The Metropolitan Opera
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The Amazing ADventures of KAvalier and Clay
Estelle Kavalier
September 21, 26, 29 2025
October 2, 4, 8, 11, 2025
In this exhilarating new adaptation of Michael Chabon’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel, set shortly before the outbreak of the Second World War, two Jewish cousins invent an anti-fascist superhero and launch their own comic-book series, hoping to recruit America into the fight against Nazism. Incorporating scintillating electronic elements and a variety of musical styles, composer Mason Bates’s eclectic score moves seamlessly among the three worlds of Gene Scheer’s libretto: Nazi-occupied Prague, the bustling streets of New York City, and the technicolor realm of comic-book fantasy. Bartlett Sher’s production provides spectacular visuals to match, with towering sets and proscenium-filling projections designed by Jenny Melville and Mark Grimmer of 59 Studio. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts the Opening Night premiere, and baritone Andrzej Filończyk makes his Met debut as the artist Joe Kavalier, who flees Czechoslovakia and arrives at the Brooklyn doorstep of writer Sam Clay, sung by tenor Miles Mykkanen.
A Prairie Home Companion -
Tanglewood
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Special Guest
June 21st, 2025
After a national tour in celebration of the 50th anniversary of Garrison Keillor’s A Prairie Home Companion, APHC is pleased to again be taking the stage at Tanglewood Music Center — always a favorite stop and the site of 17 of the show’s national broadcasts. Joining Garrison are the Royal Academy of Radio Actors (Tim Russell, Sue Scott, and sound-effects wizard Fred Newman), vocalist Heather Masse, singer/actor Christine DiGiallonardo, operatic soprano Ellie Dehn, and comedian Erica Rhodes. Music director Rich Dworsky leads the band: Howard Levy (harmonica), Richard Kriehn (mandolin/violin), and Chris Siebold (guitar)
NAshville Symphony
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beethoven Symphony No. 9
Feb 6-8, 2025
Conductor Nicholas Hersh’s inaugural Nashville Symphony series concert brings together a leading American composer and two classic works. Inspired by an entry in Beethoven’s journal, Carlos Simon composed Fate Now Conquers to evoke the unpredictability of fate through musical gestures. Ravel’s inspiration for his song cycle Shéhérazade came from the Sinbad episode from Arabian Nights, where the heroine/narrator spins out tale after tale to save her life. And Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, one of the most frequently performed symphonies in the world, is considered by critics to be one of the supreme achievements in the history of music.
Oregon Symphony
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Mendelssohn Symphony No. 2
February 22, 23, 24th 2025
Bach & Mendelssohn: Grace and Grandeur
Adored for centuries for its heartwarming "Air on the G String," Bach's Third Orchestral Suite illuminates Baroque dance forms with radiant brass, thunderous timpani, and serenading strings. And Mendelssohn sings ecstatic hymns of praise in his Second Symphony, uniting choir and orchestra in a life-affirming call to "cast off the works of darkness and take up the armor of light."
Bach: Orchestral Suite No. 3
Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 2, “Lobgesang” (Hymn of Praise)
A Prairie Home Companion Christmas
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Special Guest
December 13th, 14th, 2024
A Prairie Home Companion Christmas comes to the Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul – Songs, Stories, Sketches, and our Same Old Sponsors.
houston Symphony
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beethoven Symphony No. 9
Nov 14th, 2024
Michael Tilson Thomas—one of the world’s most highly acclaimed conductors, and longtime Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony—leads the Houston Symphony and Chorus in a one-night-only performance of Beethoven’s famous Ninth Symphony.
The Metropolitan Opera
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Grounded
Also Jess
September 24, 27 2024
October 2, 5, 9, 12, 16 & 19, 2024
Two-time Tony Award–winning composer Jeanine Tesori’s powerful new opera Grounded, commissioned by the Met and based on librettist George Brant’s acclaimed play, has its awaited company premiere. Mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, one of opera’s most compelling young stars, headlines in the tour-de-force role of Jess, a hot-shot fighter pilot whose unplanned pregnancy takes her out of the cockpit and lands her in Las Vegas, operating a Reaper drone halfway around the world. As she adjusts to this new way of doing battle, she struggles under the pressure to be the perfect soldier, the perfect wife, and the perfect mother all at the same time. Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium, leading a cast that also features tenor Ben Bliss as the Wyoming rancher who sweeps Jess off her feet. Michael Mayer’s high-tech staging, using a vast array of LED screens, presents a variety of perspectives on the action, including the drone’s predatory view from high above.
G.F. Handel - Israel in Egypt
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New Choral Society
Sunday, May 4, 2024 at 4:00 PM
Hitchcock Presbyterian Church
John T. King, Conductor
Kathryn Lewek, Soprano
Ellie Dehn, Soprano
Alex McKissick, Tenor
Daniel Rich, Baritone
Dallas Symphony
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Das Rheingold
Freia
May 1st and 4th, 2024
Tonight, the “Prologue” of Wagner’s masterpiece The Ring of the Nibelung sets the mighty saga in motion and prepares you for what is to come: the conflict between love and power, and, ultimately, redemption through love. You’ll be plunged into the depths of the Rhine and hear the seductive siren song of the Rhine maidens; shudder at the curse placed on the possessor of all-power-giving ring of gold; fear for the folly of the gods as they traverse the rainbow bridge to enter their Valhalla palace — not knowing the doom that awaits them. With English supertitles.