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CSO takes us to Opening Night at the Ravinia Festival, Thu 10/23 @ 8pm

Ravinia is an idyllic setting for experiencing some of the most moving music from history and today.

10/2      Ravel: Mother Goose Dessner: Violin Concerto Stravinsky: Symphony in Three Movements Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra (Pekka Kuusisto, v; Esa-Pekka Salonen and Sir Georg Solti, cond)
10/9      Mahler: Songs of a Wayfarer, Symphony No. 6 Ives: The Unanswered Question (Yvonne Minton, s; Adoph Herseth, tr; Sir Georg Solti, Jaap van Zweden and Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)

Tyler Gate at the Ravinia Festival
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Tyler Gate at the Ravinia Festival

10/16    Britten: The Young Person’s Guide to the Orchestra (Seiji Ozawa, cond) Montgomery: Banner Rautavaara: Canticus Arcticus Orff: Carmina Burana (Joélle Harvey, s; Reginald Mobley, ct; Hugh Russell, bar; Chicago Symphony Chorus, Jenny Wong, dir; Uniting Voices Chicago, Josephine Lee, dir; Osmo Vänskä, cond)
10/23    Ravinia Opening Night 2025 Simon: Amen Rachmaninov: Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring (Marin Alsop, cond) Borodin: Polovtsian Dances from Prince Igor Mussorgsky: A Night on Bare Mountain Stravinsky: Fireworks (Seiji Ozawa, cond)
10/30 Opera without WordsGlinka: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmilla Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3 Strauss: Waltzes from Der Rosenkavalier Copland: Suite from The Tender Land Mascagni: Intermezzo from Cavalleria rusticana Rossini: Overture to William Tell Wagner: The Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walküre, Forest Murmurs from Siegfried, Dawn, Siegfried’s Rhine Journey, and Siegfried’s Death and Funeral March from Götterdämmerung (Sir Georg Solti, Fritz Reiner, Riccardo Muti, Artur Rodzinski and Daniel Barenboim, cond)