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A shot of the stage from the audience's perspective. Nelsons conducts the full orchestra on a podium, in front of Symphony Hall's golden pipe organ.

Shostakovich, Stravinsky and World Premiere with the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, April 26th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the BSO continues their "Decoding Shostakovich" series with his Symphony No. 6, and Stravinsky’s "Symphony of Psalms."

Clockwise from left: Dima Slobodeniouk, Simon Bode, Avery Amereau, Morris Robinson, and Erin Morley

Mozart’s Requiem with Dima Slobodeniouk and the BSO

Saturday, March 29th, 2025 at 8:00pm, the Boston Symphony Orchestra performs Mozart’s stunning final work with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and a collection of sensational soloists.

Clockwise from top left: Andrzej Filończyk, Elisa Sunshine, Neal Ferreira, Karen Cargill, Joshua Sanders, Terrence Chin-Loy, Christine Goerke, Brandon Jovanovich

Nelsons, the BSO, and Korngold’s “Die tote Stadt”

Saturday, February 1st, 2025 at 8:00pm, Andris Nelsons leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a cast headlined by Christine Goerke and Brandon Jovanovich in Erich Korngold’s opera “Die tote Stadt” (“The Dead City”), a longing farewell to the Romantic Era.

A collage of eight artists of all different ages, genders, races, and voice types.

Nelsons, the BSO, and Mahler’s Monumental “Symphony of a Thousand”

The Boston Symphony Orchestra, a collection of stellar soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus joined by the Boys of the St. Paul’s Choir School perform Mahler’s spiritually optimistic Eighth Symphony.

A colorful collage of conductor Ludovic Morlot and the four soloists.

Beethoven’s Ninth with Morlot and the BSO

Conductor Ludovic Morlot leads the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, and a cast of fabulous soloists in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and its “Ode to Joy.”

Canellakis, Ehnes, and the Boston Symphony Orchestra

Conductor Karina Canellakis returns to Tanglewood to lead the BSO and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in rhapsodic music by Brahms and Ravel, and violinist James Ehnes is the soloist in Chausson’s “Poème” and Ravel’s “Tzigane.”

Thomas Warfield has short, curly, purple hair. He wears a blue fur coat and smiles at the camera. Paul Lewis has dark curly hair and blue eyes. He wears a dark pea coat and stares intently at the camera. Andris Nelsons has dark brown hair and a beard. He wears a navy suit and looks to the left of the camera.

Koussevitzky’s Legacy at Tanglewood

Andris Nelsons leads the BSO in works by Copland, Stravinsky, Thompson, and James Lee III, each a reflection of Serge Koussevitzky’s original vision of the role of Tanglewood in the music world.

Will Liverman wears a rust colored suit and a long black tie. Yefim Bronfman wears a black suit and bowtie. Edwin Barker wears concert black and holds the neck of his bass.

Nelsons, the BSO, and Koussevitzky at Tanglewood

In celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Serge Koussevitzky, Andris Nelsons leads a concert that includes Koussevitzky’s Double Bass Concerto, with soloist Edwin Barker, as well as spectacular works by Steven Mackey, Sibelius, and Scriabin.

Adès, “The Dante Project,” and the BSO

Thomas Adès returns to the Boston Symphony to conduct Igor Stravinsky’s dreamy retelling of Perséphone and two of his own works inspired by Dante Alighieri’s 14th-century Italian epic poem Commedia.

Clockwise, starting top left: Jacquelyn Stucker, Kelley O'Connor, Dashon Burton, Ben Bliss

Beethoven’s Ninth at Tanglewood

An incredible cast of soloists joins Michael Tilson Thomas, the Boston Symphony Orchestra, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus in Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9.