Ticket Availability
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Available Concert Dates
Emanuel Ax Plays Beethoven
It’s always an event when Emanuel Ax performs, and Beethoven’s Third Piano Concerto will showcase his prodigious virtuosity. This grand work speaks with a bold new voice in the dramatic key of C minor that Beethoven turned to for his revolutionary works.
Sep 12-14
Troupe Vertigo: Cirque Noir
As though transported to an alternate universe, you’ll witness the artists of Troupe Vertigo defying gravity and casting their spell in their show “Cirque Noir.”
Sep 26-28
Beethoven & Tchaikovsky
Characterized by ravishingly beautiful passages, graceful melodies and deeply felt passion, Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece has spoken to the heart of generations of adoring audiences.
Oct 4
Haydn & Mahler
Mahler’s sunny Fourth, whose ethereal last movement describes a child’s vision of heavenly life— overflowing bowls of tasty food, angels, saints and St. Cecilia and her kindred playing music to accompany the dancing of 11,000 virgins — radiantly portrayed by much-sought-after Metropolitan Opera soprano Erin Morley.
Oct 2 & 5
Respighi’s Fountains of Rome
A double helping of Respighi awaits you with music by this orchestrator extraordinaire. In The Fountains of Rome, he focuses on four magnificent aquatic landmarks “contemplated at the hour… in which their beauty appears most impressive to the observer.”
Oct 9-12
Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue
Headlining this all-American program is the red, white, and blue Rhapsody in Blue that Gershwin described as a sort of “musical kaleidoscope of America.”
Oct 16-18
Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs in Symphony
Dolly Parton brings her music to orchestras worldwide! Dolly Parton’s Threads: My Songs In Symphony, is an innovative multimedia experience featuring Dolly on screen, leading audiences in a visual-musical journey of her songs, her life, and her stories.
Oct 24-26
Schubert’s Winterreise with Goerne & Trifonov
For Schubert, writing a song was not just putting the words to music, but rather translating the poetry into music. And never more so than in his most well-known cycle of 24 songs, Winterreise (Winter’s Journey), set upon poems by Wilhelm Müller.
Oct 27
Día de los Muertos
Join us for a vibrant Day of the Dead concert, celebrating our lost loved ones with a colorful affirmation of life.
Oct 31
Alsop Conducts Brahms
Celebrated conductor Marin Alsop leads the DSO in the tale of the notorious libertine, Don Juan. But the brilliant score by the then-just-24-year-old Richard Strauss shows us a different man…one who is world-and-pleasure-weary, bored with searching for the ideal woman.
Nov 7-9
Pops Through Time: Iconic Scores & Classic Hits
We’re celebrating the DSO’s 125th anniversary this season, and that makes it the perfect occasion for revisiting the most popular music that you, our Pops fans, have enjoyed over the years.
Nov 14-16
Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus Fall Concert
The DSO is delighted to present again our two annual Children’s Chorus concerts — one in the fall and one in spring. These popular performances, often in collaboration with musicians of the DSO, showcase the incredible talents and artistic excellence of the young singers, all under the baton of the Artistic Director of the DSCC, Ellie Lin.
Nov 16
Organ Recital: Bradley Hunter Welch
If you’ve never experienced the glory of the Lay Family Concert Organ, you’ll be enticed by these stats: the organ is a focal point of the Eugene McDermott Concert Hall, rising to the full height of the chamber behind the stage.
Nov 23
Ravel’s Rapsodie Espagnole
Piano virtuoso Javier Perianes, praised by Gramophone for his “infallible ear for style, atmosphere and colour” returns to perform Nights in the Gardens of Spain, evoking Falla’s beloved Andalusia with its mysterious, fragrant beauty, strumming guitars, flamenco rhythms and dancing melodies. Our rich, Spanish-flavored concert culminates in Rapsodie Espagnole, Ravel’s orchestral masterpiece, showing him as a master of instrumental color. Its four sections are vivid echoes of the sounds and dances of Spain, and its final movement, the sultry “Feria” (“The Fair”), punctuated by castanets, is ablaze in a riot of colors. In between, it’s the zesty suite from The Three-Cornered Hat, replete with sounds of stamping feet, timpani drumming and castanets clicking out infectious rhythms.
Nov 28-30
New Year’s Eve
Assistant conductor Shira Samuels-Shragg leads the DSO in this “So long 2025!” and “Hello! 2026” celebratory concert on New Year’s Eve featuring Principal Second Violin, Angela Fuller Heyde.
Dec 31
Puccini’s Madama Butterfly
If any opera can break your heart, it surely is Madama Butterfly, the story of an innocent young Japanese girl, who — as her nickname foreshadows — is crushed by one of opera’s most callous cads, naval officer Lieutenant Pinkerton, who promises her a forever love.
Jan 9 & 11
Luisi Conducts Bruckner’s Ninth
The sweeping sonorities of Bruckner’s epic, final symphonic masterpiece unfold and rise sublimely like spires of a grand cathedral, inspiring awe and transporting you to a world with its own conception of time.
Jan 15-16
Holst’s The Planets
Fresh from his wildly successful recent appearance with the DSO, Edward Gardner returns to conduct Holst’s most famous score, with the astrological character of each of the celestial bodies.
Jan 22-24
La Vida Loca
Get on your feet and let’s get loud with the greatest hits of the ’90s and ‘OOs Latin pop explosion! La Vida Loca celebrates artists including Enrique Iglesias, Gloria Estefan, Santana, Ricky Martin and more.
Jan 30 – Feb 1
Tchaikovsky & Rachmaninoff
Romance your Valentine at the DSO with the impassioned music of Tchaikovsky’s timeless tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. Tabita Berglund returns to lead the kaleidoscopic Symphonic Dances by the last of the Russian Romantics, Rachmaninoff.
Feb 12-15
Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition
You’re invited to Mussorgsky’s musical “gallery crawl,” where you’ll encounter the titular pictures on exhibit, ten in all, plus “traveling music” in-between.
Feb 27 – Mar 1
Brahms’ Double Concerto
What do you do if you’ve had a falling-out with a cherished friend and advisor and want to make amends? Well, if you’re Johannes Brahms and violinist Josef Joachim is your friend, a Double Concerto is the perfect peace offering, expressed in musical language.
Mar 5-8
Alexi Kenney Plays Barber
Rising star violinist Alexi Kenney and Principal Guest Conductor at the Metropolitan Opera Daniele Rustioni join together for one of the most-performed 20th century masterpieces.
Mar 20-22
Bartók, Rózsa & Brahms
No less a luminary than the legendary violinist Jascha Heifetz and Rózsa’s Violin Concerto, which premiered with the DSO in 1956. This concerto will be heard for the first time in 70 years, performed by a recently discovered young violin sensation!
Mar 26-28
Organ Recital: Amanda Mole
An acclaimed concert organist, Amanda Mole will perform on the mighty Lay Family Concert Organ in the second of this season’s organ recitals. She has won numerous international competitions, has performed at venues across the USA, Europe and Japan, and has been featured in recital at conventions of the American Guild of Organists and the Organ Historical Society.
Mar 29
America 250
Not only do the midshipmen at the U.S. Naval Academy train to become leaders of character to serve our nation and protect our waters as officers in the US Navy and US Marine Corps, but they also perform at the highest level in one of the nation’s premier choral ensembles.
Apr 10-12
Mendelssohn’s Italian Symphony
Not only will you bask in the sunshine of Mendelssohn’s “Italian” Symphony (he dubbed it “blue sky in A Major”), but you’ll also hear two concertos and two soloists!
Apr 16-19
Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus Spring Concert
The DSO is delighted to present again our two annual Children’s Chorus concerts — one in the fall and one in spring. These popular performances, often in collaboration with musicians of the DSO, showcase the incredible talents and artistic excellence of the young singers, all under the baton of the Artistic Director of the DSCC, Ellie Lin.
Apr 19
MyDSO Sensory-Friendly Concert
The MyDSO concert is specially designed for children and adults on the autism spectrum and with developmental disabilities and their families, friends and caregivers.
Apr 26
Stravinsky’s The Firebird
Music Director Luisi will step into Stravinsky’s shoes as he conducts a replica of the 1946 concert, when the great composer led the DSO in these very works — an inspired program of quintessentially Russian music.
Apr 30 – May 3
Beethoven, Bach, Haydn & Mozart
Three spectacular soloists grace this program that follows a thread of musical styles from Baroque to early Classical. Co-concertmaster Nathan Olson is front-and-center in Bach’s Violin Concerto, whose poignant Adagio is one of his most sublime creations, with the solo violin exquisitely embroidering the underlying bass line.
May 7-10
Icons of the Strip: Sinatra & The Rat Pack
Time travel back to the heyday of the 1950’s Las Vegas strip where the biggest names in show business held sway and a well-poured martini was never far away.
Jun 19-21