
The Philadelphia Orchestra
August 4 - 21
All performances of The Philadelphia Orchestra start at 8 p.m. in the Amphitheatre.
Wednesday August 4OPENING NIGHT WITH YO-YO MA Charles Dutoit Conductor Yo-Yo Ma Cello STRAUSS Don Juan ELGAR Cello Concerto STRAVINSKY The Rite of Spring | Thursday August 5POPS: A Century of Broadway Jeff Tyzik Conductor Christiane Noll, Soprano Doug LaBrecque, Baritone Includes selections from My Fair Lady, West Side Story, Sweeney Todd, Phantom and more. |
Friday August 6 PETER AND THE WOLF Charles Dutoit Conductor Alec Baldwin Narrator Kirill Gerstein Piano GLINKA Overture to Ruslan and Lyudmila PROKOFIEV Peter and the Wolf LISZT Piano Concerto No.2 STRAVINSKY Suite from The Firebird | Saturday August 7 ODE TO JOY Charles Dutoit Conductor Leah Crocetto, Soprano Mary Phillips, Mezzo soprano Phillipe Castagner, Tenor Nathan Berg, Bass-baritone Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia MOZART Sinfonia concertante, K.297b for winds and orchestra BEETHOVEN Symphony No. 9 ("Choral") |
Wednesday, August 11 A GERSHWIN EVENING Charles Dutoit Conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano GERSHWIN Piano Concerto for Piano in F GERSHWIN An American in Paris GERSHWIN I Got Rhythm, variations for piano and orchestra GERSHWIN Porgy and Bess, A Symphonic Picture | Thursday, August 12 THE FAREWELL CELEBRATION CONCERT Charles Dutoit Conductor Chantal Juillet Violin SHOSTAKOVICH Festive Overture KORNGOLD Violin Concerto DEBUSSY La mer RESPIGHI The Pines of Rome |
Friday August 13 CIRQUE DE LA SYMPHONIE Rossen Milanov Conductor | Saturday August 14 FABULOUS PHILADELPHIANS Rossen Milanov Conductor André Watts Piano BARBER Overture to The School for Scandal BEETHOVEN Piano Concerto No. 5 ("Emperor") TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4 |
Wednesday August 18 THE INCOMPARABLE SARAH CHANG Peter Oundjian Conductor Sarah Chang Violin MOZART Overture to The Magic Flute SHOSTAKOVICH Violin Concerto No. 1 BRAHMS Symphony No. 2 | Thursday August 19POPS: WICKED DIVAS Steven Reineke, Conductor Erin Mackey, vocalist Julia Murney, vocalist Steven Reineke leads the Orchestra in a concert of diva showstoppers starring "Glinda" and "Elphaba" from the Broadway production of Wicked and featuring selections from Wicked, Carmen, Titanic and more. |
Friday August 20MASTERPIECES Lawrence Foster Conductor Garrick Ohlsson Piano MUSORGSKY Overture to Khovanshchina RACHMANINOFF Piano Concerto No. 3 DVORÁK Symphony No. 8 | Saturday August 21TCHAIKOVSKY SPECTACULAR Lawrence Foster Conductor Khatia Buniatishvili Piano TCHAIKOVSKY Polonaise from Eugene Onegin TCHAIKOVSKY Piano Concerto No. 1. TCHAIKOVSKY Romeo and Juliet TCHAIKOVSKY 1812 Overture |