The Orchestra and Chorus of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia have announced its 2025-26 season.

Concerts 

Daniel Harding conducts a staged version of Wagner’s “Die Walküre” by Vincent Huguet. The opera will star Michael Volle, Miina‐Liisa Värelä, Vida Miknevičiūtė, Jamez McCorkle, Stephen Milling, and Okka von der Damerau.

Performance Dates: Oct. 23-27, 2025

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Antonio Pappano conducts Natalya Romaniw, Szilvia Vörös, Pavel Cernoch, and Giorgi Manoshvili in Bruckner’s Mass No. 3 “Grosse Messe.” The program also includes Mozart’s Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter.”

Performance Dates: Oct. 30-Nov. 2, 2025

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John Adams conducts three scenes from “Nixon in China” featuring Mary Bevan, John Moore, and Alessandro Luongo. The program also includes the composer’s “Short Ride in a fast Machine” and Copland’s “Billy the kid suite.”

Performance Dates: Nov. 6-8, 2025

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Daniel Harding conducts Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 with mezzo-soprano Wiebke Lehmkuhl.

Performance Dates: Dec. 18-20, 2025

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Rinaldo Alessandrini conducts music by Vivaldi and Bach with soloists Silvia Frigato, Marianne Beate Kielland, Sara Mingardo, Jorge Navarro Colorado, and Lisandro Abadie.

Performance Dates: Jan 15-17, 2026

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Alexander Soddy conducts soprano Golda Schultz and baritone Mikhail Timoshenko in a Fauré and Ravel program.

Performance Dates: Feb. 12-14, 2026

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Daniel Harding conducts Haydn’s Die Schöpfung with Katharina Konradi, Andrew Staples, and Michael Nagy.

Performance Dates: Feb. 26-28, 2026

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Teodor Currentzis conducts Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13 “Babi Yar.”

Performance Dates: March 5-7, 2026

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Riccardo Minasi conducts Bach’s St Matthew Passion featuring Cody Quattlebaum, James Gilchrist, Jane Archibald, Sophie Rennert, Linard Vrielink, and Edwin Crossley‐Mercer.

Performance Dates: April 2-4, 2026

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Myung‐Whun Chung conducts Verdi’s Requiem with Ailyn Pérez, Ekaterina Semenchuk, René Barbera, and Roberto Tagliavini. 

Performance Dates: April 23-26, 2026

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Daniel Harding conducts Strauss and Vacchi with Corinne Winters.

Performance Dates: May 14-16, 2026

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Charles Dutoit conducts Berlioz’s “La Damnation de Faust” with Julien Dran and John Relyea.

Performance Dates: June 11-15, 2026

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Chamber Music 

The Coro dell’Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia and Accademia Ghislieri will be led by Giulio Prandi i a program of music by Alessandro Scarlatti.

Performance Date: Nov. 26, 2025

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Handel’s Messiah will be conducted by Christophe Rousset. He will be joined by Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists, Ana Vieira Leite, Sarah Connolly, Andrew Staples, and William Thomas.

Performance Date: Dec. 14, 2025

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Rosa Feola will perform “Son Regina e son amante Piccinni in Italy and France” with Cappella Neapolitana and conductor Antonio Florio.

Performance Date: Jan. 7, 2026

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Asmik Grigorian and Lukas Geniušas perform in recital. The program includes music by Tchaikovsky and Rachmaninoff.

Performance Date: Feb. 11, 2026