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♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA & BALLET THEATRE Boléro Heinz Hall June 9, 8:00pm June 10, 8:00pm June 11, 2:30pm Stacy Garrop: Forging Steel [ WORLD PREMIERE + COMMISSION ] George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F major Richard Strauss (arr. Honeck/Ille): Salome Suite for Orchestra [ WORLD PREMIERE + COMMISSION ] Maurice Ravel: Boléro (with Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre) ♦ The Pines of Rome Heinz Hall June 16, 8:00pm June 17, 8:00pm June 18, 2:30pm Ottorino Respighi: Roman Festivals Édouard Lalo: Symphonie espagnole Jessie Montgomery: New Work [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE + CO-COMMISSION ] Ottorino Respighi: The Pines of Rome ♦ PNC POPS…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The Rite of Spring Heinz Hall May 19, 8:00pm May 21, 2:30pm ♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PSO Disrupt: The Rite of Spring May 20, 8:00pm Lili Boulanger: D’un matin de printemps [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ] Franz Liszt: Piano Concerto No. 2 Igor Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring ♦ PNC POPS Renée Elise Goldsberry Heinz Hall May 12, 8:00pm May 13, 8:00pm May 14, 2:30pm Tony Award®-winning star of Hamilton and graduate of Carnegie Mellon University, Renée Elise Goldsberry, joins your Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra for a concert not to be missed! Made famous by originating the role…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Rachmaninoff’s Symphonic Dances Heinz Hall March 31, 8:00pm April 2, 2:30pm Johannes Brahms: Piano Concerto No. 1 Unsuk Chin: subito con forza [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ] Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphonic Dances ♦ Canellakis Debut: Beethoven & Shostakovich Heinz Hall April 14, 8:00pm April 16, 2:30pm Ludwig van Beethoven: Piano Concerto No. 1 Dmitri Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10 ♦ Schubert’s “Great” Symphony Heinz Hall April 21, 8:00pm April 22, 8:00pm April 23, 2:30pm Puccini (arr. Honeck/Ille): Symphonic Suite from Turandot – World Premiere / PSO Commission  Maurice Ravel: Piano Concerto in G major Franz Schubert: “The Great” Symphony ♦ CITY…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Honeck Conducts Beethoven’s Fifth Heinz Hall February 3, 8:00pm February 4, 8:00pm February 5, 2:30pm Carlos Simon: Fate Now Conquers [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ] Ludwig van Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 Richard Wagner: Selections for Baritone ♦ Holst’s The Planets Heinz Hall February 10, 8:00pm February 11, 8:00pm February 12, 2:30pm Lera Auerbach: Icarus [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ] Felix Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto Gustav Holst: The Planets Join the Mendelssohn Choir, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and PSO Music Director Manfred Honeck on a celestial journey through Gustav Holst’s most famous work, The Planets. ♦ Gil Shaham Beethoven Violin Concerto Heinz…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Rachmaninoff’s Triumphant Final Symphony Heinz Hall January 13, 8:00pm January 15, 2:30pm Vaughan Williams: Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis Sergei Prokofiev: Violin Concerto No. 1 Sergei Rachmaninoff: Symphony No. 3 ♦ Mozart & More Heinz Hall January 20, 8:00pm January 22, 2:30pm Richard Wagner: Prelude to Lohengrin Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 12 in A major, K. 414 Edward Elgar: In the South ♦ PITTSBURGH OPERA Ariodante Pittsburgh CAPA School Theater January 21, 8:00pm January 24, 7:00pm January 27, 7:30pm January 29, 2:00pm ♦ CITY THEATRE Fannie by…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Mozart’s Great Mass Heinz Hall December 2, 8:00pm December 4, 2:30pm Robert Schumann: Piano Concerto Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Mass in C minor The Mendelssohn Choir and Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra perform Mozart’s brilliant, yet unfinished, Mass in C Minor. Not a lot is known about this work, but what we do know is that it was most likely written to showcase Mozart’s wife Constanze’s vocal range for Mozart’s father, Leopold. Mystery surrounds Mozart’s unfinished Great Mass, but what we likely know is that this piece was written as a promise to Mozart’s wife to showcase her vocal…

♦ PITTSBURGH SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA Tchaikovsky’s “Pathetique” Heinz Hall November 11, 8:00pm November 13, 2:30pm Sergei Prokofiev: Suite from Lieutenant Kijé Oliver Knussen: Horn Concerto   [ PITTSBURGH PREMIERE ] Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique” The wait is finally over. These “88 keys for Pittsburgh” have arrived at Heinz Hall for this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Long-time friend to the Symphony, Yefim Bronfman, does the honor in debuting Heinz Hall’s new concert Steinway with Mozart’s joyous Piano Concerto No. 22. The piano debut is surrounded by the Pittsburgh premiere of Martinsson’s work, Open Mind, written for Music Director Manfred Honeck himself, as…