Powerhouses Renée Fleming and Audra McDonald team up with the San Francisco Symphony under Maestro Michael Tilson Thomas to open the 2018-2019 season of Carnegie Hall Live concerts. Tuesdays at 8pm
7/2 Gershwin: Cuban Overture, Summertime from Porgy and Bess Villa-Lobos/Volkert: Aria from Bachianas brasileiras No. 5 Liszt: Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Bock/Harnick: Vanilla Ice Cream from She Loves Me Guettel: Fable from The Light in the Piazza Sondheim/Rodgers/Fisher: Children Will Listen from Into the Woods and You've Got To Be Carefully Taught from South Pacific Nyro/Thomas: Save the Country Gershwin: An American in Paris (Renée Fleming & Audra McDonald, s; San Francisco Symphony Michael Tilson Thomas, cond)
7/9 Berlioz: Le Corsaire Overture, La mort de Cléopâtre, Selections from Les Troyens, Part II, Harold in Italy (Lucile Richardot, ms; Antoine Tamestit, vla; Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique; Sir John Eliot Gardiner, cond)
7/16 R. Strauss: Don Quixote Saint-Saëns/Shani: The Swan from The Carnival of the Animals Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 Elgar: Nimrod from Enigma Variations Wagner: Prelude to Act I of Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Miriam Manasherov, vla; Kian Soltani, c; West-Eastern Divan Orchestra; Daniel Barenboim, cond)
7/23 HK Gruber: Aerial Mahler: Symphony No. 5(Håkan Hardenberger, tr; Boston Symphony Orchestra; Andris Nelsons, cond)
7/30 Verdi: Sinfonia from Aida Prokofiev: Piano Concerto No. 3 Respighi: Fountains of Rome, Pines of Rome (Martha Argerich, p; Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia; Sir Antonio Pappano, cond)
