2023-2024 Season

Messiah
Dec
22

Messiah

Boost your holiday spirits with one of the most glorious choral works ever written: Handel’s Messiah. Yannick leads the Orchestra, acclaimed soloists, and the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir in two unforgettable weekend performances.

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Messiah
Dec
21

Messiah

Boost your holiday spirits with one of the most glorious choral works ever written: Handel’s Messiah. Yannick leads the Orchestra, acclaimed soloists, and the Philadelphia Symphonic Choir in two unforgettable weekend performances.

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Annual Oratory Christmas Concert
Dec
15

Annual Oratory Christmas Concert

We welcome all to attend our Annual Oratory Christmas Concert, featuring classic hymns and anthems, sung by professional Philadelphia-area vocalists and musicians. Our concert will be conducted by Mrs. Alicia Brozovich. The concert is family-friendly and will be about an hour long. The concert will be followed by a reception with even more live music and entertainment. All proceeds from the concert directly support the ministries of the historic St. Francis Xavier Church in the beautiful Fairmount neighborhood of Philadelphia, just across the street from the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

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ECP Lessons and Carols
Dec
8

ECP Lessons and Carols

The ECP Lux Choir performs its yearly Lessons and Carols service. The Lux Choir is regularly regarded as the best-kept secret in Princeton and is made up of professional choral singers from the surrounding area.

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Spoleto Festival USA Chorus + Orchestra: The Creation
Jun
3

Spoleto Festival USA Chorus + Orchestra: The Creation

The Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra and Chorus unite for a jubilant production of Joseph Haydn’s 1798 oratorio The Creation. The three-act masterwork chronicles the biblical creation narrative from emptiness to Eden, entwining Haydn’s exultant score with a vivid libretto drawn from Genesis, Psalms, and John Milton’s Paradise Lost—in a riveting journey from chaos to order.

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Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods
Jun
1

Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods

Loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Ruinous Gods explores the psychological toll experienced by displaced refugee children. This vital world premiere opera follows a desperate mother’s attempts to revive her 12-year- old daughter who has fallen into a non-responsive sleep triggered by trauma. The child’s journey through an underworld-inspired dreamscape forms the backdrop for a groundbreaking score that weaves Arabic maqam and Western classical music traditions with diverse Middle Eastern influences, jazz, and improvisation. At turns painful, humorous, and hopeful, Ruinous Gods urges crucial conversations about how governments and societies treat migrant families.

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Spoleto Festival: The Deer’s Cry Chorus Concert
May
31

Spoleto Festival: The Deer’s Cry Chorus Concert

In the glorious acoustics of the beautiful candlelit Cathedral of St. Luke and St. Paul, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus blends the atmospheric music of Arvo Pärt with two iconic composers of early music, Josquin des Prez and Heinrich Schütz. Pärt’s The Deer’s Cry and The Woman with the Albaster Box are juxtaposed with the exquisite Josquin Missa Pange Lingua and movements of Schutz’s iconic St. Matthew Passion.

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Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods
May
29

Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods

Loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Ruinous Gods explores the psychological toll experienced by displaced refugee children. This vital world premiere opera follows a desperate mother’s attempts to revive her 12-year- old daughter who has fallen into a non-responsive sleep triggered by trauma. The child’s journey through an underworld-inspired dreamscape forms the backdrop for a groundbreaking score that weaves Arabic maqam and Western classical music traditions with diverse Middle Eastern influences, jazz, and improvisation. At turns painful, humorous, and hopeful, Ruinous Gods urges crucial conversations about how governments and societies treat migrant families.

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Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods
May
27

Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods

Loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Ruinous Gods explores the psychological toll experienced by displaced refugee children. This vital world premiere opera follows a desperate mother’s attempts to revive her 12-year- old daughter who has fallen into a non-responsive sleep triggered by trauma. The child’s journey through an underworld-inspired dreamscape forms the backdrop for a groundbreaking score that weaves Arabic maqam and Western classical music traditions with diverse Middle Eastern influences, jazz, and improvisation. At turns painful, humorous, and hopeful, Ruinous Gods urges crucial conversations about how governments and societies treat migrant families.

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Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods - World Premiere
May
24

Spoleto Festival: Ruinous Gods - World Premiere

Loosely based on the Greek myth of Demeter and Persephone, Ruinous Gods explores the psychological toll experienced by displaced refugee children. This vital world premiere opera follows a desperate mother’s attempts to revive her 12-year- old daughter who has fallen into a non-responsive sleep triggered by trauma. The child’s journey through an underworld-inspired dreamscape forms the backdrop for a groundbreaking score that weaves Arabic maqam and Western classical music traditions with diverse Middle Eastern influences, jazz, and improvisation. At turns painful, humorous, and hopeful, Ruinous Gods urges crucial conversations about how governments and societies treat migrant families.

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Mozart's Requiem
Apr
30

Mozart's Requiem

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Nathalie Stutzmann conducts The Philadelphia Orchestra in Mozart’s breathtaking final creation: his Requiem. Drawing from her extensive career as a singer, Stutzmann is uniquely suited to lead this work of grandeur and mystery. The concert also features the popular 1851 revision of Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 4, a work of grand Romanticism notably weightier than its original orchestration.

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Mozart's Requiem
Apr
28

Mozart's Requiem

Shrouded in mystery, Mozart’s Requiem has sparked stories since the composer’s tragic, troubled death at age 35. Writing in a creative frenzy, pouring out his genius in an attempt to improve his fortunes while fearing his impending death, he put everything he had into this astonishing masterpiece. Blazing with theatricality and weighted with sorrow, it remains beloved by audiences more than two centuries after its first performance. This program also includes Robert Schumann’s brooding and passionate Fourth Symphony.

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Mozart's Requiem
Apr
27

Mozart's Requiem

Shrouded in mystery, Mozart’s Requiem has sparked stories since the composer’s tragic, troubled death at age 35. Writing in a creative frenzy, pouring out his genius in an attempt to improve his fortunes while fearing his impending death, he put everything he had into this astonishing masterpiece. Blazing with theatricality and weighted with sorrow, it remains beloved by audiences more than two centuries after its first performance. This program also includes Robert Schumann’s brooding and passionate Fourth Symphony.

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Mozart's Requiem
Apr
26

Mozart's Requiem

Shrouded in mystery, Mozart’s Requiem has sparked stories since the composer’s tragic, troubled death at age 35. Writing in a creative frenzy, pouring out his genius in an attempt to improve his fortunes while fearing his impending death, he put everything he had into this astonishing masterpiece. Blazing with theatricality and weighted with sorrow, it remains beloved by audiences more than two centuries after its first performance. This program also includes Robert Schumann’s brooding and passionate Fourth Symphony.

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Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation
Feb
14

Orchestrating Maestro: Music and Conversation

Get inside the music and behind the scenes of one of today’s most compelling movies. Orchestrating Maestro: Music & Conversation is a celebration of the 2023 Academy Award–nominated movie about the beloved composer and NY Phil Laureate Conductor Leonard Bernstein. Netflix and the NY Phil present selections from the soundtrack of Bradley Cooper’s Maestro performed by Members of the New York Philharmonic, led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin.

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ECP Lessons and Carols
Dec
3

ECP Lessons and Carols

The ECP Lux Choir performs its yearly Lessons and Carols service featuring music ranging from Byrd to Poulenc. The Lux Choir is regularly regarded as the best-kept secret in Princeton and is made up of professional choral singers from the surrounding area.

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Princeton Singers: Inspirations
Oct
15

Princeton Singers: Inspirations

An exploration of how contemporary composers take their inspiration from chant, carnival songs and spirituals. Works by Josquin des Prez, Johann Sebastian Bach, Johannes Brahms, Steven Sametz and Sidney Boquiren.

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