Friday, August 21, 2026
8:00 PM
In a concert led by Music Director Andris Nelsons, soprano Renée Fleming and baritone Thomas Hampson, two of the greatest American voices of their generation, inhabit characters from John Adams’s groundbreaking 1987 opera Nixon in China. The program also includes Meditations on Grace by BSO Composer Chair Carlos Simon and Samuel Barber’s rapturously melodic and technically frenetic Violin Concerto, with soloist Keila Wakao in her Tanglewood debut.
Andris Nelsons, conductor
Keila Wakao, violin
Renée Fleming, soprano
Thomas Hampson, baritone
Carlos SIMON Meditations on Grace
Samuel BARBER Violin Concerto
John ADAMS Excerpts from Nixon in China
This concert will be recorded on July 17th, 2026 at Tanglewood.
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