JUST ANNOUNCED: This Is Minnesota Orchestra is back for the 2025-26 season!
Broadcast live on @twincitiespbs , Facebook and YouTube, This Is Minnesota Orchestra kicks off Friday, November 14.
Here’s what’s on the lineup:
✨ November 14: Sondergard Conducts Symphonie Fantastique
✨ January 30: Gabel, Debussy and Dukas
✨ April 10: Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6
✨ May 29: Hindoyan and Rieppel
Mark your calendars and learn how to watch at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch #pbs #twincities
✨ highlights from our upcoming 2025-26 classical season ✨
✨ Sept. 18-19: Thomas Søndergård and Joyce DiDonato team up for our season opening concerts, which also feature Bernstein’s Overture to Candide + Richard Strauss’ Suite from Der Rosenkavalier
✨ Sept. 26-27: Principal Cello Anthony Ross plays Bernstein, plus MinnOrch plays Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra and the world premiere of Steve Heitzeg’s EcoSaga
✨Oct. 10-11: Leonidas Kavakos is back to lead and perform Mozart + Shostakovich
✨ Nov. 13-14: Our Music Director leads Symphony Fantastique + we welcome @benbeilman back to Orchestra Hall
✨ Nov. 21-22: @minnesotachorale joins us for Brahms’ beloved Requiem
✨ Dec. 4-5: we’re pairing Dvorák’s New World Symphony with Haydn + @carolineadelaideshaw
✨ Jan. 8-17: Nordic Soundscapes is back!
✨ Feb. 19-20: Erin + Osmo—need we say more?
✨ March 3: YO-YO MA is here, this is not a drill
✨ March 19-21: Beethoven’s Ninth led by Eun Sun Kim, featuring incredible soloists + the @minnesotachorale ? Life-affirming.
✨ May 1: The Listening Project is back with our live concert—these are the works from underrepresented composers you need to hear.
✨ May 28-29: when’s the last time you heard a work for solo timpani? Our very own @therieppeleffect plays a fantastic concerto by @andyakiho
And lots more. Subscriptions (both our same-seat and Create-Your-Own packages, all with available payment plans) are on sale now. Explore the whole season at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch
Symphony Ball 2026: And All That Jazz was the best time 🥰
A huge thanks to all who partied with us, bid on auction items and helped make this year’s Ball a smashing success. You helped us raise critical funds to support our artistic and educational initiatives. Thank you 🫶
Save the date for next year’s Symphony Ball: April 24, 2027!
A big thank you to our Symphony Ball sponsors:
Huntington Bank
Ameriprise Financial
Fredrikson
Carlson Family Foundation
Carlson
EY
Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
Jones Day
Northern Trust
PNC
US Bank
#MinnOrch
From this weekend’s performances of Bluebeard’s Castle—a magical first installment of our new multi-year project, Sound Unbound.
The next time to catch this immersive concert experience—which uses lighting design and digital projection to bring you closer to the music—is next season. Our season opening concerts will feature immersive lighting to Stravinsky’s Firebird. Then, Creative Director Adam Larsen will return in 2027 for Puccini’s Tosca.
Read more about Sound Unbound at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch
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Bluebeard’s Castle: Haunted Love Island (according to @james.vaughen )
Bluebeard’s Castle in concert is tonight at tomorrow, May 8 + 9—@thomassondergard leads the Minnesota Orchestra, @michelle_deyoung and @nathanbergofficial star as Judith and Bluebeard in this stunning psychological thriller. Tickets at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch
No it’s *literally* lit
May 8 + 9: @michelle_deyoung and @nathanbergofficial sing Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, @thomassondergard leads the Minnesota Orchestra. With lighting design and digital projections, this concert is the first installment of our new series, Sound Unbound—a program meant to immerse audiences in the music. It’s a creepy, haunting psychological thriller of an opera you won’t want to miss. Tickets at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch #opera
Adam would like us to clarify there is not a “lot of” blood, only “some” blood
THIS WEEKEND: it’s our first installment of Sound Unbound, our new multi-concert project across the next three seasons. For this weekend’s opera in concert performances of Bartók’s Bluebeard’s Castle, we’re working with Creative Director Adam Larsen to create an immersive experience that includes digital projections and lighting design to heighten the psychological drama and haunting atmosphere of this thrilling work.
Catch it Friday and Saturday, May 8 + 9—tickets at the link 🔗 in our bio. #MinnOrch
Yesterday we celebrated the official groundbreaking for the Community Performing Arts Center at Upper Harbor Terminal 🌟
Slated to open in 2027, the 8,000-capacity amphitheater has been more than a decade in the making and was made possible by our many partners and the North Side community.
We can’t wait to welcome everyone to a show next summer ☀️ Tell us in the comments who you want to see perform at the amphitheater!
That’s Jazz, baby 😜🎷
This weekend was Symphony Ball 2026: And All That Jazz. So many of our favorite traditions happen at the party of the year—and one of our favorites is being conducted by one of you. This year, the winner of Conduct the Orchestra was @yrchu . You can come back to conduct us anytime, Dr. Chu 🥹
A huge thanks to our Symphony Ball sponsors:
Huntington Bank
Ameriprise Financial
Fredrikson
Carlson Family Foundation
Carlson
EY
Hubbard Broadcasting Foundation
Jones Day
Northern Trust
PNC
US Bank
#minnorch #minneapolis #orchestra
