Classical Concert Reviews Cinci

@uc_ccm’s Philharmonia continued its 2026-27 orchestral season with a program headlined by an exciting performance of Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 4 under the direction of guest alumni conductor Annunziata Tomaro, current head of the Orchestral Conducting program at the National University of Cuyo in Mendoza, Argentina and a professor at…

@vaecinci opened its 2026-27 concert season with a passionate program of Renaissance, Baroque and modern music given the title The Deer’s Cry: A Meditative Journey in the splendid acoustic of Immaculate Heart of Mary Chapel at Cincinnati’s Summit Country Day School.Under the direction of music director Joe Miller (beginning his…

What a spectacular program to open @cincysymphony’s 2026-27 season under music director Cristian Mǎcelaru – a musical meeting of the finest jazz orchestra in the world, Jazz at Lincoln Center and its longtime director Wynton Marsalis, with one of the most exciting new orchestral works of the 21st century.Superstar violinist…

@ccm_musicaltheatre opened its 2026-27 season with a concert production of one of the seminal musicals of 20th century Broadway, Lerner and Loewe’s masterpiece Brigadoon. First staged on Broadway in 1947, its story of two Americans who find themselves in a mythical Scottish village that comes to life for one day…

Another fabulous performance from @cincinnatifusionensemble under founder and principal conductor Howard Helvey and pianist Brad Caldwell. Much of their repertoire for this evening’s performance included music that had previously been performed, largely works by Helvey, Marianne Forman and Elaine Hagenberg. These included Helvey’s Canticles in B-Flat and Set Me as…

@stgertrudecincy opened its 2026-27 concert series with one of its most unique offerings – a rare performance on period instruments of the most well-known of Johann Sebastian Bach’s large-scale works, his Mass in B Minor BWV 232 (1733-49). Artistic director and conductor Christopher Holman led an ensemble of local Baroque…

@cincinnatiopera closed out its 2026 summer season with a truly spectacular production of Georges Bizet’s most famous opera, Carmen.First performed in Paris in 1875, only three months before Bizet’s premature death at the age of 36, it has been a part of Cincinnati Opera’s core repertoire from the very beginning,…

@cincinnatiopera continued its 2026 summer season with one of the most Avery anticipated events in the opera world: the world premiere of Lalovavi, the first production in the company’s Black Opera Project initiative. With music by Kevin Day and libretto by Tifara Brown, its Afrofuturist story, set 400 years in…

@cincinnatiopera opened its 2026 summer season with a truly wonderful production of Richard Strauss’s first major operatic masterpiece, Salome, its first I. Set to a libretto by Hedwig Lachmann and based on the play by Oscar Wilde, it follows the attempted seduction of John the Baptist (Jochanaan) by the stepdaughter…

What a wonderful program to close out the 2026 @mayfestivalcincy, highlighted by an extended selection of excerpts from George Gershwin’s opera Porgy and Bess.Under guest conductor Anthony Parnther and joined by members of the May Festival Youth Chorus and Classical Roots Community Choir, @cincysymphony and the May Festival Chorus opened…