(Credit: Stefan Cohen) Music Director and Conductor Gianandrea Noseda of the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) took to Carnegie Hall’s infamous podium on Sunday, May 3, 2026 for an enlightening and entertaining evening featuring Giacomo Puccini’s “Il trittico.” The all-star cast included soprano Erika Grimaldi, soprano Meryl Dominguez, mezzo-soprano Agnieszka Rehlis, tenor Hakeem Henderson, tenor Gregory Kunde, baritone Roman Burdenko and {…}
Carnegie Hall is set to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its “Concert of the Century” on May 5, 2026. Organized by famed violinist Isaac Stern, the original 1976 event brought together some of the world’s greatest musicians for a now-legendary “concert-celebration” that commemorated the anniversary of the Hall’s opening on May 5, 1891. Fifty years later and 135 years after {…}
Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music Institute and the New York City Department of Education will present the “NYC All-City High School Music Program End-of-Year Showcase” on May 10 at 1 p.m. in Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage. This marks the first time the event has been held at Carnegie Hall since 1990. Originally presented by the Hall throughout the 1970s and {…}
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato is set to return to Carnegie Hall’s Resnick Education Wing for a series of master classes for young professional opera singers from April 19 through 21, 2026. Selected participants include soprano Ronnie Enoch, mezzo-sopranos Natalie Corrigan and Fangzhen Wang, and baritone Will (June Young) Kim. Collaborative pianists Joel Harder and Bin Yu Sanford will accompany the singers {…}
(Photo: Chris Lee) A hush fell over the hall before a single note was sung. “Shh…” a pre-show hush repeated at intervals as the audience chattered, “Shh…” The sound was barely there—more suggestion than speech—but it was enough to draw the audience into a sense of peacefulness, suspended between listening and disbelief. Is it real? Is someone whispering “Shh…” or {…}
The Greek National Opera (GNO) will bring its orchestra to the United States for the first time this fall, performing at Carnegie Hall on Oct. 15 in a program honoring the legacy of writer Nikos Kazantzakis. Titled “Nikos Kazantzakis: An Odyssey in Music,” the concert features mezzo-soprano Anita Rachvelishvili and soprano Maria Kostraki under the baton of conductor Vassilis Christopoulos, {…}
Soprano Karen Slack will be among the headliners of Carnegie Hall‘s presentation of the American Composers Orchestra in “Hello, America: Letters to Us, from Us” on March 11 at Zankel Hall. The showcase, part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival commemorating the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, will be led by conductor Carolyn Kuan. {…}
The New York Philharmonic and Carnegie Hall have announced a five-year opera project that will start during the 2026–27 season. The presentations, which take place at the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage, will inaugurate in November 2026 with two performances of Puccini’s “Tosca.” Gustavo Dudamel will conduct the New York Philharmonic with a cast including soprano Marina Rebeka in the {…}
Juan Diego Flórez is set to return to New York for a Carnegie Hall recital on Feb. 5, 2026. The tenor will perform on the Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage alongside pianist Vincenzo Scalera. The superstar tenor will perform musical selection by Rossini, Donizetti, Gounod, Puccini, Massenet, Godard, and more. This season, Flórez will also perform recitals at the Teatro {…}
Mezzo-soprano Olesya Petrova will appear in recital at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall on Dec. 5, 2025, at 7:30 p.m. She will be joined by pianist Francesco Barfoed in a performance presented courtesy of the Metropolitan Opera. The first half of the program includes selections by Tchaikovsky including “Not a Word, My Friend,” “No, Only He Who Knew,” “To {…}
(Photo: ©BenWolf) On Jan. 13, 2026, tenor Jonathan Tetelman will join guitarist and Yankees legend Bernie Williams for a special Carnegie Hall concert. The evening will blend classical, Latin, and jazz music and will feature special guests that include Mets legend José Reyes, Knicks icon Stephon Marbury, and Metropolitan Opera artists. The concert will be hosted by Emmy Award-winning journalist Darren Rovell {…}
