From ancient Persia to Mexico and the grasslands of Argentina, embark on a globe-trotting adventure of glittering orchestral colors.

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Jaime Martín Conducts
Pablo Sainz-Villegas Guitar

GINASTERA Four Dances from Estancia       
ARTURO MÁRQUEZ Concierto Místico y Profano (DSO Premiere) 
RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Scheherazade

Journey to the fairy-tale world of The Arabian Nights in Rimsky-Korsakov’s cinematic Scheherazade. Spinning stories of young love and thrilling adventures at sea with glittering orchestral colors, Scheherazade conjures the fabled Persian queen who saves the lives of 1,000 women with her imaginative tales. 

In Místico y Profano (Mystical and Profane), Arturo Márquez marries the musical traditions of Mexico and Spain in a cross-cultural celebration for guitar and orchestra. Pablo Sainz-Villegas, “the global ambassador of the Spanish guitar” (Billboard), joins the DSO for a musical tapestry of passionate dances, fiery rhythms and intimate prayer. 

Opening this program conducted by Music Director Fabio Luisi, Ginastera’s Four Dances from Estancia brings to life the lush grasslands of the Argentine pampa, where cowboys and cattle ranchers face off in a dramatic dance competition.

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Jaime Martín

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Pablo Sainz-Villegas

Guitar

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Embark on a madcap adventure with music that marries the heat of Gershwin’s American jazz with the cool French elegance of Roussel’s ballet suite and Ravel’s Concerto for the Left Hand.

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Stéphane Denève Conducts
Cédric Tiberghien Piano

ROUSSEL Suite No. 2 from Bacchus et Ariane
RAVEL Piano Concerto for the Left Hand in D Major
MILHAUD La Création du monde
GERSHWIN An American in Paris

Hot jazz meets cool French elegance in Gershwin’s An American in Paris, which follows one tourist’s adventures as he dodges taxis along the bustling Champs-Élysées, parties in the city’s dance halls and feels pangs of homesickness. 

Composed for a pianist who lost his right arm in World War I, Ravel’s Piano Concerto for the Left Hand begins with a stew of deep, sinister sounds before building to a madcap, brassy march. Cédric Tiberghien — “a magician with poetic clarity” (Le Soir) — commands the stage in Ravel’s jazz-infused concerto, leaving you to wonder how such a work is performed with just one hand. 

A pair of kaleidoscopic ballet scores from Roussel and Milhaud complete the evening, tracing mythological tales of love, forgiveness and the creation of the world. 

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Stéphane Denève

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Nature takes center stage in a shimmering musical portrait of the sea followed by a dazzling summoning of the Sicilian fire god.

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Fabio Luisi Conducts
Karen Gomyo Violin

MOZART Symphony No. 31 in D Major, “Paris”
SAMY MOUSSA Violin Concerto, “Adrano” (DSO Premiere)
DUKAS The Sorcerer’s Apprentice
DEBUSSY La mer

“I was once destined for the life of a sailor,” Debussy wrote, “but I still have a great passion for the sea.” The French composer honors that lifelong passion in La mer — three shimmering musical portraits of rippling waves, brewing storms and the sun’s celestial journey across the sky. 

Violinist Karen Gomyo, who brings “an unbroken wave of controlled energy” (The Times) to every performance, returns to the DSO to perform Samy Moussa’s “Adrano.” Inspired by the Sicilian town of the same name, Moussa’s concerto evokes the ancient rituals thought to summon Adranus, the god of fire. 

Reconnect with your childhood while experiencing Dukas’ The Sorcerer’s Apprentice — immortalized by Mickey Mouse in Disney’s Fantasia — the cautionary tale about a magic spell that goes horribly wrong. 

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Fabio Luisi

Music Director

Louise W. & Edmund J. Kahn Music Directorship

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Karen Gomyo

Violin

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Strauss whisks you away to Golden Age Vienna with sweeping, sublime waltzes, and Liszt mixes fiery virtuosity with moments of graceful lyricism.

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Fabio Luisi Conducts
Jean-Yves Thibaudet Piano

J. STRAUSS Selection of Waltzes (arr. Schoenberg)
LISZT Piano Concerto No. 2 in A Major
R. STRAUSS Suite from Der Rosenkavalier

Fiery emotion and virtuosity have come to define Liszt’s piano music. And while the Hungarian composer’s Piano Concerto No. 2 has plenty of pyrotechnics, it also offers countless moments of graceful lyricism. Jean-Yves Thibaudet — “the most soulful of players” (Gramophone) — returns to the DSO to perform Liszt’s luminous concerto, a work of power that flows in one continuous river of sound. 

Be whisked away to Golden Age Vienna as two composers pay homage to the city’s waltz tradition. Richard Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier evokes the opera’s saga of love, power and forgiveness, culminating in one of music’s most sweeping, sublime waltzes. A collection of Johann Strauss, Jr.’s lilting dances also receives an intimate reimagining in Schoenberg’s arrangements for chamber orchestra. 

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Fabio Luisi

Music Director

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Jean-Yves Thibatudet

Piano

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Experience the operatic drama and shadowy mystery of Bach’s biblical masterpiece — a searing saga of betrayal, forgiveness and resurrection.

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Fabio Luisi Conducts  
Guest Vocalists 
Dallas Symphony Chorus – Anthony Blake Clark Chorus Director 

BACH St. John Passion (DSO Premiere)

Since the first performance of St. John Passion on Good Friday in 1724, Bach’s monumental work has moved audiences of all faiths with its searing account of Christ’s final days. Through music of raw, elemental power and cinematic clarity, we encounter the full range of human emotion as we bear witness to an unfolding saga of betrayal, forgiveness and resurrection. 

Music Director Fabio Luisi leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in an intimate performance that amplifies the operatic drama and shadowy mystery of Bach’s biblical masterpiece. Moving between heartbreaking arias, mesmerizing orchestral interludes and life-affirming chorales, St. John Passion stands as an enduring example of music’s ability to transform sorrow and despair into all-encompassing love. 

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Fabio Luisi

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Chorus

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Anthony Blake Clark

Chorus Director

Jean D. Wilson Chair

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In Mozart’s opera of fevered passions and heavenly arias, revenge is a dish best served stone cold. 

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Fabio Luisi Conducts
Ildebrando D’Arcangelo Don Giovanni 
Jacquelyn Wagner Donna Anna 
Siobhan Stagg Donna Elvira 
Luca Pisaroni Leporello 
Paul Appleby Don Ottavio 
Deanna Breiwick Zerlina 
Soloman Howard Commendatore 
Mihai Damian Masetto 
Dallas Symphony Chorus – Anthony Blake Clark Chorus Director  

MOZART Don Giovanni, Opera in Concert (DSO Premiere)

In Mozart’s Don Giovanni, revenge is a dish best served stone cold. 

Merging humor, suspense and the supernatural, Don Giovanni follows Spain’s legendary libertine as he commits murder in a moonlit duel, embarks on adventures with his wingman and seduces the women of Seville. Will this depraved playboy fulfill his insatiable lust, or will his amoral actions result in eternal damnation? 

Experience an evening of fevered passions and heavenly arias when Music Director Fabio Luisi leads this opera-in-concert performance of Mozart’s dark comedy. An all-star cast of international singers takes to the stage, led by Italian baritone Ildebrando D’Arcangelo, who “luxuriates in the emotions that such a confident cad requires — petulance, desire, boldness, sweetness and charm” (OperaWire).

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Lutosławski weaves Polish folk tunes into a tapestry of explosive emotion, and Prokofiev tests the piano’s power with blazing intensity. 

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Elim Chan Conducts
Aristo Sham Piano  

PROKOFIEV Piano Concerto No. 2 in G minor 
LUTOSŁAWSKI Concerto for Orchestra   

A kaleidoscope of dazzling orchestral colors, Lutosławski’s Concerto for Orchestra celebrates the musical traditions of the composer’s native Poland. But rather than using Polish folk tunes as a springboard for nostalgia or nationalism, Lutosławski weaves them together into a modernist tapestry of explosive emotion — from the sinister drumbeats that drive the opening dance to a finale of electrifying joy.  

Aristo Sham — gold medalist at the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in Fort Worth — makes his DSO debut performing the Mount Everest of piano music: Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 2. A work of blazing intensity that tests the piano’s boundaries, Prokofiev’s concerto proves the perfect showcase for Sham, whose performances call to mind “a chorus line of lightning bolts” (Gramophone). 

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Conductor

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Aristo Sham

Piano

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