July 11, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto classics and rarities with a period-instrument orchestra and a performing style the Wall Street Journal calls “transformative.” Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia is a madcap comedy with a touch of the surreal. A poet needs a story, fast, for the opera he must write, and manipulates a colorful cast of characters to […]
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July 11, 2026 @ 7:30 pm – 10:00 pm – Celebrate Opening Night with us after this performance on Saturday, July 11! This post-concert party will happen on the Sunset Center Terrace, and is open to all ticket holders. Haydn’s The Seasons is a large-scale oratorio depicting Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter. Combining chorus, soloists, and orchestra, it tells stories of nature, human labor, and […]
July 12, 2026 @ 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm – Music, say our American ancestors, may soothe the heart, but it also sustains the search for values. This program explores, in a present moment when American ideals are undergoing such deep challenges, the vital and life-affirming sounds of the young Republic, as its citizens sang and played forth their love of freedom and their rejection […]
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July 12, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm – This program traces how composers use music to explore our deepest responses to the world — grief and wonder, chaos and order, sorrow and joy. The journey begins in darkness and disorder: Purcell’s Music for the Funeral of Queen Mary confronts mortality, while Rebel’s Les Élémens erupts from a single “Chaos” chord, giving form to […]
July 12, 2026 @ 3:00 pm – 5:30 pm – Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto classics and rarities with a period-instrument orchestra and a performing style the Wall Street Journal calls “transformative.” Mozart’s Don Giovanni was the first opera ever to become a permanent part of the international repertory, from its premiere in 1787 to the present day. It was also the earliest work included in North […]
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