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Plus chamber music and ensemble appearances from renowned Chicago artists.
The season includes 9 programs, including concerts from opera and musical theater royalty.
Sampling the greatest recordings (reissued on the Eloquence label) from a fruitful collaboration.
Highlights include rarely-heard gems, beloved holiday concerts, and the 80th birthday celebration of Nicholas Kraemer.
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra Association has announced its 2024-2025 season, a full year of concerts in its mainstage subscription series, as well as chamber, solo, family, and other programming.
Two concert presentations of pivotal classical works in performances from February 2023 and March 2022.
This week we hear former Philharmonic Music Director Alan Gilbert lead Mozart’s final symphonies.
Four contemporary operas have their Met premieres.
“It’s sort of maximalist in a tiny little space,” describes Tony-winning adapter/director Mary Zimmerman of her miniaturized Matchbox Magic Flute.
Spotlighting the incredible range of winds in works by Anton Reicha and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
Pianist Sebastian Knauer visits WFMT to play a collection of music composed for him by Michael Nyman plus selections by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
A program on early Mozart operas to mark the 268th anniversary of the composer’s birth.
Much like a gourmet dish, classical music is the result of many individual elements coming together. The composer, like a chef, must know the distinct flavor profiles of each instrument and how they complement each other.
Plus the overture to Rossini’s Il viaggio a Reims.
The special bond between jazz and classical is growing closer by the day. So let’s appreciate these incredible renditions of timeless classical favorites!
Classical concertos are a great entry point for beginners. High-flying, exciting, virtuosic, they are often a pinnacle of solo performance.
Another packed summer of live music awaits.
The legendary Cesare Siepi sings one of his most popular roles in this historic broadcast—the effervescent servant Figaro in this classic performance from 1956.
Seminal orchestral works by Johannes Brahms, Richard Strauss, and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart make up this performance led by music director laureate Edo de Waart.
The Met’s English-sung, family-friendly production of Mozart’s dazzling fairy tale returns.
Wind and water are at the heart of Chicago’s identity; Dame Jane Glover leads a program inspired by our hometown.
Dame Jane Glover makes her CSO debut leading Haydn and Mozart.
“I’ve been with this group now for over 20 years. It is glorious.”
Vladimir Jurowski conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 8.