schedule
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May Festival – Opening Night
May 15, 2026
The Geraldine V. Chavez Center for the Choral Arts Music Hall
Cincinnati, OHTicketswith Cristian Măcelaru, conductor
Jason Alexander Holmes, preacher
Carlos Simon hammond, organ
May Festival Chorus
and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra -
May Festival – A Dream Deferred: Langston Hughes in Song
May 17, 2026
Memorial Hall
Cincinnati, OHTickets -
May Festival – Porgy and Bess: Festival Finale
May 23, 2026
The Geraldine V. Chavez Center for the Choral Arts Music Hall
Cincinnati, OHTicketswith Anthony Parnther, conductor
Alfred Walker, bass-baritone
May Festival Chorus
May Festival Youth Chorus
Classical Roots Community Choir -
Lakes Area Music Festival
August 14 & 16, 2026
Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts
Brainerd, MNTicketsBizet: Carmen
Lisenka Heijboer Castañon, Opera Director
Çağla Karslıoğlu, Scenic and Costume Designer
Julia Bullock, Carmen
Paul Appleby, Don José
Evan Hughes, Escamillo
Katerina Burton, Micaëla -
National Opera of Paris
September 9-19, 2026
Palais Garnier
Paris, FranceTicketsPearl Noire: Meditations for Josephine
Music by Tyshawn Sorey
Libretto by Claudia Rankine -
St. Louis Symphony Orchestra
October 30 & 31, 2026
Powell Hall
St. Louis, MOTicketsBarber: Knoxville, Summer of 1915
with Stéphane Denève, conductor