Schedule of the Event:

February 16, 2025

ALL TOGETHER NOW

Artists

May Festival Chorus

Matthew Swanson, conductor

Andrew Miller, Conducting Fellow

May Festival Youth Chorus

Jason Alexander Holmes,

conductor

Cincinnati Boychoir

Lisa Peters, conductor

Ticket Prices - $10 Adult / $5 Youth

What's Interesting

Can't wait until May? Hundreds of singers take the stage at Music Hall in February to celebrate a new alliance between the May Festival and the Cincinnati Boychoir! Featured performances by the Cincinnati Boychoir, May Festival Youth Chorus and May Festival Chorus culminate in the world premiere of a new work by Cincinnati's own Howard Helvey, commissioned for the occasion.

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May 16, 2025

VERDI REQUIEM

Program

Giuseppi Verdi Requiem Mass

Artists

Ramón Tebar, conductor
May Festival Chorus
Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

What's Interesting

Visceral and soul-gripping, Verdi’s Requiem will rip your heart out and put it back together again. From its tender solo moments to the terrifying cries of the “Dies irae,” it’s a journey both fragile and powerful as the May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra combine for this breathtaking Mass for the departed.

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May 18, 2025

CHASING THE DAWN: A Choral Journey

Program to include:

Works by Richard Strauss, Lili Boulanger, Morten Lauridsen and more, along with arrangements by Director of Choruses Matthew Swanson and Associate Director of Choruses Jason Alexander Holmes.

Artists

Matthew Swanson, conductor
Jason Alexander Holmes, conductor
Lisa Peters, conductor
May Festival Chorus
May Festival Chamber Choir
May Festival Youth Chorus
Cincinnati Boychoir Ambassadors

What's Interesting

Follow the unbroken path of light from sunset to sunrise as the May Festival Chorus, Chamber Choir, Youth Chorus and Cincinnati Boychoir Ambassadors illuminate Springer Auditorium through song, staging and dynamic lighting in a choral music event like never before.

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May 22, 2025

THE BRIGHTNESS OF LIGHT

Program

Ralph Vaughan Williams Serenade to Music

Igor Stravinsky Symphony of Psalms

Kevin Puts The Brightness of Light

Artists

Juanjo Mena, conductor

Renée Fleming, soprano

Rod Gilfry, baritone

May Festival Chorus

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

What's Interesting

Glimpse into the love, life and intimacy between two of the 20th century’s most prominent artists. Celebrated soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Rod Gilfry portray painter Georgia O’Keeffe and photographer Alfred Stieglitz as a montage of their lives, captured through art, photos and love letters, is revealed on a screen above the stage.

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May 24, 2025

VOICE OF NATURE: The Anthropocene

Program

Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene

Hazel Dickens “Pretty Bird”

George Frideric Handel “Care selve” from Atalanta

Nico Muhly “Endless Space”

Joseph Canteloube “Baïlèro” from Songs of the Auvergne

Maria Schneider “Our Finch Feeder” from Winter Morning Walks

Björk “All is Full of Love”

Heitor Villa-Lobos “Finale” from Floresta do Amazonas

Howard Shore “Twilight and Shadow” from Lord of The Rings

Kevin Puts “Evening”

Curtis Green “Red Mountains Sometimes Cry”

Burt Bacharach / Hal David “What the World Needs Now is Love”

Charles Hubert Hastings Parry Blest Pair of Sirens

Giacomo Puccini “O mio babbino caro” from Gianni Schicchi

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart “Laudate Dominum” from Vesperae solennes de confessore

Richard Rodgers “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Carousel

Artists

Renée Fleming, soprano

Robert Moody, conductor

May Festival Chorus

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra

What's Interesting

In a performance inspired by her 2023 Grammy-Award winning album, experience the turbulence and resilience of Mother Nature's life as Renée Fleming performs music by Handel, Nico Muhly, Björk and Lord of The Rings' Howard Shore—all set against a backdrop of stunning film from the National Geographic Society.

Then, Renée Fleming performs her all-time favorites joined by the May Festival Chorus and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra in this not-to-be-missed grand finale.

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Date: February 16 - May 24, 2025

Time:
February 16, 2025 at 5:00pm
May 18, 2025 at 2:00pm
May 16,22,24 2025 at 7:30pm

Location: Music Hall, 1241 Elm Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202

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