2024-2025
Strauss’s Guntram Press Release
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PERFORMS RICHARD STRAUSS’ FIRST OPERA GUNTRAM AT CARNEGIE HALL ON JUNE 6, 2025 First NYC Performance of the Work Heard this Century Cast Includes Soprano Angela Meade, Tenor John Matthew Myers, Baritone Alexander Birch Elliott, and Bass-Baritones Christopher Job and Kevin Short New York, NY, May 1, 2025 – Music Director Leon…
Read MoreTapping into the Twenties Press Release
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DEBUTS AT LINCOLN CENTER’S DAVID GEFFEN HALL WITH TAPPING INTO THE TWENTIES, ON MARCH 23 Guest Soloist is Pianist Orion Weiss New York, NY, February 11, 2025 – Music Director Leon Botstein leads the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) in its debut performance at Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall, the 3rd of four…
Read MoreBach at St. Bart’s Press Release
AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS BACH AT ST. BART’S ON JANUARY 24 All-C.P.E. Bach Program Features U.S. Premiere of Oratorio Die Auferstehung und Himmelfahrt Jesu and Rare Performance of Choral Work Heilig New York, NY, December 16, 2024 — Music Director Leon Botstein conducts the American Symphony Orchestra (ASO) with the Bard Festival Chorale in an…
Read MoreStrauss’s Guntram
Completed in 1893, Richard Strauss’s very first opera is rarely performed today. The ASO’s presentation marks its first performance in New York City in this century. A riveting story of love, guilt and renunciation, Guntram reveals a young Strauss positioning himself as the successor to Wagner. In his very first opera, Strauss’s mastery of orchestral…
Read MoreJoe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music From the Studio Ghibli Films
Joe Hisaishi Symphonic Concert: Music from the Studio Ghibli Films of Hayao Miyazaki will take place July 11, 12 & 13. We are thrilled to be making our third appearance accompanying the celebrated film composer for three consecutive nights at Madison Square Garden.
Read MoreLe prophète at Bard SummerScape
Religion, power, ego, and manipulation collide in composer Giacomo Meyerbeer’s glorious psychodrama. Director Christian Räth (Die schweigsame Frau, 2022 and Das Wunder der Heliane, 2019) returns for a third SummerScape to lead a visionary new production of a grand opera with colorful vocal passages, inventive orchestrations, and a catastrophic end. Sung in French with English supertitles.…
Read MoreBard Music Festival: Berlioz and His World
The 34th Bard Music Festival: Berlioz and His World A singular composer, writer, and conductor, Hector Berlioz (1803–1869) is the definitive Romantic composer. Drawing music and sound into dialogue with a wide range of cultural, political, scientific, and literary currents, the impact of his musical thinking and innovations is felt to this day. The 2024…
Read MoreBeyond the Hall
The ASO presents a free concert as part of the Picnic Performance series at Bryant Park with a program of music sourced from dance salons, opera houses, cabaret, and the silver screen. For our third consecutive year debuting our season at Bryant Park, the American Symphony Orchestra is pleased to present, Beyond the Hall, a program exploring music that…
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The ASO will co-present a free Saturday matinee with Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College/CUNY. Beyond the Hall explores music that draws its inspiration from outside the traditional concert setting. From the dance salon (Florence Price’s Suite of Dances) and the theater (Weill’s Threepenny Opera and Bernstein’s On the Town), and from the opera stage (Joplin’s Treemonisha), to the silver screen (Herrmann’s film score for…
Read MoreBach at St. Bart’s – Sold Out
This performance is now SOLD OUT. Doors will open at 6pm and seating will remain open through the pre-concert talk, which is free for all attendees. Within General and Priority sections, there are no assigned seats, please plan your arrival time accordingly. Long associated with the instrumental genre, Carl Phillipp Emanuel Bach is most well-known for…
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