At the outbreak of World War One, Albert’s beloved horse, Joey, is sold to the Cavalry and shipped to France. Though still not old enough to enlist he embarks on a treacherous mission to find him and bring him home. Now seen by more than 8 million people around the world, this powerfully moving and imaginative drama is […]
Celebration: The BSO is Back! Lucas Richman, conductor Joyce Yang, piano Reinaldo Moya, composer A thrilling range of orchestral color is on display in the BSO’s return to live performance What’s Interesting About This Concert The BSO presents a full orchestra on stage for the first time in nearly 2 years, with Benjamin Britten’s Young Person’s Guide […]
This critically acclaimed production, based on the acclaimed novel by Mark Haddon, has astonished audiences around the world, receiving seven Olivier and five Tony Awards®including Best Play. About the show: Christopher, fifteen years old, stands beside Mrs Shears’ dead dog. It has been speared with a garden fork, it is seven minutes after midnight and […]
The Ying Quartet occupies a position of unique prominence in the classical music world, combining brilliantly communicative performances with a fearlessly imaginative view of chamber music in today’s world. Now in its third decade, the Quartet has established itself as an ensemble of the highest musical qualifications. Their performances regularly take place in many of […]
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Grammy Award–winning jazz musician and composer Terence Blanchard’s adaptation of Charles M. Blow’s moving memoir. The first opera by a Black composer presented on the Met stage and featuring a libretto by filmmaker Kasi Lemmons, the opera tells a poignant and profound story about a young man’s journey to […]
James McAvoy (X-Men, Atonement) returns to the stage in an inventive adaptation of Cyrano de Bergerac, captured live in 2020 from the West End in London. Fierce with a pen and notorious in combat, Cyrano almost has it all – if only he could win the heart of his true love Roxane. There’s just one […]
Captured live from London’s West End in 2018, see Ian McKellen’s ‘extraordinarily moving portrayal’ (Independent) of King Lear in cinemas. Considered by many to be the greatest tragedy ever written, King Lear sees two aging fathers – one a King, one his courtier – reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a […]
Bass René Pape, the world’s reigning Boris, reprises his tremendous portrayal of the tortured tsar caught between grasping ambition and crippling paranoia, kicking off the highly anticipated 2021–22 Live in HD season. Conductor Sebastian Weigle leads Mussorgsky’s masterwork, a pillar of the Russian repertoire, in its original 1869 version. Stephen Wadsworth’s affecting production poignantly captures […]
“The most impressive instrumentalist I’ve ever heard.” — Johnny Cash No one remembers when the neighbors started calling the McCutcheons to complain about the loud singing from young John’s bedroom. It didn’t seem to do much good, though. For, after a shaky, lopsided battle between piano lessons and baseball (he was a mediocre pianist and […]
Lucas Richman, conductor Mark Kosower, cello The rich sounds of Mendelssohn, Saint-Saëns and Beethoven will move and inspire What’s Interesting About This Concert The BSO continues it’s cycle of Beethoven’s symphonies under Lucas Richman’s baton with the composer’s great Symphony No. 8 in F Major Cellist Mark Kosower is principal cellist of the renowned Cleveland Orchcestra […]