Ticketing
Cinema Serenade
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesTheir music has made our movie memories. John Williams. Ennio Morricone. Erich Wolfgang Korngold. Valentina Peleggi conducts this survey of cinema's most moving melodies. Casablanca, Cinema Paradiso, On the Waterfront, and many others! Special guest Itzhak Perlman will be on hand for John Williams' haunting theme from Schindler's List on his treasured 1714 'Soil' Stradivarius. Learn More About […]
The Rite of Spring
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesMore than a century has passed since its violent, scandalous premiere. And still, The Rite of Spring continues to surprise and provoke, excite and enthrall. Valentina Peleggi conducts Stravinsky’s savage masterpiece. Plus, two masterworks of French Impressionism: Debussy’s sensuous La Mer and Ravel’s jazz-inspired Piano Concerto in G with young Clayton Stephenson. “Not just a […]
The Rite of Spring
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesFree pre-concert talk 1 hour before.
Brahms & Dvořák
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United States“Soulful and immaculate,” raves The Guardian of London of James Ehnes, who joins Valentina Peleggi and the Richmond Symphony for Brahms’ romantic Violin Concerto. Carlos Simon is one of today’s most influential composers and activists. His meditation on Beethoven, Fate Now Conquers is music that “brightens up programs with sheen and sensitivity.” (The Washington Post) […]
Brahms & Dvořák
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United States“Soulful and immaculate,” raves The Guardian of London of James Ehnes, who joins Valentina Peleggi and the Richmond Symphony for Brahms’ romantic Violin Concerto. Carlos Simon is one of today’s most influential composers and activists. His meditation on Beethoven, Fate Now Conquers is music that “brightens up programs with sheen and sensitivity.” (The Washington Post) […]
Puccini’s Tosca
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesIt is the composer's masterpiece of intrigue and betrayal, of obsession and deception. For her first opera with the Richmond Symphony, Valentina Peleggi conducts Puccini's Tosca. Starring the wildly acclaimed Jennifer Rowley in the title role. “Rowley molded her fiery passion to suit Tosca’s changing mood,” reported Operawire, “using it at one moment to warm […]
Puccini’s Tosca
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesIt is the composer's masterpiece of intrigue and betrayal, of obsession and deception. For her first opera with the Richmond Symphony, Valentina Peleggi conducts Puccini's Tosca. Starring the wildly acclaimed Jennifer Rowley in the title role. “Rowley molded her fiery passion to suit Tosca’s changing mood,” reported Operawire, “using it at one moment to warm […]
Brass Glory
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesEarworms, by Canada’s Vivian Fung, is a lighthearted mashup of music’s most memorable melodies, even daring to respond to Charles Ives’ “Unanswered Question.” Michael Sachs is one of classical’s foremost trumpet masters and jazz trumpet master Wynton Marsalis composed his Trumpet Concerto expressly for him. The two styles meet in a mesmerizing fusion. Schumann’s Second […]
Brass Glory
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United StatesEarworms, by Canada’s Vivian Fung, is a lighthearted mashup of music’s most memorable melodies, even daring to respond to Charles Ives’ “Unanswered Question.” Michael Sachs is one of classical’s foremost trumpet masters and jazz trumpet master Wynton Marsalis composed his Trumpet Concerto expressly for him. The two styles meet in a mesmerizing fusion. Schumann’s Second […]
Tchaikovsky’s Fifth
Carpenter Theatre 612 East Grace Street, Richmond , VA, United States"It will never please the public," said Tchaikovsky of his Fifth Symphony. Yet its beautiful melodies have captivated for over a century. Valentina Peleggi conducts Tchaikovsky's passionate Fifth Symphony, plus a newly commissioned work by Conni Ellisor, music that speaks directly to the heart with her Nashville country soulfulness. And powerful violinist Inmo Yang plays […]