-season-subscription/
- [Oakland Premieres 'America, To US'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oakland-premieres-america-to-us/) - On Feb. 20 the Oakland Symphony will play the world premiere of Daniel Bernard Roumain (DBR)’s America, To US, along with recent music by Chen Yi and Reena Esmail, plus the Adagio from Mahler’s 10th Symphony. Kedrick Armstrong conducts. https://www.oaklandsymphony.org/25-26-season-subscription/
- [Omaha: Holland Center Turns 20](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/omaha-holland-center-turns-20/) - 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
- [Omaha Symphony, Choir Collaborate On Haydn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/omaha-symphony-choir-collaborate-on-haydn/) - As part of the Omaha Symphony’s Omaha Choral Collaboration series, the two ensembles will join forces for Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass on Nov. 9. Soloists include Jessica Beebe and Eric Barry, with Ernest Richardson conducting. The program concludes with Elaine Hagenberg’s Illuminare. https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/haydns-lord-nelson-mass
- ['Bluebeard's Castle' In Omaha](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bluebeards-castle-in-omaha/) - On April 24-25, the Omaha Symphony will collaborate with Omaha Opera to present a semi-staged version of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, led by conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya and featuring baritone Ryan McKinny and soprano Michelle DeYoung. The program opens with Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/bluebeards-castle-2
- [Oregon: Porter Plays Glass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-porter-plays-glass/) - 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
- [Scandinavia Comes To Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scandinavia-comes-to-oregon/) - Norway, Finland, Sweden. It’s a pan-Scandinavian program for the Oregon Symphony Jan. 29-Feb. 1. David Danzmayr conducts Sibelius’ The Swan of Tuonela, Grieg’s Piano Concerto (with Yeol Eum Son, and Stenhammar’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.orsymphony.org/productions/2526/sibelius-and-grieg
- [Percussive Focus In Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/percussive-focus-in-oregon/) - 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
- [Madison Symphony's Centennial Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/madison-symphonys-centennial-festival/) - The Madison Symphony closes its milestone 100th season with a Centennial Festival Weekend June 13-14. During this free, two-day festival celebration, MSO musicians and diverse community groups will perform on a rotating schedule throughout Overture Center for the Arts. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/centennial-festival-weekend/
- [Madison: Beethoven's Fifth For Organ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/madison-beethovens-fifth-for-organ/) - Throughout the season, the Madison Symphony Orchestra presents a substantial Organ Series on the Overture Concert Organ. The Feb. 24 program features Felix Hall playing his own arrangement of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5 as well as works by Mozart and Barber. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/felix-hell-organist/
- [Madison Symphony Turns 100](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/madison-symphony-turns-100/) - Madison Symphony opens its 100th season Oct. 17-19 with a program focused on resurrection. John DeMain will conduct Mason Bates’ Resurrexit, Franck’s Symphonic Variations, featuring pianist Christopher Taylor, and Mahler’s Symphony No. 2, Resurrection. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/primal-light/
- [New England Plays New Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-england-plays-new-concerto/) - The world premiere of Daniel Godfrey’s Piano Concerto, featuring Gloria Cheng, will be performed by the New England Philharmonic on March 15. The other two works are Jason Huffman’s Alleles and Curtis Hughes’ Symphony in 3 Movements. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/new-music-new-england-2026
- [Boston Premiere Of 'Gathering Grounds'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-premiere-of-gathering-grounds/) - New England Philharmonic will play the Boston premiere of Carlos Carrillo’s The Gathering Grounds on Oct. 11. The program also includes recent works by Loren Loiacono and Missy Mazzoli, ending with Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/gathering-grounds
- [New Hampshire: Tribute To Bernstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-hampshire-tribute-to-bernstein/) - The entire 2025-26 season at Symphony NH will be conducted by finalists for the role of music director. Among those is Adam Kerry Boyles, whose March 7 program is a tribute to the influence of Leonard Berstein, including works by Carl Nielsen, Ruth Crawfuld Seeger, and David Diamond. Representing composers who influenced Bernstein will be
- [New Violin Concerto In Fort Worth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-violin-concerto-in-fort-worth/) - 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
- [Spanish Art Accompanies Fort Worth Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spanish-art-accompanies-fort-worth-program/) - The Fort Worth Symphony will blend visuals art with their music on April 24-26 in a program of Spanish or Spanish-inspired works. The Kimbell Art Museum will provide projections of exquisite Spanish masterpieces while the orchestra plays de Falla’s The Three-Cornered Hat, Ravel’s Rapsodie espagnole, and Peter Lieberson’s Neruda Songs (featuring mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor. Robert Spano conducts.
- [Pianist Debuts With Ravel In Des Moines](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianist-debuts-with-ravel-in-des-moines/) - Anna Geniushene makes her Des Moines Symphony debut performing Ravel’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in G Major on Feb. 14-15. To mark the date as Valentine’s Day, Miguel Harth-Bedoya will conduct Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet before switching gears for Sibelius’ Second Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/love-romeo-juliet/
- [Eighth Blackbird Rings In Des Moines 88th Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/eighth-blackbird-rings-in-des-moines-88th-season/) - 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/
- [Spooky Stories With Music In Delaware](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spooky-stories-with-music-in-delaware/) - Delaware Symphony will present a special program called Windswept Tales on Oct. 28. Dramatic readings from literary greats like Shakespeare and Poe will be paired with music by Debussy, Britten, and Tower. https://delawaresymphony.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/instances/a0FRd000005py45MAA
- [Angel Blue Debut In Annapolis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/angel-blue-debut-in-annapolis/) - Soprano Angel Blue makes her debut with the Annapolis Symphony in a Jan. 30-Feb. 1 program of songs and arias. Bookending Blue’s appearance will be two orchestral works: Strauss’ Don Juan and Copland’s Suite from Billy the Kid. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/legends/
- [Arkansas: Revisiting León Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/arkansas-revisiting-leon-commission/) - In 2022, the Arkansas Symphony commissioned the work Pasajes from Tania León. On March 22, the orchestra will play it again, under the baton of Geoffrey Robson. Soloist Julian Rhee will play Britten’s Violin Concerto No. 1, and the program ends with Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://www.arkansassymphony.org/events/pictures-at-an-exhibtion/
- [Mozart & Now Events In Colorado](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mozart-now-events-in-colorado/) - On Jan. 23-25, the Colorado Symphony will present a special weekend called Mozart & Now. The event features with three unique performances contrasting the music of Mozart alongside contemporary works by Joel Thompson, Vivian Fung, and Gabriela Lena Frank, among others. Peter Oundjian conducts. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7397
- [Colorado Premieres Violin, Percussion Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorado-premieres-violin-percussion-concerto/) - The Colorado Symphony will play the world premiere of American composer Christopher Theofanidis’ new double concerto for violin and percussion, featuring Yumi Hwang-Williams and Svet Stoyanov. The March 20-22 program also includes Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7401
- [Anchorage Opens 80th Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/anchorage-opens-80th-season/) - 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
- [Viet Cuong's New Work in Albany](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/119969/) - As part of the American Music Festival, David Alan Miller will conduct the Albany Symphony in the world premiere of a new work by Viet Cuong on June 6. The program, which features Ssandbox Percussion, also includes recent works by composers such as Christopher Theofanidis, Clarice Assad, and others. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2026/6/6/american-music-festival
- [Ge's Violin Concerto Premieres In Albany](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ges-violin-concerto-premieres-in-albany/) - Bobby Ge’s new Violin Concerto, featuring Keila Wakao, will receive its world premiere Nov. 8 with the Albany Symphony under the baton of David Alan Miller. The program also includes Holst’s The Planets, with choral assistance from Albany Pro Musica. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/11/bobby-ge-holsts-the-planets
- [Albany Premieres New Orchestral Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/albany-premieres-new-orchestral-work/) - The Albany Symphony, under conductor David Alan Miller, will play the world premiere of a new work by Alex Berko on Oct. 11. Zlatomir Fung will be the soloist for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto. Sibelius’ Finlandia and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite bookend the program. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/10/11/alex-berko-stravinskys-firebird
- [Alabama Premieres Kids' Library-Themed Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/alabama-premieres-kids-library-themed-opera/) - 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
- ['King Roger' At Des Moines Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/king-roger-at-des-moines-opera/) - In a company premiere, Des Moines Opera will present Karol Szymanowski’s 1926 opera King Roger. Company premiere. Chas Rader-Shieber directs, with Alexander Birch Elliott in the title role. (July 4-17) https://desmoinesmetroopera.org/productions/kingroger/
- [Previn's 'Streetcar' Rolls Into St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/previns-streetcar-rolls-into-st-louis/) - Opera Theatre of St. Louis will present André Previn’s 1995 opera A Streetcar Named Desire, based on the Tennessee Williams play. Accompanied by members of the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra. (June 7-26) https://opera-stl.org/whats-on/a-streetcar-named-desire/
- [In DC, NY, Arias By 18th-Century Women](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-dc-ny-arias-by-18th-century-women/) - 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/
- [Offenbach's 'Songbird' In Kentucky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/offenbachs-songbird-in-kentucky/) - Jacques Offenbach wrote the comic opera La Périchole in the 1860s. The plot concerns the adventures of two struggling singers and lovers who arrive in Prohibition-era New Orleans seeking success. This season, Kentucky Opera will perform a shortened version of it called The Songbird. (Feb. 13-17) https://kyopera.org/season-25-26/
- ['The Shining' At Nashville Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/the-shining-at-nashville-opera/) - 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
- [St. Paul: Xhosa And Zulu Inspiration](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-paul-xhosa-and-zulu-inspiration/) - 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/
- [Holiday Brandenburgs In St. Paul](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/holiday-brandenburgs-in-st-paul/) - On Dec. 12-14, St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform all of Bach’s Brandenburg Concertos except for No. 2. This has become an annual tradition in the holiday season. https://content.thespco.org/events/bachs-brandenburg-concertos-2526/
- [St. Paul: New Music That Considers Birds](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-paul-new-music-that-considers-birds/) - It’s an ornithology-centered program as the St Paul Chamber Orchestra performs two world premieres on Jan. 30-Feb. 1. The first is Gabriela Lena Frank’s new work inspired by naturalist John James Audubon. That’s followed by Eric Stokes’ arrangement of Robert Schumann’s Prophet Bird. Opening the program is Honneger’s Pastorale d’été. https://content.thespco.org/events/franks-sandbox-premiere/
- [A Piccolo In St. Paul](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-piccolo-in-st-paul/) - St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform a rarity April 24-26: Pan for Piccolo and String Quartet by Mauricio Kagel, featuring soloist Alicia McQuerrey. Flutist Julia Bogorad-Kogan will play Debussy’s famous Syrinx, followed by works by Gubaidulina, Mozart, and Prokofiev. https://content.thespco.org/events/gubaidulina-prokofiev-and-mozart/
- [Le Consort Debuts Baroque In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/le-consort-debuts-baroque-in-nyc/) - Early-music ensemble Le Consort makes its New York City debut on March 12 at 92NY. The four-person group will play music by Albinoni, Telemann, Bach, and some lesser-known Baroque composers. https://www.92ny.org/event/le-consort
- [New León Vocal Work At 92NY](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-leon-vocal-work-at-92ny/) - Vocalist Julia Bullock, cellist Seth Parker Woods, and pianist Conor Hanick will play the world premiere of a new work by Tania León at 92NY on Jan. 23. The program also includes works by George Walker, John Tavener, Ravel, André Previn, and Nina Simone. https://www.92ny.org/event/julia-bullock-seth-parker-woods-and-conor-hanick
- [Campbell/Hanick Premiere 'Enigmas' Finale At 92NY](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/campbell-hanick-premiere-enigmas-finale-at-92ny/) - On Dec. 13, Jay Campbell, cello, and Conor Hanick, piano, will present the world premiere of the third (and final) chapter of Brazilian composer Marcos Balter’s Three Enigmas. At 92NY. Additional works to be announced. https://www.92ny.org/event/jay-campbell-and-conor-hanick
- [NYC: Three Nights, Three Schubert Song Cycles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-three-nights-three-schubert-song-cycles/) - Lyric baritone Konstantin Krimmel performs three Schubert song cycles at 92NY, one each night, Dec. 3-7: Die schöne Müllerin, Winterriese, and Schwanengesang. With pianist Ammiel Bushakevitz. https://www.92ny.org/event/konstantin-krimmel-and-ammiel-bushakevitz
- [NYC: Half-And-Half Classical/Electric Guitar Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-half-and-half-classical-electric-guitar-recital/) - Sean Shibe performs a double-concept concert at 92NY – the first half on classical guitar, the second half on electric. The Nov. 7 program includes the New York premieres of Thomas Adès’ Forgotten Dances and Tyshawn Sorey’s For Bill Frisell, along with works by Frank Martin, J.S. Bach, Sasha Scott, and Steve Reich. https://www.92ny.org/event/sean-shibe
- [Atlanta Season Ends With 'Resurrection'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/resurrection-closes-atlanta-season/) - For its season closer June 4-7, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus and music director Nathalie Stutzmann will pull out all the stops with Mahler’s Resurrection Symphony. Soprano Talise Trevigne and mezzo-soprano Rihab Chaieb will be the soloists. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/stutzmann-mahlers-resurrection-symphony
- [Gesualdo Dies In NYC On Friday The 13th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gesualdo-dies-in-nyc-on-friday-the-13th/) - Music Before 1800 creator/director Bill Barclay teams up for a second collaboration with The Gesualdo Six to celebrate their namesake composer, Carlo Gesualdo (1566-1613). Will Tuckett choreographs this compilation of Gesualdo works, a U.S. premiere, on Feb. 13. https://mb1800.org/concert/death-of-gesualdo/
- [Portland: Davóne Tines Time-Travels With Ruckus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/portland-davone-tines-time-travels-with-ruckus/) - Davóne Tines and innovative Baroque band Ruckus team up in a special event for Portland’s Friends of Chamber Music on Feb. 5. The program is described as “time-traveling through four centuries of reimagined songs, hymns and ballads.” https://focm.org/concerts/2025-26-season/ruckus-and-davone-tines-bass-baritone/6504/
- [Portland: Pavel Haas Quartet Plays Czech Rarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/portland-pavel-haas-quartet-plays-czech-rarity/) - Portland’s Friends of Chamber Music will host a two-night residency by the Pavel Haas Quartet. The second of these programs, on March 17, will feature an all-Czech lineup of music by Martinů, Dvořák, and Vítězslava Kaprálová. https://focm.org/concerts/2025-26-season/pavel-haas-quartet-25-26/6491/
- [A Vancouver Schubertiade](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-vancouver-schubertiade/) - Vancouver Chamber Music Society starts its Schubertiade celebration by the Academy Chamber Players Oct. 15. The program includes some Lieder (with soprano Robyn Driedger-Klassen) as well as the Trout Quintet. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/schubertiade
- [Vancouver: Sanskrit Meditations For Harp, Cello](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vancouver-sanskrit-meditations-for-harp-cello/) - Jeffrey Ryan wrote his nine-movement, Sanskrit-inspired Dvandva for the Couloir harp/cello duo in 2015. Now Couloir is touring the piece again, and will play it in the Vancouver Chamber Music Society season on Feb. 10-12, along with Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/couloir
- [Toronto: Quartet Rarity Featured](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-quartet-rarity-featured/) - Music Toronto presents the Leonkoro Quartet on March 5. The program features the little-known 1927 string quartet by Dutch composer Henriëtte Bosmans. Bookending that rarity are familiar works for quartet by Haydn and Schubert. https://musictorontoconcerts.com/concerts/leonkoro-quartet
- [Calgary Goes Late Baroque](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/calgary-goes-late-baroque/) - Longstanding Baroque ensemble Tafelmusik will perform Nov. 21-22, presented by Calgary Pro Musica. The program includes music of Handel, Avison, Purcell, and Bach, among others. https://calgarypromusica.ca/master-series-2/
- [Formosa Quartet In Calgary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/formosa-quartet-in-calgary/) - Calgary Pro Musica will present the Formosa Quartet on April 11. The group won at the Wigmore Hall International String Quartet Competition and is Quartet-in-Residence at the University of Houston’s Moores School of Music. Program details TBD. https://calgarypromusica.ca/horizons-series-3/
- [Fury And Wrath At Philharmonia Baroque](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/fury-and-wrath-at-philharmonia-baroque/) - “Fury and Heartbreak” is the title of Philharmonia Baroque’s season opener Oct. 16-19. Soprano Maya Kherani sings two stories of abandonment and heartbreak through cantatas of Handel and Marcello, followed by Vivaldi’s “In the fury of most righteaous wrath!” Václav Luks conducts. https://philharmonia.org/2025-26-season/fury-and-heartbreak/
- [Season Starts For Chamber Music SF](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/season-starts-for-chamber-music-sf/) - Chamber Music SF opens its winter/spring season with the Frankfurt-based Aris Quartet on Feb. 22. The program includes quartets by Beethoven, Shostakovich, and Brahms. https://chambermusicsf.org/
- [SF Violin Recital Bridges 200 Years](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sf-violin-recital-bridges-200-years/) - In his recital for Chamber Music SF on April 19, violinist Nathan Meltzer will play a mix of old and recent music. First the French: Poulenc and Fauré. Representing the 21st century is FastLowHighSlow by Sky Macklay; Schubert’s Fantasy in C Major, D. 934, completes the program. https://chambermusicsf.org/
- [NYC: Hornist, Pianist Premiere Own Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-hornist-pianist-premiere-own-works/) - French hornist David Byrd-Marrow and pianist Cory Smythe will perform two world premieres in their recital Feb. 5 for the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. One is by Byrd-Marrow, and the other by Smythe. Also on the program are works by Alec Wilder, Jörg Widmann, Billy Strayhorn, and Olivier Messiaen. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/david-byrd-marrow-and-cory-smythe/
- [New Music In New York's 'Sonic Spectrum'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-music-in-new-yorks-sonic-spectrum/) - Two New York premieres will be performed on the Jan. 22 Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center program. These are works by Sean Shepherd and Ye Ziaogang. The program, part of the Sonic Spectrum series, also includes pieces by Charlotte Bray and Jörg Widmann. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/sonic-spectrum-ii/
- [NYC: All Six Brandenburg Concertos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-all-six-brandenburg-concertos/) - As its 2025-26 Baroque Festival, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will perform all six of Bach’s glorious Brandenburg Concertos with a 20-piece orchestra. (Dec. 12-16) https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/the-brandenburg-concertos/
- [Voice, Clarinet, Piano Premiere Work In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/voice-clarinet-piano-premiere-work-in-nyc/) - The NYC premiere of Valerie Coleman’s new work opens an imaginative program by the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, featuring mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron, clarinetist Anthony McGill, and pianist Gloria Chien. Other composers on the Nov. 6 program, part of the Sonic Spectrum series, include Takashi Yoshimatsu, Chen Yi, Huang Ruo, are Kian Ravaei. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/sonic-spectrum-i/
- [Chamber Music Rarities At Lincoln Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chamber-music-rarities-at-lincoln-center/) - Members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present music of the relatively unknown composer George Onslow (1784-1853) as well as that of Johann Hummel. There are two different programs pairing Hummel and Onslow, both on Oct. 16. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/25-26/hummel-and-onslow/
- [Weill's Songs In Weill Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/weills-songs-in-weill-hall/) - Mezzo-soprano Kate Lindsey and pianist Baptiste Trotignon will present a recital focused on the works of Kurt Weill at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 2. The song list will be interspersed with works by Alma Mahler, Korngold, and Zemlinsky. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/12/02/Kate-Lindsey-MezzoSoprano-Baptiste-Trotignon-Piano-0730PM
- [Renaissance 'Wonder Women' At Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/renaissance-wonder-women-at-carnegie-hall/) - Early-music ensemble L’Arpeggiata calls its Nov. 20 program at Carnegie Hall Wonder Women, which pays homage to colorful characters found in traditional Italian and Latin American songs. The list of short works on offer include composers such as Barbara Strozzi, Francesca Caccini, and Isabella Leonarda. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/11/20/LArpeggiata-0730PM
- [Quartet Of World Premieres In ACO Carnegie Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/quartet-of-world-premieres-in-aco-carnegie-program/) - The American Composers Orchestra will perform four world premieres at its Oct. 29 program at Carnegie Hall. The works are by Tamar Muskal, Elijah Daniel Smith, Mazz Swift, and Aaron Israel Levin. Conductor Mélisse Brunet opens the program with the New York premiere of a new work by Pulitzer-winning Raven Chacon. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/10/29/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
- [New York: Still's Violin Suite Gets Cello Treatment](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-york-stills-violin-suite-gets-cello-treatment/) - Playing a new arrangement for cello by Randall Goosby, cellist Sterling Elliott will perform William Grant Still’s Suite for Violin and Orchestra with the Sphinx Virtuosi on Oct. 17 at Carnegie Hall. Also on the program are works by José White Lafitte, Clarice Assad, Prokofiev, and Ginastera. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/10/17/sphinx-virtuosi-0700pm
- [Zukerman Brings Ben-Haim Concerto To NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/zukerman-brings-ben-haim-concerto-to-nyc/) - On Oct. 15, the first night of the Israel Philharmonic’s Carnegie Hall season, Pinchas Zukerman will play a repertoire rarity: Paul Ben-Haim’s Violin Concerto. Lahav Shani also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/10/15/israel-philharmonic-orchestra-0800pm
- [Role Debut For PNO's Ariadne](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/role-debut-for-pnos-ariadne/) - Soprano Katie van Kooten will make her role debut as Ariadne in the Pacific Northwest Opera’s production of Strauss’ Ariadne auf Naxos. Alex Boyer sings Bacchus; Jonathan Khuner conducts a production by Mitchell Kahn. (April 25-May 3) https://pnopera.org/
- [Portland Miniaturizes 'L'Elisir'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/portland-miniaturizes-lelisir/) - 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/
- [Threats Of McCarthyism Topic Of Seattle Opera Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/threats-of-mccarthyism-topic-of-seattle-opera-staging/) - Seattle Opera will stage the Seattle premiere of Gregory Spears and Greg Pierces’ Fellow Travelers, based on the novel by Thomas Mallon dealing with McCarthyism and the “Lavender Scare” of the 1950s. (Feb. 21-March 1) https://www.seattleopera.org/performances-events/fellow-travelers/
- [Cav/Pag Gets New Staging In San José](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cav-pag-gets-new-staging-in-san-jose/) - San José Opera will mount a new production of Mascagni’s Cavalleria Rusticana and Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci. Maria Natale sings Santuzza with Kidon Choi as Tonio. Alma Deutscher conducts the staging by Opera San José CEO and general director Shawna Lucey. (Feb. 15-March 1) https://www.operasj.org/productions/cavalleria-rusticana-pagliacci
- ['Yellow Wallpaper' Opera Premieres At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/yellow-wallpaper-opera-premieres-at-carnegie/) - Lyric Opera of Orange County travels to New York’s Carnegie Hall to present the world premiere of The Yellow Wallpaper, a chamber opera by composer Brooke deRosa and librettist Diana Farrell. The opera, based on the haunting 1876 novella by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, is scored for three voices and six instruments. (Jan. 31) https://lyricoperaoc.org/shows/the-yellow-wallpaper/
- [L.A.: Latin Music Styles Shape 'Zorro' Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/l-a-latin-music-styles-shape-zorro-opera/) - 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
- [L.A.: Hildegard's Music And Visions Inspire New Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/l-a-hildegards-music-and-visions-inspire-new-opera/) - LA Opera will present the world premiere of Hildegard by composer-librettist Sarah Kirkland Snider. Taking place in the year 1147, the work explores the life of pioneering composer, nun, and religious mystic Hildegard von Bingen. (Nov. 5-9) https://laopera.org/performances/2026/hildegard
- [New Kaminsky Opera In Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-kaminsky-opera-in-pittsburgh/) - Pittsburgh Opera will perform the world premiere of Time to Act, a new opera with music by Laura Kaminsky and a libretto by Crystal Manich. The plot: A group of high school students prepares for a production of Sophocles’ Antigone, joined by a new student, Alona, who comes with a formidable secret. (Feb. 28-March 8) https://pittsburghopera.org/season/time-to-act
- [Phila.: 'Sleepers Awake' Opera Twists Sleeping Beauty Tale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-sleepers-awake-opera-twists-sleeping-beauty-tale/) - The world premiere of Sleepers Awake, a new opera by Gregory Spears, will be presented by Philadelphia Opera. “In this opera, the chorus has the starring role.” Spears creates a dream-like rendering of the fairytale “Sleeping Beauty,” inspired by modernist writer Robert Walser. Corrado Rovaris conducts. (April 22-26) https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/2526-season/sleepers-awake/
- [Philly's 'Complications' Joins 10 Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phillys-complications-joins-10-composers/) - Opera Philadelphia presents the world premiere of Complications in Sue, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson based on an idea by Justin Vivian Bond. In the centuries-old pastiche tradition, the opera combines musical sections by a host of composers: Andy Akiho, Alistair Coleman, Nathalie Joachim, Missy Mazzoli, Nico Muhly, Rene Orth, Cécile McLorin Salvant, Kamala
- ['Tosca' In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tosca-in-baltimore/) - As its only fully staged opera this season, Opera Baltimore will present Tosca. The opera will be performed at Stephens Hall in Towson. (Oct. 10-12) https://www.operabaltimore.org/20252026-season
- ['Treemonisha' Re-Imagining In D.C.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/treemonisha-re-imagining-in-d-c/) - Washington National Opera will present a new production of Scott Joplin’s 1910 opera, Treemonisha. This powerful work reimagines the incomplete piece with direction by mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, musical arrangement and orchestrations by composer Damien Sneed, and additional dialogue and lyrics by playwright Kyle Bass. (March 12-22) https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2025-2026/treemonisha/
- [Frenemy Judges At Milwaukee's Florentine Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/frenemy-judges-at-milwaukees-florentine-opera/) - Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera is taking on the justice system with Derrick Wang’s Scalia/Ginsburg, a comic opera written exploring the lively, unexpected friendship between Supreme Court Justices Antonin Scalia and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. Bob Mollicone conducts musicians from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, and Doub Clemons directs. (July 18-20) https://www.florentineopera.org/season-events/scalia-ginsburg-25-26
- ['Cinderella' Boards Coach In North Carolina](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cinderella-boards-coach-in-north-carolina/) - In a company premiere, North Carolina Opera will mount a production of Massenet’s Cinderella (not the more commonly performed Rossini version of the story). The cast includes Nicole Cabell in the title role, with Joseph Mechavich conducting and James Marvel directing. (Oct. 17-19) https://ncopera.org/2025-2026-season/
- [Denyce Graves Directs At Opera Carolina](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/denyce-graves-directs-at-opera-carolina/) - Denyce Graves makes her directorial debut in Opera Carolina’s production of Menotti’s The Medium. Graves will also star in the production of this opera filled with psychological tension and supernatural intrigue. (April 17-19) https://operacarolina.org/
- [New Queen For Toronto 'Magic Flute'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-queen-for-toronto-magic-flute/) - Coloratura soprano Rainelle Krause makes her debut at Toronto’s Opera Atelier in the role of Queen of Night. This production of The Magic Flute by Gerard Gauci, complete with dragons and flying machines, also stars tenor Colin Ainsworth as Tamino, and soprano Meghan Lindsay making her role debut as Pamina. (Oct. 15-19) https://www.operaatelier.com/shows/mozarts-the-magic-flute/
- ['Steele Roots' Premieres At Atlanta Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/steele-roots-premieres-at-atlanta-opera/) - Atlanta Opera will present the world premiere of Steele Roots by composer Dave Ragland and librettist Selda Sahin, winners of the 2023 96-Hour Opera Project. The work was inspired by Carrie Steele Logan, a formerly enslaved woman who dedicates her life to caring for orphaned children in Atlanta. Director Tazewell Thompson mentored the winning team
- [Minneapolis: Ophelia Inspires Nordic Song Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minneapolis-ophelia-inspires-nordic-song-cycle/) - The Minnesota Orchestra’s Nordic Soundscapes Festival is back, and the Jan. 16-17 program features let me tell you, a moving song cycle by Danish composer Hans Abrahamsen that tells the story of Hamlet’s Ophelia from her perspective, sung by soprano Lauren Snouffer. Moving over to Finland, the program ends with Sibelius’ First Symphony. Thomas Søndergård conducts.
- [Sculptures As Instruments In NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sculptures-as-instruments-in-nyc/) - American Composers Orchestra’s Oct. 29 program, The New Virtuoso: For Art’s Sake, features works that utilize newly created instruments and sonic media to explore symphonic texture. Daniel Rozin is creating the “responsive sculptures,” Mélisse Brunet conducts, and soprano Lucy Gibbon is the featured soloist. Composers include Raven Chacon and world premieres by Tamar Muskal, Aaron
- [Sharon's 'Tristan' Debuts At Met](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sharons-tristan-debuts-at-met/) - Lise Davidsen sings Isolde in a new Metropolitan Opera production of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde, staged by Yuval Sharon, with tenor Michael Spyres as Tristan. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes his role debut as King Marke, and Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the opera for the first time. (March 9-April 2) https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/tristan-und-isolde/
- [Kahlo And Rivera Subjects Of New Met Production](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kahlo-and-rivera-subjects-of-new-met-production/) - 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/
- [Met's New Take On Saariaho's 'Innocence'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mets-new-take-on-saariahos-innocence/) - Kaija Saariaho’s final opera, Innocence, gets a new production at the Metropolitan Opera, directed by Simon Stone. The cast is anchored by mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Finnish ethno-pop singer Vilma Jää as a grieving mother and the daughter she lost in a school shooting. (April 6-29) https://www.metopera.org/season/2025-26-season/innocence/
- [Chabon-Based Opera Gets New Met Staging](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chabon-based-opera-gets-new-met-staging/) - 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/
- [McVicar's 'Medea' At Chicago Lyric](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mcvicars-medea-at-chicago-lyric/) - Lyric Opera of Chicago presents Cherubini’s Medea in David McVicar’s grand-scale production. Enrique Mazzola conducts a cast headed by powerhouse soprano Sondra Radvanovsky and tenor Matthew Polenzani. (Oct. 11-26) https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2025-26/medea/
- [Chicago Premier Explores Great Migration](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-premier-explores-great-migration/) - The world premiere of safronia, with score and libretto by Chicago’s poet laureate, avery r. young, will be given by the Lyric Opera of Chicago. Triumph and tragedy converge in this universal yet personal story of the Great Migration, marrying folklore, poetry, and history, with music inspired by gospel, blues, funk, and soul. (April 17-18)
- [Mahler Gets Stage Treatment In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mahler-gets-stage-treatment-in-boston/) - Boston Lyric Opera + Community Studios will present a semi-staged version of Mahler’s Song of the Earth in its chamber arrangement by Arnold Schoenberg. Conducted by David Angus, and directed by Anne Bogart. (March 20-29) https://blo.org/song/
- [Austin Opera Throws Itself Birthday Party](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/austin-opera-throws-itself-birthday-party/) - Austin Opera is turning 40 in the 2025-26 season, and it’s throwing itself a party! The Nov. 15-16 program finds Timothy Myers conducting opera highlights (staged by Rebecca Herman) from Verdi, Puccini, Mozart, and Bernstein. https://austinopera.org/shows-events/2025-2026-season/celebrate-opera/
- [Dallas Recreates 1875 'Carmen'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-recreates-1875-carmen/) - 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/
- ['Mice And Men' In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mice-and-men-in-houston/) - Houston Grand Opera will present Carlisle Floyd’s Of Mice and Men, starring Sam Dhobhany as George and Demetrious Sampson, Jr. as Lennie. Benjamin Manis conducts and Kristine McIntyre directs. (March 13-15) https://www.houstongrandopera.org/on-stage/of-mice-and-men
- [Forth Worth Opera Turns 80](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/forth-worth-opera-turns-80/) - Fort Worth Opera celebrates its 80th season with a production of Madama Butterfly, with the Fort Worth Symphony in the pit. (April 10-12) https://www.fwopera.org/madamabutterfly-2026
- [New York: ACO Marks American Declaration's 250th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-york-aco-marks-american-declarations-250th/) - Commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, America Composers Orchestra’s Hello America: Letters To Us, From Us focus on artists’ musical open letters to America, which reflect narratives around the summer homes of turn-of-the-century Black folk, rituals of celebration, and the connection between the historic and current patriotism of Black American women. March
- [Indianapolis: New Joan Tower Saxophone Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indianapolis-new-joan-tower-saxophone-concerto/) - 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/
- [Principals Turn Soloists In Indy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/principals-turn-soloists-in-indy/) - The Indianapolis Symphony seems to be proud of its players: The April 17-18 program shines a spotlight on several new section principals, with solo turns by harpist Claire Thai, flutist Austin Brown, violinist Bryson Karrer, and a principal clarinetist yet to be named. Jun Märkl conducts Fauré, Debussy, Ravel, and Saint-Saëns. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/french-images/
- [Immigrant Composers Fill Indy Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/immigrant-composers-fill-indy-program/) - The Indianapolis Symphony celebrates music written by composers who immigrated to America on its Oct. 24-25 program. Rebecca Tong conducts works by Korngold, Rachmaninoff (featuring pianist Vadym Kholodenko), Eunike Tanzil, and Stravinsky. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/coming-to-america/
- ['St. Matthew' Marks Milwaukee Choir's 50th Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-matthew-marks-milwaukee-choirs-50th-year/) - The 50th anniversary of the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus will be marked in grand and solemn style on March 20-21 with a performance of Bach’s St. Matthew Passion. Ken-David Masur conducts the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra and Chorus (the latter directed by Cheryl Frazes Hill), plus tenor soloist Patrick Grahl. https://www.mso.org/concerts/bachs-st-matthew-passion/65857/
- [New Orchestral Overture Opens MKE Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-orchestral-overture-opens-mke-program/) - The Milwaukee Symphony will play the world premiere of The Landscape Wakes by Edmund Finnis on Feb. 6-7. Music director Ken-David Masur conducts Beethoven’s Leonora Overture No. 3, Barber’s Toccata Festiva, and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony No. 3, Organ, featuring Paul Jacobs. https://www.mso.org/concerts/saint-saens-organ-symphony/65848/
- [Masur Starts Final Milwaukee Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/masur-starts-final-milwaukee-season/) - 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/
- [Orchestra, Two Choruses, Give St. Louis Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/orchestra-two-choruses-give-st-louis-premiere/) - 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
- [St. Louis Welcomes Polish Conductor Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-louis-welcomes-polish-conductor-debut/) - Polish conductor Anna Sułkowska-Migoń will make her debut with the St. Louis Symphony on March 14-15, leading Leila Josefowicz in Alban Berg’s Violin Concerto. The orchestra will open with an Overture by fellow Pol Grażyna Bacewicz and close with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Scheherazade. https://shop.slso.org/8645
- [Two Singers Debut In St. Louis 'Magic Flute'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-singers-debut-in-st-louis-magic-flute/) - The St. Louis Symphony will present Mozart’s The Magic Flute in concert Feb. 20-22. Two singers make their St. Louis debuts in this production: Ben Bliss (Tamino) and Rainelle Krause (Queen of the Night). Stéphane Denève conducts. https://shop.slso.org/8643
- [Sheng Concerto In St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sheng-concerto-in-st-louis/) - Conductor Dima Slobodeniouk and Wu Wei, master of the traditional Chinese sheng (mouth organ), both make their St. Louis Symphony debuts Jan. 24-25. Wu Wei plays Jukka Tiensuu’s Teoton. The second half of the program is Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4. https://shop.slso.org/8641
- [St. Louis: Symphony, Dance Theatre Team Up](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-louis-symphony-dance-theatre-team-up/) - A choreographed version of Stravinsky’s Pulcinella Suite will be presented Jan. 10-11 in a collaboration between the St. Louis Symphony and St. Louis Dance Theatre, with choreography by Kirven Douthit-Boyd. The program, conducted by Stéphane Denève, also includes Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks Concerto, Debussy’s Jeux, and a suite from Albert Roussel’s Bacchus et Ariane. https://shop.slso.org/8640
- [Berglund Debuts With Sibelius In STL](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/berglund-debuts-with-sibelius-in-stl/) - Conductor Tabita Berglund makes her debut with the St. Louis Symphony on Oct. 24-25 conducting Sibelius’ Second Symphony. Augustin Hadelich will play Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto No. 2. https://shop.slso.org/8633
- [St. Louis: Slatkin Conducts Own New Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-louis-slatkin-conducts-own-new-work/) - The St. Louis Symphony will play the U.S. premiere of Leonard Slatkin’s Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy on Oct. 11-12, with the composer on the podium. Emanuel Ax will play Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, K. 503, and the program ends with Elgar’s First Symphony. https://shop.slso.org/8632
- [Two-Piano Premiere in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-piano-premiere-in-boston/) - Susanna Mälkki will conduct the world premiere of a new work by Andrew Norman for two pianos and orchestra. Piano duo Lucas and Arthur Jussen join the Boston Symphony for this program April 16-18. Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances completes the bill. https://www.bso.org/events/apr-16-18-ravel-norman-rachmaninoff?performance=2026-04-16-19:30
- [Boston: Salonen Conducts His New Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-salonen-conducts-his-new-concerto/) - Under the baton of Esa-Pekka Salonen, the Boston Symphony will give the U.S. premiere of Salonen’s Horn Concerto, featuring Stefan Dohr. The other work on this Feb. 12-14 program is Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic. https://www.bso.org/events/feb-12-14-salonen-bruckner?performance=2026-02-12-19:30
- [New Carlos Simon Chamber Work in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-carlos-simon-chamber-work-in-boston/) - The Boston Symphony Chamber Players, featuring pianist Seong-Jin Cho, will give the world premiere of a new work by Carlos Simon. The Jan. 18 program also includes Valerie Coleman’s Rubispheres, for flute, clarinet, and bassoon plus Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor. https://www.bso.org/events/jan-18-bso-chamber-players?performance=2026-01-18-15:00
- [Boston's León Premiere Focuses On Rhythm](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bostons-leon-premiere-focuses-on-rhythm/) - The world premiere of Tania León’s Time to Time will be presented by the Boston Symphony on Nov. 13-15. The title refers to the composer’s characteristic preoccupation with duration and rhythm. Dima Slobodeniouk conducts Roberto Sierra’s Concerto for Saxophones (with James Carter) and Brahms’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.bso.org/events/nov-13-15-leon-sierra?performance=2025-11-13-19:30
- [Ozawa Pupil Makes Boston Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ozawa-pupil-makes-boston-debut/) - Japanese conductor Nodoka Okisawa, a protégé of Seiji Ozawa, makes her Boston Symphony debut on Nov. 6-8. The programs includes Takemitsu’s Requiem for Strings, and two works by Dvořák: the Violin Concerto (with Midori) and Symphony No. 7. https://www.bso.org/events/nov-6-8-takemitsu-dvorak?performance=2025-11-06-19:30
- [Boston's Symphony Hall Turns 125](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bostons-symphony-hall-turns-125/) - 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
- [Seattle's 'Through Her Window' Offers New Works By Women](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattles-through-her-window-offers-new-works-by-women/) - Seattle Symphony’s principal oboe, Mary Lynch VanderKolk, leads the second part of a program featuring works written for and with her as part of Through Her Window, an ongoing commissioning and performance project that brings together female-identifying composers. This program will feature world premieres curated by composer, flutist and founder of Imani Winds, Valerie Coleman. (April 24) https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25octave5
- [Seattle: New Percussion/Violin Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-new-percussion-violin-concerto/) - On April 9-11, the Seattle Symphony under Peter Oundjian will give the West Coast premiere of a Double Concerto from American composer Christopher Theofanidis for percussionist Svet Stoyanov and concertmaster Noah Geller. Joan Tower’s exciting Concerto for Orchestra Suite opens the program, which closes with Rachmaninov’s Symphonic Dances. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25sub15
- [Re-imagining The Piano Repertoire In Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/re-imagining-the-piano-repertoire-in-seattle/) - Natalie Tenenbaum is a composer, pianist, music producer/director and singer-songwriter who breaks the boundaries between classical composition, popular storytelling and improvisational jazz. In her recital March 27, under the auspices of the Seattle Symphony, she will feature original music, sound design, and reimaginings of works by Bach, Stravinsky, Debussy, Liszt and others. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25octave4
- [Chinese Instruments In Seattle Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chinese-instruments-in-seattle-premiere/) - Coinciding with the Lunar New Year, Xian Zhang will conduct the Seattle Symphony in the city’s premiere of Qigang Chen’s Iris Dévoilée (Iris Unveiled). The work employs Peking and Western-style singers and traditional Chinese instruments, evoking Iris, the Greek goddess of the rainbow, and the “eternal feminine.” The Feb. 12-15 concludes with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25sub10
- [Oceanic Works In Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oceanic-works-in-seattle/) - Vaughan Williams’ A Sea Symphony – a cello concerto featuring Gabriel Cabezas – will be played Oct. 23-25 by the Seattle Symphony. In keeping with the sea theme, the program opens with Gabriella Smith’s Lost Coast. Gemma New conducts. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2025-2026/25sub4
- [Seattle Symphony Goes Baroque](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-symphony-goes-baroque/) - On Oct. 16-18, Ivars Taurins will conduct the Seattle Symphony in a program of late-Baroque and pre-classical works. The evening is bookended by Handel: The Organ Concerto, Op. 7, No. 4 will feature Joseph Adam, and Music for the Royal Fireworks ends the program. Telemann’s Wassermusik and a Sinfonia by Johann Adolph Hasse will also
- ['Rigoletto' Closes Baltimore Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rigoletto-closes-baltimore-season/) - The Baltimore Symphony, under Jonathan Heyward, will present Verdi’s Rigoletto in concert as their season finale June 12-14. Alison Moritz directs the semi-staged production, and the soloists include Quinn Kelsey (Rigoletto), Raven McMillon (Gilda), and Andrew Owens (Duke of Mantua). https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19613
- [New Brett Dean Work In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-brett-dean-work-in-baltimore/) - The East Coast premiere of Australian composer Brett Dean's Fire Music will be played during the Baltimore Symphony’s EARTH/Songs Festival on April 16-19. Marin Alsop conducts Copland's Suite from Appalachian Spring and Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, Pastoral. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19606
- [Baltimore Premieres Work At EARTH/Songs Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baltimore-premieres-work-at-earth-songs-fest/) - The Baltimore Symphony’s EARTH/Songs Festival continues March 8 with the world premiere of a new work by Grace-Evangeline Mason. Jonathon Heyward conducts the program, which includes Mahler’s Song of the Earth, with vocalists Russell Thomas and Sasha Cooke, as well as Dvořák’s In Nature’s Realm. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19604
- [Baltimore Symphony's Spring Festival Begins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baltimore-symphonys-spring-festival-begins/) - Featuring a Spring theme, the Baltimore Symphony’s Feb. 26 – March 1 program begins the orchestra’s EARTH/Songs Festival. Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring and Boulanger's Of a Spring Morning explore the vernal theme. BSO Principal Percussionist Edouard Beyens will solo in Tan Dun's The Tears of Nature, while Jonathon Heyward conducts. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19603
- [Stravinsky And A New Work In Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stravinsky-and-a-new-work-in-baltimore/) - Joanna Carneiro leads the East Coast premiere of Andreia Pinto Correia's Cortejo with the Baltimore Symphony on Oct. 9-12. The program also includes Stravinsky's Suite from Pulcinella and the Divertimento from The Fairy's Kiss, and Rafael Aguirre (guitar) is featured in Rodrigo's Concerto de Aranjuez. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/19594
- [Cox And Hough Team Up for Cincy Finale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cox-and-hough-team-up-for-cincy-finale/) - 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/
- [Slavic Tales In Cincinnati](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/slavic-tales-in-cincinnati/) - In her Cincinnati Symphony debut on Jan. 30-31, Ukranian conductor Oksana Lyniv leads a program that weaves together powerful Slavic stories: Evgeni Orkin’s Five Interrupted Lullabies, Dvořák’s Golden Spinning Wheel, and Smetana’s “The Moldau.” Violinist Esther Yoo will solo in Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2526-cso-season/slavic-legends/
- [Măcelaru Debuts As Cincinnati Leader](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/macelaru-debuts-as-cincinnati-leader/) - 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/
- [Afkham Debuts In S.F. With Russian Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/afkham-debuts-in-s-f-with-russian-program/) - Conductor David Afkham makes his San Francisco Symphony debut Oct. 24-26, leading the orchestra in Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8. Sergey Khachatryan will be the soloist in Tchaikovsky’s Violin Concerto. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2025-26/TCHAIKOVSKY-SHOSTAKOVICH
- [Pianists Chooses Prokofiev for S.F. Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianists-chooses-prokofiev-for-s-f-debut/) - French pianist Alexandre Kantorow will debut with the San Francisco Symphony in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. The Nov. 6-8 program, conducted by Karina Canellakis, also includes Dvořák’s Scherzo capriccioso and Sibelius’ Four Legends from the Kalevala. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2025-26/PROKOFIEV-SIBELIUS
- [Beethoven Ninth Closes S.F. Symphony Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-ninth-closes-s-f-symphony-season/) - The San Francisco Symphony is planning a grand season finale June 18-21, when James Gaffigan conducts Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. The San Francisco Symphony Chorus will be joined by solosts Jessica Faselt, Kelley O’Connor, Thomas Cooley, and Peixin Chen. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2025-26/GAFFIGAN-CONDUCTS-BEETHOVEN-9
- [A Bang-Up Program In Door County](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-bang-up-program-in-door-county/) - 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
- [Early Music Meets New In Ottawa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/early-music-meets-new-in-ottawa/) - U.K.-based vocal ensemble The Gesualdo Six will bring its program called Wishing Tree to Ottawa Chamberfest on July 26. The concert combines early music from the likes of William Byrd, Jacques Arcadelt, and Orlando Gibbons with 21st-century takes on earlier poetry by Owain Park, David Bednall, and others. https://www.chamberfest.com/event/2025/the-gesualdo-six-wishing-tree/
- [Ottawa Composer To Be Honored At Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ottawa-composer-to-be-honored-at-festival/) - On July 20, Ottawa Chamberfest will celebrate the 60th birthday of Ottawa-based composer Kelly-Marie Murphy. The program showcases a range of ensemble combinations, including string quartet, piano four-hands, and viola/piano duo. The many works on offer include the gorgeous and intimate Ad Lucem for viola and piano to the driving rhythms of Dr. Blue’s Incredible Bone-Shaking Drill Engine for
- [Mahler And Bruckner In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mahler-and-bruckner-in-san-diego/) - Rafael Payare and the San Diego Symphony will host baritone Matthias Goerne for a performance of Mahler’s Des Knaben Wunderhorn on Nov. 7-8. The second half of the program is just as powerful: Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/where-the-shining-trumpets-blow/?performance=9638
- [San Diego Plays Works Of War](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-diego-plays-works-of-war/) - Symphonies during wartime is the theme of the San Diego Symphony’s Jan. 24-25 program, conducted by Rafael Payare. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 1 was written as the Napoleonic War was getting started, whereas Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8 was composed in the depths of World War II. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/tragedy-and-triumph/?performance=9658
- [San Diego Brahms Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-diego-brahms-festival/) - As part of its multi-program Brahms Festival, the San Diego Symphony will perform the composer’s First and Second Symphonies on Feb. 27-March 1. Rafael Payare conducts. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/brahms-festival-symphonies-1-2/?performance=9673
- [San Diego Celebrates Cali Composers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-diego-celebrates-cali-composers/) - California transplants are the focus of the San Diego Symphony’s April 10-11 program. Robert Spano conducts Adam Schoenberg’s Cool Cat and longtime Golden State resident Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3, and pianist Conrad Tao will be the soloist for John Adams’ Century Rolls. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/journeys-to-california/?performance=9680
- [Ortiz's New Cello Concerto In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ortizs-new-cello-concerto-in-san-diego/) - 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
- [Folk-Inspired Music In San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/folk-inspired-music-in-san-diego/) - 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
- [Ukrainian Composer Featured in Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ukrainian-composer-featured-in-philadelphia/) - Marin Alsop conducts the Philadelphia Orchestra in the city’s premiere of a work by Ukrainian composer Iryna Aleksiychuk on March 20-22. Rachmaninoff’s blazing Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini will be performed by pianist Haochen Zhang, and Schumann’s Second Symphony ends the program. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/marin-and-the-many-moods-of-schumann
- [Diehl Plays Tyshawn Sorey Premiere In Phila](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/diehl-plays-tyshawn-sorey-premiere-in-phila/) - 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
- [Phila Orch. Premieres Marsalis Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-orch-premieres-marsalis-symphony/) - 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
- ['Ears Of The Book' Pipa Concerto In Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ears-of-the-book-pipa-concerto-in-philadelphia/) - Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Du Yun's Ears of the Book is a virtuosic concerto for award-winning pipa master Wu Man. She will play the work with the Philadelphia Orchestra, under Elim Chan, on Jan. 22-24. Musorgsky’s Pictures from an Exhibition is also on the program. https://philorch.ensembleartsphilly.org/tickets-and-events/2025-26-season/pictures-from-an-exhibition
- [Phila Orch. Plays Julius Eastman Rarity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phila-orch-plays-julius-eastman-rarity/) - Julius Eastman was a shooting star of a composer. Born in 1940, Black and gay, he wrote his tender and shattering Second Symphony as a farewell to a former lover. The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by Dalia Stasevska, will perform Eastman’s work, along with John Williams’s jaunty Tuba Concerto, featuring Carol Jantsch. The Jan. 16-17 program
- [Philadelphia Premieres John Adams Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/philadelphia-premieres-john-adams-work/) - 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
- [Montreal: Nagano To Reconstruct 1868 Brahms Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/montreal-nagano-to-reconstruct-1868-brahms-program/) - Under the baton on Kent Nagano, the Montreal Symphony will perform Brahms’ A German Requiem as it was presented in 1868 in Bremen, Germany. This historic recreation includes excerpts from Baroque masterpieces such as Bach’s St. Matthew Passion and Handel’s Messiah, which offer insight into Brahms’ artistic heritage and underscore his profound connection to the rich German musical
- [World Premiere Opens Montreal Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-opens-montreal-program/) - A new work by Canadian composer Isabella Gellis will open the Jan. 15-17 Montreal Symphony program. Emanuel Ax will solo in Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto, and Rafael Payere concludes the concert with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/emanuel-ax-plays-beethoven/
- [Tributes By And For Ravel In Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tributes-by-and-for-ravel-in-montreal/) - The Montreal Symphony’s Nov. 21 program focuses on Ravel: his neo-Baroque Le tombeau de Couperin and Rudolf Escher’s latter-day response, Le tombeau de Ravel. Flutist Christoper James will open the program with a new work by Caroline Lizotte for flute and harp. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/immortal-ravel/
- [Oud Virtuoso Brings Concerto To Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oud-virtuoso-brings-concerto-to-montreal/) - Joseph Tawadros plays the lute-like Middle Eastern instrument call the oud; his Concerto for Oud will be performed by the Montreal Symphony Nov. 5-6. Lawrence Renes conducts this program, which includes Ravel’s Shéhérazade, ouverture de féerie and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/a-musical-journey-with-joseph-tawadros/
- [Montreal: 'Faust' Opens Symphony Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/montreal-faust-opens-symphony-season/) - 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/
- [Dudamel Opens His NY Phil Director Designate Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dudamel-opens-his-ny-phil-director-designate-season/) - 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/
- [NYC: New Work Connects 'Outer And Inner Nature'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-work-connects-outer-and-inner-nature/) - Chaya Czernowin’s Unforeseen dusk: bones into wings “leads us to an undiscovered connection between outer and inner nature,” according to the composer, whose work will receive its U.S. premiere by the New York Philharmonic Oct. 29. Brad Lubman conducts this performance, part of the Sound On series, featuring soloists from the Neue Vocalsolisten and with Students from
- [NY Phil Premiere Is Inspired By Ukraine](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ny-phil-premiere-is-inspired-by-ukraine/) - On Nov. 6-8, the New York Philharmonic plays the U.S. premiere of Bohdana Frolyak’s Let There Be Light, which reflects on the Ukrainian conflict. Joshua Bell is soloist in Thomas de Hartmann’s Violin Concerto, and the program is bookended by other responses to war: Copland’s Fanfare for the Common Man and Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/joshua-bell-plays-de-hartmann/
- [New Project 19 Commission At NY Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-project-19-commission-at-ny-phil/) - The 1911 version of Stravinsky’s Petrushka is the main orchestral work on the New York Philharmonic’s Nov. 13-16 program, which also features violinist Nicola Benedetti performing the jazz-influenced concerto written for her by composer and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Conductor David Robertson opens the program with the world premiere of a new work by Caroline Mallonee, commissioned as
- [Multi-Composer Project Celebrates U.S. At NY Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/multi-composer-project-celebrates-u-s-at-ny-phil/) - To mark America’s 250th anniversary Gustavo Dudamel leads the world premiere of a new orchestration (by a team of important composers) of Frederic Rzewski’s The People United Will Never Be Defeated. Rzewski’s work echoes the defiant spirit of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, which opens the March 12-17 program. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/dudamel-conducts-eroica-and-the-people-united/
- [NYC: Dudamel Premiere's Lang's 'Wealth Of Nations'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-dudamel-premieres-langs-wealth-of-nations/) - Gustavo Dudamel will lead the New York Philharmonic in the world premiere of David Lang’s the wealth of nations on March 19-22. The soloists for this oratorio inspired by economist Adam Smith’s 1776 magnum opus will be mezzo-soprano Fleur Barron and bass-baritone Davóne Tines. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/dudamel-and-david-langs-the-wealth-of-nations/
- [NY Phil To Premiere Two Piano And Percussion Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ny-phil-to-premiere-two-piano-and-percussion-work/) - A new work by George Lewis for two pianos and percussion will receive its world premiere on April 8-10 with the New York Philharmonic under Kwamé Ryan. The program also includes Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915, featuring Golda Schultz, and Ives’ The Unanswered Question. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2526/golda-schultz-sings-barber-and-stravinsky/
- [Pittsburgh's America250 Program Includes Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburghs-america250-program-includes-premiere/) - For its America250 Festival program on June 19-21, conducted by Manfred Honeck, the Pittsburgh Symphony will premiere a new work by Michael Daugherty. The Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre will provide choreography to a suite from Copland’s Appalachian Spring, the orchestra will give its first performance of Jessie Montgomery’s Strum, and Augustin Hadelich will be the solist
- [Circus-Inspired Premiere In Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/circus-inspired-premiere-in-pittsburgh/) - The world premiere of Jacob Bancks’ The Greatest Show on Earth will be played March 6-8 by the Pittsburgh Symphony under the direction of Manfred Honeck, who will also conduct Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2. Emanuel Ax is the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/99023/ax-plays-brahms
- [Capuçon Makes Pittsburgh Symph. Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/capucon-makes-pittsburgh-symph-debut/) - Manfred Honeck will conduct the Pittsburgh Symphony debut of cellist Gautier Capuçon in the Dvořák Cello Concerto on Feb. 6-8. George Walker’s Lyric for Strings opens the program, followed by Brahms’ Third Symphony. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/99013/brahms-third
- [Pittsburgh: New Work Delves Into 9/11 Anxiety](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-new-work-delves-into-9-11-anxiety/) - 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
- [New Julia Wolfe Work In Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-julia-wolfe-work-in-pittsburgh/) - On Nov. 14-16, the Pittsburgh Symphony will play the East Coast premiere of Julia Wolfe’s Liberty Bell, Juraj Valčuha on the podium. Pablo Ferrández will be the soloist for the Cello Concerto No. 1 by Saint-Saëns in a program that ends with Strauss’ Ein Heldenleben. https://pittsburghsymphony.org/production/98997/ferrandez-plays-saint-saens
- [World Premiere Closes NJ Symph. Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-closes-nj-symph-season/) - The world premiere of a new work by Allison Loggins-Hull will open the New Jersey Symphony’s June 4-7 season finale, conducted by Xian Zhang. Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 22 will feature Emanuel Ax, and the program closes with Berlioz’s wild Symphonie fantastique. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/symphonie-fantastique-2026
- [New Jersey: Reinhardt Conducts Bartók And Chopin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-jersey-reinhardt-conducts-bartok-and-chopin/) - Ruth Reinhardt will conduct the New Jersey Symphony in a program of Bartók and Chopin on March 12-15. Two orchestral works by Bartók bookend the evening: the Romanian Folk Dances and the Concerto for Orchestra. Eva Gevorgyan will be the soloist for Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/bartoks-concerto-for-orchestra
- [Cann Plays Price And Gershwin In NJ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cann-plays-price-and-gershwin-in-nj/) - In an all-American program on Nov. 6-9, the New Jersey Symphony will give the Northeast premiere of Carlos Simon’s symphonic suite Zodiac. Florence Price specialist Michelle Cann will be the piano soloist for Price’s single-movement Piano Concerto as well as Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. Tito Muñoz conducts this program, which ends with Copland’s Suite from
- [NSO All-Beethoven Program Features Violinist Faust](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nso-all-beethoven-program-features-violinist-faust/) - Making her National Symphony Orchestra debut Oct. 16-19, Isabelle Faust will solo in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. This all-Beethoven concert, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach, also includes the Egmont Overture and the Seventh Symphony. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/eschenbach-faust/
- [Cellist Makes National Symph. Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cellist-makes-national-symph-debut/) - On Nov. 20-23, cellist Pablo Ferrández will make his debut with the National Symphony Orchestra, playing Lutosławski’s Cello Concerto. The program opens with Britten’s Sinfonia da Requiem and closes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 5. Edward Gardner conducts. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/gardner-ferrandez/
- [Going All-American With The National Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/going-all-american-with-the-national-symphony/) - The National Symphony will play the world premiere of Peter Boyer and Joseph Sohm’s American Mosaic on Feb. 19-22 as part of the orchestra’s season theme: The Promise of US: Our Nation at 250. In this program conducted by Thomas Wilkins, banjo virtuoso Béla Fleck will solo in his own arrangement to Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue.
- [NSO: Shaham and Shaham Premiere Esmail Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nso-shaham-and-shaham-premiere-esmail-concerto/) - Reena Esmail’s new double concerto (featuring violinist Gil Shaham and pianist Orli Shaham) will receive its world premiere Feb. 26-28 with the National Symphony under David Robertson. The program opens with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and closes with the Sibelius Fifth Symphony. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/robertson-shaham/
- [New Carlos Simon Concerto in DC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-carlos-simon-concerto-in-dc/) - Gianandrea Noseda will conduct the National Symphony in the world premiere of Carlos Simon’s Double Concerto for violin (Hilary Hahn) and cello (Seth Parker Woods) on March 12-14. Brahms Symphony No. 3 concludes the program. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2025-2026/noseda-hahn/
- [Minnesota Orch. To Celebrate Juneteenth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minnesota-orch-to-celebrate-juneteenth/) - To celebrate Juneteenth, the Minnesota Orchestra, led by Kedrick Armstrong, will present a concert of music by Black composers Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, Brittany J. Green, Nkeiru Okoye, and Brian Raphael Nabors. This June 18 program features vocalist Melody Betts, plus Nabors playing Hammond organ. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/holiday/juneteenth
- [Oboe Spotlighted in Minnesota Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oboe-spotlighted-in-minnesota-program/) - It’s relatively rare to hear Strauss’ Oboe Concerto, but oboist Nathan Hughes will play it April 23-24 with the Minnesota Orchestra. Under the baton of Kristiina Poska, the program also features Brahms’ Symphony No. 4. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/brahms-symphony-no-4
- [Minneapolis: Afkham Conducts Weill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minneapolis-afkham-conducts-weill/) - On Oct. 30-31 the Minnesota Orchestra will play Kurt Weill’s Symphony No. 2, conducted by David Afkham. Janice Carissa will be the soloist in Saint-Saëns’ Piano Concerto No. 2, and the program ends with Ravel’s La Valse. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/david-afkham-returns
- [Minnesota Premieres Climate-Change Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minnesota-premieres-climate-change-work/) - 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
- [Summer Music in Minneapolis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/summer-music-in-minneapolis/) - Jon Kimura Parker is the Minnesota Orchestra’s official “Creative Partner of Summer at Orchestra Hall.” He will be the soloist for Schumann’s Piano Concerto on the orchestra’s July 25 program, conducted by Samuel Lee. Also on tap is Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake Suite. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/summer-at-orchestra-hall/parker-schumann-and-tchaikovsky
- [Focus On Sibelius In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/focus-on-sibelius-in-houston/) - Sibelius is in the spotlight March 27-29 when the Houston Symphony plays two works by the Finnish composer plus one he inspired, William Grant Still’s Threnody: In Memory of Jean Sibelius. In keeping with the Scandinavian theme, the program ends with Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite. Dima Slobodeniouk conducts. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/griegs-peer-gynt/
- [Adams Conducts Adams And Other Americans in Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/adams-conducts-adams-and-other-americans-in-houston/) - John Adams will take the podium April 18-19 to lead the Houston Symphony in two of his own works: Must the Devil Have All the Good Tunes? (featuring pianist Víkingur Ólafsson) and The Rock You Stand On. Also on the program are Ives’ The Unanswered Question and Copland’s Appalachian Spring. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/adams-conducts-adams-appalachian-spring/
- [Timpani Concerto Premieres In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/timpani-concerto-premieres-in-houston/) - Houston Symphony music director Juraj Valčuha conducts the world premiere of a new concerto for timpani by Andy Akiho, written for HSO principal timpanist Leonardo Soto. The second half of the program is Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. (March 20-22) https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/beethoven-fifth-symphony-timpani-premiere/
- [Houston: World Premiere And Two Great Warhorses](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-world-premiere-and-two-great-warhorses/) - A new work by Ľubica Čekovská’s will have its world premiere as opener for the Houston Symphony’s Nov. 28-30 program. Behzod Abduraimov is soloist for Tchaikovsky’s First Piano Concerto, and the program closes with Strauss’ tone poem, Ein Heldenleben (A Hero’s Life). Juraj Valčuha conducts. https://houstonsymphony.org/performance/thanksgiving-weekend-tchaikovskys-piano-concerto-no-1/
- [Houston Rings In Season With New Wolfe Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-rings-in-season-with-new-wolfe-work/) - 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
- [Mahler And A Venerable Maestro In Detroit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mahler-and-a-venerable-maestro-in-detroit/) - 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
- [Detroit: Flute Concerto Co-Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/detroit-flute-concerto-co-commission/) - On Feb. 26-28 flutist Emmanuel Pahud will join the Detroit Symphony for a performance of Samy Moussa’s Flute Concerto, a DSO co-commission. The program, which ends with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique, will be conducted by Fabian Gabel. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/25-26-winter/symphonie-fantastique
- [Detroit's Northern Lights Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/detroits-northern-lights-festival/) - Opening the Detroit Symphony’s 2025 Northern Lights Festival with music of Finland and Norway on April 9-11, Christian Tetzlaff will play Sibelius’ Violin Concerto. Principal guest conductor Tabita Berglund starts the program with a birdsong-inspired work by Einojuhani Rautavaara and ends with movements from Grieg’s Peer Gynt suite. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/25-26-spring/northern-lights-festival-tetzlaff-plays-sibelius
- [Three Kanneh-Masons Meet One Beethoven Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/three-kanneh-masons-meet-one-beethoven-concerto/) - The Kanneh-Mason siblings—Isata (piano), Braimah (violin), and Sheku (cello)—will team up with the Detroit Symphony on Jan. 16-17 for the rarely played Beethoven Triple Concerto. Jonathon Heyward conducts the program, which includes Mendelssohn’s highly programmatic Italian Symphony. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/25-26-winter/beethovens-triple-concerto
- [Spano Celebrates America@250 In Atlanta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spano-celebrates-america250-in-atlanta/) - 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
- [Koh Plays Glass As Atlanta Premieres New Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/koh-plays-glass-as-atlanta-premieres-new-work/) - The world premiere of a new work by jazz-inspired composer Nicky Sohn will open the Atlanta Symphony’s April 9-10 program. Jerry Hou conducts a lineup the continues with Philip Glass’ Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring Jennifer Koh, and concludes with Rachmaninoff’s First Symphony. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/rachmaninoffs-first-symphony
- [All-American Concert in Atlanta Includes Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-american-concert-in-atlanta-includes-premiere/) - On Jan. 29-31 the Atlanta Symphony will give the U.S. Premiere of Leonard Slatkin’s Schubertiade: An Orchestral Fantasy, with the composer on the podium. Slatkin will also lead Randall Goosby in Barber’s Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Copland’s Symphony No. 3, part of the orchestra’s Copland 250 celebration. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/america250-copland-barber
- [Dallas: Two Concertos, One Brand New](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-two-concertos-one-brand-new/) - Ana María Patiño-Osorio conducts the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s Four Scenes from Childhood with the Dallas Symphony and viola soloist Meredith Kufchak on April 16-19. Julian Steckel is the soloist for Dvořák’s Cello Concerto, and the program concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 4 (Italian). https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/mendelssohns-italian-symphony/
- [New Violin Concerto to Premiere in Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-violin-concerto-to-premiere-in-dallas/) - The Dallas Symphony’s Feb. 12-15 world premiere of Sophia Jani’s Violin Concerto will feature soloist Melissa White. Jani is the DSO composer-in-residence. Guest conductor Tabita Berglund also leads the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture and Rchmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/tchaikovsky-rachmaninoff/
- [Dallas: A Concerto For Euphonium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-a-concerto-for-euphonium/) - Edward Gardner leads the Dallas Symphony in the U.S. premiere of James Macmillan’s Where the Lugar meets the Glaisnock on Jan. 22-24. This new concerto for euphonium will be performed by David Childs. The Dallas Symphony Chorus will open the program with Walton’s Coronation Te Deum, and Holst’s The Planets concludes the performance. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/holsts-the-planets-2/
- [One Dallas Night, Two World Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/one-dallas-night-two-world-premieres/) - The Dallas Symphony’s Nov. 22-24 program, conducted by Fabio Luisi, includes two world premieres: Jon Cziner’s Clarinet Concerto (Gregroy Raden, solist) and Moni Jasmine Guo’s “the sound of where i came from” 乡音. Other works on the program are Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s 40th Symphony. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/luisi-conducts-mozart/
- [Soprano Slack Sings New Work in Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/soprano-slack-sings-new-work-in-dallas/) - The world premiere of Kathryn Bostic’s new work for soprano and orchestra (featuring Karen Slack) will be performed by the Dallas Symphony on Nov. 7-9. Marin Alsop opens the program with Strauss’ Don Juan and closes with Brahms’ Second Symphony. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/alsop-conducts-brahms/
- [Negrón Joins Gershwin in Dallas Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/negron-joins-gershwin-in-dallas-program/) - 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/
- [Edgy Electronic Opera in Saratoga](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/edgy-electronic-opera-in-saratoga/) - A Mass for Women in Bathrooms is a new electronic chamber opera by Irish composer Emma O’Halloran and librettist Naomi Louisa O’Connell examining themes of infertility, reproductive rights and dementia, while reclaiming bodily autonomy for women in a historically violent space. It will be workshopped at Opera Saratoga’s summer festival on June 22 and 27.
- [New Double Concerto Closes Cleveland's Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-double-concerto-closes-clevelands-season/) - The Cleveland Orchestra’s season finale May 22 will include the world premiere Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin, Harp, and Orchestra (Leila Josefowicz, violin; Trina Struble, harp). Music director Franz Welser-Möst also conducts the Fourth Symphony of female Polish composer Grażyna Bacewicz, plus works by Hailstork and Dvořák. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-25-dvorak/
- [Harding Leads 'War Requiem' in Cleveland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/harding-leads-war-requiem-in-cleveland/) - Hear Benjamin Britten’s powerful War Requiem April 23-26 with the Cleveland Orchestra under Daniel Harding. The soloists are soprano Tamara Wilson, tenor Andrew Staples, and baritone Christian Gerhaher. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-21-britten/
- [Cleveland: Czech Conductor Leads Czech Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cleveland-czech-conductor-leads-czech-music/) - Czech conductor Jakub Hrůša, leading the Cleveland Orchestra on March 5-8, will perform works by two fellow countymen, composers Bohuslav Martinů and Vítězslava Kaprálová. The program opens with Brahms’ Symphony No. 3. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-16-brahm/
- [English Horn Featured in Cleveland Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/english-horn-featured-in-cleveland-premiere/) - Audiences will have an unusual experience Nov. 13-15 when the Cleveland Orchestra plays the U.S. premiere of Geoffrey Gordon’s Mad Song, a concerto for an instrument that rarely gets the spotlight: English horn. The soloist will be Robert Walters. Conductor Tugan Sokhiev also leads the orchestra in Mahler’s Tragic Symphony No. 6. https://www.clevelandorchestra.com/attend/concerts-and-events/2526/severance/wk-06-mahler/
- [New Work Opens Cleveland Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-opens-cleveland-season/) - 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/
- [Chicago Symphony: Two American-Themed Commissions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-symphony-two-american-themed-commissions/) - June 4-6, Marin Alsop conducts the Chicago Symphony in two important American co-commissions: John Adams’ The Rock You Stand On and Wynton Marsalis’ Liberty. Members of the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will be on hand to participate in the Marsalis. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/alsop-conducts-adams-copland-marsalis/
- [Salonen Visits Sea And Coast At Chicago Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/salonen-visits-sea-and-coast-at-chicago-symphony/) - The Feb. 5-7 Chicago Symphony program will mark the first time the orchestra has played Gabriella Smith’s Lost Coast, which will be sandwiched between two of Debussy’s great orchestral works, including La Mer. Esa-Pekka Salonen conducts, with Gabriel Cabezas as cello soloist. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/salonen-conducts-la-mer/
- [Aucoin Premiere At Chicago Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aucoin-premiere-at-chicago-symphony/) - The world premiere of a new song by Matthew Aucoin, Song of the Reappeared, will be performed by soprano Julia Bullock with the Chicago Symphony Dec. 4-7. Petr Popelka conducts the program, which also includes Brahms’ Third Symphony and Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/till-eulenspiegel-bullock-sings-aucoin/
- [Chicago Hails 'Four Seasons' at 300](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-hails-four-seasons-at-300/) - On Nov. 13-15 the Chicago Symphony marks the 300th anniversary of Vivaldi’s The Four Seasons by performing the work under conductor Robert Chen, who will also be the violin soloist. The program also includes a Mozart Divertimento and Mahler’s orchestration of Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 11. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/chen-leads-the-four-seasons/
- [Asbury Debuts With Chicago Symphony: All Stravinsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/asbury-debuts-with-chicago-symphony-all-stravinsky/) - The Chicago Symphony welcomes the debut of conductor Stefan Asbury Oct. 23-25 for a semi-staged production of Stravinsky’s A Soldier’s Tale. The program also includes the CSO’s first-ever performance of two other Stravinski works: Fanfare for a New Theatre and the Septet. https://cso.org/performances/25-26/cso-classical/the-soldier-s-tale/
- [Chicago: Ravel Concerto Double Bill With Ott](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-ravel-concerto-double-bill-with-ott/) - 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/
- [Haymarket's Handel At Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/haymarkets-handel-at-ravinia/) - 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
- [Schubert Recital Recreated At Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/schubert-recital-recreated-at-ravinia/) - 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
- [Conductor Makes Her Ravinia Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/conductor-makes-her-ravinia-debut/) - 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
- [String Quartet Premieres at Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/string-quartet-premieres-at-ravinia/) - On July 20, the Ravinia Festival will present the world premiere of a string quartet by Joel Thompson, winner of the Sphinx Medal of Excellence and first-ever full-time composer-in-residence at Houston Grand Opera. This concert will be performed by fellows from the Steans Institute Piano & Strings Program. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/steans-chamber-music-afternoon-8
- [CSO At Ravinia: Residency No. 89](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cso-at-ravinia-residency-no-89/) - 2025 marks the 89th time that the Chicago Symphony Orchestra has been in residence at the Ravinia Festival. At their season opener July 11, chief conductor Marin Alsop will lead the CSO in Carlos Simon’s Amen, Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini (with pianist Bruce Liu), and Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/89th-residency-opening-night
- [Ravinia: Hewitt Marks 50 Years With Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ravinia-hewitt-marks-50-years-with-bach/) - To celebrate the 50th anniversary of her performing career, pianist Angela Hewitt will perform Bach’s Goldberg Variations on June 11 at the Ravinia Festival. https://www.ravinia.org/events/detail/bach-goldberg-variations
- [Two Ibarra Premieres At Ojai](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-ibarra-premieres-at-ojai/) - Joining with an ensemble that includes 2025’s Ojai Festival artistic director, Claire Chase, the JACK Quartet will give the world premiere of Susie Ibarra’s new work for sheng and percussion. Ibarra’s Sky Islands will also receive its West-coast premiere on this June 8 program, which opens with the JACK’s Modern/Medieval, a “renewing” of works from
- [Ojai Premiers Terry Riley Arrangement](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ojai-premiers-terry-riley-arrangement/) - On June 6, the Ojai Festival presents the world premiere of Alex Peh’s arrangement for trio of Terry Riley’s Pulsing Lifters. Peh, along with fellow keyboardist/composers Cory Smythe and Craig Taborn, will also play works by themselves, John Coltrane, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir. https://www.ojaifestival.org/2025-festival-schedule/
- ['In C' At Caramoor For Terry Riley's 90th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-c-at-caramoor-for-terry-rileys-90th/) - On July 27, members of Bang on a Can visit Caramoor for a celebration of legendary composer Terry Riley’s 90th birthday with a performance of Riley’s minimalist classic In C specifically designed for the festival’s grounds. This landmark piece from 1964 kicked off a revolution and introduced the musical style now known as Minimalism to a mainstream
- [Shaw and Sō Percussion at Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/shaw-and-so-percussion-at-caramoor/) - WHO TURNS OUT THE LIGHT is an evening-length staged performance by Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion at Caramoor on July 10. Built around the current tour of their new album Rectangles and Circumstance, this performance will be augmented by songs from their previous collaborative work, Let the Soil Play Its Simple Part, as well as an interlude
- [Caramoor Stages Two Telemann Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/caramoor-stages-two-telemann-works/) - On June 29 at Caramoor, the Boston Early Music Festival revives their acclaimed pairing of Telemann works in this fully staged production of the opera Pimpione and the cantata Ino. Inspired by the Italian comic intermezzi, Pimpinone approaches social class and seduction with stylish slapstick and evocative humanity. The cantata Ino features a thrilling story drawn from Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Paul O’Dette
- [Brentano Plays New Quartet At Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/brentano-plays-new-quartet-at-caramoor/) - The Brentano String Quartet returns to Caramoor on April 27. Quartets by Haydn and Brahms will be presented alongside the New York premiere of Madrigal Mongolia by Chinese American composer Lei Liang, in honor of his teacher Chou Wen-chung. https://caramoor.org/event/brentano-string-quartet-spring-2025/
- [West Edge Offers Rare 1688 Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/west-edge-offers-rare-1688-opera/) - 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)
- [Toronto: ‘Nightingale Project’ Recalls Stradivarius’ Owner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-nightingale-project-recalls-stradivarius-owner/) - Violinist Anna Štube and pianist Philip Chiu will be joined by author Thomas Wolf on July 22 at Toronto Summer Music to present The Nightingale Project. Accompanied by music and the projection of over 100 historical photographs, Wolf narrates the life of Lea Luboshutz, the first internationally known female violinist, her incomparable Stradivarius violin (the “Nightingale”),
- [Toronto: Historical Look at the Castrato Tradition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-historical-look-at-the-castrato-tradition/) - 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/
- [‘Poppea’ Kicks Off Toronto Summer Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/poppea-kicks-off-toronto-summer-music/) - Toronto Summer Music opens July 10 with a concert performance of Monteverdi’s opera L’incoronazione di Poppea. Leonardo García-Alarcón conducts Cappella Mediterranea and a cast led by Sophie Junker and Nicolò Balducci in a production set to tour Europe and Canada. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/opening-night-poppea/
- [All-Star All-Beethoven Chamber Concert at Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-star-all-beethoven-chamber-concert-at-tanglewood/) - 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
- [Tanglewood: In-Concert ‘Tosca’ Led by Nelsons](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-in-concert-tosca-led-by-nelsons/) - Andris Nelsons will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a concert presentation of Puccini’s Tosca on July 19 at Tanglewood. Kristine Opolais stars as the title character, with Seok Jong Baek as Cavaradossi and Bryn Terfel as Scarpia. https://www.bso.org/events/bso-july-19-puccini-tosca?performance=2025-07-19-20:00
- [Tanglewood Spotlights Aucoin’s ‘Music for New Bodies’](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tanglewood-spotlights-aucoins-music-for-new-bodies/) - 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
- [Three Female Composers in Tanglewood Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/three-female-composers-in-tanglewood-program/) - 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
- [Martinez Opens Sun Valley With Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/martinez-opens-sun-valley-with-mozart/) - 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/
- [Sun Valley's Mason Bates Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sun-valleys-mason-bates-commission/) - 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
- [Strauss to Close Sun Valley Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/strauss-to-close-sun-valley-fest/) - 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/
- ['Tell Your Story' Pairs Spoleto Musicians With SC Citizens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tell-your-story-pairs-spoleto-musicians-with-sc-citizens/) - In an event called "Tell Your Story" on May 29 at Spoleto USA, four members of the festival orchestra will pair with Charleston-based entrepreneurs, artists, and activists to create “aural memoirs.” These sonic collages will act as works of creative placemaking distinct to the South Carolina Lowcountry today. https://spoletousa.org/events/tell-your-story/
- [Spoleto USA Choral Director Takes His Leave With Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spoleto-usa-choral-director-takes-his-leave-with-bach/) - The Spoleto USA Chorus + Orchestra will send a longtime leader out in style. On June 7, Joe Miller will conduct Bach’s B minor Mass, saying farewell after 19 years as director of choral activities. https://spoletousa.org/events/spoleto-festival-usa-chorus-orchestra-bachs-mass-in-b-minor/
- [Spoleto USA: Multi-Genre Stage Work Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spoleto-usa-multi-genre-stage-work-premieres/) - In its U.S. premiere at Spoleto USA, White Box blends dance, music, puppetry, film, and projection to explore the true story of a lost expedition to fly over the North Pole in a gas balloon. Composed by Catherine Graindorge and directed by Sabine Theunissen, who also wrote the libretto. (May 29-31) https://spoletousa.org/events/white-box/
- [Youth Choir Ponders Social Issues in Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/youth-choir-ponders-social-issues-in-oregon/) - Stangeland Family Youth Choral Academy, a training program for the nation’s most talented high school choral singers, will present a program of socially-conscious works at Oregon Bach Festival. Led by Dr. Anton Armstrong on July 8, the program includes including Weather (a musical reflection of the 2020 murder of George Floyd) and “All of Us” from Considering
- [Oregon Bach: Jazz Meets Baroque in Oratorio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-bach-jazz-meets-baroque-in-oratorio/) - Jeff Scott’s Grammy-winning oratorio, Passion for Bach and Coltrane, is full of inspiration from two giants of music – Johann Sebastian Bach and John Coltrane, along with the spoken-word poetry of A.B. Spellman. Performed on July 12 at Oregon Bach Festival by Imani Wind and the Harlem Quartet. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/passion-for-bach-and-coltrane
- [Women's Lamentations at Oregon Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/womens-lamentations-at-oregon-bach/) - Cappella Artemesia, an all-female vocal and instrumental ensemble, presents laments and lamentations from 16th- and 17th-century Italy as they might have been heard in that most exclusively female environment: the convent. Presented in collaboration with Oregon Bach Festival Musicking Conference, May 11. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/cappella-artemisia-call-for-the-wailing-women-laments-and-lamentations-in-italian-convents
- [Oregon: Recreating An 1800 Beethoven Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-recreating-an-1800-beethoven-concert/) - To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Oregon Bach Festival’s Berwick Academy for Historically Informed Performance, the festival will recreate a benefit concert held by Beethoven in 1800. “Beethoven’s First ‘Akademie’” includes works by the beneficiary himself, along with Mozart, Bach, and Haydn. Jos van Veldhoven leads with Berwick Academy Orchestra. June 27. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/beethovens-first-akademie
- [Kalish Turns 90 at Menlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kalish-turns-90-at-menlo/) - 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
- [Menlo: Delights for Violin and Piano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/menlo-delights-for-violin-and-piano/) - 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
- [Piano Quartets, Including at Premiere, at Menlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/piano-quartets-including-at-premiere-at-menlo/) - On March 29 Music@Menlo will present the world premiere of a new piano quartet by Benjamin Scheer, which the festival commissioned. The program, featuring violinist Chad Hoopes and alumni of the Music@Menlo International Program, also includes piano quartets by Mozart and Dvořák. https://musicatmenlo.org/win/?evt=1789
- ['Firebird' And 'Icarus' Will Heat Up Grant Park](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/firebird-and-icarus-will-heat-up-grant-park/) - 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
- [Bonds' 'Credo' at Grant Park](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bonds-credo-at-grant-park/) - On July 11-12, the Grant Park Festival Orchestra and Chorus, with soprano Janai Brugger and baritone Sankara Harouna, will perform Margaret Bonds’ spirituals-inspired Credo. The program, conducted by Anthony Parnther, opens with Bruckner’s Psalm 150 and concludes with Brahms’ Second Symphony. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2025-season/2025-brahms-symphony-no-2
- [Gershwin Opens Grant Park Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gershwin-opens-grant-park-festival/) - At the Grant Park Festival’s 2025 season opener on June 11, conductor and pianist Andrew Litton will lead the festival orchestra in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. The program also features the vibrant Three Latin American Dances by Gabriela Lena Frank, and Manuel de Falla’s suite from the Three-Cornered Hat. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2025-season/2025-rhapsody-in-blue
- ['Mango Street' Novel Becomes Opera at Glimmerglass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mango-street-novel-becomes-opera-at-glimmerglass/) - Glimmerglass Festival will present the world premiere of The House on Mango Street, with music by Derek Bermel. He also co-wrote the libretto with Sandra Cisneros, author of the classic coming-of-age novel on which the opera is based. Chía Patiño directs. (July 18 – Aug. 16) https://glimmerglass.org/events/the-house-on-mango-street/
- [Homer for Young Listeners at Glimmerglass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/homer-for-young-listeners-at-glimmerglass/) - Ten years after the opera’s premiere, Glimmerglass Festival will stage Francesca Zambello’s production of Odyssey. This “youth opera,” with music by Ben Moore and libretto by Kelley Rourke, is a retelling of Homer’s epic tale led by two members of the Young Artist Program who serve as “Bards,” and featuring the Glimmerglass Youth Ensemble. (Aug.
- [50 Years of Stories in Music at Glimmerglass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/50-years-of-stories-in-music-at-glimmerglass/) - 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
- [Dallas Symphony Brings New Violin Concerto to Colorado](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-symphony-brings-new-violin-concerto-to-colorado/) - The Dallas Symphony Orchestra opens its July 1 performance at Bravo! Vail with Sophia Jani’s touching new work, I Wish You Daisies and Roses, and performs the Colorado premiere of Kris Bowers’ (of Bridgerton fame) Violin Concerto For a Younger Self, featuring violinist Charles Yang. Led by conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto, the program also includes Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/dallas-symphony-orchestra-2/beethoven-symphony-no-7
- [Bravo! Vail: Free Outdoor Latin Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bravo-vail-free-outdoor-latin-music/) - On June 26, Bravo! Vail presents Sinfónica de Minería for a second year in a special concert, and a Festival first, at Nottingham Park in Avon, Colo. This free event (reservations recommended) will showcase Hispanic and Latin works with the special flare and joy the ensemble is known for. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/community-concerts/communityconcerts-2/sinfonica-de-mineria
- [Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Bravo! Vail Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chamber-orchestra-of-europe-in-bravo-vail-debut/) - The Chamber Orchestra of Europe makes its Bravo! Vail debut on June 19. Led by German conductor Matthias Pintscher, the evening soars with Brahms’ Piano Concerto No. 1, featuring the incomparable pianist Yefim Bronfman. Works by Hadyn and Schubert complete the program. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/chamber-orchestra-of-europe/bronfman-plays-brahms-piano-concerto-no-1
- [New Montgomery Work at Bravo! Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-montgomery-work-at-bravo-vail/) - Conductor Jakub Hrůša opens the New York Philharmonic's 22nd Bravo! Vail season on July 16 with a new work from American composer Jessie Montgomery followed by Stravinsky's Violin Concerto in the hands of violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja and concluding with Brahms' First Symphony. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/new-york-philharmonic-2/stravinsky-violin-concerto
- [Adès Premiere at Aspen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ades-premiere-at-aspen/) - On July 5, Aspen Music Festival will present the U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès’ The Origin of the Harp. The program, conducted by Marie Jacquot, will also feature Mendelssohn’s Reformation Symphony No. 5, plus Stefan Jackiw as soloist for Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy. https://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/events/calendar/aspen-chamber-symphony-07-05-2025
- [Two Composers in Rare Recital at Aspen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-composers-in-rare-recital-at-aspen/) - Visitors to the Aspen Music Festival will have a rare chance to hear two important contemporary composers play their own and other artists’ music. Pekka Kuusisto (violin) and Nico Muhly (piano) will team up for a recital on July 26, featuring Muhly’s Drones & Violin and Kuusisto’s Barcarole (co-written with Iro Haarla), along with works
- [Kissin Heads Carnegie Shostakovich Bash](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kissin-heads-carnegie-shostakovich-bash/) - Pianist Evgeny Kissin is paying tribute to Shostakovich at Carnegie Hall in May. The final program on this topic, on May 31, will be a star-studded soirée featuring the likes of violinist Gidon Kremer, cellist Giedrė Dirvanauskaitė, and singers Susanna Phillips, Sasha Cooke, Brandon Jovanovich, and Alexander Roslavets. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/31/Evgeny-Kissin-and-Friends-A-Tribute-to-Shostakovich-0800PM
- [Violin Showpiece Premieres in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violin-showpiece-premieres-in-nyc/) - The world premiere of Eric Whitacre’s Murmur, a violin showpiece for Anne Akiko Meyers, will be featured on the May 17 Carnegie Hall program by the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra. Also on offer are Haydn’s Lark Quartet, Caroline Shaw’s and the swallow, Vaughan Williams’ The Lark Ascending, plus a new arrangement of Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/17/Orpheus-Chamber-Orchestra-Anne-Akiko-Meyers-Violin-0700PM
- [Handel's 'Giulio Cesare' in Concert at Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/handels-giulio-cesare-in-concert-at-carnegie/) - Handel’s Giulio Cesare in Egitto is the next opera to be performed in concert by Harry Bicket and The English Concert at Carnegie Hall on May 4. The cast includes Christophe Dumaux as Giulio Cesare and Louise Alder as Cleopatra. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/04/The-English-Concert-0200PM
- [NYC: Attacca Will Premiere Ortiz Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-attacca-will-premiere-ortiz-quartet/) - Two pieces by Gabriela Ortiz will bookend a program at Carnegie Hall on May 1 by the Attacca Quartet: the U.S. premiere of her new work for string quartet and her Altar de muertos, celebrating Mexico’s Day of the Dead. Between them, the Attacca will play Paul Wiancko’s Haydn-like LIFT. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/05/01/Attacca-Quartet-0730PM
- [Baroque and Modern Mix in Carnegie Orchestral Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baroque-and-modern-mix-in-carnegie-orchestral-concert/) - In its April 6 Carnegie Hall concert spanning the entire Baroque era, from Monteverdi through Handel, the New England Symphonic Ensemble will also include some works from this century. Climate Mass by Loretta K. Notareschi will receive its world premiere, followed by Elaine Hagenberg’s Illuminare. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/04/06/New-England-Symphonic-Ensemble-0100PM
- [Mutter and Orkis Premiere New Sonata at Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mutter-and-orkis-premiere-new-sonata-at-carnegie/) - At their Carnegie Hall recital on April 3, violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter and pianist Lambert Orkis will present the world premiere of Likoo by Iranian composer Aftab Darvishi. Otherwise, the program is classical and romantic repertoire: Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, and Respighi. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2025/04/03/AnneSophie-Mutter-Violin-Lambert-Orkis-Piano-0800PM
- [Rutgers Hosts Glass Ceiling" Panel for Classical Musicians](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rutgers-hosts-glass-ceiling-panel-for-classical-musicians/) - The 2025 Festival Mahogany at Rutgers University – Camden on March 1 is titled “International Symposium on Classical Musicians of African Descent.” It will feature a panel discussion with conductor Marlon Daniel, cellist Ifetayo Ali, soprano Karen Slack, and composers Tania León and Fred Onoverosuke on the lingering concept of a “glass ceiling” in classical
- [Chamber-Sized Rethinking of 'Salome' in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chamber-sized-rethinking-of-salome-in-nyc/) - The lushness of the score did not deter Dan Schlosberg from creating a new 10-musician arrangement of Strauss' Salome, which will have its premiere at Heartbeat Opera on Feb. 4-16. There's also a revised libretto by Jacob Ashworth and Elizabeth Dinkova, an approach described as "radical." https://www.heartbeatopera.org/salome
- [Orpheus Offers 'Noche de Fantasías' in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/orpheus-offers-noche-de-fantasias-in-nyc/) - In a March 1 Carnegie Hall program called Noche de Fantasías, Orpheus Chamber Orchestra will give the New York premiere of a new work by Jorge Amado. The Orpheus will also play pieces by Gabriela Ortiz and M. Ponce, and guitarist Pablo Sáinz-Villegas will solo in Rodrigo’s Fantasia para un gentilhombre. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/03/01/orpheus-chamber-orchestra---pablo-sainz-villegas-0700pm
- [NYC: An Evening of Percussion Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-an-evening-of-percussion-premieres/) - Every work on Third Coast Percussion’s Feb. 27 Carnegie Hall program will be a New York City premiere. These include pieces by Tigran Hamasyan, Jessie Montgomery, and Zakir Hussain; a master on Indian tablas, Hussain will be on hand to solo in his composition. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/02/27/third-coast-percussion-0730pm
- [The Knights Go Celtic at Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/the-knights-go-celtic-at-carnegie/) - As part of their annual Carnegie Hall season, The Knights will collaborate with singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan. The Feb. 20 program includes an arrangement of O’Donovan’s America, Come as well as Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony, to be followed by Colin Jacobsen playing Scottish fiddle tunes with the orchestra. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/02/20/the-knights-0730pm
- [Theatre of Voices Brings New Works to NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/theatre-of-voices-brings-new-works-to-nyc/) - Theatre of Voices’ Feb. 11 program at Carnegie Hall features two U.S. premieres: a new work by Julia Wolfe and A Brief Descent into Deep Time by John Luther Adams. Michael Gordon’s A Western opens this program conducted by Theatre of Voices founder Paul Hillier. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/02/11/theatre-of-voices-0730pm
- [Ortiz Premiere Heads Latin-Themed Carnegie Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ortiz-premiere-heads-latin-themed-carnegie-program/) - Roomful of Teeth and Tambuco Percussion Ensemble will give the world premiere of a new work by Gabriela Ortiz at Carnegie Hall on Jan. 25. Ortiz’ Liquid Borders is also on the program, along with works by Leopoldo Novoa, Jorge Camiruaga, and Lavista. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/01/25/roomful-of-teeth-tambuco-percussion-ensemble-0730pm
- [Ryan Speedo Green Debuts at Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ryan-speedo-green-debuts-at-carnegie/) - Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green makes his Carnegie Hall debut on Jan. 22 in a recital accompanied by pianist Adam Nielsen. The program includes Lieder by Wolf, Mahler, Schubert, and Wagner, as well as Howard Swanson’s setting of the Langston Hughes poem “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2025/01/22/ryan-speedo-green-bassbaritone-adam-nielsen-piano-0730pm
- [New Hampshire: Student Art for Space Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-hampshire-student-art-for-space-music/) - Local students will illustrate the New Hampshire Philharmonic’s April 12-13 space-inspried program. These artistic interpretations of music will accompany Holst’s The Planets Mason Bates’ The B Sides, with its other-worldly orchestration depicting space walks. https://nhpo.booktix.com/dept/main/e/Planets
- [Poets Join Portland Chamber Orchestra's 'Cultural Kaleidoscope'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/poets-join-portland-chamber-orchestras-cultural-kaleidoscope/) - Conducted by interim music director Deanna Them, the Portland Chamber Orchestra will performa a program called “Cultural Kaleidoscope” April 25. Local poets and wordsmiths share their reflections on music that was written to highlight our universal connection. The contemporary music list includes works by Jessie Montgomery, Valery Coleman, Jerod Tate, and Osvoldo Golijov. https://www.portlandchamberorchestra.org/events/cultural-kaleidoscope
- [NYC: New Opera Faces 'Impossibility of Truth'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-opera-faces-impossibility-of-truth/) - With music by Christopher Cerrone and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, In a Grove is a haunting meditation on the impossibility of truth and the subjectivity of memory and perception. It is based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s classic story. The Prototype Festival will present the New York premiere of this chamber opera Jan. 16-19. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/in-a-grove/
- ['Eat the Document' Premieres at Prototype in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/eat-the-document-premieres-at-prototype-in-nyc/) - The world premiere Eat the Document, by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, will be performed at New York’s Prototype Festival on Jan. 9-12. The plot, based on Dana Spiotta’s novel, explores the connection between the Vietnam era and the 1990s—in language, technology, music, and activism. Kristin Marting directs. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/eat-the-document/
- ['In a Grove' Comes to Prototype Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-a-grove-comes-to-prototype-festival/) - With music by Christopher Cerrone and libretto by Stephanie Fleischmann, In a Grove is a haunting meditation on the impossibility of truth and the subjectivity of memory and perception. It is based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s classic story. The Prototype Festival will present the New York premiere of this chamber opera Jan. 16-19. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/in-a-grove/
- [NYC: Opera Explores Anti-War Activism and Its Consequences](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-opera-explores-anti-war-activism-and-its-consequences/) - The world premiere of Eat the Document, by John Glover and Kelley Rourke, will be performed at New York’s Prototype Festival on Jan. 9-12. The plot, based on Dana Spiotta’s novel, explores the connection between the Vietnam era and the 1990s—in language, technology, music, and activism. Kristin Marting directs. https://prototypefestival.org/shows/eat-the-document/
- [New Opera: Magical Realism in San Francisco](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-opera-magical-realism-in-san-francisco/) - San Francisco’s Opera Parallèle will present the world premiere of The Pigeon Keeper by David Hanlon and Stephanie Fleischmann. This magical-realism story revolves around a young woman named Orsia, who endeavors to find a new home for a refugee boy. (March 7-9) https://operaparallele.org/24-25/
- [Stravinsky Opera in Des Moines](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stravinsky-opera-in-des-moines/) - Stravinsky’s The Rake’s Progress closes the Des Moines Metro Opera’s season. Its libretto by W. H. Auden and Chester Kallman was inspired by William Hogarth’s famous series of paintings about a man’s path to ruin. Featuring Jonas Hacker as Tom Rakewell and Joélle Harvey and Anne Trulove. (July 5-18) https://desmoinesmetroopera.org/productions/rake/
- [Three New Short Operas in St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/three-new-short-operas-in-st-louis/) - Opera Theatre of St. Louis presents its New Works Collective, a trio of new short operas: Black Coffee, by Concert Black and Alicia Revé Like, deals with building a life after a move. Family Style, by Meilina Tsui and Melisa Tien, deals with sacrifices made by immigrant parents. Tim Amukele and Jarrod Lee’s Kandake takes
- [1887 African-American Opera Premieres in DC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/1887-african-american-opera-premieres-in-dc/) - As part of its 30th-anniversary season, Opera Lafayette, in collaboration with OperaCréole, will give the world-premiere concert performance of Edmund Dédé’s Morgiane, the first complete opera by a Black American. The four acts in French cover themes from Ali Baba and the 40 Thieves. Patrick Quigley directs a transcription co-written by OperaCréole founder Givonna Joseph
- [Fannie Lou Hamer-Inspired Opera in Kentucky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/fannie-lou-hamer-inspired-opera-in-kentucky/) - With music by Chandler Carter and a libretto by Diana Solomon-Glover, This Little Light of Mine is inspired by the life of Fannie Lou Hamer, a former Mississippi sharecropper’s daughter who rose to national prominence at the 1964 Democratic National Convention. Kentucky Opera will present this work Feb. 21-23. https://kyopera.org/this-little-light/
- [Two Courses of Food Operas in Nashville](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-courses-of-food-operas-in-nashville/) - Bring your appetite to Nashville Opera for the world premiere of Shawn E. Okpebholo and Mark Campbell’s The Cook-Off. As an appetizer, the company will open with Lee Hoiby’s Bon Appétit (The Julia Child Opera). Dean Williamson conducts the Nashville Opera Orchestra. (Nov. 15-17) https://www.nashvilleopera.org/performances/the-cook-off
- [Hawai'i: Dark Comic Opera on Immigrant Experience](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hawaii-dark-comic-opera-on-immigrant-experience/) - Hawai’i Opera will perform Stuck Elevator, by composer Byron Au Yong and librettist Aaron Jafferis. This “opera musical theater hybrid” tells the story of a Chinese food deliveryman struggling for freedom from debt, human smugglers, loud-mouth coworkers, and the temptations of General Tso. Based on the true story of an undocumented immigrant who survived 81
- [Muhly's 'Dark Sisters' in Eugene](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/muhlys-dark-sisters-in-eugene/) - Eugene Opera will present Nico Muhly’s Dark Sisters on May 30-31. Dark Sisters follows one woman’s dangerous attempt to escape her life as a member of the FLDS Church (Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints). The production features a four-piece chamber orchestra conducted by Andrew Bisantz https://eugeneopera.org/upcoming-productions/dark-sisters/
- [A New Rusalka for Pacific Northwest Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-new-rusalka-for-pacific-northwest-opera/) - Soprano Bryn Holdsworth will make her Pacific Northwest Opera debut in the title role of Dvořák’s Rusalka. Sung in Czech, the production will be directed by Mitchell Kahn and conducted by Jonathan Khuner. (March 28-April 6) https://purchase.mcintyrehall.org/EventAvailability?EventId=5001
- [Costello Album As Live Work in Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/costello-album-as-live-work-in-oregon/) - Portland (OR) Opera presents a live performance of The Juliet Letters, orignially conceived as a 1993 album by Elvis Costello and The Brodsky Quartet. The genre-bending collaboration produced a unique song sequence for string quartet and voice, an intimate journey of hope, loss, and longing - all seen through the lens of love. (Nov. 15-24)
- [Kaminsky's 'Lucidity' Comes to Seattle Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kaminskys-lucidity-comes-to-seattle-opera/) - The West Coast premiere of Laura Kaminsky and David Cote’s Lucidity will take place at Seattle Opera on Nov. 21-24. This intimate chamber opera sheds light on the tragedy of dementia and all those it touches. Geoffrey McDonald conducts and Sarah Meyers directs. https://www.seattleopera.org/performances-events/lucidity/
- [Portland's Renegade Premieres Two Operas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/portlands-renegade-premieres-two-operas/) - Renegade Opera in Portland, OR will premiere two short operas Nov. 9-10. Little Ones, by composer Danielle Jagelski and librettist Rhiana Yazzie, explores the life of Indigenous students at Native American Residential Schools in the 1980’s, a topic close to the hearts of these two Indigenous creatives. The Raven is a setting of Poe’s famous
- [Women Load the Bases at Lyric Opera of Orange Co.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/women-load-the-bases-at-lyric-opera-of-orange-co/) - Diana Farrell will direct the Lyric Opera of Orange County’s production of The Mighty Casey, a baseball-themed opera by William Schuman. LOOC hints that their version will be presented “with a twist, for Women’s Month.” (March 28-30) https://lyricoperaoc.org/shows/the-mighty-casey/
- ['Salome' for San Diego's 60th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/salome-for-san-diegos-60th/) - As part of its 60th anniversary season, San Diego Opera will perform Strauss’ Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play. Marcy Stonikas and Kirsten Chambers share the title role, with Dennis Petersen as Herod and Kyle Albertson as Jochanaan. Yves Abel leads the San Diego Symphony. (March 21-23) https://www.sdopera.org/shows/salome/
- [Pacific Opera Brings Back Italian Slapstick](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pacific-opera-brings-back-italian-slapstick/) - Antonio Cagnoni’s Don Bucefalo will be performed for the first time in the U.S. since 1867 when Pacific Opera Project presents this slapstick comedy at the Garibaldina Society, one of LA’s hottest retro spots. This production will offer an optional Italian dinner add-on complete with pasta, salad, and wine! Kyle Naig conducts, with Josh Shaw
- [LA Opera: 'Ainadamar' Puts Spotlight on Lorca's Muse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/la-opera-ainadamar-puts-spotlight-on-lorcas-muse/) - Osvaldo Golijov’s dramatic, flamenco-inspired score meets a poignant libretto by David Henry Hwang in LA Opera’s production of Ainadamar. Lina González-Granados conducts this company premiere, featuring Daniela Mack as Federico García Lorca and Ana María Martínez as his inspiration and friend, Margarita Xirgu. (April 26 - May 18) https://www.laopera.org/performances/2025/ainadamar
- ['Florencia' Introduces Spanish Opera to NC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/florencia-introduces-spanish-opera-to-nc/) - North Carolina Opera’s company premiere of Catán’s Florencia en el Amazonas marks the first time NCO has presented a Spanish-language opera. Featuring Vanessa Vasquez and Richard Ollarsaba. Joseph Mechavich conducts this production by John Hoomes. (Jan. 31-Feb. 2) https://ncopera.org/2024-2025-season/
- [Anne Frank Monodrama in Birmingham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/anne-frank-monodrama-in-birmingham/) - With music and libretto by Grigory Frid, the monodrama The Diary of Anne Frank (for soprano and chamber orchestra) premiered in 1972. It will be presented by Opera Birmingham, with soprano Kathleen Buccleugh singing 21 excerpts from Frank's journal. Lester Seigel conducts. (April 5-6) https://app.arts-people.com/index.php?show=243958
- [1688 Opera Makes N. American Premiere in Ontario](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/1688-opera-makes-n-american-premiere-in-ontario/) - Ontario’s Opera Atelier will present the North American premiere of the 1688 opera David and Jonathan by Marc-Antoine Charpentier. The staging and choreography, originally produced in Versailles in 2022, was created by co-artistic directors Marshall Pynkoski and Jeannette Lajeunesse Zingg. (April 9-13) https://www.operaatelier.com/shows/david-and-jonathan/
- ['Magic Flute' Plays In Florida Grand Opera Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/magic-flute-plays-in-florida-grand-opera-season/) - Florida Grand Opera opens its season with Mozart’s The Magic Flute. The production runs Nov. 16-19 in Miami and Dec. 5-7 in Fort Lauderdale. The cast includes Ricardo Garcia as Tamino, Laura León as the Queen of the Night, and Sara Kennedy as Pamina. https://fgo.org/season/the-magic-flute/
- [Opera Carolina Turns 75](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/opera-carolina-turns-75/) - Opera Carolina will open its 75th season with Carmen on Feb. 6-9. This is also the 25th year of James Meenan’s role as artistic director. https://www.carolinatix.org/events/detail/opera-carolina-carmen
- [Piedmont Opera Bring Joan of Arc to Life](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/piedmont-opera-bring-joan-of-arc-to-life/) - Piedmont Opera will present Norman Dello Joio’s Joan of Arc: The Trial at Rouen Oct. 25-27. Dello Joio wrote both the music and libretto for this 1956 work. This production will be conducted by PO’s artistic director, James Allbritten. https://www.piedmontopera.org/joan-of-arc
- [Fort Worth Opera Opens With 'Little Women'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/fort-worth-opera-opens-with-little-women/) - 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
- [Houston Premiere of 'Breaking the Waves'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-premiere-of-breaking-the-waves/) - Houston Grand Opera will present Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vivrek’s adaptation of Lars von Trier’s film Breaking the Waves, the work’s Houston premiere. The bcast will be led by soprano Lauren Snouffer as Bess and bass-baritone Ryan McKinny as Jan. Sara Brodie directs the revival of Tom Morris’s production, with Patrick Summers conducting. (April 19-May
- ['Orpheus and Eurydice' Are Valentines In Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/orpheus-and-eurydice-are-valentines-in-dallas/) - It’s the perfect Valentine date opera: The Dallas Opera presents Gluck’s Orpheus and Eurydice. Gluck’s original 1762 score will be conducted by music director Emmanuel Villaume, leading The Dallas Opera Orchestra and Chorus. This new production is directed and designed by Joachim Schamberger and will feature countertenor Hugh Cutting and soprano Madison Leonard. (Feb. 7-15)
- [Austin: Political Opera Coincides With Election](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/austin-political-opera-coincides-with-election/) - It’s surely no accident that Austin Opera programmed Kevin Puts and Mark Campbell’s opera The Manchurian Candidate, based on the political thriller, for the weekend after the U.S. presidential election. The opera debuted in Austin in 2016. (Runs Nov. 9-10) https://my.austinopera.org/overview/manchurian-candidate
- [Tesori's 'Blue' Comes to Chicago Lyric](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tesoris-blue-comes-to-chicago-lyric/) - Bass Kenneth Kellogg makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut in Blue, by Jeanine Tesori and co-commissioned by the Lyric. The cast also includes mezzo-soprano Zoie Reams and baritone Norman Garrett in this production directed by Tazewell Thompson. (Nov. 16-Dec. 1) https://www.lyricopera.org/shows/upcoming/2024-25/blue/
- [Pittsburgh: Art Heist Is Topic of New Higdon Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-art-heist-is-topic-of-new-higdon-opera/) - The world premiere of Jennifier Higdon’s Woman with Eyes Closed will take place at Pittsburgh Opera on April 26-May 4. The opera, with a libretto by Jerre Dye, tells the story of an art heist. https://pittsburghopera.org/season/woman-with-eyes-closed
- [New Mazzoli Opera in Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-mazzoli-opera-in-philadelphia/) - The U.S. premiere of The Listeners, by Missy Mazzoli and Royce Vavrek, will be presented by Opera Philadelphia Sept. 25-29. The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose. Lileana Blain-Cruz directs this production. https://www.operaphila.org/whats-on/in-theaters-2024-2025/the-listeners/
- ['Bohème' Opens Baltimore Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boheme-opens-baltimore-season/) - Opera Baltimore opens its season Oct. 18-20 with La Bohème. Edward Graves sings Rodolfo and Toni Marie Palmertree is Mimì in this production conducted by Domenico Boyagian. https://www.operabaltimore.org/la-boheme
- [Three New One-Acts at Washington National Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/three-new-one-acts-at-washington-national-opera/) - Washington National Opera will present its American Opera Initiative showcase on Jan. 18, featuring the world premiere of three one-act operas. This year’s creative artists include librettist Clare Fuyuko Bierman, composer Kyle Brenn, librettist Lex Brown, composer JL Marlor, librettist Christine Evans, and composer Omar Najmi. https://www.kennedy-center.org/wno/home/2024-2025/american-oera-initiative/
- ['Acis and Galatea' in Milwaukee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/acis-and-galatea-in-milwaukee/) - What a way to celebrate Valentine's Day! Milwaukee’s Florentine Opera will perform Handel’s Acis & Galatea Feb. 14-16. Francesco Milioto conducts members of the Milwaukee Symphony in this production directed by E. Loren Meeker. https://www.florentineopera.org/season-events/acis-galatea-24-25
- [Indy Opera Marks 50 Years](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indy-opera-marks-50-years/) - To mark its 50th anniversary season, Indianapolis Opera will present The Barber of Seville Nov. 15-17. Jessica Burton directs this production, which will be conducted by Casey Robards, an IO Young Artists mentee. https://www.indyopera.org/barberofseville.html
- [Bach Cantatas for Christmas in Worcester](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bach-cantatas-for-christmas-in-worcester/) - Worcester Chamber Music will present J.S. Bach’s “Christmas Cantata” (BWVs 32, 151, 132) on Dec. 6. The program is a collaboration with Music Worcester’s The Complete Bach, an 11-year project to present all of J.S. Bach’s music in advance of his 350th birthday. https://worcesterchambermusic.org/bach-christmas-cantatas/
- [Beethoven Septet in Rochester, NY](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-septet-in-rochester-ny/) - Elizabeth Raum’s miniature Romance for Horn and Piano, featuring hornist Michael Stevens, is the newest work on Society for Chamber Music Rochester’s Oct. 13 program, sandwiched between pieces by Milhaud and Saint-Saëns. The second half of the program will be Beethoven’s Septet, Op. 20. https://www.chambermusicrochester.org/concerts/beethovens-inadvertent-masterpiece
- [Viet Cuong Premiere and Early Baroque in Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/viet-cuong-premiere-and-early-baroque-in-pittsburgh/) - On Feb. 24 at Chamber Music Pittsburgh, Grammy-nominated vocalist Nicholas Phan and early music ensemble Les Délices weave together Baroque masterpieces with the world premiere of a new work by Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong. The program also includes works by Michel Pignolet de Montéclair, Marin Marais, and François Couperin. https://www.chambermusicpittsburgh.org/lesdelices-nicholasphan/
- [Indianapolis: Commissioned Choral Work to Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indianapolis-commissioned-choral-work-to-premiere/) - The Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra has commissioned a new work for chorus and orchestra by Reinaldo Moya. Home, Run Away From Me will receive its world premiere April 5 with the ICO. Matthew Kraemer, marking his 10th year as music director, will also conduct Haydn’s Mass in the Time of War, plus works by Martinů and Ukrainian
- [Cartoon Music Meets Skilled Musicianship in SD](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cartoon-music-meets-skilled-musicianship-in-sd/) - The Queen’s Cartoonists will appear on the Brookings Chamber Music Society season on Nov. 19. Perfectly synchronizing their performances with the films projected on stage, the band matches the energy of the cartoons, leading the audience through a world of virtuosic musicianship, multi-instrumental mayhem and comedy. https://www.sdstate.edu/music-sdsu/brookings-chamber-music-society
- [Multi-Composers' Tribute to Bach in Mobile](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/multi-composers-tribute-to-bach-in-mobile/) - Arcis Saxophon Quartett closes the Mobile Chamber Music season with a kaleidoscopic tribute to J.S. Bach. Works on the March 16 concert include excerpts from Nikolai Kapustin’s 24 Preludes and Fugues, Shostakovich’s Preludes and Fugues, and Leonhard Kuhn’s Fugue & Loops. https://www.mobilechambermusic.org/crnt_season.php
- [Celebrating Ravel's Chamber Music in SE Massachusetts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/celebrating-ravels-chamber-music-in-se-massachusetts/) - In honor of Ravel’s 150th birthday, South Coast Chamber Music (in Southeastern Massachusetts) will perform his String Quartet in F Major. Also on the March 29-30 program are works by two living female composers: Victoria Bond’s Dancing on Glass and Betsy Jolas’ Scion. https://nbsymphony.org/chamber-series-2024-2025/
- [Escher Premieres Chamber Work in Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/escher-premieres-chamber-work-in-houston/) - The Escher Quartet with Jordan Bak, viola, will play the world premiere of a new Viola Quintet by Chris Rogerson, presented by Chamber Music Houston, which commissioned the work. Also on the Feb. 11 program are Mendelssohn’s Quartet in F minor and Brahms’ Viola Quintet No. 2. https://chambermusichouston.org/concerts/2025-02-11-escher/
- [Trend-Setting Vocal Group in San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/trend-setting-vocal-group-in-san-antonio/) - The San Antonio Chamber Music Society opens its 82nd season with a visit from Voces8 on Oct. 13. The a cappella group performs an extensive range of repertoire; program details TBA. https://www.sacms.org/concert-1/
- [Austin: New Twist on 'Fin de siècle'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/austin-new-twist-on-fin-de-siecle/) - Although “Fin de siècle” most commonly refers to the turn of the 19th into the 20th century, any century mark can be construed as important in music history. The Austin Chamber Music Center explores this line of thinking on its Jan. 24-25 program, featuring works of Beethoven, Anton Arensky, and Kevin Puts. https://austinchambermusic.org/event/fin-de-siecle/
- [Women Dominate Austin Chamber Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/women-dominate-austin-chamber-program/) - It’s a female-led program for the Austin Chamber Music Center season opener Sept. 20-21. ACMC artistic director Sandy Yamamoto has curated an evening of piano trios, three by women (Jessie Montgomery, Amy Beach, Fanny Mendelssohn) plus one by Paul Schoenfeld. https://austinchambermusic.org/event/zeitgeist/
- [Fauré Quartett in Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/faure-quartett-in-dallas/) - Dallas Chamber Music Society hosts the Fauré Quartett on Nov. 11. Often described as “visionary,” the ensemble will play works by Schubert, Dvořák, and Enescu. https://dallaschambermusicsociety.ticketleap.com/faure-quartett/details
- [Calgary: Jamie Bernstein Remembers Famous Father](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/calgary-jamie-bernstein-remembers-famous-father/) - Late Night with Leonard Bernstein is a portrait of the personal side of one of the 20th century’s most charismatic and public figures. Hosted by his daughter Jamie, the performance features three stellar performers – soprano Amy Burton and pianists John Musto and Michael Boriskin. Presented by Calgary Pro Music on April 5. https://calgarypromusica.ca/horizons-series-3/
- [Rebecca Clarke Featured by Trio in Calgary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rebecca-clarke-featured-by-trio-in-calgary/) - The Horszowski Trio and clarinettist Todd Palmer will feature composer Rebecca Clarke’s Trio from 1921 in their Calgary Pro Music appearance on Jan. 12-13. Also on the program are Moravec’s Tempest Fantasy and Smetana’s Trio, Op. 15. https://calgarypromusica.ca/master-series-3/
- [Toronto: Veteran Canadian Pianist's Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toronto-veteran-canadian-pianists-recital/) - Veteran Canadian pianist Janina Fialkowska will perform in the Music Toronto series on March 18. The program opens with Weber’s Invitation to the Dance, continuing with a collection of short works by Grieg and Chopin, plus the Schumann Op. 12 Fanstasiestücke. https://musictorontoconcerts.com/concerts/janina-fialkowska
- [Cremona Quartet Replaces Juilliard in Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cremona-quartet-replaces-juilliard-in-toronto/) - Quartetto di Cremona will open Music Toronto’s 2024-25 season on Oct. 24 (replacing the previously announced Juilliard Quartet). Cremona’s program includes quartets by Gian Francesco Malipiero, Ravel, and Schumann. https://musictorontoconcerts.com/concerts/juilliard-quartet
- [Vancouver: Arpeggione Transcribed for Harp](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vancouver-arpeggione-transcribed-for-harp/) - The harp-and-piano duo Couloir will perform in the Vancouver Chamber Music Society series on Feb. 10-12. Besides a transcription of a classic—Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata—harpist Heidi Krutzen and pianist Ariel Barnes will play works by two living composers, Caroline Lizotte and Jeffrey Ryan. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/couloir
- [Huang, Asalov Explore Viola Repertoire in Vancouver](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/huang-asalov-explore-viola-repertoire-in-vancouver/) - The Vancouver Chamber Music Society will host a recital program by violist Hung-Wei Huang and pianist Aslan Aslanov on Nov. 4-6. The duo will play Schumann’s Adagio and Allegro, Op. 70, Alan Shulman’s Theme and Variations, and Brahms’ Viola Sonata No. 2. https://www.vancouverchambermusic.com/hungweihuangaslanalsanov
- [Isidore Quartet Blends Old and New in Vancouver](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/isidore-quartet-blends-old-and-new-in-vancouver/) - Vancouver’s Friends of Chamber Music welcomes the Isidore Quartet for its series debut on April 15, closing the season. The ensemble will play works by Mozart, Beethoven, and Billy Childs. https://friendsofchambermusic.ca/concert/isidore-quartet/
- [Gropius Quartet Opens Vancouver Series](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gropius-quartet-opens-vancouver-series/) - The Germany-based Gropius Quartet makes its debut with Friends of Chamber Music (Vancouver) on Oct. 15. They will play Haydn’s Op. 33, No. 2 (the Joke), Shostakovich’s Quartet No. 8, and Mendelssohn’s Quartet No. 6. https://friendsofchambermusic.ca/concert/gropius-quartet/
- [Whelan Conducts 'Alceste' in Bay Area](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/whelan-conducts-alceste-in-bay-area/) - Philharmonia Baroque will perform a concert version of Handel’s opera Alceste on March 5-8. Conducted by Peter Whelan, the cast inlcudes soprano Lauren Snouffer and tenor Aaron Sheehan. https://philharmonia.org/2024-25-season/handels-alceste/
- [Philharmonia Baroque Spans Hildegard to Shaw](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/philharmonia-baroque-spans-hildegard-to-shaw/) - In a wide-ranging program Oct. 17-19 conducted by Grete Pedersen, the Philharmonia Baroque will play works spanning more than a millenium, from Hildegard of Bingen to Caroline Shaw. Thomas Carroll, specialist in basset clarinet, will solo in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto. https://philharmonia.org/2024-25-season/dreams-passions/
- [Ulysses Quartet Debuts in SF with Haydn, Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ulysses-quartet-debuts-in-sf-with-haydn-mozart/) - On March 16, the Ulysses String Quartet makes its San Francisco debut as part of the Chamber Music SF series. The program includes Haydn’s Op. 33, No. 2, Mozart’s K. 516, and Dvořák’s Op. 105. https://chambermusicsf.org/
- [Yunchan Lam Makes SF Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/yunchan-lam-makes-sf-debut/) - Pianist Yunchan Lam, youngest-ever winner of the Van Cliburn Competition, makes his San Francisco debut on Feb. 25 in a recital on the Chamber Music SF series. He will play Bach’s Goldberg Variations and Webern’s Variations, Op. 27. https://chambermusicsf.org/
- [SFCO Premieres Commissioned Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sfco-premieres-commissioned-work/) - On April 25-27, the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra will present the world premiere of a work by Nathaniel Heyder, commissioned by the SFCO. The program opens with Mendelssohn’s Hebrides Overture and concludes with Bartók’s Concerto for Viola and Orchestra, featuring Pearl de la Motte. https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mainstage-concert-presentation-rising-stars-tickets-995625892847
- [St. Paul: Recent Works for Cello and Percussion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-paul-recent-works-for-cello-and-percussion/) - Cellist Abel Selaocoe will be the special guest artist with the St. Paul Chamber Orchstra’s Feb. 14-16 program, which Selaocoe will also conduct. Pieces include Stravinsky’s Dumbarton Oaks and two works by Selaocoe, both featuring percussionist Bernhard Schimpelsberger. https://content.thespco.org/events/four-spirits-with-abel-selaocoe/
- [Egarr Leads St. Paul in Brandenburgs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/egarr-leads-st-paul-in-brandenburgs/) - The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will perform five of Bach’s six Brandenburg Concertos (all but No. 2) on Dec. 13-15, under the direction of Richard Egarr. https://content.thespco.org/events/bachs-brandenburg-concertos-with-richard-egarr-2425/
- [St. Paul Shines Light on Forgotten Composer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-paul-shines-light-on-forgotten-composer/) - The works of New England composer Mabel Daniels are not often performed, but the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra is remedying this by programming Daniels’ Deep Forest, which was first performed at Carnegie Hall in 1939. Violinist Eunae Koh will solo in Haydn’s Violin Concerto No. 2. The Sept. 20-21 program also includes an arrangement of
- [Indianapolis: Greek Poetry Links to Modern Refugee Crisis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indianapolis-greek-poetry-links-to-modern-refugee-crisis/) - The world premiere of Reinaldo Moya’s Home, Run Away from Me, commissioned by Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra and inspired by Greek poetry and the plight of refugees, will be performed by ICO on April 5, conducted by Matthew Kraemer. Then audiences will land in sunny California with Martinu’s Sinfonietta La Jolla. The program concludes with Haydn’s Mass
- [Wild Up Brings 'Darkness Sounding' Fest to New York](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/wild-up-brings-darkness-sounding-fest-to-new-york/) - On March 21-23, Los Angeles-based music collective Wild Up presents the New York premiere of their acclaimed Darkness Sounding festival. The festival of concerts, conversations, and workshops convening around themes of mindfulness and nature explores how sound and music shape our understanding of the world. Christopher Rountree, artistic director. https://www.92ny.org/event/wild-up-1
- ['African Queen' Brings Powerful Women to Light in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/african-queen-brings-powerful-women-to-light-in-nyc/) - On March 11 the 92nd St. Y plays host to a Met Opera production, the New York premiere of Karen Slack’s African Queen. This multimedia work features new art songs exploring the legacy of seven powerful African queens through history who were revered as rulers but under-celebrated in the western world. Participating composers include Damien
- [JACK Quartet Celebrates 20 Years in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jack-quartet-celebrates-20-years-in-nyc/) - On Nov. 10, JACK Quartet celebrates its 20th anniversary with a program at the 92nd St. Y with the world premiere of a new work by Anthony Cheung. The bill includes works by Eduardo Aguilar, Seare Farhat, and Juri Seo. This concert will also be livestreamed. https://www.92ny.org/event/jack-quartet
- [NYC: Shaw and Sō Forge New Path](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-shaw-and-so-forge-new-path/) - Caroline Shaw and Sō Percussion return to the 92nd St. Y with an all-new collaborative soundscape, featuring gospel and jazz singer Alicia Olatuja. Details on this Oct. 23 program to be announced. https://www.92ny.org/event/caroline-shaw-and-so-percussion
- [Living Composers Acknowledge Beethoven in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/living-composers-acknowledge-beethoven-in-nyc/) - In an intriguing twist, the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center is celebrating Beethoven with a concert of music by other people. The May 13 line-up includes works by living composers who have been influenced by Beethoven: Jessie Montgomery, Evgeny Kissin, Brett Dean, Jörg Widmann, and Tan Dun. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/montgomery-widmann-and-tan-dun/
- [New Chamber Music: Sonic Spectrum III at Lincoln Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-chamber-music-sonic-spectrum-iii-at-lincoln-center/) - In its third installment of the Sonic Spectrum series this season, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center will present the world premiere of a new work for flute, piano, and percussion by Philadelphia-based composer Elise Arancio. Other composers on the Feb. 27 bill are Liza Lim, Tonia Ko, Elaine Lillios, and more. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/sonic-spectrum-iii-2425/
- [NYC: New Piano Work by Finnish Composer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-new-piano-work-by-finnish-composer/) - On Feb. 20 at the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, pianist Juho Pohjonen will give the world premiere of Jyrki Linjama’s Prélude oublié. Other works in this recital include two sonatas by Scriabin, Liszt’s Après une Lecture du Dante, and Beethoven’s Sonata Op. 27, No. 1. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/24-25/juho-pohjonen/
- [Two New Chamber Works at Lincoln Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-new-chamber-works-at-lincoln-center/) - At this season’s second Sonic Spectrum concert by Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, two works will be given their New York premieres: a new work for mezzo-soprano (Jamie Barton), viola, and piano by Joel Thompson and Perry Boldstein’s Birding by Ear, featuring baritone Roandall Scarlata. Also on the Jan. 23 program are two pieces
- [Hough Premieres His Piano Quintet in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hough-premieres-his-piano-quintet-in-nyc/) - 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/
- [Ravel Closes WV Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ravel-closes-wv-season/) - At the West Virginia Symphony’s season finale on May 3, music director Maurice Cohn will focus on Ravel: Suite No. 2 from Daphnis et Chloé and Bolero. In the first half of the concert, the West Virginia Youth Symphony will play onstage with the pros for Gabriela Ortiz’s Antrópolis. Then Joyce Yang will solo in
- [West Virginia Goes All-American](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/west-virginia-goes-all-american/) - The West Virginia Symphony’s Nov. 9 program is All-American, with Bernstein’s Candide Overture, Missy Mazzoli’s Sinfonia, and Copland’s Clarinet Concerto, featuring Robert Turizziani. Music director Maurice Cohn also leads the orchestra in Ellington’s Harlem and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. https://wvsymphony.org/season-calendar/americanvoices2425
- [Virginia Symphony Plays Adams' 'Harmonium'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/virginia-symphony-plays-adams-harmonium/) - Eric Jacobsen leads the Virginia Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in John Adams’ Harmonium and Anna Clyne’s This Moment on April 11. The program concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://virginiasymphony.org/concert/symphonie-fantastique-2/
- [Two Brothers Meet Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-brothers-meet-beethoven/) - The Virginia Symphony’s music director, Eric Jacobsen, will conduct his own brother, Colin Jacobsen, in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto on Sept. 20. The all-Beethoven program also includes the Coriolan Overture and the Fourth Symphony. https://virginiasymphony.org/concert/beethovens-violin-concerto-with-eric-colin-jacobsen-2/
- [Hough Premieres 'World of Yesterday' in Burlington](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hough-premieres-world-of-yesterday-in-burlington/) - Joining the Vermont Symphony on Feb. 15, Stephen Hough will play his own first piano concerto (The World of Yesterday, an East Coast premiere) as well as that of Mendelssohn. The program also includes a symphonic poem by Wojciech Kilar and a piece by Anna Clyne. Music director Andrew Crust conducts. https://www.vso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Feb-1.png
- [Vermont Symphony Promotes Vermont Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vermont-symphony-promotes-vermont-music/) - The Vermont Symphony will do a short in-state tour featuring music of Vermonters Sept. 6-8, with violinist and host Bella Hristova. The homegrown composers are Nico Muhly and Pete Sutherland, but there will also be pieces by Piazzola, Price, and Vivaldi. https://www.vso.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/MiV.png
- [Tulsa Symphony Closes 19th Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tulsa-symphony-closes-19th-season/) - The Tulsa Symphony’s season finale on May 17 includes Oscar Navarro’s joyful Downey Overture for Orchestra, which the composer describes as “a Latin-American fusion.” Debussy’s gorgeous Nocturnes and Rachmaninoff’s lush and dramatic Symphony No. 2 will be led by guest conductor Marcelo Lehninger. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/vii-debussy-and-rachmaninoff
- [Mirrors and Enigmas in Tulsa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mirrors-and-enigmas-in-tulsa/) - On March 22 the Tulsa Symphony presents the world premiere of Arsentiy Kharitanov’s Violin Concerto, Miroirs, with concertmaster Rossitza Goza as soloist. Guest conductor Daniel Hege leads the orchestra in the Prelude to Wagner’s Die Meistersinger, Barber’s Essay No. 1, Op. 12, and Elgar’s Enigma Variations. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/v-elgars-enigma-variations
- [Tulsa Starts '101 Unplugged' Chamber Series](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tulsa-starts-101-unplugged-chamber-series/) - Tulsa Symphony’s new chamber music series, 101 Unplugged, opens Sept. 20 with the orchestra’s string quartet playing Schubert’s Death and the Maiden Quartet No. 14 in D minor and other selections. Light bites and a drink ticket will be provided. https://www.tulsasymphony.org/calendar/unplugged-1
- [New Piano Concerto in Toledo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-piano-concerto-in-toledo/) - Lūcija Garūta’s Piano Concerto in F-Sharp Minor with be given its U.S. premiere by Élisabeth Pion and the Toledo Symphony under Alain Trudel, who will also be the piano soloist. This March 8 program includes Grieg’s Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.artstoledo.com/masterworks-24-25
- [Toledo Premieres Goodyear's Tribute to Mom](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/toledo-premieres-goodyears-tribute-to-mom/) - Toledo Symphony will play the U.S. premiere of Steward Goodyear’s Life, Life, Life, a tribute to his mother, on Feb. 7-8. Goodyear will also be the piano soloist for Rachmaninoff’s Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini. Alain Trudel also conducts Beethoven’s Coriolan Overture and Liszt’s Les Préludes. https://www.artstoledo.com/masterworks-24-25
- [Huang Debuts in Toledo with Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/huang-debuts-in-toledo-with-mozart/) - Violinist Paul Huang makes his Toledo Symphony debut performing Mozart's dazzling fourth violin concerto. Conducted byAlain Trudel, this Nov. 9 prgram opens with Schubert’s Rosamunde Overture and concludes with Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, Romantic. https://www.artstoledo.com/masterworks-24-25
- [Flutist Makes St. Paul Chamber Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/flutist-makes-st-paul-chamber-debut/) - Flutist Jasmine Choi makes her debut with the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra on April 24-27, playing Mozart’s Flute Concerto No. 2. The program also includes two works by Prokofiev: Sonata for Two Violins and Sonata No. 7, Stalingrad, in an arrangement for chamber orchestra. Sarasate’s Zigeunerweisen for Flute and Orchestra (arr. by Choi) concludes the concert.
- [St. Paul: Chamber Version of Award-Winning Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-paul-chamber-version-of-award-winning-opera/) - On Feb. 23, Turtle Island String Quartet will appear as a guest of St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, which does not perform on the program. The evening features a chamber-concert verson of Fire Shut Up in My Bones, by Terence Blanchard, with vocalists Nicholas Newton and Adrienne Danrich. https://content.thespco.org/events/fire-shut-up-in-my-bones-with-the-turtle-island-quartet/
- [Selaocoe Curates Cello-Focused SPCO Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/selaocoe-curates-cello-focused-spco-program/) - Cellist and composer Abel Selaocoe is the special guest at the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra’s Oct. 18-20 program, which will include Selaocoe’s own Hlokomela (Take Care) and his arrangement of Marin Marais’s Les Voix Humaines. Selaocoe will then solo in Giovanni Benedetto Platti’s Cello Concerto in D, and duet with another cellist, Richard Belcher on
- [Three Generations of Austrians in St. Paul](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/three-generations-of-austrians-in-st-paul/) - The St. Paul Chamber Orchestra will play Mahler’s chamber-orchestra arrangement of Beethoven’s Serioso String Quartet on Sept. 20-21. The program, curated by SPCO violinist Eunae Koh, also includes Haydn’s Violin Concerto (with Koh as soloist), Mozart’s Haffner Symphony, and Mabel Daniels’ Deep Forest. https://content.thespco.org/events/mozarts-haffner-symphony-2425/
- [Salonen Leads SFS in Climate-Inspired Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/salonen-leads-sfs-in-climate-inspired-premiere/) - A new work by Gabriella Smith, on the theme of climate action, will receive its world premiere June 6-8 with Esa-Pekka Salonen and the San Francisco Symphony. The program also features Jean Sibelius’s Symphony No. 7, the composer’s final symphony, as well as two of Richard Strauss’s tone poems—Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/salonen-sibelius7
- [Reich's 'Jacob's Ladder' Arrives in Canada](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/reichs-jacobs-ladder-arrives-in-canada/) - Steve Reich’s Jacob’s Ladder will receive its Canadian Premiere on Dec. 6 with the Vancouver Symphony, conducted by music director Otto Tausk and featuring Synergy Vocals. The program includes works by two important Reich colleagues: John Adams’ Gnarly Buttons and Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 11. A Canadian composer, Linda Catlin Smith, opens the concert with
- [Colorado Symphony Chorus Turns 40 with Verdi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorado-symphony-chorus-turns-40-with-verdi/) - On Oct. 18-20, the Colorado Symphony under conductor Alexander Shelley celebrates the 40th anniversary of the Colorado Symphony Chorus. They have chosen a fitting showpiece, Verdi’s Requiem, which the chorus first performed during its debut on October 25, 1984. The soloists will be Raquel González, Kelley O'Connor, John Matthew Myers, and Ryan McKinny. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7011?_gl=1*1uk2wiv*_gcl_au*MTU2MjYzNDA3NC4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga*MTk0ODY4MjQ2My4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga_V099ZPM1LL*MTcxOTQxMTY3OS4yLjEuMTcxOTQxMTgxMC4yLjAuMA
- [New Canadian Work Joins Schumann and Berlioz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-canadian-work-joins-schumann-and-berlioz/) - Sept. 18-19 will see the world premiere of Canadian composer Michael Oesterle’s new Orchestre symphonique de Montréal commission. The program, conducted by Rafael Payare, also features Daniil Trifonov playing Schumann’s A minor Piano Concerto, plus Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/berliozs-symphonie-fantastique
- [Spokane: Samuels-Shragg Debuts with Dvořák](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spokane-samuels-shragg-debuts-with-dvorak/) - Shira Samuels-Shragg makes her debut conducting the Spokan Symphony on March 1-2. Gabrielle Després will be the soloist in Erich Korngold’s Violin Concerto in D major. The program opens with Quinn Mason’s festive Toast of the Town Overture and concludes with Dvořák’s Seventh Symphony, From the New World. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/masterworks-6-l-a-stories/
- [A.I. vs Human Beethoven in Spokane](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-i-vs-human-beethoven-in-spokane/) - It’s controversial but perhaps inevitable. Artificial has been used to complete Beethoven’s Symphony No. 10. The Spokane Symphony will play that version (premiered in Germany in 2021) on Jan. 18-19, under James Low. The rest of the program is 100% human Beethoven: The Creatures of Prometheum Overture, Barry Cooper’s completion of the 10th (for direct
- [Scotland Inspires Spokane Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scotland-inspires-spokane-program/) - In a themed program called “Scotland the Brave” on Oct. 5-6, the Spokane Symphony under James Lowe will play three works inspired by that country. First is Scottish composer Aileen Sweeney’s glimmering Glisk, followed by Christoper Rouse’s Celtic-flavored Flute Concerto (featuring Julia Pyke). The program ends with Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. https://foxtheaterspokane.org/event/masterworks-2-scotland-the-brave/
- [Pianist Cann Debuts with Liszt in Phoenix](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianist-cann-debuts-with-liszt-in-phoenix/) - American pianist Michelle Cann is soloist in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1 in her debut with the Phoenix Symphony. Katharina Wincor conducts this March 14-16 program, which also includes Mozart’s 39th Symphony and Strauss’ Der Rosenkavalier Suite, as well as one of the Phoenix Symphony’s patented “Mystery Pieces.” https://tickets.phoenixsymphony.org/Online/default.asp
- [REVERB New Music Festival in Phoenix](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/reverb-new-music-festival-in-phoenix/) - Presented by the Phoenix Symphony, REVERB is a contemporary music festival on April 12, in the form of concerts, panel discussions, and behind-the-scenes events to celebrate works from the current musical landscape. Tito Muñoz conducts. https://tickets.phoenixsymphony.org/Online/default.asp
- [Phoenix Celebrates 'Rhapsody' Centenary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/phoenix-celebrates-rhapsody-centenary/) - The Phoenix Symphony will celebrate with 100th anniversary of Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue on Nov. 22-24. Pianist Conor Hanick is the soloist, and Christian Reif will conduct. Also on the program are Honegger’s Pacific 231, Sibelius’ Symphony No. 7, and Respighi’s Pines of Rome. There will also be a “Mystery Piece,” something that Phoenix offers
- [Vancouver: New Work Inspired by Nature](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vancouver-new-work-inspired-by-nature/) - The Vancouver Symphony, conducted by music director Otto Tausk, will play the world premiere of Marcus Goddard’s Mountain Visions, described as “a celebration of our natural world.” The March 21-23 program also features Bruch’s Scottish Fantasy and Dvořák’s Symphony No. 9. https://www.vancouversymphony.ca/event/dvoraks-new-world-symphony/
- [Vancouver Debut of a Conductor-Pianist Includes Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/vancouver-debut-of-a-conductor-pianist-includes-premiere/) - Vanessa Benelli Mosell, conductor and pianist, makes her Vancouver Symphony debut on Jan. 17. The program includes the North American premiere of Philppe Schoeller’s Sereno Sola for Piano and Strings, as well as Bartók’s playful Divertimento for Strings and Schubert’s exuberant Third Symphony. https://www.vancouversymphony.ca/event/ca-schuberts-third-symphony/
- [Pianist Gheorghiu Debuts in Nova Scotia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianist-gheorghiu-debuts-in-nova-scotia/) - Pianist Teo Gheorghiu makes his Symphony Nova Scotia debut playing Schumann’s Piano Concerto under conductor Andrei Feher. The Feb. 13 program, which will also be livestreamed, opens with Anna Clyne’s Stride and closes with Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, Pastoral. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/beethovens-pastoral-symphony/
- [Award Funds New Work for Symphony Nova Scotia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/award-funds-new-work-for-symphony-nova-scotia/) - The world premiere of a new work by Stephanie Orlando, commissioned through the Maria Anna Mozart Award, will be presented by Symphony Nova Scotia on Oct. 31. Santiago Cañón Valencia will be on hand to play Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1, and the program, conducted by Holly Mathieson, will conclude with Copland’s Appalachian Spring. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/shostakovich-coplands-appalachian-spring/
- [Dutcher Brings Indigenous Sounds to Symphony Nova Scotia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dutcher-brings-indigenous-sounds-to-symphony-nova-scotia/) - Jeremy Dutcher, two-spirit song carrier, composer, activist, and ethnomusicologist from Tobique First Nation, joins Symphony Nova Scotia on Oct. 25-26 with an all-new, boundary-pushing orchestral performance. https://symphonynovascotia.ca/concerts-and-tickets/concerts/rebecca-cohn-auditorium/jeremy-dutcher-2024/
- [](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/110092/) - To mark its 40th season, the Saskatoon Symphony, under the baton of Evan Mitchell, will feature its concertmaster, Michael Swan, as soloist in Wieniawski’s Violin Concerto No. 1. The March 8 concert also includes The Lost Birds, a moving work by Christopher Tin for choir and orchestra, featuring the SSO Chorus. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/the-lost-birds/
- [Saskatoon: Menotti's 'The Medium'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/saskatoon-menottis-the-medium/) - On Jan. 17, the Saskatoon Symphony offers a rare opportunity to see a staged version of Gian Carlo Menotti’s haunting opera The Medium. Anastasia Winterhalt stars. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/the-medium/
- [Pianist Buechner Makes Saskatoon Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianist-buechner-makes-saskatoon-debut/) - The Saskatoon Symphony opens its classical season Sept. 21 with the debut of Sara Davis Buechner playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Tania Miller conducts this program, which also includes Elgar’s Enigma Variations. https://saskatoonsymphony.org/event/enigma/
- [Finding Joy in Quebec, from Pow Wow to Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/finding-joy-in-quebec-from-pow-wow-to-beethoven/) - On April 9 the Orchestre symphonique de Québec, along with Les Violons du Roy and a group of pow wow singers and Native drummers, will present the world premiere of a new work by Katia Makdissi-Warren. Her piece is inspired by the spirit of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, which will also be performed, with soloists Kirsten
- [A Whirling Dervish Answers Strauss in Quebec](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-whirling-dervish-answers-strauss-in-quebec/) - On Dec. 4-5, the Orchestre symphonique de Québec will perform both Strauss’ Thus Spoke Zarathustra and a work created in answer to it, Katia Makdissi-Warren’s Thus Sang Simorgh, which will feature three Turkish musicians/dancers in the Sufi tradition. In this program conducted by Clemens Schuldt, Vadim Gluzman plays the Tchaikovsky violin Concerto, and the orchestra
- [Calgary Phil Celebrates Two Musical Birthdays](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/calgary-phil-celebrates-two-musical-birthdays/) - It’s double the party on Jan. 25 when the Calgary Philharmonic celebrates the birthdays of both Mozart and music director Rune Bergmann (who will conduct). The music for this fête will be Mozart’s Mass in C major, featuring Mireille Asselin, Lillian Brooks, John Tessier, and Stephen Hegedus, along with the Calgary Philharmonic Chorus. https://calgaryphil.com/events/mozarts-birthday-party-2025-01-25-730-pm/
- [Calgary Celebrates Bruckner at 200](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/calgary-celebrates-bruckner-at-200/) - To celebrate Bruckner’s 200 birthday, the Calgary Philharmonic will play his Symphony No. 8 on Oct. 18-19, under the baton of Rune Bergmann. For the first half of the program, violinist solos in Leonard Bernstein’s Serenade. https://calgaryphil.com/events/bernsteins-serenade-with-karen-gomyo-2024-10-18-730-pm/
- [Rap Meets Tchaik in Calgary Mash-Up](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rap-meets-tchaik-in-calgary-mash-up/) - The Calgary Philharmonic blends a classic and a Canadian icon with Tchaikovsky X Drake on Sept. 7. It’s an innovative fusion of Tchaikovsky’s epic Fifth Symphony and over 20 songs by Canadian superstar rapper Drake. Conducted by Steve Hackman. https://calgaryphil.com/events/tchaikovsky-x-drake-2024-09-07-730-pm/
- [Oregon: Composer Foley Plays Own New Bass Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-composer-foley-plays-own-new-bass-concerto/) - The Oregon Symphony will present a new bass concerto by artist-in-residence Xavier Foley on March 8-10, with the composer soloing and Hannu Lintu on the podium. The program also includes Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 5. https://www.orsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/2425/copland-sibelius-sounds-of-spring/?performanceId=5896
- [Americans Matched with Beethoven in Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/americans-matched-with-beethoven-in-oregon/) - In a Jan. 11-13 program titled “Leaders and Pathbreakers,” the Oregon Symphony will set works by Americans Joan Tower (Sixth Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman) and Duke Ellington (Three Black Kings) against two pieces by Beethoven. David Danzmayr leads Beethoven’s King Stephen Overture, followed by his Emperor Piano Concerto, featuring Yefim Bronfman. https://www.orsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/2425/beethovens-emperor-leaders-pathbreakers/?performanceId=5865
- [Oregon Commissions New Cello Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregon-commissions-new-cello-concerto/) - The world premiere of a new cello concerto by composer-in-residence Andy Akiho will be given Oct. 5-7 by Jeffrey Zeigler soloing with the Oregon Symphony. David Danzmayr also conducts Brahm’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.orsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/2425/brahms-second-symphony-moments-in-light-and-darkness/?performanceId=5838
- [Omaha Unearths Rare Bass Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/omaha-unearths-rare-bass-concerto/) - The Omaha Symphony will play Giovanni Bottesini’s rarely heard Bass Concerto on Oct. 6, with principal bass Nate Olson as soloist. The program also includes Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8, with music director Ankush Kumar Bahl conducting. https://www.omahasymphony.org/concerts/symphony-joslyn-1-beethoven-8
- [Jacquot Makes First Appearance With N.C. Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jacquot-makes-first-appearance-with-n-c-symphony/) - Conductor Marie Jacquot will make her debut with the North Carolina Symphony on April 25-26. She will conduct Wagner’s Tannhäuser Overture, Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 2 (with Marie-Ange Nguci), and Saint-Saëns’s Symphony 3, Organ. https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/633/saint-saens-organ-symphony/
- [Giddens Meets Beethoven in N.C.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/giddens-meets-beethoven-in-n-c/) - An excerpt of Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’ Pulitzer Prize-winning opera Omar will open the North Carolina Symphony’s Feb. 21-22 program, conducted by Carlos Miguel Prieto. After Brahms’ Alto Rhapsody, the North Carolina Master Chorale and soloists yet to be announced will join the orchestra in Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. https://www.ncsymphony.org/events/629/beethoven-symphony-no-9/
- [A Birthday Tribute and Boston Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-birthday-tribute-and-boston-premieres/) - The New England Philharmonic plays two Boston premieres to celebrate composer Yehudi Wyner’s 95th birthday on March 2: Chaya Czernowin’s Once I Blinked Nothing Was the Same and Bobby Ge’s Remember to Have Fun. Wyner’s own Prologue and Narrative is also on the program, along with works by Keeril Makan and Marti Epstein. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/new-music-new-england-2025
- [World Premiere Flute Concerto at New England Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-flute-concerto-at-new-england-phil/) - New England will present the world premiere of a Flute Concerto by Eric Nathan on Oct. 20, featuring flutist Alejandro Escuer. The program also includes the Boston premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s Antropolis and Stravinky’s The Rite of Spring. https://nephilharmonic.org/concerts/ancient-cultures-new-musics
- [All-Gershwin Finale for Madison](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-gershwin-finale-for-madison/) - The Madison Symphony closes its season May 9-11 with an all-Gershwin program under the baton of John DeMain. The Cuban Overture gets things off to an energetic start, followed by Philippe Bianconi as soloist in the Piano Concert in F major. Soprano Michelle Johnson and baritone Eric Greene will join the Madison Symphony Chorus in
- [Stern to Debut on Madison Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stern-to-debut-on-madison-podium/) - Madison Symphony welcomes the debut of conductor Michael Stern on Nov. 15-17, when Garrick Ohlsson solos in Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor. The program opens with Jonathan Leshnoff’s Rush and concludes with Shostakovich’s Fifth Symphony. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/momentum/
- [Madison Takes Coleman's 'Umoja' for a Spin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/madison-takes-colemans-umoja-for-a-spin/) - The Madison Symphony’s season opener Sept. 20-22 will include the orchestra performing Valerie Coleman’s Umoja: Anthem of Unity for the first time. John DeMain leads cellist Tommy Mesa in Tchaikovsky’s Variations on a Rococo Theme. The program also includes Joseph Jongen’s Symphonie Concertante and de Falla’s Suite No. 2 from The Three-Cornered Hat. https://madisonsymphony.org/event/reunion/
- [Louisville Undertakes Rare Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/louisville-undertakes-rare-opera/) - Viktor Ullmann’s rarely performed opera Der Kaiser von Atlantis is a powerful allegory exploring the themes of power, mortality, and the human spirit. Teddy Abrams conducts the Louisville Orchestra in a concert performance of the work on Jan. 25. https://louisvilleorchestra.org/concert/teddy-conducts-der-kaiser-von-atlantis/
- [Louisville Present Coleman Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/louisville-present-coleman-premiere/) - The world premiere of Valerie Coleman’s Concerto for Orchestra is one of many intriguing items in the Nov. 15-16 Louisville Orchestra program. Teddy Abrams also conducts works by Baldwin Giang, Brittany Green, Samuel Barber (the Violin Concerto, featuring Ray Chen), and Oswald Húynh. https://my.louisvilleorchestra.org/ray-chen-plays-barber/coffee
- [Mostly Women and a Bit of Beethoven in LV](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mostly-women-and-a-bit-of-beethoven-in-lv/) - Beethoven is the odd man out in this otherwise all-female lineup at the Las Vegas Philharmonic, conducted by and featuring pianist Rei Hotoda. Works include Clyne’s Sound and Fury, Higdon’s “Breeze Serenade” from Dance Card, and Montgomery’s Rounds. The May 10 season finale concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. https://lvphil.org/events/beethovensseventh/
- [In New Las Vegas Role, Slatkin Conducts Weill, Gershwin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-new-las-vegas-role-slatkin-conducts-weill-gershwin/) - Leonard Slatkin conducts his first concert as Artistic Consultant of the Las Vegas Philharmonic on Nov. 9, leading vocalists Storm Large and the Hudson Shad Quartet in Weill/Brecht’s The Seven Deadly Sins. Also on the program are Hovhaness’ Symphony No. 2, The Mysterious Mountain, and Gershwin’s An American in Paris. https://lvphil.org/events/slatkin-conducts-gershwin/
- [](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/109542/) - Matthias Pintscher will lead the Kansas City Symphony in the world premiere of a new work by Catalan composer Jan Magrané Figuera. This April 5-6 program also features Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Saint-Saëns’ Fifth Piano Concerto plus Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 6, Pathétique. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22172/22214
- [Candillari Makes Kansas City Podium Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/candillari-makes-kansas-city-podium-debut/) - Daniela Candillari makes her conducting debut with the Kansas City Symphony on Feb. 7-9, leading the orchestra in Ellen Reid’s Floodplain and the Shostakovich 10th Symphony. Karen Gomyo will solo in Prokofiev’s First Violin Concerto. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22169
- [Kansas City: World Premiere by Conrad Tao](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kansas-city-world-premiere-by-conrad-tao/) - The Kansas City Symphony presents the world premiere of a new work by (and featuring) pianist Conrad Tao, who will also play Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto. The Jan. 25-26 program, conducted by Matthias Pintscher, concludes with Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7. https://tickets.kcsymphony.org/22168
- [Huỳnh Premiere Paired with Poulenc in Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/huynh-premiere-paired-with-poulenc-in-chicago/) - Composer-in-residence Oswald Huỳnh’s third commission for the Illinois Philharmonic will receive its world premiere on May 17 in a program featuring Peter Richard Conte performing Poulenc’s Organ Concerto. Elgar’s Enigma Variations conclude the program, conducted by Stilian Kirov. https://ipomusic.org/2024-25-season/
- [Emerging Composers Showcased in Chicago Area](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/emerging-composers-showcased-in-chicago-area/) - The world premiere of new works from the Illinois Philharmonic’s two emerging-composer initiatives will open the March 22 program, under the baton of Stilian Kirov. Principat clarinet Trevor O’Riordan will solo in Mozart’s Clarinet Concerto, and the evening culminates in Schubert’s Symphony No. 5. https://ipomusic.org/2024-25-season/
- [Illinois Phil to Play Three American Symphonies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/illinois-phil-to-play-three-american-symphonies/) - On Sept 21, the Illinois Philharmonic Orchestra presents the Midwest premiere of David Diamond’s Symphony No. 2, written in 1943 and influenced by the Second World War. Stilian Kirov conducts this all-American program, which also includes symphonies by John Vincent and William Grant Still. https://ipomusic.org/2024-25-season/
- [Father-Son Collaboration in Harrisburg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/father-son-collaboration-in-harrisburg/) - On May 17-18, the Harrisburg Symphony will play the world premiere of a new work by Zev Malina, son of music director Stuart Malina. As the program’s name, “Malina Madness 2.0,” implies, this father-son team has collaborated before. The concert also includes Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue (with the conductor at the piano) and music from
- [Shostakovich Celebrated in Harrisburg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/shostakovich-celebrated-in-harrisburg/) - The Harrisburg Symphony will present a “Shostakovich Celebration” Jan. 25-26. Music director Stuart Malina will conduct the composer’s Festive Overture as well as his Symphony No. 7, Leningrad. https://harrisburg-symphony-orchestra.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0S6T0000170vYgUAI
- [Eight Is Just Enough Timpani for Grand Rapids Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/eight-is-just-enough-timpani-for-grand-rapids-program/) - One doesn’t often get to hear the powerful rumble of 8 timpani, but lucky listeners will get that chance March 21-22 when the Grand Rapids Symphony plays the Symphony with Eight Obbligato Timpani by Johann Carl Christian Fischer (featuring timpanist Daniel Karas. Marcelo Lehninger conducts this program, which also includes Villa-Lobos’ Bachianas Brasileiras No. 1
- [Grand Rapids Premieres López Commission](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/grand-rapids-premieres-lopez-commission/) - A new work by Marina López, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras, will receive its world premiere on Jan. 10-11 with the Grand Rapids Symphony under the direction of Lidiya Yankovskaya. Saxophonist Timothy McAllister will play Corigliano’s Triathlon, a work he originally premiered. Also on this all-American program are Copland’s Quiet City and Bernstein’s
- [New Clara Schumann Orchestration in Grand Rapids](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-clara-schumann-orchestration-in-grand-rapids/) - On Sept. 27-28 the Grand Rapids Symphony will present the world premiere of a new orchestration of Clara Schumann’s Three Romances for Violin and Piano. Music director Marcelo Lehninger conducts this program, which opens with the Brahms Violin Concerto (featuring Alexandra Soumm) and closes with Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony. https://www.grsymphony.org/brahms
- [](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/109021/) - Music director Robert Spano will lead the Forth Worth Symphony in Mahler’s powerful Symphony No. 9 on March 14-16. https://fwsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/24-25-season/symphonic-series/spano-conducts-mahler-s-ninth
- [Spano in Fort Worth Chamber Evening](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/spano-in-fort-worth-chamber-evening/) - Music director Robert Spano, on piano, will be joined by other musicians from the Fort Worth Symphony in a program of chamber music. The Feb. 23 concert includes the string sextet version of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night) as well as Brahms’ Piano Quartet No. 1 in G minor. https://fwsymphony.org/concerts-tickets/24-25-season/chamber-series/brahms-and-schoenberg
- [Heggie Premiere at Fort Worth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/heggie-premiere-at-fort-worth/) - The Fort Worth Symphony presents the world premiere of Jake Heggie’s Earth 2.0 on Dec. 6-8, under the baton of music director Robert Spano. The work uses a libretto by Anita Amirrezvani and features countertenor Key’mon Murrah with dancers from New York-based dance troupe Urban Bush Women. Beethoven’s Symphony No. 3, Eroica, completes the program.
- [Haydn for Cellist's First Des Moines Appearance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/haydn-for-cellists-first-des-moines-appearance/) - Performing Haydn’s elegant Cello Concerto in D major, Sterling Elliot makes his Des Moines Symphony debut March 8-9. The program, conducted by Joseph Giunta, also includes Coleridge-Taylor’s The Song of Hiawatha and Dvořák’s New World Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/from-the-new-world/
- [Chen Debuts on Des Moines Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chen-debuts-on-des-moines-podium/) - The Des Moines Symphony welcomes the debut of conductor Mei-Ann Chen on Feb. 8-9 in a wide-ranging program. The concert opens with Florence Price’s Dance of the Canebrakes, a lively work inspired by African American folk music. Anne Marie McDermott performs Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1. Rachmaninoff’s dramatic Symphonic Dances close the evening. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/chen-conducts-rachmaninoff/
- [Violinist Debuts in Des Moines with Brahms](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violinist-debuts-in-des-moines-with-brahms/) - Violinist Geneva Lewis makes her debut with the Des Moines Symphony on Oct. 26-27 playing the Brahms Violin Concerto. Conducted by Joseph Giunta, the progarm also includes Still’s Serenade and Sibelius’ Fifth Symphony. https://www.dmsymphony.org/concerts-events/lewis-plays-brahms/
- [Wilmington: Brahms to Test Music Director Finalist](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/wilmington-brahms-to-test-music-director-finalist/) - The last of four candidates for Delaware Symphony music director, Michelle De Russo will conduct the Brahms Fourth Symphony on March 28. Janice Carissa joins as soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/di-russo-conducts-brahms-wilmington/
- [Director Candidate Conducts Shostakovich in Delaware](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/director-candidate-conducts-shostakovich-in-delaware/) - Filippo Ciabatti, a finalist for the post of music director of the Delaware Symphony, will lead Tommy Mesa in Shostakiovich’s Cello Concert No. 1 on Nov. 15. The program also includes Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/ciabatti-conducts-beethoven-wilmington/
- [Delaware Puts Director Finalist on Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/delaware-puts-director-finalist-on-podium/) - The first of four finalists for the position of music director of the Delaware Symphony will lead the orchestra on Sept. 20. Mélisse Brunet will conduct Anna Clyne’s This Midnight Hour, Florence Price’s Violin Concerto No. 1 (featuring Melissa White), and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.delawaresymphony.org/dso_events/brunet-conducts-tchaikovsky/
- [Milwaukee: Kevin Puts' Marimba Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/milwaukee-kevin-puts-marimba-concerto/) - The Milwaukee Symphony welcomes Ji Su Jung, the first percussion player to win an Avery Fisher Career Grant, to debut with Kevin Puts’ Marimba Concerto on April 4-5. MSO assistant conductor Ryan Tani also leads Copland’s Appalachian Spring and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 4. https://www.mso.org/concerts/coplands-appalachian-spring/62548/
- [Beethoven's Revision for Pianist's Debut in Milwaukee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethovens-revision-for-pianists-debut-in-milwaukee/) - Pianist Claire Huangci makes her Milwaukee Symphony debut with a rare treat: Beethoven’s reimagining of his Violin Concerto for solo piano and orchestra. This March 7-9 program, conducted by David Danzmayr, concludes with Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, Scottish. https://www.mso.org/concerts/mendelssohns-third-symphony/62542/
- [Zeitouni's Milwaukee Debut Focuses on France](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/zeitounis-milwaukee-debut-focuses-on-france/) - On Oct. 25-26, conductor Jean-Marie Zeitouni will make his Milwaukee Symphony debut, leading the orchestra in an evening of avant-garde French music. The works include Lily Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps, Ravel’s Shéhérazade, and Poulenc’s Gloria (featuring the Milwaukee Symphony Chorus and soprano Joélle Harvey). https://www.mso.org/concerts/poulencs-gloria/62513/
- [Milwaukee Gets 'Romantic' over Bruckner's Birthday](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/milwaukee-gets-romantic-over-bruckners-birthday/) - In celebration of Bruckner’s 200th birthday, the Milwaukee Symphony will present the composer’s Fourth Symphony, the Romantic, with Ken-David Masur on the podium. The first half of this Oct. 4-5 program comprises Clarice Assad’s Nhanderú and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer, featuring bass-baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.mso.org/concerts/bruckners-fourth-symphony/62509/
- [Peleggi Makes Indianapolis Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/peleggi-makes-indianapolis-debut/) - Italian conductor Valentina Peleggi makes her debut with the Indianapolis Symphony Feb. 28-March 1. Joyce Yang will be the soloist in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3. Anna Clyne's Masquerade opens the program, which closes with Rimsky-Korsakov’s exotic Scheherazade. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/scheherazade/
- [Märkl Initiates Directorship in Indy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/markl-initiates-directorship-in-indy/) - Jun Märkl will make his first official appearance as the music director of the Indianapolis Symphony on Jan. 17-18. The program includes two crowd-pleasers: Johann Strauss II’s Emperor Waltz and Beethoven’s Symphony Nov. 7. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/beethovens-7th/
- [Indianapolis Premieres Bass Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/indianapolis-premieres-bass-concerto/) - The Indianapolis Symphony will present the world premiere of James Beckel’s Double Bass Concerto on May 30-31, with ISO Principal Bass Ju-Fang Liu as soloist. This program, conducted by David Danzmayr, also includes A Short Piece for Orchestra by Julia Perry and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/tchaikovskys-5th-symphony/
- [ASO Debuts at Geffen in 1920s Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aso-debuts-at-geffen-in-1920s-program/) - On March 23, the American Symphony orchestra will perform at David Geffen Hall at Lincoln Center for the first time. The program focuses on music of composers who came of age in the 1920s, including Edgar Varèse, John Alden Carpenter, Erwin Schulhoff, and William Grant Still. Leon Botstein conducts, and pianist Orion Weiss joins as
- [Strauss' First Opera Comes to Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/strauss-first-opera-comes-to-carnegie-hall/) - The American Symphony Orchestra, under Leon Botstein, will present a rarely performed opera at Carnegie Hall on June 6. Guntram was Richard Strauss’ first opera; the young composer’s mastery of orchestral writing combines with the ethereal melodic arcs that anticipate his later, famous operas. Also featuring the Bard Festival Chorale. https://americansymphony.org/concerts/strauss-guntram/
- [Colorado: 'Mozart & Now' Blends Wolfgang with New Works](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorado-mozart-now-blends-wolfgang-with-new-works/) - There’s a whole lot of Mozart in the Colorado Symphony’s Mozart & Now program Jan. 10-12 (three different programs). Principal conductor Peter Oundjian leads a total of six Mozart works, including the 36th Symphony, alongside contemporary compositions by Samuel Adams, Anna Clyne, and John Adams. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7014?_gl=1*jh1gke*_gcl_au*MTU2MjYzNDA3NC4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga*MTk0ODY4MjQ2My4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga_V099ZPM1LL*MTcxOTQxMTY3OS4yLjEuMTcxOTQxMTk4Ni42MC4wLjA
- [Colorado Presents All-Cello Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/colorado-presents-all-cello-concert/) - Listeners will have a rare chance to hear only the cello section of the Colorado Symphony on Oct. 10. The so-called Cello Ensemble will showcase the depth and versatility of the instrument, featuring an array of classical masterpieces and contemporary compositions curated to highlight the instrument’s expressive range. https://tickets.coloradosymphony.org/7158?_gl=1*xod9yr*_gcl_au*MTU2MjYzNDA3NC4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga*MTk0ODY4MjQ2My4xNzE4ODkzNjIz*_ga_V099ZPM1LL*MTcxOTQxMTY3OS4yLjEuMTcxOTQxMTc3NC4zOC4wLjA
- [Black Composers from Two Centuries in Arkansas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/black-composers-from-two-centuries-in-arkansas/) - Two orchestral works by Black composers will be the focus of the Arkansas Symphony’s Jan. 25-26 program, conducted by Joseph Young. Samuel Coleridge-Taylor’s Ballade in A minor opens the program, while William Dawson’s Negro Folk Symphony (from 1934) closes it. Between those two works, pianist Zee Zee will solo in Liszt’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
- [Diehl Plays Gershwin in Arkansas Opener](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/diehl-plays-gershwin-in-arkansas-opener/) - Arkansas Symphony opens its season Sept. 28-29 by featuring two Gershwin works and two from the 21st century. The recent compositions are Anna Clyne’s Masquerade and Carlos Simon’s Graffiti. Gershwin is represented by his Piano Concerto in F, featuring Aaron Diehl, and the Cuban Overture. Geoffrey Robson conducts. https://www.arkansassymphony.org/events/aaron-diehl-gershwin/
- [Annapolis Co-Commissions World Premiere Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/annapolis-co-commissions-world-premiere-quartet/) - The world premere of a work by Roydon Tse, a commission through the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, will have its world premiere with members of the Annapolis Symphony April 4-5. The chamber-music program also includes Sonia Morales-Matos’ Fiesta No. 2 and Suites 1 and 2 from Ravel’s Daphnis et Chloé. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/fiesta/
- [Hailstork and Navarro on Annapolis Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hailstork-and-navarro-on-annapolis-program/) - Annapolis offers an ambitious and innovative program Nov. 1-2, with José-Luis Novo conducting. Adolphus Hailstork’s Three Spirituals opens the proceedings, followed by Óscar Navarro’s 2019 Horn Concerto, with soloist Alex Kovling. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10 concludes the program. https://annapolissymphony.org/events/masterworksiiconnections/
- [Annapolis Symphony Opens Season with Mixed Fare](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/annapolis-symphony-opens-season-with-mixed-fare/) - As its season opener Oct. 4-6, the Annapolis Symphony will play an eclectic mix of old and new music. Tania León’s 2022 work Pasajes will be followed by Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23, featuring soloist Brian Ganz. The second half of the program, conducted by artistic director José-Luis Novo, comprises two symphonies: Bruckner’s Third (second
- [Thorvaldsdottir's New Cello Concerto in SF](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/thorvaldsdottirs-new-cello-concerto-in-sf/) - Cellist Johannes Moser will play the world premiere of Anna Thorvaldsdottir’s new cello concerto with the San Francisco Symphony on May 15-17. Dalia Stasevska conducts this program, which also includes Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/stasevska-rachmaninoff
- [New Work from San Francisco's Black Composers Initiative](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-work-from-san-franciscos-black-composers-initiative/) - On Feb. 21-23, the San Francisco Symphony will present the world premiere of a new work by Xavier Muzik, winner of the 2023 Emerging Black Composers Project Michael Morgan Prize. Daniil Trifonov will solo in Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and music director Esa-Pekka Salonen will close the program with Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/salonen-trifonov
- [San Francisco Premieres Adams Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/san-francisco-premieres-adams-concerto/) - John Adams’ new piano concerto, After the Fall, receives its world premiere by pianist Víkingur Ólafsson with conductor David Robertson and the San Francisco Symphony on Jan. 16-19. The program will also include Orff’s Carmina burana. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Buy-Tickets/2024-25/carmina-burana
- [Muhly Baroque-Inspired Concerto Premieres in SF](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/muhly-baroque-inspired-concerto-premieres-in-sf/) - Esa-Pekka Salonen is joined by pianist Alexandre Tharaud in his San Francisco Symphony debut Sept. 27–28, performing the world premiere of Nico Muhly’s Baroque-inspired Piano Concerto. The program features three additional works that draw inspiration from an earlier time: Paul Hindemith’s raucous Ragtime (Well-Tempered), Edward Elgar’s transcription of Bach’s Fantasia and Fugue in C minor, BWV
- [Astronomical Images Accompany Holst in Anchorage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/astronomical-images-accompany-holst-in-anchorage/) - Astronomer Jeffrey Hull will present cosmic projections while the Anchorage Symphony plays Holst’s The Planets in the season finale April 19. Anchorage Symphony. The program will include the world premiere of ASO cellist Brett Lindsay’s Of Sunlight & Solace as well as Nina Shekhar’s Lumina and an orchestral arrangement of Debussy’s Clair de lune. https://www.anchoragesymphony.org/concerts-events/2025seasonfinale
- [Meditations on Nature in Anchorage Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/meditations-on-nature-in-anchorage-program/) - The Nov. 2 program by the Anchorage Symphony will open with two meditative works. The first is “Athabaskan Prayer Song” from Echoes by former ASO music director Randall Craig Fleischer, inspired by Native American indigenous music. Then John Luther Adams’ An Atlas of Deep Time paints a mesmerizing sonic landscape. The program concludes with Beethoven’s
- [Albany Premieres New 'Water Music'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/albany-premieres-new-water-music/) - On June 7, the American Music Festival, an evening hosted by the Albany Symphony, will present the world premiere of Bobby Ge’s Water Music. Global sensations Third Coast Percussion will be on hand to play Clarice Assad’s Percussion Concerto, and Stephen Williamson will solo in Christopher Theofanidis’ Clarinet Concerto. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/6/14/american-music-festival-water-music
- [Albany's 'Dogs of Desire' Delve into New Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/albanys-dogs-of-desire-delve-into-new-music/) - Members of the Albany Symphony, calling themselves Dogs of Desire, will present an evening of new music on June 6, with David Alan Miller conducting. Featured composers will include Dai Wei, Tanner Porter, Juhi Bansal, JUAKHAN, and Brent Michael Davids. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2025/6/13/dogs-of-desire
- [New Guitar Concerto in Albany](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-guitar-concerto-in-albany/) - A new guitar concerto by Nicky Sohn will receive its world premiere with the Albany Symphony on Dec. 21-22, with Bokyung Byun as soloist. David Alan Miller conducts this program, which also features popular orchestral works by Bach, Mozart, and Vivaldi. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2024/12/21/nicky-sohn-holiday-mozart-amp-vivaldi
- [New León Work Opens Albany Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-leon-work-opens-albany-season/) - During its season opener on Oct. 19, the Albany Symphony will perform the world premiere of Tania León’s Pregón. Pianist Yuval Chen makes his debut with the orchestra in Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. David Alan Miller conducts the program, which concludes with Carl Nielsen’s Symphony No. 4, The Inextinguishable. https://www.albanysymphony.com/upcomingconcerts/2024/10/19/opening-night-tania-len-tchaikovskys-first-concerto
- [Alabama Symphony Takes On Bartók](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/alabama-symphony-takes-on-bartok/) - For the first time in its history, the Alabama Symphony will play Bartók’s seminal Concerto for Orchestra on Nov. 22-23 under music director Carlos Izcaray. The first half of the program will be Beethoven’s Symphony No. 8. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/beethoven-bartok/
- [Concerto Premiere Marks Conductor's 10th Year in Alabama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/concerto-premiere-marks-conductors-10th-year-in-alabama/) - To celebrate his 10th anniversary as music director of the Alabama Symphony, Carlos Izcaray will lead a program that opens with two works by Dukas (including the beloved The Sorcerer’s Apprentice). Conor Hanick will give the world premiere of Izcaray’s own Piano Concerto, and the Oct. 25-26 program closes with Berlioz’s wild Symphonie fantastique. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/izcaray-10-years-remembered/
- [Organist Makes Alabama Symphony Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/organist-makes-alabama-symphony-debut/) - Organist Patrick Scott will make his debut with the Alabama Symphony on Sept. 27-28, playing Saint-Saëns’s Organ Sympony No. 3. The program, conducted by music director Carlos Izcaray, opens with Shostakovich’s Festive Overture, and Amaryn Olmeda solos in Barber’s Violin Concerto. https://alabamasymphony.org/events/barber-saint-saens/
- [Pittsburgh: Mahler 4 and a World Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pittsburgh-mahler-4-and-a-world-premiere/) - The world premiere of Reza Vali’s newest work will occur June 6-8, with Manfred Honeck conducting the Pittsburgh Symphony. Alice Sara Ott will play Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and soprano Lilit Davtyan will be the soprano soloist in Mahler’s Fourth Symphony. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92965/beethoven-mahler-plus-world-premiere
- [New 'Arabella' Arrangement in Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-arabella-arrangement-in-pittsburgh/) - On March 21-23, Manfred Honeck will conduct the world premiere of his new arrangement of Strauss’ Suite from Arabella with the Pittsburgh Symphony. Also on the program are Nine Shekhar’s Lumina, Shostakovich’s First Cello Concerto (featuring Sheku Kanneh-Mason), and Strauss’ Don Juan. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92959/sheku-kanneh-mason-performs-shostakovich
- [World Premiere in Pittsburgh, Plus Ax's Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-in-pittsburgh-plus-axs-mozart/) - The world premiere of a new work by Hannah Ishizaki will be played by the Pittsburgh Symphony Feb. 21-23. In this program conducted by Manfred Honeck, Emanuel Ax will be the soloist for Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25, and the evening concludes with Korngold’s Symphony in F-Sharp Major. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92957/emanuel-ax-plays-mozart-plus-world-premiere
- [Honeck Leads and Arranges Fauré in Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/honeck-leads-and-arranges-faure-in-pittsburgh/) - Three Pittsburgh Symphony premieres will be performed on Dec. 6-8 when music director Manfred Honeck leads his own arrangement of Fauré’s Cantique de Jean Racine, Reena Esmail’s RE|Member, and Adolphus Hailstork’s Lachrymosa. The second half of the program is Fauré’s Requiem with Jeanine De Bique, Joshua Hopkins, and the Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92952/sparks-fly-voices-soar-brahms-and-faure
- [Scottish and Finnish Works Come to Pittsburgh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scottish-and-finnish-works-come-to-pittsburgh/) - Two works new to the Pittsburgh Symphony will be performed Nov. 15-17 under conductor Donald Runnicles: Hamish MacCunn’s The Land of the Mountain and the Flood and Einojuhani Rautavaara’s Dances with the Winds, a concerto for flute featuring Lorna McGhee. The program concludes with Strauss’ An Alpine Symphony. https://www.pittsburghsymphony.org/production/92948/strauss-alpine-symphony
- [McGill Introduces Seattle to New Flute Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mcgill-introduces-seattle-to-new-flute-concerto/) - Principal flute Demarre McGill performs the West Coast premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull’s Flute Concerto with the Seattle Symphony on June 12-22. Conductor emeritus Ludovic Morlot will also lead two beloved symphonic works by Ravel: Bolero and Rapsodie espagnole. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24sub21
- [Tan Dun Conducts Own Works in Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tan-dun-conducts-own-works-in-seattle/) - Conductor and composer Tan Dun conducts the Seattle Symphony in a program featuring two of his works on May 15-16. The first is Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women, inspired by the remote Chinese language Nüshu, which women use to pass down knowledge of their own unique traditions, mother to daughter. Sound River delves
- [Seattle: Electronics Feature in Björnsson Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-electronics-feature-in-bjornsson-premiere/) - May 2 marks the world premiere of Gulli Björnsson’s ljósíd (light), performed by members of the Seattle Symphony, featuring JIJI on electroacoustic guitar & electronics with visuals by Björnsson. This performance is part of the SSO’s Octave 9 series. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24octave5
- [Iranian Female Composers Celebrated in Seattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/iranian-female-composers-celebrated-in-seattle/) - On Nov. 22, members of the Seattle Symphony will collaborate with the Iranian Female Composers Association, established in 2017 to support Iranian female and non-binary identifying musicians. Composer Deniz Tafaghodi’s new work receives its world premiere alongside fellow Iranian composer Golnaz Shariatzadeh’s Fabric of Sorrow. Part of Octave 9 series. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24octave3
- [Seattle Premiere Tells of Ancient Tree](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/seattle-premiere-tells-of-ancient-tree/) - On Sept. 27, members of the Seattle Symphony present the world premiere of Majel Connery’s Elderflora, a profound life portrait of an ancient tree, as part of the Octave 9 series. The composer will appear on voice and synthesizers, joined by electric cellist Felix Fan. The performance will also feature photos by Noah Kalina. https://www.seattlesymphony.org/en/concerttickets/calendar/2024-2025/24octave1
- [Savall Treats Chicago to Early Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/savall-treats-chicago-to-early-music/) - On Oct. 8 Chicagoans will have a chance to hear Jordi Savall, one of the most distinctive talents in the field of early music. The viol player and conductor and two of his ensembles—La Capella Reial De Catalunya and Hespèrion XXI—will be performing at the Symphony Center. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/scp-chamber/jordi-savall/
- [Handel and Mozart on Michigan Ave.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/handel-and-mozart-on-michigan-ave/) - Conductor Nicholas Kraemer and four preeminent singers, including soprano Amanda Forsythe and countertenor Aryeh Nussbaum Cohen, will present a selection of Handel’s vocal works with the Chicago Symphony on Oct. 17-19. Plus, enjoy music fit for a king with Handel’s Water Music, and Mozart’s grand Coronation Mass, featuring the Chicago Symphony Chorus. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/mozart-coronation-mass/
- [Muti Returns to Chicago, Bearing Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/muti-returns-to-chicago-bearing-beethoven/) - Former music director Riccardo Muti returns to the Chicago Symphony for an all-Beethoven concert on Oct. 31-Nov. 3. Mitsuko Uchida will be the soloist for the Emperor Piano Concerto, and the program closes with Symphony No. 3, Eroica. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-classical/muti-uchida-emperor-and-eroica/
- [Chicago: Berlin's Bruckner Birthday](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/chicago-berlins-bruckner-birthday/) - 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/
- [CSO, As Curated by Roumain](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cso-as-curated-by-roumain/) - 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
- [CSO's MusicNOW Promises Eclectic Fusion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/csos-musicnow-promises-eclectic-fusion/) - In its spring edition of the MusicNOW series on March 23, the Chicago Symphony orchestra will provide players to perform works chosen by composer/curator Jimmy López Bellido. These include Boulez’s Domaines, Quinn Mason’s Weapon Wheel, Adam Schoenberg’s Reflecting Light, and two compositions by López Bellido. https://cso.org/performances/24-25/cso-musicnow/inner-dialogues/
- [Atlanta Opera Explores Lake Lanier's Haunting History](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/atlanta-opera-explores-lake-laniers-haunting-history/) - On June 15-17, Atlanta Opera will give the world premiere of Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier) as part of its 96-Hour Opera Project. The one-act dark comedy by Marcus Norris explores some of Georgia’s terrifying, uncomfortable, and uncanny happenings at Lake Lanier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Chaowen Ting conducts. https://www.atlantaopera.org/forsyth-county-is-flooding/
- [Dudamel Premieres Soper Work for Voice and Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dudamel-premieres-soper-work-for-voice-and-orchestra/) - Upcoming New York Philharmonic music direct Gustavo Dudamel will lead the orchestra in the world premiere of a new work by singer and composer Kate Soper, whose vocal performance will mark her NY Phil debut. Two symphonies round out the May 22-24 program: Stravinsky’s Symphony in Three Movements and Philip Glass’ Symphony No. 11. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/dudamel-soper/
- [NYPhil's Project 19 Presents New Work by Montgomery](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyphils-project-19-presents-new-work-by-montgomery/) - As part of the New York Philharmonic’s Project 19 commissioning effort to support women composers, the orchestra will give the world premiere of a new work by Jessie Montgomery on April 9-11. Jakub Hrůša conducts this program, which features Patricia Kopatchinskaja playing Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto and concludes with Brahms’ First Symphony. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/hrusa-montgomery/
- [New York: Weilerstein Premieres Larcher Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-york-weilerstein-premieres-larcher-concerto/) - Nikolaj SzepsZnaider conducts the world premiere of a new work for cello by Thomas Larcher on April 3-5, with Alisa Weilerstein as soloist. The program also includes Mendelssohn’s incidental music to A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Schumann’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/weilerstein-larcher/
- [Alsop Leads NY Phil's Muhly Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/alsop-leads-ny-phils-muhly-premiere/) - Nico Muhly’s new work for violin and orchestra will receive its world premiere on March 6-8 by the New York Philharmonic under Marin Alsop. Renaud Capuçon is the soloist. This inventive concert is bookended by Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite, with Brahms’ Variations on a Theme by Haydn included as well. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/alsop-muhly/
- [Hamada Conducts NY Phil in Fujikura Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hamada-conducts-ny-phil-in-fujikura-premiere/) - 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/
- [Pintscher Conducts Own Premiere in NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pintscher-conducts-own-premiere-in-nyc/) - The U.S. premiere of Matthias Pintscher’s Neharot, a tribute to those who suffered in the pandemic, will occur on Oct. 10-13, with Pintscher himself conducting the New York Philharmonic. Gil Shaham will play Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Schoenberg’s Pelleas and Melisande. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/pintscher-shaham/
- [NY Phil Members Choose Opening Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ny-phil-members-choose-opening-program/) - A new work by Augusta Read Thomas will receive its world premiere Sept. 19-21 when KenDavid Masur conducts a program curated by the musicians of New York Philharmonic. The eclectic lineup also includes Mahler’s arrangement of some movements by Bach, Duke Ellington’s Harlem, and Hindemith’s Symphonic Metamorphoses. https://www.nyphil.org/concerts-tickets/2425/masur-thomas/
- [Philadelphia Liebestod](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/philadelphia-liebestod/) - June 1-8 offers a rare opportunity to hear Wagner’s complete Tristan und Isolde in concert. The Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will host tenor Stuart Skelton and soprano Nina Stemme as the love-torn title characters. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/wagners-tristan-and-isolde/
- [Frank's 'Hummingbird' Alights in Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/franks-hummingbird-alights-in-philadelphia/) - On March 13-15, the Philadelphia Orchestra will play the world premiere of Gabriela Lena Frank’s Picaflor, inspired by a Peruvian myth about a hummingbird. Marin Alsop will also conduct Randall Goosby in the Mendelssohn Violin Concerto, and the program ends with Brahms’ Variations on a Theme of Haydn. https://www.philorch.org/performances/our-season/events-and-tickets/2024-2025-season/verizon-hall/marin-alsop-leads-brahms-mendelssohn-and-frank/
- [Mahler Ninth Meets Heggie's Atwood Settings](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mahler-ninth-meets-heggies-atwood-settings/) - As part of its 2024-25 Mahler cycle, the Philadelphia Orchestra will play the Ninth Symphony on Jan. 9-11, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducting. The program will open with Jake Heggie’s setting of Margaret Atwood’s Songs for Murdered Sisters, a collection of poems inspired by the violent death of the sister of baritone Joshua Hopkins, who will
- [](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/107590/) - William Grant Still wrote his Symphony No. 2, Song of a New Race, for the Philadelphia Orchestra to premiere in 1937, conducted by Leopold Stokowski. On Jan. 16-18, that same orchestra will play it again, this time under the direction of Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who will also conduct Margaret Bonds’ The Montgomery Variations and Tchaikovsky’s Piano
- [Connesson Cello Concerto Premieres in Philly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/connesson-cello-concerto-premieres-in-philly/) - 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/
- [Nothing But World Premieres for ACO's Spring Show](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nothing-but-world-premieres-for-acos-spring-show/) - For its spring Carnegie Hall appearance on March 6, the American Composers Orchestra will perform four world premieres under the baton of Tito Muñoz. Clarice Assad will sing and play electronics in her Evolution of AI. As part of the EarShot CoLABoratory initiative, Edmar Castañeda will solo as harpist in his new work. Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda’s Going
- [ACO Premieres EarShot Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aco-premieres-earshot-work/) - On Oct. 30, the American Composers Orchestra will present two world premieres at Carnegie Hall: a new work by Kebra-Seyoun Charles (part of the EarShot CoLABoratory project in support of Black composers) and Forest Migrations by Paul Novak. The program, conducted by Mei-Ann Chen, also includes pieces by Michael Abels, Curtis Stewart, and Victoria Polevá. https://www.americancomposers.org/performances-events/new-virtuoso-borders
- [Martín Leads LACO in Complete Bach Suites](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/martin-leads-laco-in-complete-bach-suites/) - We usually hear Bach’s orchestral suites programmed one at a time, along with other repertoire. May 31-June 1 is a rare chance to immerse yourself in the genre, when music director Jaime Martín leads the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra in all four of the suites. It promises to be a season finale to remember. https://www.laco.org/events/martin-bach/
- [Generations of Female Composers Celebrated by LACO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/generations-of-female-composers-celebrated-by-laco/) - On April 5-6, the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra presents a feast of pièces des résistances thoughtfully curated by Margaret Batjer. The works include Louise Farrenc’s masterful Nonet, virtuosic string quartets by Caroline Shaw and Fanny Mendelssohn-Hensel, and an innovative trio by Nokuthula Ngwenyama. https://www.laco.org/events/farrencs-nonet/
- [Sorrell Conducts Pratt Debut With LACO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sorrell-conducts-pratt-debut-with-laco/) - Pianist Awadagin Pratt makes his debut with the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra on March 15, playing Mozart’s Concerto No. 23. The program, conducted by Jeannette Sorrell, also includes Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni, selections from Handel’s Water Music, and Haydn’s Eighth Symphony, Le soir. https://www.laco.org/events/mozart-haydn-handel/
- [Two Premieres Complement Early Haydn and Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-premieres-complement-early-haydn-and-beethoven/) - Laura Karpman’s new work will receive its world premiere at the Nov. 2-3 program by the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. Jeff Beal’s Body in Motion for Violin and Orchestra, featuring Kelly Hall-Tomkins, will also be performed on the West Coast for the first time. The program includes two symphonies under the baton of Jaime Martín:
- [American String Quartet Turns 50](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/american-string-quartet-turns-50/) - At the Austin Chamber Music Festival on June 9, the American String Quartet will mark its 50th birthday. The first half of the program is Beethoven's Op. 18, No. 1, followed by Shostakovich's Quartet No. 13. Then pianist Anton Nel, a longtime collaborator with the quartet, will join the ensemble in Schumann's Piano Quintet in
- [Cargill Sings Mahler to Close San Diego Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cargill-sings-mahler-to-close-san-diego-season/) - In the San Diego Symphony’s May 23-25 season finale, mezzo-soprano Karen Cargill makes her debut with the ensemble. She will sing in Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 in D minor, under the baton of music director Rafael Payare. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/ode-to-nature-payare-conducts-mahlers-symphony-no-3/
- [Weilerstein's 'Fragments' Pairs Bach and New Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/weilersteins-fragments-pairs-bach-and-new-music/) - On April 8, cellist Alisa Weilerstein continues her innovative series “Fragments,” in which she combines new music by compelling contemporary composers with Bach’s Six Suites for Solo Cello. This is the third installment of the once-a-year series. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/alisa-weilerstein-fragments-iii/
- [New Billy Childs Work Premieres in San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-billy-childs-work-premieres-in-san-diego/) - The world premiere of Billy Childs’ Concerto for Orchestra will take place Jan. 31-Feb. 1 with the San Diego Symphony under Rafael Payare. Alexander Malofeev will play Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, and the program ends with Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Eroica. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/orchestral-evolution-childs-premiere-and-beethovens-eroica/
- [Violinist and Conductor Make First Appearances in San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violinist-and-conductor-make-first-appearances-in-san-diego/) - The San Diego Symphony welcomes two debut artists on their Jan. 24-26 program: conductor Daniele Rustioni and violinist Francesca Dego. Dego will solo in Busoni’s Violin Concerto in D major. Rustioni will also lead Berlioz’s Roman Carnival Overture, Tchaikovsky’s symphonic fantasy Francesca da Rimini, and Respighi’s Roman Festivals. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/busonis-violin-concerto/
- [Realities of Immigration Explored in Chamber Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/realities-of-immigration-explored-in-chamber-opera/) - 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
- [Labadie Takes San Diego Podium for First Time](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/labadie-takes-san-diego-podium-for-first-time/) - Conductor Bernard Labadie will make his debut with the San Diego Symphony on Nov. 9-10. The program includes two Mozart works—the overtures to The Magic Flute and La clemenza di Tito—as well as Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 1 (with Jonathan Biss) and Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony No. 103. https://www.sandiegosymphony.org/performances/biss-plays-beethoven/
- [Kidjo Sings Glass' 'Yoruba Songs' in Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kidjo-sings-glass-yoruba-songs-in-montreal/) - Angélique Kidjo will sing Philip Glass’s entrancing Ifé, Three Yorùbá Songs on March 19. The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will be conducted by Elena Schwarz, in a program that also includes Janáček’s, The Cunning Little Vixen Suite and Beethoven’s Sixth Symphony, the Pastoral. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/angelique-kidjo-sings-glass
- [OSM Welcomes Khachatryan Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/osm-welcomes-khachatryan-debut/) - Violinist Sergey Khachatryan will make his debut on Feb. 19-20 playing the Tchaikovsky concerto with Rafael Payare on the podium. Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, The Year 1905, completes the program. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/tchaikovskys-lustrous-violin-concerto
- [His and Hers Mahler Works in Montreal](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/his-and-hers-mahler-works-in-montreal/) - Gustav was not the only one in the Mahler household who composed beautiful music. On Jan 16-17, the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal, conducted by Rafael Payare, will present Five Lieder by Alma Mahler, sung by mezzo-soprano Beth Taylor. After the intermission, it’s Gustav’s turn, with his Symphony No. 6, Tragic. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/mahlers-sixth-symphony-with-payare
- [Discover the Music of Johanna Müller-Hermann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/discover-the-music-of-johanna-muller-hermann/) - The Nov. 6-7 chamber concert by members of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will feature the String Quintet in A minor by composer Johanna Müller-Hermann, paired with Verklärte Nacht by her much better-known contemporary, Arnold Schoenberg. https://www.osm.ca/en/concert/transfigured-romanticism
- ['Gurre-Lieder' Opens Montreal Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gurre-lieder-opens-montreal-season/) - The Montreal Symphony will open its season Sept. 11-13 in an unusual fashion: Music director Rafael Payare will conduct Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder. Written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra, this musical saga narrates the ill-fated romances of King Waldemar at the Gurre Castle, unfolding against a backdrop of jealousy, demise, and damnation. Featuring soprano Dorothea Röschmann and
- [Peer Gynt Onstage in St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/peer-gynt-onstage-in-st-louis/) - While Grieg’s Peer Gynt is an orchestral standard, staging the work is a novel idea. This production, written and directed by Bill Barclay adapted from the play by Henrik Ibsen, will feature the St. Louis Symphony conducted by Stéphane Denève. Swedish soprano Camilla Tilling is a guest soloist for this May 3 performance, which promises to
- [New Lindberg Concerto Part of SLSO Nordic Focus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-lindberg-concerto-part-of-slso-nordic-focus/) - Lawrence Power will be on hand to solo in the U.S. premiere of Magnus Lindberg’s Viola Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony on March 14. Kaija Saariaho’s atmospheric Ciel d'hiver opens the program, which culminates in Schumann’s Symphony No. 2 in C major. Hannu Lintu conducts. https://shop.slso.org/8098
- [Clyne's 'PALETTE' Premieres in St. Louis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/clynes-palette-premieres-in-st-louis/) - PALETTE, a new work by Anna Clyne, will receive its world premiere by the St. Louis Symphony under conductor Stéphane Denève. Nikolai Lugansky will solo in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2, and the program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Overture-Fantasy (appropriate for the Feb. 14 concert). https://shop.slso.org/8095
- [St. Louis Pairs New Work with 'New World' Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/st-louis-pairs-new-work-with-new-world-symphony/) - Hanzhi Wang will be the soloist for the world premiere of Nina Shekhar’s Accordion Concerto with the St. Louis Symphony Jan. 10. Daniela Candillari conducts this program, which opens with the overture to Samuel Barber’s The School for Scandal and closes with Dvořák’s New World Symphony No. 9. https://shop.slso.org/8092
- [SLSO Says 'Happy 80th' to Slatkin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/slso-says-happy-80th-to-slatkin/) - Leonard Slatkin will be both conductor and honoree for the Oct. 25 St. Louis Symphony program, “Slatkin’s Legacy,” celebrating his 80th birthday. The lineup includes Slatkin’s arrangement of D. Scarlatti’s Five Sonatas for orchestral wind ensemble, the U.S. premiere of Voyager 130 by the conductor’s song, Daniel Slatkin, Cindy McTee’s Timepiece, and Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony.
- [Capote Opera Inspired by Graphic Novel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/capote-opera-inspired-by-graphic-novel/) - Join Barn Opera in Vermont on Nov 15 for an evening in three parts: 1) A lecture about Truman Capote given by a notable writer. 2) An introduction to the graphic novel genre, and the creation of Capote in Kansas by Ande Parks. 3) The world premiere of the chamber opera by William Zeffiro, Truman
- [Telemann Meets Quixote at Boston Early Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/telemann-meets-quixote-at-boston-early-music/) - The Boston Early Music Chamber Opera Series will present two masterworks by Telemann, interwoven into one theatrical fabric, on Nov. 20-Dec. 1. Enjoy a rare staged performance of Telemann’s lovely serenata, Don Quichotte auf der Hochzeit des Comacho, interspersed with movements from Telemann’s delightful orchestral suite Burlesque de Don Quichotte. Paul O'Dette and Stephen Stubbs will serve
- [Old Vivaldi for New Opera in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/old-vivaldi-for-new-opera-in-boston/) - Pairing The Four Season with other arias and instrumental movements by Vivaldi, a new opera called The Seasons will receive its world premiere at Boston Lyric Opera on March 12-16. The work, co-conceived by librettist Sarah Ruhl and famed countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, will be directed by Zack Winokur. https://blo.org/theseasons/
- [Boston Musical Forces Coalesce for 'Noah's Flood'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-musical-forces-coalesce-for-noahs-flood/) - On May 3, Benjamin Britten’s Noah’s Flood will be performed by Boston Lyric Opera in collaboration with Boston Children’s Chorus, Boston String Academy, Back Bay Ringers, Boston Symphony Orchestra, New England Conservatory Preparatory School, and more. Conductor David Angus will rally the forces in what promises to be an epic experience for the whole family. https://blo.org/noahs-flood/
- [Kanneh-Mason Plays Shostakovich for NWS Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kanneh-mason-plays-shostakovich-for-nws-debut/) - Stéphane Denève welcomes cellist Sheku Kanneh-Mason in his New World Symphony debut, performing Shostakovich’s Cello Concerto No. 1. The April 19 program begins with John Williams' Suite from The Book Thief and concludes with Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2024-2025/deneve-symphonie-fantastique/
- [New Orchestration of Tines' 'MASS' in Miami](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-orchestration-of-tines-mass-in-miami/) - Stéphane Denève will lead the New World Symphony in the world premiere performance of a new orchestrated version of Davóne Tines’ Recital No. 1 MASS. Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 4 and Michael Abels’ Delights and Dances complete the March 8-9 program. https://www.nws.edu/events-tickets/concerts/2024-2025/deneve-davone-tines-mass/
- [Miami: Denève Explores 'Augmented Orchestra'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miami-deneve-explores-augmented-orchestra/) - In “Music in (Techni)Color” on March 1-2, New World Symphony and conductor Stéphane Denève will present the East Coast premiere of composer Anna Clyne’s PALETTE, the latest in her and sound designer Jody Elff’s revolutionary interactive sonic experiences for Augmented Orchestra (AO). Also on the program is Ravel’s Mother Goose Suite as well as Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.
- [Hazel Scott Featured in New World Symphony Cabaret](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hazel-scott-featured-in-new-world-symphony-cabaret/) - New World Symphony’s 2024-25 season marks the fourth year of its “I Dream a World” festival, centering on the transition between the Harlem Renaissance and the Civil Rights Movement. On Feb. 8-9, conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson, founder and artistic director of the Philadelphia-based Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra in her NWS debut, leads a special cabaret
- [Ballet Inspires Canadian Composer's Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ballet-inspires-canadian-composers-premiere/) - Canadian composer Kevin Lau’s Kimiko’s Pearl takes inspiration from a powerful ballet about hope, resilience, and transformation. It will receive its world premiere April 9-11 with the Toronto Symphony. Gustavo Gimeno conducts this program, which also includes Takemitsu’s Requiem for Strings, Saint-Saëns’s First Cello Concerto (featuring Kian Soltani), and Ravel’s balletic Daphnis et Chloé. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/romantic-treasures/
- [In Toronto, Gardolińska Takes Podium](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/in-toronto-gardolinska-takes-podium/) - Marta Gardolińska will make her podium debut with the Toronto Symphony on March 26-29, conducting Mendelssohn’s Scottish Symphony No. 3. Angela Hewitt solos in Mozart’s dramatic yet charming Piano Concerto No. 21, K. 467. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/angela-hewitt-plays-mozart/
- [Adès Conducts Gerstein in Toronto Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ades-conducts-gerstein-in-toronto-premiere/) - Thomas Adès will conduct Kirill Gerstein and the Toronto Symphony in the Canadian premiere of his Piano Concerto on Feb. 26-March 1. The program opens with “Paradiso” from Adès’ Dante and closes with Holst’s The Planets. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/holsts-the-planets/
- [John Adams Brings 'Frenzy' to Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/john-adams-brings-frenzy-to-toronto/) - John Adams’ Frenzy will receive its Canadian premiere by the Toronto Symphony on Nov. 6-9 under the composer’s baton. Two other Adams works are also on the program: his orchestral arrangement of Debussy’s Le Livre de Baudelaire and the aria “This is prophetic!” from Nixon in China, featuring soprano Anna Prohaska. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/john-adams-returns/
- [Carlos Simon Work Gets Canadian Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/carlos-simon-work-gets-canadian-premiere/) - In the Toronto Symphony season opener, Gustavo Gimeno conducts the Canadian premiere of Carlos Simon’s Concerto for Orchestra, Wake Up! Then pianist Jan Lisiecki joins concertmaster Jonathan Crow and principal cellist Joseph Johnson for Beethoven’s captivating Triple Concerto. This Sept. 25-28 program concludes with the Gorchakov orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/pictures-at-an-exhibition/
- [NYC Program Explores Monteverdi Madrigals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyc-program-explores-monteverdi-madrigals/) - The Oct. 7 program Magnificent Madrigals: Monteverdi's Greatest Choral Music is part of Merkin Hall’s "What Makes It Great?" series. Rob Kapilow and the celebrated 12-singer vocal group Fourth Wall Ensemble explore the life and career of Claudio Monteverdi – the key transition figure from Renaissance to Baroque music – through his dazzling madrigals. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/magnificent-madrigals-monteverdis-greatest-choral-music/
- [New York: Excerpts from Reid's New Climate Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-york-excerpts-from-reids-new-climate-opera/) - Join Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Ellen Reid on June 13 at National Sawdust for an evening of excerpts from her provocative new opera, The Shell Trial, fresh on the heels of its world premiere in Amsterdam. Based on the play De zaak Shell by Rebekka de Wit and Anoek Nuyens, the opera explores climate devastation as a crisis
- [Kalmar Bids Grant Park Adieu with Mahler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kalmar-bids-grant-park-adieu-with-mahler/) - Talk about going out with a bang! The Grant Park Music Festival closes its 2024 season with Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand, so named because of the many forces required to perform it. Carlos Kalmar, marking the end of his 25-year tenure as the festival’s artistic director, will lead the Grant
- [Haitian-Inspired Premiere in Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/haitian-inspired-premiere-in-chicago/) - Haitian-American composer Nathalie Joachim loves to use the musical concepts from her heritage to inform her works. The world premiere of her latest composition is sure to bring fresh energy to the Grant Park Festival on July 24. Eric Jacobsen also conducts Grieg Holberg Suite and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethovens-fifth-symphony
- [Hometown Premiere for Jim Stephenson Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hometown-premiere-for-jim-stephenson-work/) - While the main draw on July 12-13 may be Stewart Goodyear playing Beethoven’s Emperor Concerto under Giancarlo Guerrero at the Grant Park Festival, the world-premiere opener by Chicago-based composer Jim Stephenson will be worth showing up for too. And stay for Duruflé’s powerful Requiem sung by the Grant Park Chorus. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/beethoven-emperor-concerto
- ['Water Nymphs' Along Lake Michigan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/water-nymphs-along-lake-michigan/) - The Grant Park Festival Orchestra, under the baton of guest conductor Ludovic Morlot, will present the world premiere of Water Nymphs by the eclectic Brazilian-American composer Clarice Assad. Two tried-and-true orchestral works follow on this June 26 program: Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier and Haydn’s Symphony No. 104, London. https://www.grantparkmusicfestival.com/music/2024-season-1/haydn-london-symphony
- [Kanneh-Masons Offer New Cello Sonata to NYC](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kanneh-masons-offer-new-cello-sonata-to-nyc/) - Brother-sister team Sheku (cello) and Isata (piano) Kanneh-Mason will play the New York premiere of a new work by British violinist and composer Natalie Klouda. The Dec. 15 Carnegie Hall program also includes cello sonatas by Fauré, Poulenc, and Mendelssohn. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/12/15/Sheku-KannehMason-Cello-Isata-KannehMason-Piano-0200PM
- [Mäkelä Brings Ellen Reid Premiere to Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/makela-brings-ellen-reid-premiere-to-carnegie/) - 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
- [ACO Premieres at Carnegie Focus on Borders](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aco-premieres-at-carnegie-focus-on-borders/) - In its Oct. 30 Carnegie Hall appearance called The New Virtuoso: Borders, American Composers Orchestra presents world premieres by rising composers Paul Novak and Kebra-Seyoun Charles plus New York premieres by Michael Abels and Victoria Poleva. Featured soloists are cellist Inbal Segev, guitarist Mak Grgic, and violinist Curtis Stewart; Mei-Ann Chen conducts. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/10/30/American-Composers-Orchestra-0730PM
- [Sphinx Presents Curtis Stewart Premiere at Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sphinx-presents-curtis-stewart-premiere-at-carnegie/) - Portraits of the Past, Visions for the Future is the title of the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Carnegie Hall program on Oct. 16. Hear several works by Joplin, Derrick Skye’s multifaceted and optimistic American Mirror, Part One, and a New York premiere by renowned violinist-composer Curtis Stewart. Violinist Njioma Chinyere Grievous takes a solo turn in Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson’s
- [Orpheus Commissions Billy Childs Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/orpheus-commissions-billy-childs-premiere/) - A new work by jazz/classical composer Billy Childs will open the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra’s Carnegie Hall program on Sept. 28. Garrick Ohlsson will solo on Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat, and Michael Stephen Brown’s orchestration of Brahms’ Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel closes the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/Calendar/2024/09/28/Orpheus-Chamber-Orchestra-Garrick-Ohlsson-Piano-0800PM
- [Zhang Leads Soloists by Twos and Fours](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/zhang-leads-soloists-by-twos-and-fours/) - Music director Xian Zhang leads the New Jersey Symphony in a May 16-18 program bookended by Mozart (Eine kleine Nachtmusik and the 35th Symphony, Haffner). Violinists Eric Wyrick and Francine Storck will duet in Bach’s Double Concerto, and a string quartet will sit in front of the orchestra for Michael Abels’ Delights and Dances. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/xian-conducts-mozart-1
- [Double Bass Gets Spotlight in NJ Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/double-bass-gets-spotlight-in-nj-premiere/) - Two works for double bass and orchestra by Xavier Foley—including a world premiere—will be presented by the New Jersey Symphony on March 13-16, with the composer as soloist. Xian Zhang conducts the program, which opens with Debussy’s Clair de lune and closes with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/rachmaninoff-symphony-no-2
- [New Jersey's New Version of Chamber Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-jerseys-new-version-of-chamber-work/) - Allison Loggins-Hull’s Can You See?, originally a chamber work, will receive a performance of its new version for full orchestra by the New Jersey Symphony on Feb. 20-23. Christoph König conducts pianist Tony Siqi Yun in Chopin’s Concerto No. 1, and the program concludes with Brahms’ dramatic First Symphony. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/brahms-and-chopin
- [Of Rats and Men and Ravel in NJ](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/of-rats-and-men-and-ravel-in-nj/) - The New Jersey Symphony will perform the imaginative chamber work Of Rats and Men by Korean composer Donghoon Shin. This Jan. 9-12 program continues with Jean-Yves Thibaudet playing Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Kevin John Edusei conducting Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/jean-yves-thibaudet-plays-ravel
- ['Color Purple' Composer Gives Premiere in D.C.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/color-purple-composer-gives-premiere-in-d-c/) - Notes & Frames: A Film and Music Festival is a three-week initiative by the National Symphony. On June 20-21, the festival culminates in a world premiere by Academy Award®–winning director, composer, and pianist Kris Bowers, who will curate and perform a program of contemporary film music to be conducted by Anthony Parnther. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/kris-bowers/
- [Radvanovsky Heads 'Vanessa' in NSO Concert Version](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/radvanovsky-heads-vanessa-in-nso-concert-version/) - The National Symphony continues the initiative begun in the 2023–2024 season of producing an opera in concert led by Gianandrea Noseda. The Jan. 30-Feb. 1 offering is Samuel Barber’s Vanessa, with a cast including Sondra Radvanovsky (NSO debut), mezzo-soprano J’Nai Bridges, tenor Matthew Polenzani, mezzo-soprano Susan Graham, and baritone Thomas Hampson. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/noseda-barber/
- [Ortiz Work Headlines 'Focus on Mexico' in D.C.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ortiz-work-headlines-focus-on-mexico-in-d-c/) - As part of its Focus on Mexico series, the National Symphony will perform the D.C. premiere of Gabriela Ortiz’s Téenek – Invenciones de Territorio. Mexican conductor Carlos Miguel Prieto takes the podium for this Jan. 16-18 program, and Mexican pianist Jorge Federico Osorio plays Beethoven’s Third Concerto. The Rachmaninoff Symphonic Dances complete the program. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/prieto-osorio/
- ['Time's River' Brings Debut Oboist to National Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/times-river-brings-debut-oboist-to-national-symphony/) - Gianandrea Noseda leads the National Symphony and oboist Alexei Ogrintchouk in the U.S. premiere of Alexander Raskatov’s Oboe Concerto, Time’s River, on Oct. 31-Nov. 2. Prokofiev’s Summer Night opens the program, which ends with Tchaikovsky’s sweeping Pathétique Symphony No. 6. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2024-2025/noseda-ogrintchouk/
- [Simon's 'Black American Dances' Opens NSO Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/simons-black-american-dances-opens-nso-season/) - The National Symphony Orchestra’s composer-in-residence for the 2024-25 season is Carlos Simon. Appropriately, the orchestra, under Gianandrea Noseda, will present Simon’s Four Black American Dances in their opening program Sept. 28. Cliburn Competition winner Yunchan Lim makes his NSO debut as soloist for Rachmaninoff’s Second Piano Concerto, and the evening concludes with Ravel’s La Valse.
- [Minnesota Expands Repertoire South of Border](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minnesota-expands-repertoire-south-of-border/) - It’s rare that an orchestra concert includes multiple works that are new to the ensemble. But that is the case in the Minnesota Orchestra’s Feb. 14-15 program, when Paolo Bortolameolli will conduct Miguel Farías’ evocative Retratos Australes, Gabriela Ortiz’s blazing Violin Concerto (with Susie Park), and Silvestre Revueltas’ La noche de los mayas. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/susie-park-plays-ortiz/
- [Minneapolis Awash in Nordic Sounds](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/minneapolis-awash-in-nordic-sounds/) - As part of its Nordic Soundscapes Festival, the Minnesota Orchestra will play works by Iceland’s Daníel Bjarnason and Denmark’s Bent Sørensen, alongside an overture from the last century by Sweden’s Elfrida Andrée and Finlandia by Jean Sibelius. Principal clarinet Gabriel Campos Zamora will solo in Carl Nielsen’s Clarinet Concert; Thomas Søndergård conducts. (Jan. 10-11) https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/nordic-landscapes-and-portraits/
- [Meditations on Life and Death: Minneapolis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/meditations-on-life-and-death-minneapolis/) - Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Orchestra in a contemplative program on Nov. 22-23. Oliver Messiaen’s Les Offrandes Oubliées will be followed by Mozart’s stirring Requiem, featuring soprano Andrea Carroll, tenor Jack Swanson, and baritone Dashon Burton. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-conducts-mozarts-requiem/
- [Bach Reimagined by Minnesota Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bach-reimagined-by-minnesota-orchestra/) - The Minnesota Orchestra’s Dec. 5-6 program focuses on transcriptions of the music of J.S. Bach. Mandolinist Avi Avital will perform versions of two Bach concertos, and Jordan De Souza will conduct a selection of orchestrated organ works and cantata movements. To show Bach’s influence, the program includes homages to that master by Mahler, Pärt, and
- [Marking 50 Years of Minneapolis' Orchestra Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/marking-50-years-of-minneapolis-orchestra-hall/) - It’s been 50 years since the Minnesota Orchestra inaugurated Orchestra Hall. To mark that milestone, conductor Thomas Søndergård will lead two Ravel works played in that inaugural performance: Valse nobles et sentimentales and a movement from Miroirs. Two Thomas Adés works will also be on offer in this Sept. 26-28 season opener: The Exterminating Angel Symphony
- [Figgis-Vizuenta Writes New Opera for Saratoga](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/figgis-vizuenta-writes-new-opera-for-saratoga/) - Opera Saratoga will present the world premiere of a new opera by Inti Figgis-Vizuenta on June 30-July 5. The opera, not yet named, will be developed during a summer residency by the composer. https://tickets.proctors.org/TheatreManager/95/tmEvent/tmEvent34373.html
- [Bruce Liu Makes Houston Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bruce-liu-makes-houston-debut/) - Bruce Liu makes his Houston Symphony debut on May 23-25 with Chopin’s impassioned and poetic Piano Concerto No. 1. Music director Juraj Valčuha leads this program, which also includes George Walkers’ Icarus in Orbit and Schumann’s hope-filled Symphony No. 2. https://houstonsymphony.org/tickets/concerts/bruce-liu-plays-chopin/
- [Two Venezuelan Trumpet Concertos in Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-venezuelan-trumpet-concertos-in-houston/) - Venezuelan trumpet virtuoso Pacho Flores will join the Houston Symphony to play two concertos, both composed specifically for him: Arturo Márquez’s fiery Concierto de Otoño and Paquito D’Rivera’s jazzy Venezuelan Concerto. Domingo Hindoyan leads the orchestra through a bewitching array of music inspired by Spain, ending with Ravel’s Boléro. (May 9-11) https://houstonsymphony.org/tickets/concerts/ravels-bolero/
- [Stasevska Takes on Sibelius in Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stasevska-takes-on-sibelius-in-houston/) - Experience the awe-inspiring power of Sibelius’s Fifth Symphony with the Houston Symphony under the baton of dynamic conductor Dalia Stasevska. Leila Josefowicz will play Stravinsky’s Violin Concerto on the April 18-19 concert. https://houstonsymphony.org/tickets/concerts/sibelius-5/
- [12th-Century Polymath Inspires Houston Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/12th-century-polymath-inspires-houston-premiere/) - Inspired by the fantastical inventions of a 12th-century Islamic polymath, K. Al-Zand’s Al-Jazari’s Ingenious Clocks will receive its world premiere by the Houston Symphony on March 14-16. Simone Lamsma will be on hand to play Korngold’s Violin Concerto, and the program concludes with Prokofiev’s Cinderella Suite, with Juraj Valčuha on the podium. https://houstonsymphony.org/tickets/concerts/korngolds-violin-concerto-cinderella/
- [Houston Says Happy 200th, Bruckner!](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/houston-says-happy-200th-bruckner/) - Envision yourself on an epic quest as the Houston Symphony performs Bruckner’s sweeping and expansive Symphony No. 4, Romantic. Christoph Eschenbach leads this Jan. 11-12 program in celebration of Bruckner’s 200th birthday. https://houstonsymphony.org/tickets/concerts/bruckners-romantic-symphony/
- [Premiere by 'Get Out' Composer in Detroit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/premiere-by-get-out-composer-in-detroit/) - Detroit Symphony music director Jader Bignamini leads a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winner Michael Abels (known for composing the scores to Jordan Peele’s films Get Out, Us, and Nope) and the Detroit premiere of Leokadiya Kashperova’s lyrical Symphony in B minor. Behzod Abduraimov is the featured guest, playing Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1. (June 5-7) https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-spring/tchaikovskys-piano-concerto
- [Detroit: Pratt Plays Jessie Montgomery](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/detroit-pratt-plays-jessie-montgomery/) - Na’Zir McFadden conducts the world premiere of a new work by (and featuring) DSO trumpeter Kris Johnson. The Feb. 28-March 1 program, called Classical Roots, also features two pieces by Jessie Montgomery: Snapshots and Rounds, the latter featuring pianist Awadagin Pratt. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-winter/classical-roots
- ['Celestial Waters' Flow Through Detroit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/celestial-waters-flow-through-detroit/) - As part of its Fanfare for Uncommon Women series, the Detroit Symphony will present Camille Pépin’s Les Eaux célestes, a work inspired by an ancient legend and summoning cosmic sounds. Two Russian masterpieces complete the Jan. 16-18 program conducted by Daniele Rustioni: Shostakovich’s First Violin Concerto (with Francesca Dego) and Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-winter/the-rite-of-spring
- [Radiohead Meets Brahms in Detroit](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/radiohead-meets-brahms-in-detroit/) - On Jan. 8, the Detroit Symphony explores the potential symphonic grandeur of Radiohead’s 1997 album OK Computer with an orchestration of those celebrated tracks. With Steve Hackman at the podium, that imaginative genre crossover is paired with the acknowledged grandeur of Brahms’ Symphony No. 1. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-winter/brahms-x-radiohead
- [Detroit Premieres Clyne Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/detroit-premieres-clyne-concerto/) - Anna Clyne’s Time and Tides will receive its U.S. premiere on Oct. 18-20 with the Detroit Symphony under Tabita Berglund, who joins the orchestra this season as principal guest conductor. This new concerto will feature violinist Pekka Kuusisto. The program also includes Britten’s Four Sea Interludes and Sibelius’ Lemminkäinen Suite. https://www.dso.org/events-and-tickets/events/24-25-fall/sea-scenes-sibelius-and-britten
- [Dallas Symphony Winds Play New Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-symphony-winds-play-new-concerto/) - The Dallas Symphony, under Fabio Luisi, will give the world premiere of Sean Shepherd’s Concerto for Flute, Oboe, Clarinet and Bassoon, with principals from the orchestra as soloists. Also on the April 17-19 program is Mendelssohn’s Symphony No. 3, evoking the ruins and moors of Scotland. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/mendelssohns-scottish-symphony/
- [A New Concerto for Trombone](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-new-concerto-for-trombone/) - Jörgen van Rijen is the soloist for the U.S. premiere of Andrew Norman’s Concerto for Trombone with the Dallas Symphony under Aziz Shokhakimov on April 10-12. The second half of the program is Stravinsky’s complete ballet score, The Rite of Spring. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/stravinksys-the-rite-of-spring/
- [Two Premieres by Women for Dallas Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/two-premieres-by-women-for-dallas-symphony/) - On March 6-9, the Dallas Symphony will give the world premiere of a new work by Sophia Jani as well as the U.S. premiere of Arlene Sierra’s Kiskadee. Nelson Goerner plays Rachmaninoff’s Third Piano Concerto, and the program ends with Strauss’ Till Eulenspiegel’s Merry Pranks. Fabio Luisi conducts. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/rachmaninoffs-piano-concerto-no-3/
- [Dallas Premieres Raven Chacon Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-premieres-raven-chacon-work/) - Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony will give the world premiere of a new work by Native American, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Raven Chacon Feb. 6-9; it will be Chacon’s first major composition for orchestra. In that same program, Alexander Kerr will play the Bruch Violin Concerto, and Luisi will lead Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/beethovens-5th-symphony/
- [Violinist Yang Premieres Work in Dallas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/violinist-yang-premieres-work-in-dallas/) - 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/
- [Dallas Celebrates Women in Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-celebrates-women-in-music/) - As a lead-up to the Dallas Symphony’s sixth annual Women in Classical Music Symposium, the orchestra will play a program centering two women: Alisson Kruusmaa and Amy Beach. Anne-Maria McDermott will solo in Beach’s Piano Concerto. The Nov. 1-3 program, conducted by Anu Tali, will conclude with Elgar’s Enigma Variations. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/elgars-enigma-variations/
- [A Comic Orpheus in Rural NH](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-comic-orpheus-in-rural-nh/) - Billed as “a comedic romp through Hades,” Opera North’s July 11-14 production of Offenbach’s Orpheus in the Underworld will be sung in French but include English dialogue. The work is presented as part of Summerfest 2024 at Blow-Me-Down Farm in Cornish, NH. https://lebanonoperahouse.org/events/orpheus/
- [Civil War Song Cycle at Opera Maine](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/civil-war-song-cycle-at-opera-maine/) - On June 28-30, Opera Maine’s Studio Artist Program will present composer Ricky Ian Gordon and librettist Mark Campbell’s Rappahannock County. This theatrical song cycle captures key emotional, sociological, and historical moments in the Civil War, with a text that draws on diaries, letters, and other accounts of actual events. Conducted by Jackson McKinnon. https://www.operamaine.org/studio-artists/
- [Connolly Sings Wallen Premiere in Toronto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/connolly-sings-wallen-premiere-in-toronto/) - Mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly and pianist Joseph Middleton will give the Canadian premiere of Night Thoughts by Errolyn Wallen on July 16 at Toronto Summer Music. The recital also includes songs by Barber, Schoenberg, Berg, and Weill. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/connolly-middleton/
- [A Breath of Music from Around the Globe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-breath-of-music-from-around-the-globe/) - Constantinople, an ensemble whose slogan is “Itinerant music, myriad encounters,” will perform on July 22 at Toronto Summer Music. The program is entitled Breathings, and it’s described as a concert that places the breath at the center of the musical act and a celebration of our intimate relationship with nature. Instrumentation includes Mi’kmaq drums, ney
- ['Fairy Queen' Opens Toronto Summer Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/fairy-queen-opens-toronto-summer-music/) - A new production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen opens the 2024 Toronto Summer Music on July 11. William Christie and Paul Agnew share the job of music director while Mourad Merzuki choreographs. With the Orchestre des Arts Florissants in the pit, the company features eight Baroque vocal specialists. https://torontosummermusic.com/event/opening-night-the-fairy-queen/
- [Denk Presents Work by 'Blind Tom' Wiggins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/denk-presents-work-by-blind-tom-wiggins/) - Jeremy Denk, in an Aug. 11 solo piano recital at Tanglewood, will perform The Battle of Manassas by Thomas “Blind Tom” Wiggins (1849-1908), a pianist and composer born into slavery who became a hugely popular performer in his day. Ives’ Concord Sonata completes the program. https://www.bso.org/events/tli-presents-jeremy-denk-piano
- [Coleman and León Headline Contemporary Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/coleman-and-leon-headline-contemporary-music-festival/) - July 25 is opening night of Tanglewood’s Festival of Contemporary Music. The program includes Leila Adu-Gilmore’s United Underdog, Valerie Coleman’s Portraits of Josephine, and Tania León’s Indigena, along with works by Miya Masaoka, Trevor Weston, Nathalie Joachim, and Steven Mackey. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-fcm-july-25-2024
- [Beethoven Between Two Americans at Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethoven-between-two-americans-at-tanglewood/) - Carlos Simon’s Warmth from Other Sons and two works by Duke Ellington will book-end Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4 at Tanglewood on July 13. Yuja Wang is the piano soloist, while Andres Nelsons conducts the Boston Symphony. https://www.bso.org/events/bso-yuja-wang-program-tba
- [Four by Ives and a New Work at Tanglewood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/four-by-ives-and-a-new-work-at-tanglewood/) - Tanglewood’s Fellows will present a new work by Composition Fellow Gala Flagello at the July 7 program, which also includes four works by Charles Ives. Strauss’ Serenade, Op. 7, completes the lineup. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-chamber-july-7-2024
- [World Premiere Opens String Quartet Marathon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-opens-string-quartet-marathon/) - A world premiere by Annie Nikunen will be included on the June 30 program that opens an all-day String Quartet Marathon at Tanglewood. Also on the bill are works by Detlev Glanert, Nick DiBerardino, Steve Reich, plus a reach back into the late 16th century with some Canzonas by Giovanni Gabrieli. https://www.bso.org/events/tmc-chamber-music
- [Dance and Music Tell Matthew Sheppard's Tragic Story](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dance-and-music-tell-matthew-sheppards-tragic-story/) - Premiered in 2020, Echo Chamber Ensemble’s A World Transformed tells the story of Matthew Sheppard, a young gay university student who was beaten, tortured, and left to die in 1998, bringing national attention to hate crime legislation. The piece combines new choreography with pre-existing chamber music by the likes of Britten, Vaughan Williams, and Amy
- [New Song Cycle Uses Margaret Atwood Poems](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-song-cycle-uses-margaret-atwood-poems/) - Stratford Summer Music 2024 comes to an exciting conclusion on Aug. 11 when soprano Measha Brueggergosman-Lee performs Zombie Blizzard. In this new song cycle, poems by Margaret Atwood have been set to music by Aaron Davis. Brueggergosman-Lee will be joined by members of the Hannaford St. Silver Band, who commissioned the work. https://stratfordsummermusic.ca/event/zombie-blizzard/
- [Pärt Meets the 16th Century at Spoleto USA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/part-meets-the-16th-century-at-spoleto-usa/) - In a May 31 program, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus blends the atmospheric music of Arvo Pärt’s The Deer’s Cry and The Woman with the Alabaster Box with two early-music masterpieces: Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange Lingua and Heinrich Schütz’s St. Matthew Passion. Conducted by Joe Miller. https://spoletousa.org/events/chorus/
- [New Opera Considers Refugee Children's Plight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-opera-considers-refugee-childrens-plight/) - Composer Layale Chaker and librettist Lisa Schlesinger will see the world premiere of their opera Ruinous Gods May 24-June 1 at Spoleto USA. With stage direction by Omar Abi Azar and Maya Zbib and conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera, loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, explores the psychological toll experienced
- [Esmail Quartet to Premiere at Spoleto USA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/esmail-quartet-to-premiere-at-spoleto-usa/) - Spoleto USA will present the world premiere of Reena Esmail’s String Quartet. The June 5-6 chamber program also includes Darius Milhaud’s Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, and the Schumann Piano Quartet. https://spoletousa.org/events/bank-of-america-chamber-music/
- [All-Bach Opening for Oregon Bach Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/all-bach-opening-for-oregon-bach-festival/) - At their June 28 opening concert, the Oregon Bach Festival Chorus and Period Orchestra explore the universal human experiences of grief, healing, acceptance, and joy. Conductor John Butt leads Bach’s Cantata BWV 21 and the Ascension Oratorio, BWV 11. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/bach_ascension_oratorio
- [Oregon's Organ Institute Turns 10](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oregons-organ-institute-turns-10/) - To celebrate the 10th anniversary of the Oregon Bach Festival’s Organi Institute, alum Greg Zelek will give a solo organ recital on July 8. Repertoire includes works of Bach, Florence Price, and Léon Boëllmann. https://calendar.uoregon.edu/event/greg_zelek_organ_recital
- [John Luther Adams Premiere in Oregon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/john-luther-adams-premiere-in-oregon/) - John Luther Adams’ latest work for chamber ensemble, Prophecies of Fire, will receive its world premiere on July 10. Sandbox Percussion will perform the piece, under the auspices of Chamber Music Northwest, which co-commissioned it. Gabriela Lena Frank’s Luciérnagas and Zapatos de Chincha are also on the program. https://cmnw.org/concerts-events/2024-summer-festival/special-event-world-premiere-of-prophecies-of-fire/2029/
- [Uchida Closes Ojai with Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/uchida-closes-ojai-with-mozart/) - For the final festival program of 2024, Ojai music director Misuko Uchida will lead the Mahler Chamber Orchestra in Haydn’s Symphony No. 46 and Jörg Widmann’s Chorale Quartet. To complete the June 9 concert, Uchida will solo in Mozart’s Piano Concerto in G, K. 453. https://ojaifestival.my.salesforce-sites.com/ticket/#/events/a0SU1000000Z1XVMA0
- [Saariaho at Sunrise in Ojai](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/saariaho-at-sunrise-in-ojai/) - Under the curatorship of music director Mitsuko Uchida, the 2024 Ojai Music Festival will give special focus to three composers: Kaija Saariaho, Helmut Lachenmann, and Sofia Gubaidulina. All three are represented in the June 7 “Ojai Dawns” series program (at 8 am) with Jay Campbell on cello, Sae Hashimoto on percussion, and Ljubinka Kulisic on
- [Pondering War via Chamber Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pondering-war-via-chamber-music/) - Two 20th-century anti-war works anchor the Aug. 8-10 program at Music@Menlo: George Crumb’s Black Angels and Olivier Messiaen’s Quartet for the End of Time. The chamber concert opens with two late works by Bach. https://musicatmenlo.org/cp/?evt=1753
- [From Buxtehude to Bach: Music@Menlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/from-buxtehude-to-bach-musicmenlo/) - The 2024 season opener on July 20 at Music@Menlo is titled Baroque Tableau. Festival chamber players will perform music of the late Baroque, from Buxtehude and F. Couperin to Rameau and Rebel. Telemann and J.S. Bach make an appearance too. https://musicatmenlo.org/cp/?evt=1745
- [Neale Conducts 'Tragic' Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/neale-conducts-tragic-symphony/) - The Sun Valley Festival Orchestra will take on Mahler’s Symphony No. 6, which the composer himself nicknamed Tragic, saying it contained passages of “shadowy memories.” Music director Alasdair Neale conducts this Aug. 11 program. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/mahler-symphony-no-6/
- [Cello Concerto to Premiere at Sun Valley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cello-concerto-to-premiere-at-sun-valley/) - The Sun Valley Music Festival commissioned a new cello concerto from Andy Akiho, which will be given its world premiere on Aug. 2. The soloist will be Jeffrey Zeigler, the former cellist of the famed Kronos Quartet, for whom the concerto was written. Handel’s Music for the Royal Fireworks completes the program, conducted by Alasdair Neale.
- [40th Season for Idaho Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/40th-season-for-idaho-festival/) - To open the 40th season of Sun Valley Music Festival, Timothy Higgins has composed Fanfare, which will receive its world premiere on July 29. Then soprano Meechot Marrero returns to Sun Valley to sing a few of her favorite arias. The concert closes with Prokofiev’s Classical Symphony. https://www.svmusicfestival.org/event/opening-night-with-meechot-marrero/
- [Conlon and Chicago Symphony Offer 'Idomeneo'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/conlon-and-chicago-symphony-offer-idomeneo/) - Mozart’s thrilling Idomeneo will get a lavish concert treatment on Aug. 9 at Ravinia as the Chicago Symphony joins forces with conductor James Conlon. Matthew Polenzani takes the title role, with Andrea Carrol as Ilia, Alexandria Shiner as Elettra, and Samantha Hankey as Idamante. https://ravinia.org/Online/Article/080924-CSOIdomeneo
- [NASA Lands at Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nasa-lands-at-ravinia/) - A space-themed concert complete with visuals and interviews with NASA specialists and world-leading experts continues the Chicago Symphony Orchestra's 2024 season at Ravinia. On July 26, chief conductor Marin Alsop leads the orchestra in Holst's The Planets followed by Amanda Lee Falkenberg's The Moons, a symphonic suite with visuals. Audiences will see science come alive to the sounds
- [Ravinia Marks Fauré Centenary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ravinia-marks-faure-centenary/) - 2024 is the 100th anniversary of Gabriel Fauré’s death, and the Ravinia Festival will mark the occasion with a chamber-music tribute on July 13. This program matches Fauré’s timelessly serene Piano Quintet No. 2 to Ravel’s arrangement of Debussy’s Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune, as well as the Venezuelan-born Reynaldo Hahn’s own Piano Quintet (featuring
- [Biss Plays New Shorey Work at Ravinia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/biss-plays-new-shorey-work-at-ravinia/) - Pianist Jonathan Biss returns to Ravinia with works classic and new. He opens the program with two Franz Schubert's Impromptus, following with For Anthony Braxton, a new work that former MacArthur Fellow Tyshawn Sorey wrote to honor his mentor. Schubert's Piano Sonata in B-Flat Major bookends the performance on June 20. https://ravinia.org/Online/Article/062024-JonathanBiss
- [Adès Schubert Tribute in Ottawa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ades-schubert-tribute-in-ottawa/) - The Danish String Quartet returns to Ottawa ChamberFest Aug. 2 for the fourth and final installment of their innovative Doppelgänger project, in which they pair one of Schubert’s string compositions with a newly commissioned work inspired by its Schubert original. This year’s new work is Thomas Adès’ Wreath for Franz Schubert, while the Schubert offering will be the
- [Ambient Synth Music Brought to Life in Ottawa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ambient-synth-music-brought-to-life-in-ottawa/) - Ottawa-based synth composer Nick Schofield’s latest release, Ambient Ensemble, was inspired by a series of concerts where special guests were invited to improvise. On Aug. 1, Ottawa ChamberFest will present a concert version of the album. Schofield will be joined by Philippe Charbonneau, Mika Posen (Merganzer), and Yolande Laroche (Orchidae) to explore the blissful interaction between
- [Ottawa: (String) Quartet of New Commissions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ottawa-string-quartet-of-new-commissions/) - The July 26 program at Ottawa ChamberFest will feature four new commissions written for avant-garde string quartet Brooklyn Rider and soprano Ariadne Greif. Those five musicians will perform those new works by Clarice Assad, Gabriel Kahane, Giovanni Solima, and Tyshawn Sorey, as well as Schoenberg’s Quartet in F-sharp Minor, Op. 10 and Colin Jacobsen’s Suite
- [Audiences Invited to Watch Opera Creation](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/audiences-invited-to-watch-opera-creation/) - To inaugurate the Project Pipeline initiative at Glimmerglass, the opera-in-progress The House on Mango Street will have its first public performance on Aug. 12. The Pipeline’s purpose is to help composers—in this case, composer Derek Bermel and librettist Sandra Cisneros—develop new works while allowing opera-lovers to witness the process. https://glimmerglass.org/events/pipeline-preview-the-house-on-mango-street/
- [Victorian London Comes to Glimmerglass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/victorian-london-comes-to-glimmerglass/) - Created by composer Kevin Puts and librettist Mark Campbell, Elizabeth Cree is a highly suspenseful and theatrical opera taking place in 1880s London. The new production at Glimmerglass is directed by Alison Moritz and stars Irish mezzo-soprano Tara Erraught. (July 28-Aug. 16) https://glimmerglass.org/events/elizabeth-cree/
- [A New Take on Purcell's 'Fairy Queen'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/a-new-take-on-purcells-fairy-queen/) - Renowned for his fusion of classical influence and contemporary innovation, French-Algerian director and choreographer Mourad Merzouki has staged a new production of Henry Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, with William Christie’s Les Arts Florissants. The July 20 performance at Caramoor features soloists from Les Jardins des Voix. https://caramoor.org/event/purcells-the-fairy-queen-summer-2024/
- [Owls Quartet Spreads Wings Across Styles at Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/owls-quartet-spreads-wings-across-styles-at-caramoor/) - Owls are an exciting new quartet collective that shatters all expectations and throws labels out the window with their unmissable, lively, and deeply personal performances. Their July 11 program at Caramoor spans centuries and styles, from François Couperin to Terry Riley, and from Franghiz Ali-Zadeh to Chick Corea. https://caramoor.org/event/owls-summer-2024/
- [Abeo Premieres New String Quartet at Caramoor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/abeo-premieres-new-string-quartet-at-caramoor/) - The world premiere of Jessica Mays’ A Shoreline Willow will be performed at Caramoor as part of a concert by the Abeo Quartet on June 27. The Abeo, which has been in residence at Caramoor throughout the season, will also play an intriguing variety of works for quartet by Joaquin Turina, Erwin Schulhoff, Rhiannon Giddens,
- [NJ Symphony Hosts 10th Composers' Institute](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nj-symphony-hosts-10th-composers-institute/) - Witness the future of classical music in the making as the New Jersey Symphony performs works by four emerging composers selected for the Edward T. Cone Composition Institute, celebrating its 10th anniversary. Institute Director Steven Mackey hosts the culminating concert, and Christopher Rountree takes the podium for this July 20 program. https://www.njsymphony.org/events/detail/new-scores-2024-edward-t-cone-institute-concert
- [Rouvali Leads Prokovief in Vail Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rouvali-leads-prokovief-in-vail-debut/) - Finnish guest conductor Santtu-Matias Rouvali makes his Bravo! Vail debut, leading the Philharmonic in Rossini’s Semiramide Overture, Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5, and Shostakovich’s virtuosic Violin Concerto No. 1, performed by Augustin Hadelich. (July 23) https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/new-york-philharmonic-2/augustin-hadelich-plays-shostakovich/
- [McDermott and Friends Focus on Schubert's Last Year](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mcdermott-and-friends-focus-on-schuberts-last-year/) - As part of the Immersive Experience series at Bravo! Vail, pianist Anne-Marie McDermott and the Dalí Quartet are joined by soprano Susanna Phillips and others to celebrate compositions from the final year of Schubert’s life. The July 16 program includes Der Hirt auf dem Felsen, the Piano Sonata in B-flat Major, and the Cello Quintet
- [Shaham Brings Bates Concerto to Bravo! Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/shaham-brings-bates-concerto-to-bravo-vail/) - The Philadelphia Orchestra, led by music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin, will play the Bravo! Vail Festival premiere of Mason Bates’ explosive Nomad Concerto, featuring violinist Gil Shaham. The July 11 program continues with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/the-philadelphia-orchestra-2/nezet-seguin-conducts-rachmaninoff/
- [American Music for Reed Quintet at Bravo! Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/american-music-for-reed-quintet-at-bravo-vail/) - The Akropolis Reed Quintet makes its Bravo! Vail debut on July 9. Their program includes works by two American composers: Marc Mellits’ Splinter and Jeff Scott’s Homage to Paradise Valley. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/community-concerts/communityconcerts-2/akropolis-reed-quintet/
- [Denk Premieres Clyne Concerto at Bravo! Vail](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/denk-premieres-clyne-concerto-at-bravo-vail/) - Bravo! Vail has commissioned a new work by Anna Clyne. Her ATLAS for piano and orchestra will be premiered at the festival by the Dallas Symphony with Jeremy Denk as soloist. Fabio Luisi also conducts Tchaikovsky’s Fifth Symphony on this June 29 program. https://www.bravovail.org/performances/orchestral-series/dallas-symphony-orchestra-2/luisi-conducts-tchaikovskys-fifth/
- [Aucoin Conducts 'Figaro' at Aspen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aucoin-conducts-figaro-at-aspen/) - The Aspen Opera Theatre and VocalARTS program presents a fully-staged performance of Mozart’s comic masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Matthew Aucoin, an award-winning opera composer himself. Only on the first night of the Aug. 12-17 will the performance include all the Act 4 arias commonly cut from the
- [Aspen Festival Opens 75th Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aspen-festival-opens-75th-season/) - To open its 75th anniversary season, the Aspen Music Festival has co-commissioned a new work by Alan Fletcher, called Three American Songs. The soloist will be soprano Renée Fleming, who will also sing three songs by Richard Strauss, a nod to the first work of the evening, Strauss’ Also Sprach Zarathustra. Respighi’s Pines of Rome
- [Harada Leads Cincy in 'Sheherazade'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/harada-leads-cincy-in-sheherazade/) - Keitaro Harada, former Cincinnati Symphony associate conductor, makes his CSO subscription debut with Rimsky-Korsakov’s Sheherazade. Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers joins the program for Arturo Márquez’s Fandango, a work commissioned by Meyers. The March 28-29 program opens with Yuzo Toyama’s Rhapsody, which centers on folk songs from his native Japan. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/sheherazade/
- [Cincinnati: Fairy Tales Inspire New Bellido Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cincinnati-fairy-tales-inspire-new-bellido-work/) - On Jan. 24-25 the Cincinnati Symphony will play a new CSO commission by Jimmy López Bellido. The work was inspired by guest conductor Christian Reif’s boundless love for his son Lukas and deep affection for Michael Ende’s beloved novel The Neverending Story. CSO principal cello Ilya Finkelshteyn will take the solo in Camille Saint-Saëns’ Cello Concerto No. 1
- [Bruckner at 200 in Cincinnati](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bruckner-at-200-in-cincinnati/) - Guest conductor Marek Janowski will help the Cincinnati Symphony bid Anton Bruckner a happy 200th birthday when he leads the orchestra in Bruckner’s Ninth Symphony. The Nov. 8-9 program also features Mozart’s Symphony No. 39 in E flat. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/mozart--bruckner/
- [Bruce Liu Debuts in Cincinnati Season Opener](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bruce-liu-debuts-in-cincinnati-season-opener/) - The Cincinnati Symphony opens the 2024-25 season Sept. 27-28 with Mahler’s Symphony No. 1, Titan, led by guest conductor Dalia Stasevska. The program also includes Alberto Ginastera’s “Malambo” from Four Dances from Estancia and Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 3, featuring Chopin Piano Competition winner Bruce Liu in his CSO debut. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2425-cso-season/mahler-symphony-no.-1/
- [Boston Symphony Explores Shostakovich's Political Mind](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/boston-symphony-explores-shostakovichs-political-mind/) - As part of the Boston Symphony’s Shostakovich cycle, music director Andris Nelsons will lead Yo-Yo Ma in the composer’s politically fraught Cello Concerto on April 11. The second half of the program is Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 11, written in 1957. It was subtitled The Year 1905, in reference to the so-called First Russian Revolution. https://www.bso.org/events/andris-nelsons-conducts-shostakovich-with-yoyo-ma?performance=2025-04-11-20:00
- [Stutzmann and Eberle Debut in Boston's Beethoven Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stutzmann-and-eberle-debut-in-bostons-beethoven-concerto/) - Nathalie Stutzmann makes a fiery Boston Symphony debut on Feb. 6-8 conducting Stravinsky’s Firebird Suite. Also making her debut is violinist Veronika Eberle, who will play Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Between those two masterworks is Alborada del gracioco, originally a movement from Ravel’s Miroirs piano suite and later orchestrated by the composer. https://www.bso.org/events/beethoven-ravel-stravinsky?performance=2025-02-06-19:30
- [Nelsons Begins Beethoven Cycle in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nelsons-begins-beethoven-cycle-in-boston/) - To mark his 10th anniversary as music director of the Boston Symphony, Andris Nelsons will lead the orchestra in all nine of Beethoven’s symphonies. The cycle starts Jan. 9-11 in a program that includes Symphonies Nos. 1-3, works in which the early influence of Haydn and Mozart is still clearly heard. https://www.bso.org/events/beethoven-symphonies-1-2-3?performance=2025-01-09-19:30
- [Poetry-Inspired U.S. Premiere in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/poetry-inspired-u-s-premiere-in-boston/) - On Oct. 24-26, British composer Hannah Kendall will receive the American premiere of her work O flower of fire, inspired by Guyanese-British poet Martin Carter, with Antonio Pappano leading the Boston Symphony. Jean-Yves Thibaudet will play Liszt’s dazzling Piano Concerto No. 2, and the program concludes with Strauss’ philosophical tone poem, Also sprach Zarathustra. https://www.bso.org/events/kendall-liszt-strauss?performance=2024-10-24-19:30
- [Xian Zhang Makes Boston Symphony Hall Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/xian-zhang-makes-boston-symphony-hall-debut/) - Xian Zhang is the first of three women conductors making their podium debuts with the Boston Symphony in the 2024-25 season. The Oct. 17-19 program includes Landscape Impression by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Chen Yi, Schumann’s Piano Concerto—featuring Jonathan Biss—and Mozart’s elegant Symphony No. 39. https://www.bso.org/events/chen-schumann-mozart?performance=2024-10-17-19:30
- [Tania León World Premiere in Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tania-leon-world-premiere-in-boston/) - Music director Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony in an all-American program opening with a world premiere by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Tania León and closing with Wake Up: A Concerto for Orchestra by BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon. BSO principal clarinet William R. Hudgins is the soloist in Aaron Copland’s delightful Clarinet Concerto, contrasting with
- [Concerto for Orchestra to Be Premiered in Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/concerto-for-orchestra-to-be-premiered-in-baltimore/) - On June 5-8, Baltimore Symphony music director Jonathon Heyward will lead the orchestra in the world premiere of James Lee III’s Concerto for Orchestra. This is one of a series of concerts and educational programs focusing on the works of Lee, who is a native of Baltimore. Yefim Bronfman takes the stage for Beethoven’s Piano
- [Stutzmann Conducts All-Mozart Program in Atlanta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/stutzmann-conducts-all-mozart-program-in-atlanta/) - On Nov. 7-10 music director Nathalie Stutzmann leads the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in Mozart’s mysterious and otherworldly Mass in C minor. Ukrainian soprano Olga Kulchynska, Mezzo-soprano Julia Lezhneva, tenor Lunga Eric Hallam, and bass Harold Wilson join as soloists in a program that opens with Mozart’s 40th Symphony. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/all-mozart-with-stutzmann-chorus
- [Atlanta Concertmaster Conducts and Solos in Vivaldi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/atlanta-concertmaster-conducts-and-solos-in-vivaldi/) - Atlanta Symphony concertmaster David Coucheron gets the solo spotlight on Jan. 12 when the orchestra performs Vivaldi’s effervescent masterpiece, The Four Seasons, which Coucheron will both play and conduct. The first half of the concert is Dvořák's Serenade for Strings in E Major. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/coucheron-the-four-seasons
- [World Premiere Welcomes Year Of The Snake To Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/world-premiere-welcomes-year-of-the-snake-to-baltimore/) - To celebrate the Lunar New Year—the Year of the Snake, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra will play the world premiere of a new work by Vietnamese-American composer Viet Cuong. Music director Jonathon Heyward conducts this Jan. 22 program, the third such Lunar New Year program given by the orchestra, making it an anticipated annual tradition. https://my.bsomusic.org/19151/19157
- [Symphonies Are Focus Of Atlanta's Beethoven Project](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/symphonies-are-focus-of-atlantas-beethoven-project/) - The Atlanta Symphony is paying tribute to one of the greats in their 2024-25 season with a Beethoven Project featuring all of his symphonies. On March 6-9, music director Nathalie Stutzmann opens with Symphony No. 4, which Hector Berlioz admired for its contrasts between a "lively, alert, and joyful" spirit and a "heavenly gentleness." After
- [Manze Leads Atlanta In Music Of Russia and Finland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/manze-leads-atlanta-in-music-of-russia-and-finland/) - Alexander Borodin’s Symphony No. 2 is a muscular and vituosic work sure to test the fortitude of the Atlanta Symphony under guest conductor Andrew Manze on April 24-26. The rousing opener will be three movements from various works by Khachaturian. Clara-Jumi Kang solos in Sibelius’ magnificent Violin Concerto. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/sibelius-violin-concerto
- [Joshua Roman Premieres Lee Cello Concerto in Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/joshua-roman-premieres-lee-cello-concerto-in-baltimore/) - Cellist Joshua Roman will join the Baltimore Symphony for the world premiere of James Lee III’s Cello Concerto on May 1-4, part of a season exploring the works of Baltimore native Lee. The program, under the direction of Jonathan Heyward, also includes Elgar’s Froissart and Brahms’ lush and rhythmically complex Symphony No. 1. https://my.bsomusic.org/18937/18994
- [Baltimore Wishes Ravel a Happy 150th](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/baltimore-wishes-ravel-a-happy-150th/) - On Feb. 1-2, the Baltimore Symphony will celebrate Maurice Ravel’s 150th birthday in a program conducted by Robert Treviño. The Ravel selections include Alborada del gracioso, Rapsodie espagnole, Pavane pour une infante défunte and La Valse, which the composer described as a “choreographic poem for orchestra.” Karen Gomyo will be the soloist for Prokofiev’s Violin Concerto
- [Mizzoli's powerful 'Breaking the Waves' at Detroit Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mizzolis-powerful-breaking-the-waves-at-detroit-opera/) - What would you do for love if it meant turning against all that you know? Based on the film by Lars von Triers, composer Missy Mizzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek have created a modern masterpiece in their opera Breaking the Waves. This production stars Kiera Duffy and Benjamin Taylor. (April 6-14) https://detroitopera.org/season-schedule/breaking-the-waves/
- [Scriabin Program Uses All The Senses](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/scriabin-program-uses-all-the-senses/) - Alexander Scriabin’s symphonic poem Prometheus, The Poem of Fire celebrates synesthesia and cosmic unity. San Francisco Symphony music mirector Esa-Pekka Salonen has partnered with pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet and Cartier in-house perfumer Mathilde Laurent to create a multisensory production of Prometheus that aims to realize Scriabin’s vision of a truly synesthetic work of art. March 1-3. https://www.sfsymphony.org/Discover-the-Music/Prometheus
- [Dallas Premieres Polevá Cello Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dallas-premieres-poleva-cello-concerto/) - Victoria Vita Polevá is a Ukrainian composer. Her new cello concerto will receive its world premiere by its commissioning orchestra, the Dallas Symphony, on Nov. 9-12. Inbal Segev will be the soloist. Two works by Strauss—Don Juan and the Suite from Der Rosenkavalier—are also on the program, as is Terricone by fellow Ukrainian Anna Korsun.
- [SFS Brings Recent Works to Cali Fest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sfs-brings-recent-works-to-cali-fest/) - As part of the California Festival, 13 members of the San Francisco Symphony will present a chamber concert on Nov. 5. Except for Brahms’ String Quartet No. 2, all the works will be from the past decade: Reena Esmail’s Saans, Samuel Adams’ Sundial, and a work called Self Portrait by SFS violinist Sarn Oliver, who
- [Conlon Leads Rare Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/conlon-leads-rare-symphony/) - Soprano Melody Moore and baritone Lucas Meachem will be the guest soloists on April 18 and 20 when the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra performs a rarely heard work. Alexander von Zemlinsky’s Lyric Symphony sets German translations of texts by Bengali poet and philosopher Rabindranath Tragore. James Conlon conducts this concert, which opens with Beethoven’s Symphony No.
- [NYPhil Premieres Neuwirth Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/nyphil-premieres-neuwirth-work/) - Project 19 is an initiative launched by the New York Philharmonic in 2020 to commission works by female composers. The latest creation in that series is Olga Neuwirth’s Keyframes for a Hippogriff — Musical Calligrams, which will receive its U.S. premiere on April 18-20. Neuwirth’s work uses texts by Ariosto, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Friedrich
- ['Samson' At Opera Carolina](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/samson-at-opera-carolina/) - On April 18-21, Opera Carolina will perform Saint-Saëns’s Samson and Delilah, a biblical drama of seduction and betrayal. The cast includes Alyson Cambridge, Kyle Van Schoonhoven, and Donovan Singletary. https://operacarolina.org/2023-2024/
- [SFCO Premiere's 'Aqua'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/sfco-premieres-aqua/) - Resilience is the title of the April 19-21 program by the San Francisco Chamber Orchestra. Trevor Weston’s Aqua, a commission made via the Emerging Black Composers Project, will receive its world premiere. Works by Caroline Shaw, Stravinsky, and Schumann are also on tap. https://www.thesfco.org/main-stage-202324
- ['Cholera' Tale Told In Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cholera-tale-told-in-opera/) - San Jose Opera will produce its first-ever Spanish-language opera, Florencia en al Amazones by Mexican composer Daniel Catan. Directed by Crystal Manich and conducted by Joseph Marcheso, the opera is based on Gabriel García Márquez’s novel Love in the Time of Cholera. Performances run April 20-May 5. https://www.operasj.org/
- [Skye's 'Horizon' Hopes To Heal Divides](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/skyes-horizon-hopes-to-heal-divides/) - The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra has commissioned a new work from L.A.-based composer Derrick Skye. The premiere of To Be a Horizon, described as multicultural exploration designed to deconstruct cultural divides, will take place April 20-21, with guests Tereza Stanislav on violin and Yura Lee on viola. Conductor Jaime Martín will also lead Mozart’s Sinfonia
- [Irish National Opera Continues Vivaldi Series](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/irish-national-opera-continues-vivaldi-series/) - The Irish National Opera and the Irish Baroque Orchestra have teamed up over the past few seasons to present the operas of Vivaldi. This time, it’s L’Olimpiade, April 20-June 1. Mezzo-soprano Gemma Ní Bhriain stars, with Peter Whelan conducting a production staged by Daisy Evans. https://www.irishnationalopera.ie/whats-on/current-upcoming-productions/lolimpiade
- [Montréal toasts Schoenberg @ 150](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/montreal-toasts-schoenberg-150/) - The year 2024 marks the 150th anniversary of Arnold Schoenberg’s birth. The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will celebrate that landmark with Rafael Payare conducting two Schoenberg works: Verklärte Nacht and the symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande. The April 24-25 concert also features Maria João Pires as the soloist in Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4. https://www.osm.ca/en/concerts/maria-joao-pires-returns-to-the-osm/
- [Respighi Meet Orff In Opera Two-Hander](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/respighi-meet-orff-in-opera-two-hander/) - Combining two short works into one new production directed by Tamara Trunova, the Bavarian State Opera will present Respighi’s Lucrezia and Carl Orff’s Der Mond (“The Moon”) April 24-May 4. Ustina Dubitsky conducts; the cast includes Natalie Lewis, Louise Foor, and Liam Bonthrone. https://www.staatsoper.de/en/productions/lucrezia-mond-opst-prod-24/2024-04-24-1930-14183
- [Hrůša Makes Carnegie Podium Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hrusa-makes-carnegie-podium-debut/) - Leading the Bamberg Symphony, conductor Jakub Hrůša will make his Carnegie Hall debut on April 24. In an evening of Romantic powerhouse works, the Brahms Third Symphony and Schumann’s Piano Concerto are bookended by Wagner. Hélène Grimaud will play the Schumann. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/04/24/bamberg-symphony-0800pm
- [American And Mexican Works In Atlanta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/american-and-mexican-works-in-atlanta/) - A new work by Joel Thompson takes its place amid an interesting collection of American and Mexican pieces on the Atlanta Symphony’s April 25-26 program. Lina Gonzalez-Granados conducts Gabriela Ortiz’s Kauyumari, Gabriela Lena Frank’s Walkabout: Concerto for Orchestra, and Arturo Márquez’s Danzón No. 2. Pianist Cédric Tiberghien will be the soloist in Gershwin’s Rhapsody in
- [Gubaidulina Premiere In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gubaidulina-premiere-in-boston/) - At age 91, Sofia Gubaidulina is still an active composer. The Boston Symphony Orchestra will present the American premiere of her Prologue for Orchestra on April 25-27, 2024. With Andris Nelsons conducting, the program also features Thomas Rolfs as soloist in the Trumpet Concerto of another living composer, Detlev Glanert. Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 4 completes
- [Beethoven's Ninth Is 200](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/beethovens-ninth-is-200/) - The chance to hear the Pittsburgh Symphony, under Manfred Honeck, play Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on the 200th anniversary of the work’s first performance is reason enough to head to Heinz Hall. But on the April 25-28 program, audiences will also be treated to a world premiere, a new work by Canadian composer Samy Moussa, whose
- [Runnicles Leads 'Intermezzo' In Berlin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/runnicles-leads-intermezzo-in-berlin/) - From April 25-June 14, Deutsch Oper Berlin will mount a new production of Strauss’ Intermezzo, directed by Tobias Kratzer; it is his second of three new Strauss productions planned with DOB. Maria Bengtsson and Thomas Johannes Mayer star, with Donald Runnicles on the podium. https://deutscheoperberlin.de/en_EN/calendar/intermezzo.17512231
- [López Bellido Premiere In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/lopez-bellido-premiere-in-houston/) - Peruvian-born Jimmy López Bellido will present the world premiere of a new work on April 26-28, courtesy of the Houston Symphony, under the baton of its conductor laureate, Andrés Orozco-Estrada. The bulk of the concert will be devoted to Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana, with the Houston Symphony Chorus, countertenor Reginald Mobley, soprano Joélle Harvey, and
- [Jurowski 'Götterdämmerung' With London Phil](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/jurowski-gotterdammerung-with-london-phil/) - Delayed by the pandemic, Vladimir Jurowski’s planned Ring cycle at last reaches its conclusion as he conducts a semi-staged production of Wagner’s Götterdämmerung with the London Philharmonic on April 27. The cast includes Burkhard Fritz as Siegfried and Svetlana Sozdateleva as Brünnhilde. https://lpo.org.uk/event/gotterdammerung/
- [Hildegard, Hildur, Missy, and Sarah](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hildegard-hildur-missy-and-sarah/) - Enargeia is a work for voice and orchestra, a compilation of songs by Hildegard von Bingen, Hildur Guðnadóttir, Missy Mazzoli, and Sarah Kirkland Snider as arranged by Jarkko Riihimäki. The piece will receive its North American premiere by the Toronto Symphony May 1-2, with mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo. Under the baton of Gustavo Gimeno, the program
- ['Mary Cardwell Dawson' Comes Home](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mary-cardwell-dawson-comes-home/) - The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson will be performed by Pittsburgh Opera April 27-May 5, marking the first time it’s been done in the main character’s native city. This play by Sandra Seaton tells the story of visionary impresaria Dawson, who founded the National Negro Opera Company. The score includes excerpts from Carmen and new
- [Miró Plays New Heggie Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/miro-plays-new-heggie-quartet/) - Composer Jake Heggie’s new work for string quartet will receive its New York premiere May 2 at the hands of the Miró Quartet as part of the Sonic Spectrum series at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center. Hornist David Byrd-Marrow will also be on hand to join the Miró for quintets by Dai Fujikura and
- [Ott Solos In New Dessner Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ott-solos-in-new-dessner-concerto/) - Composer Bryce Dessner will be in the spotlight for two weekends at the Cincinnati Symphony, the second featuring the U.S. premiere of his new piano concerto, with Alice Sara Ott as soloist. Dessner’s short work, Mari, opens the May 3-4 program, which concludes with Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony under the baton of Louis Langrée. https://www.cincinnatisymphony.org/tickets-and-events/buy-tickets/cso/2324-cso-season/beethoven-symphony-no.-7--dessner-premieres/
- [Elim Chan Makes Minnesota Podium Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/elim-chan-makes-minnesota-podium-debut/) - Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan makes her Minnesota Orchestra debut with a May 9-10 program that opens with Unsuk Chin’s subito con forza. Benjamin Beilman plays Korngold’s Violin Concerto, and the program closes with Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 2, inspired by Ukrainian folk tunes. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/tchaikovsky-korngold-and-chin/
- [Langrée Bids Cincy Adieu](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/langree-bids-cincy-adieu/) - As a fitting farewell to music director Louis Langrée, who is leaving the Cinncinati Symphony after the 2023-34 season, the orchestra has commissioned a new “orchestral song cycle” by Anthony Davis. The world premiere will take place May 10-12. Soprano Latonia Moor will be the soloist. The second half of the program will be Stravinsky’s
- [Kuusisto And Kahane Collaborate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kuusisto-and-kahane-collaborate/) - Violinist Pekka Kuusisto has collaborated with singer/pianist Gabriel Kahane on a new work which will have its New York Premiere on May 11 at the 92nd St. Y. The program also offers works by Bach. Both in-person and streaming tickets are available. https://www.92ny.org/event/pekka-kuusisto-and-gabriel-kahane
- [Arditti Quartet Turns 50](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/arditti-quartet-turns-50/) - The Arditti Quartet, celebrating its 50th season, will present world premiere of a new work by Sarah Nemtsov on May 11 at the Elbphilharmonie. The program consists of works from the late 20th century (Elliott Carter, Iannis Xenakis, Helmut Lachenmann) as well as the 21st (Olga Neuwirth, Brian Ferneyhough). https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/whats-on/50-years-of-the-arditti-quartet/20269
- [Oratorio 'Sacrifice of Isaac' Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/oratorio-sacrifice-of-isaac-premieres/) - On May 16 and 18, the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus will give the world premiere of Jonathan Leshnoff’s oratorio Sacrifice of Isaac. The ASO’s music director laureate, Robert Spano, conducts a program that includes another work involving sacrifice, Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. https://www.aso.org/events/detail/robert-spano-rite-of-spring
- [Cotton Field Photos Inspire Song Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cotton-field-photos-inspire-song-cycle/) - Inspired by John Dowell’s photographs of workers in the cotton fields, COTTON is a song cycle for two voices and piano, setting new texts by eight poets. The work will receive its New York premiere on April 18 at the 92nd St Y, with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves, baritone Justin Austin, and pianist Laura Ward. https://www.92ny.org/event/denyce-graves-and-justin-austin
- [Swedish Rarity 'Breaking Waves' In Milwaukee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/swedish-rarity-breaking-waves-in-milwaukee/) - A program on May 18 called Crowning Glory by Milwaukee’s Concordia Chamber Orchestra will feature a rarely heard symphonic work, Bränningar (“Breaking Waves”), by Swedish composer Helena Munktell (1852-1919). Two movements from Max Richter’s re-imagining of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons and Brahms’ Symphony No. 1 complete the program. http://www.concordorchestra.org/concerts.html
- [Concert-Version 'Salomé' In Houston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/concert-version-salome-in-houston/) - Richard Strauss’ Salomé is an unusual choice to present as an opera-in-concert, but the Houston Symphony Orchestra is taking on that challenge to end their season on June 7-9. With music director Juraj Valčuha at the podium, the concert will feature Jennifer Holloway in the title role, John Daszak as Herodes, and Mark S. Doss
- [Tan Dun Conducts Tan Dun](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tan-dun-conducts-tan-dun/) - Renowned composer Tan Dun will grace the podium for a May 18-19 program, leading the Baltimore Symphony in his own music plus two works by Stravinsky: Fireworks and Song of the Nightingale. Besides Tan Dun’s Passacaglia: Secret of Wind and Birds, the composer/conductor will present the U.S. premiere of his Five Muses of Dunhuang. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18302
- [Conrad Tao Premieres 'A Thing Made Whole'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/conrad-tao-premieres-a-thing-made-whole/) - Working with the U.K.-based collective Distractfold, pianist Conrad Tao will play the world premiere of Andrew Greenwald’s A Thing Made Whole VIII. Also on this May 23 program at Kaufman Music Center are recent works by Jürg Frey, Hanna Hartman, and Mauricio Pauly. https://www.kaufmanmusiccenter.org/mch/event/distractfold-with-conrad-tao/
- [Petrenko Conducts Basevi Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/petrenko-conducts-basevi-premiere/) - The Dallas Symphony has commissioned a new work from Italian composer Andrea Basevi, which will receive its world premiere under the baton of Vasily Petrenko at the DSO’s season finale on May 23-26. Basevi, a tenor himself, specializes in vocal writing; his new work will feature the Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus. Guest soloist for the
- [Welser-Möst Premieres Violin, Harp Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/welser-most-premieres-violin-harp-concerto/) - Cleveland Orchestra music director Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the world premiere of Jüri Reinvere’s Concerto for Violin and Harp, featuring violinist Leila Josefowicz and harpist Trina Struble. This May 23-25 program also includes the “Prelude and Liebestod” from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde and Mozart’s Serenade No. 10, the Gran Partita, for 12 wind instruments and
- [Adès Leads His New Violin Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/ades-leads-his-new-violin-concerto/) - Thomas Adès leads the London Symphony Orchestra in the U.K. premiere of his new violin concerto, Air, with Anna Sophie Mutter as soloist. The May 30 program also includes two works by Stravinsky—Orpheus and Agon—as well as Witold Lutosławski’s Partita. https://www.lso.co.uk/whats-on/myth-and-magic-thomas-ades/
- [Heyward Closes First Baltimore Season](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/heyward-closes-first-baltimore-season/) - To close out his inaugural season as music director of the Baltimore Symphony on June 13-16, Jonathon Heyward conducts a new work by James Lee III, who has written many commissions for the BSO. Soprano Christine Goerke will be on hand to sing Strauss’ Four Last Songs in program that also includes Jessie Montgomery’s Records
- [New Beamish Concerto At LSO](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-beamish-concerto-at-lso/) - British composer Sally Beamish finally gets to hear her new concerto performed in her native city as the London Symphony plays the U.K. premiere of Distans, a concerto for violin and clarinet. The soloist are violinist Janine Jansen and clarinetist Martin Fröst. LSO principal guest conductor will also lead the orchestra in Prokofiev’s Symphony No.
- [Neville Marriner Centenary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/neville-marriner-centenary/) - To mark the 100th birthday of its founder, Neville Marriner, the Academy of St. Martin in the Fields will present three programs in three locations under the guest directorship of Joshua Bell and Jaime Martin. The April 15 concert will include a world premiere by British composer Errollyn Wallen along with some classics that Marriner
- ['As One' Explores Gender Identity](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/as-one-explores-gender-identity/) - Although Laura Kaminsky’s opera As One premiered in 2014, its libretto by Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed exploring gender identity has never been more relevant. Kentucky Opera will present the work April 12-19. https://kyopera.org/as-one/
- [Kendrick Lamar Meets Stravinsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/kendrick-lamar-meets-stravinsky/) - The 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Music went to rapper Kendrick Lamar’s album Damn. On April 12, as part of their Fusion series, the Baltimore Symphony will perform Igor DAMN Stravinsky, a program integrating Lamar’s songs with movements from another masterwork, Stravinsky’s Petrouchka. Steve Hackman conducts. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18524
- [New David Ludwig Chamber Work](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-david-ludwig-chamber-work/) - On April 11, the Sonic Spectrum series at Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center presents the New York premiere of a new work for violin, piano, and cello by David Ludwig. The imaginative program also includes recent works by Felipe Lara, Kurt Schwertsik, Johannes Maria Staud, and Viet Cuong. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/sonic-spectrum-iii/
- ['Rise Up' Premiere at Minnesota](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/rise-up-premiere-at-minnesota/) - On April 11-13, the Minnesota Orchestra presents the U.S. premiere of Rise Up, O Sun! by Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga. Concertmaster Erin Keefe is soloist for the Bruch Violin Concerto No. 1, and Thomas Søndergård leads the Minnesota Chorale in Brahms’ Schicksalslied. https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/sondergard-keefe-and-brahms/
- [Tallis Scholars Span Six Centuries At Carnegie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tallis-scholars-span-six-centuries-at-carnegie/) - The 16th and 21st centuries will be represented equally in the Tallis Scholars’ April 8 appearance at Carnegie Hall. Sacred vocal music by William Byrd, Robert White, and Robert Parsons is paired against works by Nico Muhly and Eric Whitacre, plus the New York premiere of David Lang’s sun-centered, a Carnegie co-commission. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/04/08/the-tallis-scholars-0730pm
- [Premieres Pack LSO Program](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/premieres-pack-lso-program/) - There are two world premieres and a U.K. premiere in the April 7 program by the London Symphony Orchestra, appropriately titled Music of Tomorrow. François-Xavier Roth conducts works by Christian Drew, Unsuk Chin, Donghoon Shin, and Stef Conner, on a concert that concludes with Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra. The new cello concert by Shin will
- [McDermott Premieres Expanded 'Samaa''](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/mcdermott-premieres-expanded-samaa/) - In 2022, the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra and pianist Anne-Marie McDermott premiered Chris Rogerson’s Samaa’. SPCO and McDermott will reconvene April 5-7 to give the world premiere of Rogerson’s new expansion of that work. McDermott will also join members of the orchestra for chamber works by Chausson and Poulenc. https://content.thespco.org/events/anne-marie-mcdermott-plays-chausson-poulenc-and-rogerson/
- [Labadie Debuts At National Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/labadie-debuts-at-national-symphony/) - On April 4-6, two artists will make their debuts with the National Symphony: conductor Bernard Labadie and bass-baritone Michael Sumuel. Soprano Joèlle Harvey and the Washington Chorus for Fauré’s Requiem. The program opens with Symphony No. 4 by Henri-Joseph Rigel, written in 1774, and Mozart’s Symphony No. 31, Paris, composed four years later. https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/2023-2024/labadie-faure/
- [Pianist Michelle Cann Makes Indy Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/pianist-michelle-cann-makes-indy-debut/) - In 2022 Michelle Cann won the Sphinx Medal of Excellence. The brilliant pianist will make her Indianapolis Symphony debut on April 4, playing Tchaikovsky’s First Concerto. ISO assistant conductor Su-Han Yang conducts Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 3. https://www.indianapolissymphony.org/event/tchaikovsky-1st-piano-concerto/
- [BSO Explores Scriabin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/bso-explores-scriabin/) - Russian composer Alexander Scriabin had a condition called synesthesia, which allowed him to see colors as he heard musical pitches. On April 4-6, 2024, music director Andris Nelsons will lead the Boston Symphony in an exploration of Scriabin’s colorful perspective. With help from pianist Yefim Bronfman, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and two lighting designers, the
- [Trombone in the spotlight](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/trombone-in-the-spotlight/) - Trombonist Jörgen van Rijen will play the North American premiere of Samy Moussa’s new concerto, Yericho, with the Toronto Symphony. The April 3-6 program, conducted by Gustavo Gimeno, will also feature cellist Joseph Johnson in Richard Strauss’ tone poem Don Quixote. https://www.tso.ca/concerts-and-events/events/r-strausss-don-quixote/
- [Yuja Wang Makes Minnesota Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/yuja-wang-makes-minnesota-debut/) - Pianist Yuja Wang debuts with the Minnesota Orchestra on March 29-30, playing Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto. The program, conducted by Hannu Lintu opens with Saariaho’s Ciel d’hiver and closes with Rachmaninoff’s Symphony No. 2 https://www.minnesotaorchestra.org/tickets/calendar/classical/yuja-wang-plays-bartok/
- [Denk Premieres Clyne Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/denk-premieres-clyne-concerto/) - Anna Clyne’s new Piano Concerto will receive its world premiere with the Dallas Symphony and soloist Jeremy Denk on March 28-30. The concert, conducted by music director Fabio Luisi, offers a powerful pairing for the Clyne: Mahler’s Symphony No. 5. https://www.dallassymphony.org/productions/mahler-symphony-no-5/
- [Hindoyan Conducts New Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/hindoyan-conducts-new-symphony/) - On March 28-30, 2024, Domingo Hindoyan conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra in a BSO co-commission, the American premiere of Symphony No. 6 by Grammy-winning composer Roberto Sierra. Edward Elgar’s Cello Concerto is also scheduled, with Pablo Ferrández as soloist. The program is rounded out with Dvořák’s Symphony No. 7. https://www.bso.org/events/sierra-elgar-dvorak
- [Cartoonists take on 'The Planets'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/cartoonists-take-on-the-planets/) - In an unusual collaboration of live music and visual art on March 24, musicians of the Orchestre symphonique de Montréal will premiere a new instrumentation of Holst’s The Planets for organ, brass, and percussion under the baton of Thomas Le Duc-Moreau. Taking inspiration from the music being played, five cartoonists will draw extemporaneously, marking the
- [Esfahani And Wong Play Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/esfahani-and-wong-play-bach/) - As part of its Bach Fest, the Milwaukee Symphony welcomes two renowned Baroque artists: Mahan Esfahani will play the Harpsichord Concerto in A major, and Rachell Ellen Wong will play the Violin Concerto in A minor. Ken-David Masur conducts this March 23-24 program that also includes the Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 and the Magnificat, featuring
- [Denève Leads Wolfe's 'Pretty'](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/deneve-leads-wolfes-pretty/) - The St. Louis Symphony co-commissioned Julia Wolfe’s Pretty, a work that has been described as “raucous and raw,” making the listener consider what the word “pretty” really means. On March 22-23, SLSO will have its chance to play the piece under music director Stéphane Denève. The program opens with Berlioz’s Overture to Beatrice and Benedict.
- [Lorca's 'Don Perlimpín's Love' In Frankfurt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/lorcas-don-perlimpins-love-in-frankfurt/) - When Federico García Lorca wrote the play Don Perlimplín's Love for Belisa in His Garden, he composed the incidental music for the 1933 premiere himself. Many composers since then have attempted to turn the play into an opera; Oper Frankfurt is presenting Wolfgang Fortner’s version from 1962. The new production—the first time the work has
- ['Gurre-Lieder' Centenary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/gurre-lieder-centenary/) - On March 22, Leon Botstein and the American Symphony Orchestra will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the world premiere of Arnold Schoenberg’s Gurre-Lieder by performing the cantata at Carnegie Hall. The ASO has a special connection to this work because its founder, Leopold Stokowski, conducted the American premiere with the Philadelphia Orchestra. https://americansymphony.org/concerts/schoenberg-gurre-lieder/
- [New Organ Concerto In Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-organ-concerto-in-philadelphia/) - French composer Guillaum Connesson has named his new organ concerto Concerto da Requiem, and it will receive its American premiere on March 21-23. Organist Christian Schmitt will present the work with the Philadelphia Orchestra under the baton on Paavo Järvi. The program opens with Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and concludes with
- [Tan Dun's New Trombone Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/tan-duns-new-trombone-concerto/) - The New York Philharmonic has commissioned a new work by Atlanta-based composer Joel Thompson. The world premiere, conducted by music director Jaap van Zweden, will take place March 21-24. Tan Dun’s Trombone Concerto, subtitled Three Muses in Video Game and inspired by three ancient Chinese instruments, will receive its New York premiere with soloist Joseph
- [New Music Director At Baltimore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-music-director-at-baltimore/) - The 2023-24 season marks the inaugural year of Jonathon Heyward as music director of the Baltimore Symphony. One of the promising highlights of his debut season is the programming of Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 on March 21-24. There are few works that so thoroughly test what a conductor is made of. https://my.bsomusic.org/overview/18298
- [US Premiere At Quartet's Carnegie Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/us-premiere-at-quartets-carnegie-debut/) - Quatuor Van Kuijk, from France, makes their Carnegie Hall debut on March 21 with the U.S. premiere of the jazz-inspired Ces messieurs by fellow Frenchman Baptiste Trotignon. The concert opens intensely, with Beethoven’s late quartet, Op. 131 in C-sharp minor. Several works by Fauré and Satie are also on the program. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/21/quatuor-van-kuijk-0730pm
- [Persian Culture Celebrated in San Diego](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/persian-culture-celebrated-in-san-diego/) - In a special program called The Wonders We Carry Inside, Iranian-American composer Gity Razaz will curate a collection of music for the spring equinox, honoring the mystical beauty of Persian culture and the power of women to shape history both past and present. Razaz will be joined by members of the San Diego Symphony for
- ['Yardbird' Opera Examines Jazz Great](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/yardbird-opera-examines-jazz-great/) - Indianapolis Opera blends jazz into the genre with Charlie Parker’s Yardbird on March 16. Telling a dramatic New York scene from the life story one of the greatest saxophone players of all time, Daniel Schnyder and Bridgette A. Wimberly’s work will feature Martin Bakari as “Bird” and Angela Brown as his mother. https://www.indyopera.org/yardbird.html
- [Dancers Grace Orchestral Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/dancers-grace-orchestral-premiere/) - Music director Stéphane Denève leads the St. Louis Symphony on March 16-17 in an evening of dance music, some of which will, in fact, be danced to. With Copland’s Appalachian Spring Suite and Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet Suite as familiar bookends, the program’s focus is a new work by Adam Schoenberg, which will feature movement
- [Fischer Premieres Kidane Violin Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/fischer-premieres-kidane-violin-concerto/) - A program by the London Philharmonic Orchestra called The Gift of Youth on March 16 will include the world premiere of Daniel Kidane’s Violin Concerto. It will feature Julia Fischer, for whom it was written. Principal conductor Edward Gardner takes the podium for this concert, which also includes Mozart’s Mass in C Minor with sopranos
- [Mäkelä Makes Carnegie Debut](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/makela-makes-carnegie-debut/) - Recently named the next music director of Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw Orchestra, Klaus Mäkelä is making his Carnegie Hall debut on March 16, conducting an all-Stravinsky program with the Orchestre de Paris. On the docket are two complete ballets: The Firebird and The Rite of Spring. https://www.carnegiehall.org/calendar/2024/03/16/orchestre-de-paris-0800pm
- [Langer's 'Luminous Nose' Premieres In Boston](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/langers-luminous-nose-premieres-in-boston/) - The Tanglewood Festival Chorus and cellist Blaise Déjardin join the Boston Symphony Orchestra for the American premiere of The Dong with the Luminous Nose. This work by Elena Langer was a BSO co-commission. The program, conducted by Mark Elder, also includes Ravel’s complete Mother Goose, Dvořák’s symphonic poem The Noonday Witch, and Janáček’s Sinfonietta. March
- [Luigi Nono at 100](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/luigi-nono-at-100/) - 2024 is the centenary of the birth of composer Luigi Nono, and the Elbphilarmonie has put together a festival running March 13-15. First up is Quatuor Diotima playing Nona’s Fragmente – Stille along with Beethoven’s Op. 132. On the second night, SWR Experimentalstudio presents Nona’s Quando stanno morendo for women’s voices, flute, cello, and live
- [ACO Plays Glover and Ko Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/aco-plays-glover-and-ko-premieres/) - On March 12, the American Composers Orchestra will present two world premieres: a piece for mezzo-soprano and orchestra by John Glover and a new work by Tonia Ko. Called America in Weimar: On the Margins, the program also includes the New York premiere of Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate’s Lowak Shoppala' – Clans as well as pieces by
- [Escher Plays Bartók Quartet Cycle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/escher-plays-bartok-quartet-cycle/) - The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center’s Winter Festival 2024 celebrates string quartets. Among the most exciting of the scheduled programs is the chance on March 10 to hear the Escher String Quartet play all six of Bartók’s works for that configuration. This glorious marathon is expected to last over three hours. https://www.chambermusicsociety.org/our-concerts/at-lincoln-center/events/escher-string-quartet/
- [New 'Queen of Spades' in Berlin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/new-queen-of-spades-in-berlin/) - Deutsche Oper Berlin will present a new production of Tchaikovsky’s Queen of Spades March 9-27. Director Sam Brown, making his DOB debut, focuses on the unanswerable questions in the libretto. Sebastian Weigle conduct. Martin Muehle is Hermann and Sondra Radvanovsky sings Lisa. https://deutscheoperberlin.de/en_EN/calendar/pikowaja-dama-queen-of-spades.17512194
- [Conrad Tao Premieres Piano Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/event/conrad-tao-premieres-piano-concerto/) - Conrad Tao will be the guest artist with the Cincinnati Symphony for the world premiere of a new piano concerto by inti figgis-vizueta, a New York-based composer known for taking inspiration from her blended background of Black, Irish, and Andean cultures. The March 8-10 concert also includes Copland’s Suite from Appalachian Spring and Schumann’s Symphony

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- [Denyce Graves](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/denyce-graves/)
- [Paul O'Dette](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/paul-odette/)
- [Stephen Stubbs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stephen-stubbs/)
- [Jay Hunter Morris](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jay-hunter-morris/)
- [Greer Grimsley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/greer-grimsley/)
- [Alwyn Mellor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alwyn-mellor/)
- [Stefan Vinke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stefan-vinke/)
- [Asher Fisch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/asher-fisch/)
- [Anthony Roth Costanzo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anthony-roth-costanzo/)
- [Empty Bottle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/empty-bottle/)
- [Spektral Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/spektral-quartet/)
- [Daniel Dehaan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-dehaan/)
- [Jenna Lyle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jenna-lyle/)
- [Hans Thomalla](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hans-thomalla/)
- [Chris fisher-Lockhead](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chris-fisher-lockhead/)
- [Ensemble dal niente](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ensemble-dal-niente/)
- [Fifth House Ensemble](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fifth-house-ensemble/)
- [Third Coast Percussion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/third-coast-percussion/)
- [Chicago Q](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chicago-q/)
- [Access Contemporary Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/access-contemporary-music/)
- [International Contemporary Ensemble](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/international-contemporary-ensemble/)
- [Clair Chase](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/clair-chase/)
- [Un) familiar Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/un-familiar-music/)
- [Green Mill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/green-mill/)
- [Mason Bates](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mason-bates/)
- [Michael Henoch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-henoch/)
- [S.P.A.C.E.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/s-p-a-c-e/)
- [Dempster Street Pro Musica](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dempster-street-pro-musica/)
- [Haymarket Opera Company](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/haymarket-opera-company/)
- [Mayne Stage](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mayne-stage/)
- [Craig Trompeter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/craig-trompeter/)
- [Ellen Hargis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ellen-hargis/)
- [Constellation](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/constellation/)
- [Pater Margasak](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pater-margasak/)
- [Frequency](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/frequency/)
- [Mike Reed](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mike-reed/)
- [Pitchfork Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pitchfork-music-festival/)
- [Umbrella Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/umbrella-music-festival/)
- [Seth Boustead](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/seth-boustead/)
- [Gordon Getty](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gordon-getty/)
- [Santa Fe Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/santa-fe-opera/)
- [John von Rhein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-von-rhein/)
- [Charles MacKay](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/charles-mackay/)
- [Offenbach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/offenbach/)
- [The Grand Duchess of Gerolstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/the-grand-duchess-of-gerolstein/)
- [Mozart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mozart/)
- [The Marriage of Figaro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/the-marriage-of-figaro/)
- [Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/santa-fe-chamber-music-festival/)
- [Oscar Wilde](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/oscar-wilde/)
- [John Cox](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-cox/)
- [David Daniels](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-daniels/)
- [Opera Philadelphia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-philadelphia/)
- [Evan Rogister](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/evan-rogister/)
- [Kevin Newbury](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kevin-newbury/)
- [David Korins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-korins/)
- [Reed Luplau](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/reed-luplau/)
- [Sean Curran](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sean-curran/)
- [Dwayne Croft](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dwayne-croft/)
- [Heidi Stober](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/heidi-stober/)
- [William Burden](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/william-burden/)
- [Lisette Oropesa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lisette-oropesa/)
- [Emily Fons](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/emily-fons/)
- [Susanna Phillips](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/susanna-phillips/)
- [Joyce DiDonato](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joyce-didonato/)
- [Paul Curran](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/paul-curran/)
- [Lawrence Brownlee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lawrence-brownlee/)
- [Susan Graham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/susan-graham/)
- [Lee Blakeley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lee-blakeley/)
- [Jennifer Higdon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jennifer-higdon/)
- [Judith Weir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/judith-weir/)
- [Lucy Shelton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lucy-shelton/)
- [Rossini](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rossini/)
- [Harry Bicket](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/harry-bicket/)
- [John Rockwell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-rockwell/)
- [Salzburg Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/salzburg-festival/)
- [Gerard Mortier](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gerard-mortier/)
- [Alexander Pereira](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alexander-pereira/)
- [Harrison Birtwhistle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/harrison-birtwhistle/)
- [Gawain](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gawain/)
- [Alvis Hermanis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alvis-hermanis/)
- [Stefan Herheim](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stefan-herheim/)
- [Meistersinger](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/meistersinger/)
- [Peter Stein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-stein/)
- [Don Carlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/don-carlo/)
- [Christian Thielemann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christian-thielemann/)
- [Riccardo Muti](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/riccardo-muti/)
- [Cecilia Bartoli](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cecilia-bartoli/)
- [Giuseppe Verdi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/giuseppe-verdi/)
- [Muti](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/muti/)
- [Chicago Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chicago-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Chicago Symphony Chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chicago-symphony-chorus/)
- [Tatiana Serjan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tatiana-serjan/)
- [Daniella Barcellona](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniella-barcellona/)
- [Mario Zeffiri](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mario-zeffiri/)
- [Ildar Abdrazakov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ildar-abdrazakov/)
- [simulcast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/simulcast/)
- [Esprit Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/esprit-orchestra/)
- [Lou Harrison](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lou-harrison/)
- [Alex Pauk](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alex-pauk/)
- [Evergreen Club Gamelan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/evergreen-club-gamelan/)
- [Putu Evie Suyadnyani](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/putu-evie-suyadnyani/)
- [André Ristic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andre-ristic/)
- [Ka Nin Chan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ka-nin-chan/)
- [José Evangelista](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jose-evangelista/)
- [Stokowski](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stokowski/)
- [Rite of Spring](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rite-of-spring/)
- [Nézet-Séguin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nezet-seguin/)
- [Yannick Nézet-Séguin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/yannick-nezet-seguin/)
- [Philadelphia Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philadelphia-orchestra/)
- [Deutsche Grammophon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/deutsche-grammophon/)
- [Italian Girl in Algiers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/italian-girl-in-algiers/)
- [I'Italiana in Algeri](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/iitaliana-in-algeri/)
- [Calgary Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/calgary-opera/)
- [Bob McPhee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bob-mcphee/)
- [Michael Cavanagh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-cavanagh/)
- [Eduardo Chama](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eduardo-chama/)
- [Allyson McHardy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/allyson-mchardy/)
- [John Tessier](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-tessier/)
- [Hugh Russell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hugh-russell/)
- [Jessica Strong](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jessica-strong/)
- [Robert Tweten](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-tweten/)
- [Calgary Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/calgary-philharmonic/)
- [Britten](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/britten/)
- [Anthony Dean Griffey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anthony-dean-griffey/)
- [David Robertson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-robertson/)
- [St. Louis Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/st-louis-symphony/)
- [St. Louis Symphony and Chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/st-louis-symphony-and-chorus/)
- [Meredith Arwady](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/meredith-arwady/)
- [Alan Held](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alan-held/)
- [Peter Grimes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-grimes/)
- [Amy Kaiser](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/amy-kaiser/)
- [Benjamin Britten](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/benjamin-britten/)
- [James Conlon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-conlon/)
- [War Requiem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/war-requiem/)
- [Los angeles Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/los-angeles-philharmonic/)
- [Britten100/LA](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/britten100la/)
- [USC Thornton Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/usc-thornton-symphony/)
- [Colburn Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/colburn-orchestra/)
- [Los Angeles Children's Chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/los-angeles-childrens-chorus/)
- [Joseph Kaiser](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joseph-kaiser/)
- [Peter Pears](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-pears/)
- [Wilfred Owens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wilfred-owens/)
- [Phillip Addis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/phillip-addis/)
- [Tamara Wilson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tamara-wilson/)
- [New Jersey Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-jersey-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Lowell Liebermann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lowell-liebermann/)
- [Barcarolles for a Sinking City](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/barcarolles-for-a-sinking-city/)
- [Jacques Lacombe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jacques-lacombe/)
- [Herbert Axelrod](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/herbert-axelrod/)
- [Adam Golka](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/adam-golka/)
- [Yefim Bronfman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/yefim-bronfman/)
- [Vancouver Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vancouver-symphony/)
- [Bramwell Tovey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bramwell-tovey/)
- [Cavalli](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cavalli/)
- [Giasone](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/giasone/)
- [Pinchgut Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pinchgut-opera/)
- [Chas Rader-Shieber](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chas-rader-shieber/)
- [Erin Helyard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/erin-helyard/)
- [Orchestra of the Antipodes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/orchestra-of-the-antipodes/)
- [Handel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/handel/)
- [Messiah](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/messiah/)
- [Goossens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/goossens/)
- [Gooossens Messiah](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gooossens-messiah/)
- [Beecham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/beecham/)
- [Rossen Milanov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rossen-milanov/)
- [Leah Crocetto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leah-crocetto/)
- [Elizabeth DeShong](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/elizabeth-deshong/)
- [Russell Thomas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/russell-thomas/)
- [Iain Paterson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/iain-paterson/)
- [Daníel Bjarnason](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-bjarnason/)
- [Gustavo Dudamel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gustavo-dudamel/)
- [Yuja Wang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/yuja-wang/)
- [Blow bright](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/blow-bright/)
- [Petrouchka](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/petrouchka/)
- [Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rachmaninoff-piano-concerto-no-3/)
- [Judith LeClair](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/judith-leclair/)
- [Mozart Bassoon Concerto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mozart-bassoon-concerto/)
- [New York Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-york-philharmonic/)
- [Tobias Picker](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tobias-picker/)
- [Mel Weingart](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mel-weingart/)
- [Plato Karayanis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/plato-karayanis/)
- [The Opera San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/the-opera-san-antonio/)
- [Tobin Theatre Arts Fund](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tobin-theatre-arts-fund/)
- [San Antonio Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/san-antonio-symphony/)
- [Robert L.B.Tobin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-l-b-tobin/)
- [Rusalka](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rusalka/)
- [Dvorak](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dvorak/)
- [Sebastian Lang-Lessing](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sebastian-lang-lessing/)
- [Joyce El-Khoury](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joyce-el-khoury/)
- [Brian Jagde](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brian-jagde/)
- [James Robinson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-robinson/)
- [Patricia Racette](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/patricia-racette/)
- [Dolora Zajick](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dolora-zajick/)
- [Eric Owens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eric-owens/)
- [Max Reiter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/max-reiter/)
- [San Antonio Grand Opera Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/san-antonio-grand-opera-festival/)
- [Victor Alessandro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/victor-alessandro/)
- [Opera Theatre of San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-theatre-of-san-antonio/)
- [Pocket Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pocket-opera/)
- [San Antonio Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/san-antonio-festival/)
- [Enrique Patrón de Rueda](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/enrique-patron-de-rueda/)
- [Lyric Opera of San Antonio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lyric-opera-of-san-antonio/)
- [San Antonio Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/san-antonio-opera/)
- [Tobin Center for the Performing Arts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tobin-center-for-the-performing-arts/)
- [Wayne Wyman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wayne-wyman/)
- [Green Music Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/green-music-center/)
- [Santa Rosa Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/santa-rosa-symphony/)
- [Sanford I. Weill Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sanford-i-weill-hall/)
- [Zhao Jiping](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/zhao-jiping/)
- [Wu Man](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wu-man/)
- [Enrique Diemecke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/enrique-diemecke/)
- [Bruno Ferrandis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bruno-ferrandis/)
- [Zarin Mehta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/zarin-mehta/)
- [Beethoven](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/beethoven/)
- [Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cantata-on-the-death-of-emperor-joseph-ii/)
- [Michael Tilson Thomas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-tilson-thomas/)
- [Sally Matthews](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sally-matthews/)
- [Tamara Mumford](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tamara-mumford/)
- [Barry Banks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/barry-banks/)
- [Andrew Foster-Williams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrew-foster-williams/)
- [Opera Carolina](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-carolina/)
- [Il Trittico](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/il-trittico/)
- [Jay Lesinger](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jay-lesinger/)
- [Jill Gardner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jill-gardner/)
- [Eric Renschler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eric-renschler/)
- [Tim Parati](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tim-parati/)
- [Chautauqua Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chautauqua-opera/)
- [Chen-Ye Yuan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chen-ye-yuan/)
- [Dongwon Shin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dongwon-shin/)
- [Michael Baumgarten](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-baumgarten/)
- [James Meena](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-meena/)
- [Melinda Whittington](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/melinda-whittington/)
- [Victor Ryan Robertson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/victor-ryan-robertson/)
- [Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/winnipeg-symphony-orchestra/)
- [New Music Festival Alexander Mickelthwate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-music-festival-alexander-mickelthwate/)
- [Pierre Boulez](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pierre-boulez/)
- [Frank Zappa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/frank-zappa/)
- [Glenn Branca](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/glenn-branca/)
- [Michael Danna](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-danna/)
- [Eyving Kang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eyving-kang/)
- [Venetian Snares](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/venetian-snares/)
- [Matthew Patton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matthew-patton/)
- [Glenn Buhr](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/glenn-buhr/)
- [Hilliard Ensemble](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hilliard-ensemble/)
- [Arvo Pärt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/arvo-part/)
- [Nikola Tesla](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nikola-tesla/)
- [Jim Jarmusch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jim-jarmusch/)
- [Phil Kline](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/phil-kline/)
- [Anthony Niiganii](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anthony-niiganii/)
- [Eyvind Kang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eyvind-kang/)
- [Valgeir Sigurðsson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/valgeir-sigurdsson/)
- [Kjartan Sveinsson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kjartan-sveinsson/)
- [Henry Brant](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/henry-brant/)
- [Valentin Silvestrov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/valentin-silvestrov/)
- [Max Richter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/max-richter/)
- [Colin Stetson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/colin-stetson/)
- [Mahogany Frog](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mahogany-frog/)
- [Hannah Epperson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hannah-epperson/)
- [Canadian Opera Company](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/canadian-opera-company/)
- [Così fan tutte](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cosi-fan-tutte/)
- [Atom Egoyan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/atom-egoyan/)
- [Johannes Debus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/johannes-debus/)
- [Frida Kahlo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/frida-kahlo/)
- [Debra Hanson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/debra-hanson/)
- [Layla Claire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/layla-claire/)
- [Wallis Giunta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wallis-giunta/)
- [Paul Appleby](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/paul-appleby/)
- [Robert Gleadow](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-gleadow/)
- [Thomas Allen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thomas-allen/)
- [Tracy Dahl](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tracy-dahl/)
- [Theodora](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/theodora/)
- [English Concert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/english-concert/)
- [Choir of Trinity Wall Street](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/choir-of-trinity-wall-street/)
- [Julian Wachner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/julian-wachner/)
- [Thomas Morrell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thomas-morrell/)
- [Robert Boyle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-boyle/)
- [Boyle's Law](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/boyles-law/)
- [Dorothea Röschmann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dorothea-roschmann/)
- [Sarah Connolly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarah-connolly/)
- [Neal Davies](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/neal-davies/)
- [Renée Fleming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/renee-fleming/)
- [Alycia Keys](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alycia-keys/)
- [Star-Spangled Banner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/star-spangled-banner/)
- [Anacreontic Song.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anacreontic-song/)
- [Edwin Eugene Bagley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/edwin-eugene-bagley/)
- [Brokeback Mountain](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brokeback-mountain/)
- [Charles Wuorinen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/charles-wuorinen/)
- [Annie Proulx](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/annie-proulx/)
- [Ang Lee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ang-lee/)
- [Teatro Real](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/teatro-real/)
- [Ivo van Hove](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ivo-van-hove/)
- [Jan Versweyveld](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jan-versweyveld/)
- [Wojciech Dziedzic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wojciech-dziedzic/)
- [Jan Vandenhouwe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jan-vandenhouwe/)
- [Daniel Okulitch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-okulitch/)
- [Tom Randle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tom-randle/)
- [Heather Buck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/heather-buck/)
- [Hannah Esther Minutillo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hannah-esther-minutillo/)
- [Ethan Hirschenfeld](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ethan-hirschenfeld/)
- [Titus Engel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/titus-engel/)
- [Franz Schubert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/franz-schubert/)
- [Gretchen am Spinnrade](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gretchen-am-spinnrade/)
- [Cal Performances](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cal-performances/)
- [Graham Johnson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/graham-johnson/)
- [Songfest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/songfest/)
- [Carnegie Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/carnegie-hall/)
- [Stanislaw Skrowaczewski](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stanislaw-skrowaczewski/)
- [Minnesota Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/minnesota-orchestra/)
- [Metropolitan Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/metropolitan-opera/)
- [Prince Igor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/prince-igor/)
- [Borodin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/borodin/)
- [Dmitri Tcherniakov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dmitri-tcherniakov/)
- [Elena Zaitseva](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/elena-zaitseva/)
- [Gleb Filshtinsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gleb-filshtinsky/)
- [Itzik Galili](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/itzik-galili/)
- [Mikhail Petrenko](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mikhail-petrenko/)
- [Sergey Semishkur](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sergey-semishkur/)
- [Vladimir Ognovenko](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vladimir-ognovenko/)
- [Andrey Popov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrey-popov/)
- [Oksana Dyka](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/oksana-dyka/)
- [Anita Rachvelishvili](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anita-rachvelishvili/)
- [Mikhail Vekua](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mikhail-vekua/)
- [Stefan Kocan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stefan-kocan/)
- [Tod Machover](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tod-machover/)
- [Dallas Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dallas-opera/)
- [Death and the Powers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/death-and-the-powers/)
- [Robert Orth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-orth/)
- [Hal Cazalet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hal-cazalet/)
- [Joélle Harvey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joelle-harvey/)
- [Patricia Risley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/patricia-risley/)
- [Robert Pinsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-pinsky/)
- [Nicole Paiement](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nicole-paiement/)
- [Seattle Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/seattle-symphony/)
- [Ludovic Morlot](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ludovic-morlot/)
- [Werther](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/werther/)
- [Sophie Koch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sophie-koch/)
- [Jonas Kaurmann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jonas-kaurmann/)
- [Richard Eyre](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/richard-eyre/)
- [Wendall Harrington](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wendall-harrington/)
- [David Bižić](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-bizic/)
- [Bach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bach/)
- [St. Matthew Passion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/st-matthew-passion/)
- [St. John Passion](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/st-john-passion/)
- [Matthew White](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matthew-white/)
- [Dorothee Mields](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dorothee-mields/)
- [Shannon Mercer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/shannon-mercer/)
- [Laura Pudwell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/laura-pudwell/)
- [Terry Wey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/terry-wey/)
- [Thomas Cooley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thomas-cooley/)
- [Charles Daniels](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/charles-daniels/)
- [Tyler Duncan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tyler-duncan/)
- [Matthew Brook](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matthew-brook/)
- [Tekla Cunningham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tekla-cunningham/)
- [Emma McGrath](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/emma-mcgrath/)
- [Leonard Bernstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leonard-bernstein/)
- [Yew York Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/yew-york-philharmonic/)
- [Young People's Concerts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/young-peoples-concerts/)
- [Vladimir Ussachevsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vladimir-ussachevsky/)
- [Otto Luening](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/otto-luening/)
- [Copland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/copland/)
- [Hindemith](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hindemith/)
- [Moog synthesizer. Claudio Abbado](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/moog-synthesizer-claudio-abbado/)
- [Seiji Ozawa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/seiji-ozawa/)
- [Lawrence Foster](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lawrence-foster/)
- [Apollo's Fire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/apollos-fire/)
- [Jeannette Sorrell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeannette-sorrell/)
- [René Schiffer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rene-schiffer/)
- [Jeffrey Strauss](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeffrey-strauss/)
- [Nell Snaidas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nell-snaidas/)
- [Salamone Rossi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/salamone-rossi/)
- [Christa Patton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christa-patton/)
- [Rex Benincasa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rex-benincasa/)
- [Brian Kay](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brian-kay/)
- [Hashirim asher leSholomo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hashirim-asher-lesholomo/)
- [Simón Bolivar Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/simon-bolivar-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Alina Pogostkina](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alina-pogostkina/)
- [Alisa Weilerstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alisa-weilerstein/)
- [Lyric Opera of Chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lyric-opera-of-chicago/)
- [Ana María Martínez](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ana-maria-martinez/)
- [Brandon Jovanovich](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brandon-jovanovich/)
- [David McVicar](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-mcvicar/)
- [John Macfarland](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-macfarland/)
- [Hans Christian Andersen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hans-christian-andersen/)
- [Little Mermaid](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/little-mermaid/)
- [Das Rheingold](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/das-rheingold/)
- [Jill Grove](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jill-grove/)
- [Philip Horst](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philip-horst/)
- [Daniela Mack](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniela-mack/)
- [Ekaterina Gubanova](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ekaterina-gubanova/)
- [Moritz Junge](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/moritz-junge/)
- [Lauren Snouffer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lauren-snouffer/)
- [J’nai Bridges](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jnai-bridges/)
- [Cynthia Hanna](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cynthia-hanna/)
- [Houston Grand Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/houston-grand-opera/)
- [benefits](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/benefits/)
- [strike](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/strike/)
- [Opera de Paris](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-de-paris/)
- [Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera/)
- [freelance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/freelance/)
- [Bard College](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bard-college/)
- [Vassar College](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vassar-college/)
- [Leon Botstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leon-botstein/)
- [State University of New York](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/state-university-of-new-york/)
- [Vladimir Feltsman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vladimir-feltsman/)
- [Joan Tower](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joan-tower/)
- [Dongfang Ouyang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dongfang-ouyang/)
- [Sabrina Tabby](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sabrina-tabby/)
- [Jeffrey Kahane](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeffrey-kahane/)
- [Radcliffe Choral Society](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/radcliffe-choral-society/)
- [Vienna City of Dreams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vienna-city-of-dreams/)
- [Vienna Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vienna-philharmonic/)
- [Alban Berg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alban-berg/)
- [Salome](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/salome/)
- [Richard Strauss](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/richard-strauss/)
- [Wozzeck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wozzeck/)
- [Vienna State Opera Chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vienna-state-opera-chorus/)
- [Brooklyn Youth Chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brooklyn-youth-chorus/)
- [Evelyn Herlitzius](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/evelyn-herlitzius/)
- [Matthias Goerne](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matthias-goerne/)
- [Franz Welser-Möst.](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/franz-welser-most/)
- [Monika Bohinec](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/monika-bohinec/)
- [Andris Nelsons](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andris-nelsons/)
- [Jane Henschel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jane-henschel/)
- [Gerhard A. Siegel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gerhard-a-siegel/)
- [Gun-Brit Barkmin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gun-brit-barkmin/)
- [Jérusalem](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jerusalem/)
- [Sarasota Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarasota-opera/)
- [Danielle walker](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/danielle-walker/)
- [Heath Huberg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/heath-huberg/)
- [Young Bok Kim](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/young-bok-kim/)
- [Victor DeRenzi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/victor-derenzi/)
- [Martha Collins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/martha-collins/)
- [Flying Dutchman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/flying-dutchman/)
- [Kevin Short](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kevin-short/)
- [Kirk Dougherty](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kirk-dougherty/)
- [Reyna Carguill](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/reyna-carguill/)
- [Il trovatore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/il-trovatore/)
- [Dara Hobbs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dara-hobbs/)
- [Tom Diamond](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tom-diamond/)
- [Roger L. Bingman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roger-l-bingman/)
- [Jon Jurgens](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jon-jurgens/)
- [Daryl Freedman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daryl-freedman/)
- [Harold Wilson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/harold-wilson/)
- [Michael Robert Hendrick](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-robert-hendrick/)
- [Ken Yunker](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ken-yunker/)
- [David Neely](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-neely/)
- [David P. Gordon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-p-gordon/)
- [Toronto Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/toronto-symphony-orchestra/)
- [New Creations Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-creations-festival/)
- [John Adams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-adams/)
- [Magnus Lindberg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/magnus-lindberg/)
- [Esa-Pekka Salonen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/esa-pekka-salonen/)
- [Daniel Bjarnasson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-bjarnasson/)
- [Vincent Ho](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vincent-ho/)
- [Peter Oundjian](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-oundjian/)
- [Leila Josefowicz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leila-josefowicz/)
- [David Pershall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-pershall/)
- [Margaret Mezzacappa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/margaret-mezzacappa/)
- [Jeffrey Beruan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeffrey-beruan/)
- [Stephanie Sundine](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stephanie-sundine/)
- [Michael Schweikardt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-schweikardt/)
- [Howard Tsvi Kaplan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/howard-tsvi-kaplan/)
- [Natalie Dessay](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/natalie-dessay/)
- [Philippe Cassard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philippe-cassard/)
- [Howard Barker](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/howard-barker/)
- [Poulenc](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/poulenc/)
- [Louise de Vilmorin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/louise-de-vilmorin/)
- [Fiançailles pour rire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fiancailles-pour-rire/)
- [Jacques Vincey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jacques-vincey/)
- [Roger Bingaman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roger-bingaman/)
- [Jeffrey W. Dean](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeffrey-w-dean/)
- [Ricky Ian gordon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ricky-ian-gordon/)
- [Leonard foglia](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leonard-foglia/)
- [Horton Foote](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/horton-foote/)
- [A Coffin in Egypt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/a-coffin-in-egypt/)
- [Wortham Theater Center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wortham-theater-center/)
- [Wallis Anneberg Center for the Performing Arts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wallis-anneberg-center-for-the-performing-arts/)
- [Myrtle Bledsow](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/myrtle-bledsow/)
- [Timothy Myers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/timothy-myers/)
- [David Matranga](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-matranga/)
- [Riccardo Hernández](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/riccardo-hernandez/)
- [I Lombardi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/i-lombardi/)
- [Francesco Reggiani](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/francesco-reggiani/)
- [Alessandra Malusardi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alessandra-malusardi/)
- [Pier Luigi Pizzi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pier-luigi-pizzi/)
- [Renata Scotto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/renata-scotto/)
- [John Fleming](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-fleming/)
- [Roy C. Dicks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roy-c-dicks-2/)
- [Arthur Kaptainis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/arthur-kaptainis/)
- [Lawrence B. Johnson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lawrence-b-johnson-2/)
- [George Loomis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/george-loomis/)
- [Peter Sellars](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-sellars/)
- [Gospel According to the Other Mary](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gospel-according-to-the-other-mary/)
- [Kelley O'Connor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kelley-oconnor/)
- [Tamara M umford](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tamara-m-umford/)
- [Daniel Bubeck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-bubeck/)
- [Brian Cummings](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brian-cummings/)
- [Nathan Medley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nathan-medley/)
- [Deutsche Grammophone](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/deutsche-grammophone/)
- [Los Angeles Master Chorale](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/los-angeles-master-chorale/)
- [Louis Langrée](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/louis-langree/)
- [Bryce Dessner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bryce-dessner/)
- [Cincinnati Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cincinnati-symphony/)
- [Nico Muhly](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nico-muhly/)
- [Frederick Law Olmsted](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/frederick-law-olmsted/)
- [Krzysztof Penderecki](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/krzysztof-penderecki/)
- [Jonny Greenwood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jonny-greenwood/)
- [Radiohead](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/radiohead/)
- [eighth blackbird](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/eighth-blackbird/)
- [Nathan Wyatt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nathan-wyatt/)
- [Will Oldham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/will-oldham/)
- [Olga Bell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/olga-bell/)
- [Aaron Dessner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/aaron-dessner/)
- [L'Opéra National du Rhin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lopera-national-du-rhin/)
- [Chausson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chausson/)
- [Le Roi Arthus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/le-roi-arthus/)
- [Keith Warner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/keith-warner/)
- [Roberto Alagna](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roberto-alagna/)
- [Marc Clémeur](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marc-clemeur/)
- [Andrew Schroeder](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrew-schroeder/)
- [Andrew Richards](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrew-richards/)
- [Elisabete Matos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/elisabete-matos/)
- [Bernard Imbert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bernard-imbert/)
- [Jérémy Duffaua](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeremy-duffaua/)
- [Orchestre Symphonique de Mulhouse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/orchestre-symphonique-de-mulhouse/)
- [New Jersey Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-jersey-symphony/)
- [Philippe Jordan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philippe-jordan/)
- [Ringtone project](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ringtone-project/)
- [Aurelien Fort Pederzoli](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/aurelien-fort-pederzoli/)
- [Austin Wulliman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/austin-wulliman/)
- [Doyle Armbrust](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/doyle-armbrust/)
- [Russel Rolen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/russel-rolen/)
- [Renée Baker](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/renee-baker/)
- [Marita Bolles](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marita-bolles/)
- [Courtney Bryan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/courtney-bryan/)
- [Nathan Davis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nathan-davis/)
- [Nomi Epstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nomi-epstein/)
- [Suzanne Farrin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/suzanne-farrin/)
- [Erin Gee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/erin-gee/)
- [Tomas Gueglio](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tomas-gueglio/)
- [Luke Gullickson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/luke-gullickson/)
- [Ted Hearne](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ted-hearne/)
- [Ben Hjertmann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ben-hjertmann/)
- [Julia Holter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/julia-holter/)
- [Dominic Johnson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dominic-johnson/)
- [Chris Jones](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chris-jones/)
- [Jonathan Kirk](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jonathan-kirk/)
- [Morgan Krauss](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/morgan-krauss/)
- [George Lewis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/george-lewis/)
- [Matt Marks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matt-marks/)
- [Marc Mellits](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marc-mellits/)
- [Nicole Mitchell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nicole-mitchell/)
- [Marek Poliks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marek-poliks/)
- [amicus e. quorum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/amicus-e-quorum/)
- [Collin J Rae](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/collin-j-rae/)
- [Shulamit Ran](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/shulamit-ran/)
- [Bernard Rands](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bernard-rands/)
- [Tomeka Reid](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tomeka-reid/)
- [Sarah J Ritch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarah-j-ritch/)
- [Greg Saunier](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/greg-saunier/)
- [David Skidmore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-skidmore/)
- [Sarah Kirkland Snider](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarah-kirkland-snider/)
- [Tyshawn Sorey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tyshawn-sorey/)
- [Andrew Tham](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrew-tham/)
- [Augusta Read Thomas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/augusta-read-thomas/)
- [Anna Thorvaldsdottir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anna-thorvaldsdottir/)
- [Jen Wang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jen-wang/)
- [Greg Ward](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/greg-ward/)
- [Liza White](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/liza-white/)
- [Philip White](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philip-white/)
- [Jay Alan Yim](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jay-alan-yim/)
- [Mischa Zupko](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mischa-zupko/)
- [Katherine Young](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/katherine-young/)
- [Jerusalem Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jerusalem-quartet/)
- [Vancouver Friends of chamber Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vancouver-friends-of-chamber-music/)
- [Vancouver Recital Society](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vancouver-recital-society/)
- [Alexander Pavlovsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alexander-pavlovsky/)
- [Sergei Bresler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sergei-bresler/)
- [Ori Kam](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ori-kam/)
- [Kyril Zlotnikov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kyril-zlotnikov/)
- [Inon Barnatan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/inon-barnatan/)
- [Sharon Kam](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sharon-kam/)
- [Hsin-Yun Huang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hsin-yun-huang/)
- [Max Bruch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/max-bruch/)
- [Moses](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/moses/)
- [American Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/american-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Sidney Outlaw](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sidney-outlaw/)
- [Kirk Doughterty](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kirk-doughterty/)
- [James Bagwell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-bagwell/)
- [Rothko Chapel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rothko-chapel/)
- [Shostakovich](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/shostakovich/)
- [Houston Da Camera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/houston-da-camera/)
- [Mark Rothko](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mark-rothko/)
- [Savannah Music Festival](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/savannah-music-festival/)
- [Daniel Hope](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-hope/)
- [Atlanta Symphony Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/atlanta-symphony-orchestra/)
- [Lorenza Borrani](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lorenza-borrani/)
- [Bridget Kibbey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bridget-kibbey/)
- [Chis Rex](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chis-rex/)
- [Michael Schade](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-schade/)
- [Pinchas Zukerman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pinchas-zukerman/)
- [National Arts Centre Orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/national-arts-centre-orchestra/)
- [Fannie Lou Hamer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fannie-lou-hamer/)
- [Mary B. Watkins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mary-b-watkins/)
- [Mt. Holyoke College](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mt-holyoke-college/)
- [Ng Tian Hui](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ng-tian-hui/)
- [Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/student-non-violent-coordinating-committee/)
- [Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mississippi-freedom-democratic-party/)
- [Dark River](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dark-river/)
- [Andrea Chinedu Nwoke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrea-chinedu-nwoke/)
- [Philip Lima](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philip-lima/)
- [Emmett Till](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/emmett-till/)
- [Darryl V. Jones](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/darryl-v-jones/)
- [Kronos Quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kronos-quartet/)
- [David Harrington](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-harrington/)
- [Sunny Yang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sunny-yang/)
- [Hank Dutt](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hank-dutt/)
- [John Sherba](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-sherba/)
- [Aleksandra Vrebalov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/aleksandra-vrebalov/)
- [Bill Morrison](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bill-morrison/)
- [Bernstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bernstein/)
- [Lorin Maazel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lorin-maazel/)
- [Gunther Schuller](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gunther-schuller/)
- [Knappertsbusch](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/knappertsbusch/)
- [Toscanini](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/toscanini/)
- [minimalist jukebox](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/minimalist-jukebox/)
- [walt disney concert hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/walt-disney-concert-hall/)
- [richard valitutto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/richard-valitutto/)
- [william duckworth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/william-duckworth/)
- [james tenney](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-tenney/)
- [steve reich](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/steve-reich/)
- [cameron carpenter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cameron-carpenter/)
- [terry riley](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/terry-riley/)
- [claire chase](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/claire-chase/)
- [calder quartet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/calder-quartet/)
- [christopher rountree](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christopher-rountree/)
- [mark grey](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mark-grey/)
- [missy mazzoli](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/missy-mazzoli/)
- [michael gordon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-gordon/)
- [La Fura dels Baus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/la-fura-dels-baus/)
- [Franc Aleu](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/franc-aleu/)
- [Chad Shelton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chad-shelton/)
- [Roland Olbeter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roland-olbeter/)
- [Andrea Carroll](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrea-carroll/)
- [Catherine Martin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/catherine-martin/)
- [Renée Tatum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/renee-tatum/)
- [Patrick Summers](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/patrick-summers/)
- [Jamie Barton](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jamie-barton/)
- [Stephan Margita](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stephan-margita/)
- [Christopher Purves](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christopher-purves/)
- [Kristinn Sigmundsson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kristinn-sigmundsson/)
- [Andrea Silvestrelli](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrea-silvestrelli/)
- [Melody Moore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/melody-moore/)
- [Maximilian Steinberg](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/maximilian-steinberg/)
- [Cappella Romana](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cappella-romana/)
- [Alexander Lingas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alexander-lingas/)
- [Rimsky-Korsakov](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rimsky-korsakov/)
- [Igor Butekoff](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/igor-butekoff/)
- [Matushka Tamara Skvir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/matushka-tamara-skvir/)
- [Daniel Skvir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-skvir/)
- [Mahler](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mahler/)
- [Resurrection Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/resurrection-symphony/)
- [Gilbert Kaplan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gilbert-kaplan/)
- [Rob Mathes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rob-mathes/)
- [Wiener Kammerorchester](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/wiener-kammerorchester/)
- [johann sebastiani](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/johann-sebastiani/)
- [new england conservatory](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-england-conservatory/)
- [james taylor](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-taylor/)
- [laura jeppesen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/laura-jeppesen/)
- [Danielle Reutter-Harrah](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/danielle-reutter-harrah/)
- [João Fernandes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joao-fernandes/)
- [Jason McStoots](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jason-mcstoots/)
- [Robert Mealy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-mealy/)
- [Cynthia Roberts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cynthia-roberts/)
- [Ian Howell](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ian-howell/)
- [Mina Miller](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mina-miller/)
- [Music of Remembrance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/music-of-remembrance/)
- [Seattle Art Museum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/seattle-art-museum/)
- [Lori Laitman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lori-laitman/)
- [Jake Heggie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jake-heggie/)
- [Gideon Klein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gideon-klein/)
- [David Beigelman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-beigelman/)
- [Félicien César David](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/felicien-cesar-david/)
- [Félicien David](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/felicien-david/)
- [Lalla Roukh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lalla-roukh/)
- [Ryan Brown](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ryan-brown/)
- [Opera Lafayette](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-lafayette/)
- [Marianne Fiset](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marianne-fiset/)
- [Nathalie Paulin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nathalie-paulin/)
- [Bernard Deletré](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bernard-deletre/)
- [David Newman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-newman/)
- [Andrew Adelsberger](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andrew-adelsberger/)
- [Kalanichi Dance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kalanichi-dance/)
- [Anuradha Nehru](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anuradha-nehru/)
- [Emiliano Gonzalez Toro](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/emiliano-gonzalez-toro/)
- [Ralph P. Locke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ralph-p-locke/)
- [Naxos Records](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/naxos-records/)
- [Exposition Universelle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/exposition-universelle/)
- [Saint-Simonian](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/saint-simonian/)
- [Daniel Crozier](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/daniel-crozier/)
- [Fort Worth Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fort-worth-opera/)
- [Bass Performance Hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bass-performance-hall/)
- [Sandra Lopez](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sandra-lopez/)
- [Vanessa Becerra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/vanessa-becerra/)
- [Dona D. Vaughn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dona-d-vaughn/)
- [Audrey Babcock](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/audrey-babcock/)
- [Ian McEuen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ian-mceuen/)
- [Fort Worth Symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fort-worth-symphony/)
- [Erhard Rom](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/erhard-rom/)
- [Austin Scarlett](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/austin-scarlett/)
- [Hailey Clark](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hailey-clark/)
- [Lee Poulis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lee-poulis/)
- [Sean Panikkar](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sean-panikkar/)
- [Justin Hopkins](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/justin-hopkins/)
- [Joe Illick](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joe-illick/)
- [John de los Santos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-de-los-santos/)
- [Rodgers and Hammerstein](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rodgers-and-hammerstein/)
- [Sound of Music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sound-of-music/)
- [Jenn Gambatese](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jenn-gambatese/)
- [Christine Brewer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christine-brewer/)
- [Elizabeth Futral](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/elizabeth-futral/)
- [Billy Zane](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/billy-zane/)
- [Rob Fisher](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rob-fisher/)
- [Anthony Freud](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anthony-freud/)
- [Marc Bruni](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marc-bruni/)
- [Rafal Blechacz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rafal-blechacz/)
- [Gilmore Artist Award](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gilmore-artist-award/)
- [International Chopin Competition](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/international-chopin-competition/)
- [fernando guimarães](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/fernando-guimaraes/)
- [boston baroque](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/boston-baroque/)
- [monteverdi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/monteverdi/)
- [martin pearlman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/martin-pearlman/)
- [jennifer rivera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jennifer-rivera/)
- [jordan hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jordan-hall/)
- [Peter M. Krask](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/peter-m-krask/)
- [Michael Yeargan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-yeargan/)
- [new york choral society](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-york-choral-society/)
- [david hayes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-hayes/)
- [jennifer koh](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jennifer-koh/)
- [gustav holst](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gustav-holst/)
- [curtis institute of music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/curtis-institute-of-music/)
- [hilary hahn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hilary-hahn/)
- [atlanta symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/atlanta-symphony/)
- [robert spano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-spano/)
- [jeanne minahan](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeanne-minahan/)
- [pulitzer prize](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/pulitzer-prize/)
- [donizetti](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/donizetti/)
- [roberto devereux](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roberto-devereux/)
- [sondra radvanovsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sondra-radvanovsky/)
- [leonardo capalbo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leonardo-capalbo/)
- [russell braun](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/russell-braun/)
- [stephen lawless](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/stephen-lawless/)
- [benoit dugardyn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/benoit-dugardyn/)
- [ingeborg bernerth](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ingeborg-bernerth/)
- [corrado rovaris](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/corrado-rovaris/)
- [cleveland orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cleveland-orchestra/)
- [severance hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/severance-hall/)
- [christopher rouse](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christopher-rouse/)
- [gabriela lena frank](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gabriela-lena-frank/)
- [mary kay fink](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mary-kay-fink/)
- [cleveland orchestra chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cleveland-orchestra-chorus/)
- [robert porco](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-porco/)
- [jessica rivera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jessica-rivera/)
- [garrett sorenson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/garrett-sorenson/)
- [john relyea](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-relyea/)
- [spring for music](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/spring-for-music/)
- [alexander michelthwate](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alexander-michelthwate/)
- [r. murray shafer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/r-murray-shafer/)
- [trudy schroeder](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/trudy-schroeder/)
- [gino francesconi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gino-francesconi/)
- [piero gamba](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/piero-gamba/)
- [winnipeg arts council](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/winnipeg-arts-council/)
- [derek charke](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/derek-charke/)
- [tanya tagaq](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tanya-tagaq/)
- [dame evenlyn glennie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dame-evenlyn-glennie/)
- [thomas morris](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thomas-morris/)
- [david foster](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-foster/)
- [mary lou falcone](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mary-lou-falcone/)
- [carol a. phillips](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/carol-a-phillips/)
- [kennedy center](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/kennedy-center/)
- [deborah rutter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/deborah-rutter/)
- [new york city opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/new-york-city-opera/)
- [steven holl architects](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/steven-holl-architects/)
- [nelson-atkins museum of art](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nelson-atkins-museum-of-art/)
- [national symphony orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/national-symphony-orchestra/)
- [washington national opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/washington-national-opera/)
- [chicago public schools](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chicago-public-schools/)
- [national endowment for the arts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/national-endowment-for-the-arts/)
- [van wezel performing arts hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/van-wezel-performing-arts-hall/)
- [sarasota orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarasota-orchestra/)
- [mei-ann chen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mei-ann-chen/)
- [memphis symphony](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/memphis-symphony/)
- [chicago sinfonietta](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/chicago-sinfonietta/)
- [joseph mckenna](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joseph-mckenna/)
- [anu tali](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anu-tali/)
- [anu-luan huang](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anu-luan-huang/)
- [jean-philippe collard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jean-philippe-collard/)
- [david greilsammer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-greilsammer/)
- [carl st. clair](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/carl-st-clair/)
- [tito muñoz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tito-munoz/)
- [philip mann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philip-mann/)
- [alan gilbert](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/alan-gilbert/)
- [john luther adams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-luther-adams/)
- [tafelmusik](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/tafelmusik/)
- [jeanne lamon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jeanne-lamon/)
- [david fallis](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-fallis/)
- [trinity-st. paul's united church](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/trinity-st-pauls-united-church/)
- [aisslinn nosky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/aisslinn-nosky/)
- [opera atelier](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/opera-atelier/)
- [toronto consort](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/toronto-consort/)
- [elliott carter](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/elliott-carter/)
- [gershwin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gershwin/)
- [ives](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ives/)
- [benaroya hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/benaroya-hall/)
- [spoleto festival usa](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/spoleto-festival-usa/)
- [nigel redden](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nigel-redden/)
- [philip glass](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/philip-glass/)
- [michael nyman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/michael-nyman/)
- [geoff nuttall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/geoff-nuttall/)
- [garry hynes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/garry-hynes/)
- [betsy horne](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/betsy-horne/)
- [westminster choir](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/westminster-choir/)
- [joe miller](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/joe-miller/)
- [john kennedy](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/john-kennedy/)
- [anne manson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anne-manson/)
- [gate theatre](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gate-theatre/)
- [dock street theatre](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dock-street-theatre/)
- [lucinda williams](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/lucinda-williams/)
- [bela fleck](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bela-fleck/)
- [hubbard street dance chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/hubbard-street-dance-chicago/)
- [dorrance dance](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/dorrance-dance/)
- [gregory maqoma](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gregory-maqoma/)
- [gravity & other myths](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gravity-other-myths/)
- [Truth to Power](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/truth-to-power/)
- [Theaster Gates](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/theaster-gates/)
- [James Moran](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-moran/)
- [Martha Gilmer](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/martha-gilmer/)
- [Gerard McBurney](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gerard-mcburney/)
- [Jaap van Zweden](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jaap-van-zweden/)
- [Prokofiev](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/prokofiev/)
- [Beyond the Score](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/beyond-the-score/)
- [leoš janáček](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/leos-janacek/)
- [cunning little vixen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cunning-little-vixen/)
- [yuval sharon](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/yuval-sharon/)
- [martina janková](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/martina-jankova/)
- [jennifer johnson cano](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jennifer-johnson-cano/)
- [david cangelosi](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-cangelosi/)
- [raymond aceto](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/raymond-aceto/)
- [julie boulianne](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/julie-boulianne/)
- [sandra ross](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sandra-ross/)
- [samantha gossard](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/samantha-gossard/)
- [marian vogel](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/marian-vogel/)
- [brian keith johnson](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/brian-keith-johnson/)
- [laura schupbach](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/laura-schupbach/)
- [miranda scholl](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/miranda-scholl/)
- [cristina waltz](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cristina-waltz/)
- [cleveland orchestra chamber chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cleveland-orchestra-chamber-chorus/)
- [cleveland orchestra children's chorus](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/cleveland-orchestra-childrens-chorus/)
- [ann usher](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ann-usher/)
- [bill barminski](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/bill-barminski/)
- [christopher louie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/christopher-louie/)
- [walter robot studios](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/walter-robot-studios/)
- [Plácido Domingo](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/placido-domingo/)
- [Los Angeles Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/los-angeles-opera/)
- [Massenet](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/massenet/)
- [Thaïs](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thais/)
- [André Previn](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/andre-previn/)
- [A Streetcar Named Desire](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/a-streetcar-named-desire/)
- [a far cry](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/a-far-cry/)
- [jae young cosmos lee](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/jae-young-cosmos-lee/)
- [sarah darling](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/sarah-darling/)
- [st. john's episcopal church](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/st-johns-episcopal-church/)
- [caroline shaw](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/caroline-shaw/)
- [orpheus chamber orchestra](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/orpheus-chamber-orchestra/)
- [the knights](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/the-knights/)
- [isabella stewart gardner museum](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/isabella-stewart-gardner-museum/)
- [phyllis chen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/phyllis-chen/)
- [ethan wood](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/ethan-wood/)
- [music institute of chicago](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/music-institute-of-chicago/)
- [benjamin beilman](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/benjamin-beilman/)
- [nichols concert hall](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nichols-concert-hall/)
- [david and dorothy dushkin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/david-and-dorothy-dushkin/)
- [herbert zipper](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/herbert-zipper/)
- [samuel dushkin](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/samuel-dushkin/)
- [igor stravinsky](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/igor-stravinsky/)
- [inna faliks](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/inna-faliks/)
- [emilio del rosario](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/emilio-del-rosario/)
- [nadia boulanger](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/nadia-boulanger/)
- [mark george](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/mark-george/)
- [rachel barton pine](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/rachel-barton-pine/)
- [robert mcdonald](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/robert-mcdonald/)
- [james ehnes](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/james-ehnes/)
- [gallia kastner](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/gallia-kastner/)
- [roland and almita vamos](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/roland-and-almita-vamos/)
- [Berliner Philharmoniker Recordings](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/berliner-philharmoniker-recordings/)
- [Simon Rattle](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/simon-rattle/)
- [Berlin Philharmonic](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/berlin-philharmonic/)
- [Schumann](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/schumann/)
- [facing goya](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/facing-goya/)
- [victoria hardie](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/victoria-hardie/)
- [thomas michael allen](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/thomas-michael-allen/)
- [anne-carolyn bird](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/anne-carolyn-bird/)
- [aundi marie moore](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/tag/aundi-marie-moore/)

## Event Categories

- [World Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/world-premiere/)
- [Inaugurals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/inaugural-event/)
- [U.S. Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/american-premieres/)
- [Special Projects](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/special-projects/)
- [Rarities](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/novel-and-rare/)
- [Debuts](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/debut-artists/)
- [Milestones](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/milestones/)
- [Festivals](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/festivals/)
- [New Productions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/new-productions/)
- [Opera](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/opera/)
- [On Tour](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/on-tour/)
- [Canada Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/canada-premiere/)
- [North American Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/north-american-premiere/)
- [Premieres](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/)
- [Novel twist](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/special-projects/novel-presentation/)
- [Regions](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/)
- [U.S. East Coast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-east-coast/)
- [New York City](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-east-coast/new-york-city/)
- [Canada](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/canada/)
- [U.K. and Europe](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-k-and-europe/)
- [U.S. West Coast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-west-coast/)
- [U.K. Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/u-k-premiere/)
- [U.S. Southwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-southwest/)
- [U.S. South](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-south/)
- [Company Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/opera/company-premiere/)
- [European Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/european-premiere/)
- [U.S. Midwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-midwest/)
- [U.S. West Coast Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/u-s-west-coast-premiere/)
- [Texas](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-south/texas/)
- [NYC Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/nyc-premiere/)
- [Recital](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/recital/)
- [U.S. Southeast](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-southeast/)
- [U.S. Northwest](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/u-s-northwest/)
- [New England](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/regions/new-england/)
- [U.S. East Coast Premiere](https://classicalvoiceamerica.org/events/category/premieres/u-s-east-coast-premiere/)