Ludwig van Beethoven News

The Melbourne Chamber Orchestra will kick off its 2026 season with Flexible Sky, featuring guitarist Slava Grigoryan and two world premieres, showcasing a blend of classical innovation and virtuosity.

First, there was the 1962 song made famous by folk trio Peter, Paul, and Mary. Then, a 1979 juvenile fiction book adaptation by Romeo Muller. Now, Puff the Magic Dragon, the familiar children’s tale about childhood imagination and growing up, is being told as a multimedia ballet.

​The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center has revealed its 2026–27 season, with 80 concerts of chamber music by 100 composers across 346 years. Concerts take place in Alice Tully Hall and the Daniel and Joanna S. Rose Studio at CMS.

Ludwig van Beethoven’s iconic Fifth Symphony and his equally popular Symphony No. 6, “Pastoral” will have six performances at New Jersey Symphony. Beethoven composed these symphonies in tandem, and both premiered at the same concert in 1808.

Two-time GRAMMY Award winner Michelle Cann, lauded champion of Florence Price's music, displays her versatility performing repertoire of the mid-Romantic period at Princeton Symphony Orchestra (PSO) concerts February 7-8.

The Music Institute of Chicago Academy will present a series of free concerts showcasing its pre-college conservatory students. Performances will include chamber music programs, orchestral concerts, and a special event marking the Academy’s 20th anniversary. All concerts will take place at Nichols Concert Hall in Evanston.

New York City Ballet’s 2026 Winter Season will feature a world premieres by Justin Peck and NYCB Artist in Residence Alexei Ratmansky, two early ballets by Balanchine and more.

Long Beach Opera will present the bold Crash Out Queens: A Tiffany Townsend Recital on January 31 at 7:30pm and February 1 at 4pm,, developed in close collaboration with the company at the Altar Society, 230 Pine Avenue in Long Beach.  

The Wheeling Symphony Orchestra will present All My Memories on Saturday, January 17, at 2:00 p.m. at the Capitol Theatre, welcoming back guest pianist Maxim Lando while reflecting on the impact of the pandemic on the orchestra and its community.

The Midtown International Theatre Festival will return to New York in 2026 at the American Theatre of Actors. The festival has already accepted 21 productions and will utilize all three theatres at the venue.

The South Bend Symphony Orchestra will present a Masterworks concert at the Morris Performing Arts Center. The program Jessica Carter's Hidden: In memory of Rosemary Sanders, Max Bruch's Violin Concerto No. 1, and Beethoven's Symphony No. 3, 'Eroica.'

John Malkovich will appear with the San Francisco Symphony in Aleksey Igudesman’s The Music Critic, a theatrical concert blending classical music with historic criticism.

New Jersey Repertory Company has announced its 2026 Mainstage Season — a year of intimate, muscular storytelling that dives into reinvention, reckoning, genius, and the tangled threads of family history.

Check out photos of the San Francisco Opera's one-night-only concert of music by Manuel de Falla and Ludwig van Beethoven on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m. at the War Memorial Opera House.

There’s nothing more exciting for serious theater lovers than to see new original plays. After last summer’s successful Broadway Bound Summer Festival, the creative team of the Theatre Artists Workship will present the plays on Saturday, November 1 at 7:30 and Sunday, November 2 at 2:00. Here are the new shows.

The San Francisco Symphony Youth Orchestra (SFSYO) and Wattis Foundation Music Director Radu Paponiu will perform five concerts during the 2025–26 season, beginning with their season-opening performance in November.

One week after she conducts the opening of San Francisco Opera’s new production of Wagner’s Parsifal, Caroline H. Hume Music Director Eun Sun Kim leads the San Francisco Opera Orchestra and mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack in a one-night-only concert.

Audience favorite Aubree Oliverson will return to open the Princeton Symphony Orchestra's (PSO's) 2025-26 Season at concerts the weekend of October 25-26.

The GRAMMY Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet Third Coast Percussion (TCP) has announced its Chicago and touring schedules for the 2025-2026 season. As the first percussion ensemble ever to win a GRAMMY in the classical genre,

Judith Lynn Stillman, Rhode Island College's Artist-in-Residence, has announced a Fall 2025 season of chamber music concerts. MOSAIC brings to life extraordinary chamber music spanning four centuries!