Upcoming
September 2026
- Sat26
With Lenny Young, Oboe
Music Director Search Candidacy- Mozart: Overture to The Magic Flute
- Soule: Dragonborn from Skyrim
- Vaughan Williams: Oboe Concerto
- Brahms: Symphony no. 4
October 2026
- Sat–Sun17–18
- Sat31
With Dror Biran, piano
- Wagner: Overture to The Flying Dutchman
- Elfman: This Is Halloween
- J.S. Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor
- Grieg: In the Hall of the Mountain King
- Saint-Saëns: Danse macabre
- Liszt: Totentanz
November 2026
- Sun8
- Sat14
With the Philharmonic Chorus
- Zelenka: Miserere in C minor
- Mozart: Divertimento, K. 138
- J.S. Bach: Missa brevis in G minor, BWV 235
December 2026
- Sat5
February 2027
- Sun21
- Beethoven: Overture to The Creatures of Prometheus
- Uematsu: One-Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII
- Bizet: Carmen Suite no. 1
- Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird
April 2027
- Sun11
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Presto from the Overture to L’amant anonyme
- Koji Kondo: The Legend of Zelda Suite
- Soule: Dragonborn from Skyrim
- Howard Shore: Lord of the Rings Suite
- Orchestral selections from Wagner works
- Sat17
With the Philharmonic Chorus and Martin Garcia, bassoon
- Beethoven: Leonore Overture no. 3
- Carl Maria von Weber: Bassoon Concerto
- Mendelssohn: Psalm 42
May 2027
- Sat8
- Brahms: Academic Festival Overture
- Koji Kondo: Music from Super Mario Bros.
- Saint-Saëns: Symphony no. 3 “Organ”
Past performances
60 performances since 2012
2026
- May 17
- May 9
South Asian Carnatic works alongside Western classical music, with guest artistic partner Kanniks Kannikeswaran
- Apr 18
Regional premiere of the Bärenreiter Ostrzyga completion, including the Amen Fugue
- Apr 12
Music Director Search Candidacy
- Mar 7
- Uematsu: To Zanarkand from Final Fantasy X
- R. Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
- Brahms: Symphony no. 4
- Feb 20–22
2025
- Dec 19–22
- Dec 13–14
Fully staged, in collaboration with Dancers Studio
- Oct 25
- Weber: Overture to Euryanthe (world premiere test performance of the forthcoming Weber Gesamtausgabe edition)
- REVO: Attack on Titan
- Soule: Dragonborn from Skyrim
- Brahms: Schicksalslied (Song of Destiny)
- Wagner: Suite from Lohengrin
- Sep 27
With Miriam K. Smith, cello
- Lalo Schifrin: Mission: Impossible
- Mozart: Symphony no. 38 “Prague”
- Dvořák: Cello Concerto in B minor
- Aug 23–24
- May 15, 16, 18
- May 10
- Mar 29
- Junichi Masuda: Pokémon Medley
- Nobuo Uematsu: One-Winged Angel from Final Fantasy VII
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 9
- Mar 8
- J.S. Bach: Brandenburg Concerto no. 4
- Michiru Yamane: Wood Carving Partita from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
- J.S. Bach: Coffee Cantata
- Feb 21–23
Music Director Search Candidacy. Choreography by Septime Webre, with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
2024
- Dec 14–15
Fully staged, in collaboration with Dancers Studio
- Dec 7
- Oct 30
In collaboration with the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra and the Northern Kentucky Community Chorus
- Oct 19
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 7
- Tchaikovsky: Excerpts from Iolanta
- Sep 28
- Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Oberon
- Williams: Hedwig’s Theme from Harry Potter
- Mitsuda: Selections from Chrono Trigger
- Mendelssohn: Incidental music from A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Aug 2–4
- Apr 20
- Beethoven: Overture to Coriolan
- Mozart: Symphony no. 40
- Schoenberg: Verklärte Nacht (Transfigured Night)
- Mar 23
- Feb 3
- Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
- Richard Wagner: Prelude and Transformation from Parsifal
- Felix Mendelssohn: Symphony no. 5 “Reformation”
2023
- Dec 9
- Dec 2–3
Fully staged, in collaboration with Dancers Studio
- Nov 18
- John Williams: Shark Theme from Jaws
- Mozart: Selections from Idomeneo
- Klaus Badelt: Pirates of the Caribbean Suite
- Debussy: La Mer
- Oct 23
With Elizabeth Yao, piano
- Tchaikovsky: Overture to The Tsarina’s Slippers
- Rachmaninoff: Piano Concerto no. 2
- Sibelius: Symphony no. 5
- Oct 7–8
World premiere reconstruction
- Sep 16
- Chevalier de Saint-Georges: Overture to The Anonymous Lover
- Koji Kondo: The Legend of Zelda Suite
- Howard Shore: Lord of the Rings Suite
- Richard Wagner: Die Walküre, Act 1 Scene 3
- Jun 18, 24
June 24 performance at the Price Hill Music Festival
- J.S. Bach: Coffee Cantata
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
2022
- Nov 19
Music Director Search Candidacy
- Mozart: Overture to Die Zauberflöte
- Tchaikovsky: Scene and Waltz from Swan Lake
- Stravinsky: Berceuse and Finale from The Firebird
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 6
- Oct 23
- May 28–29
- Apr 23
Music Director Search Candidacy
- Mendelssohn: The Hebrides Overture
- Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
- Mozart: Symphony no. 25
- Mar 20, 26, 27
2021
- Nov 13
Music Director Search Candidacy
At the Stefanie H. Weill Center for the Performing Arts- Mendelssohn: Calm Sea and Prosperous Voyage
- Richard Strauss: Death and Transfiguration
- Brahms: Symphony no. 4
- Sep 5
- Tchaikovsky: Selections from Eugene Onegin and Iolanta
- Tchaikovsky: Symphony no. 7
2019
- Oct 5–6
- May 31–Jun 2
- May 10
Cincinnati Chamber Orchestra
Opus 44 and 62 complete
2018
- Oct 28
- Works by Mozart, Wagner, Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Puccini, Bizet, and Massenet
- Oct 1
Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen
- Works by Beethoven, Bach, Strauss, and Bernstein
- May 25, 27
2017
- Sep 9, 10, 15, 16, 17
- Jun 16, 18, 22, 24
Featuring music from Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde
- May 26, 28
- Apr 21
- Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
- Mozart: Symphony no. 25
- Wagner: Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin
- Sibelius: Symphony no. 5
2016
- Oct 21, 23
In collaboration with the Wagner Society of Cincinnati
- Apr 14, 17
Midwest premiere of the complete critical edition, in partnership with the Mayerson JCC
2015
- Oct 23, 25
- Mar 13, 15
2014
- Oct 24, 26
- Oct 2
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala
Guest conductor, at the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias
With José Luis Urquieta, oboe
Beethoven Symphony no. 6 dedicated to the memory of Maestro Efraín Recinos- Carl Maria von Weber: Overture to Der Freischütz
- Lebrun: Oboe Concerto no. 1 in D minor
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 6 “Pastoral”
- Sep 25
Orquesta Sinfónica Nacional de Guatemala
Guest conductor, at the Centro Cultural Miguel Ángel Asturias
With Adrian Jojatu, bassoon- Beethoven: Egmont Overture
- Carl Maria von Weber: Bassoon Concerto, Op. 75
- Beethoven: Symphony no. 5
- May 23, 25
2013
- Nov 2–3
Centenary of the 1913 premiere, and the first Cincinnati staging since 1947. In collaboration with Cincinnati Opera for National Opera Week.
- Jan 26–27
Mozart's unfinished Zaide completed by grafting on Weber's Abu Hassan. At the Cincinnati Art Museum, presented with its Near-Eastern collection.
- Mozart: Zaide
- Carl Maria von Weber: Abu Hassan
2012
- Jun 10
The company’s debut production, given as Queen City Chamber Opera. A benefit for the MYCincinnati Youth Orchestra.
- Mozart: Der Schauspieldirektor (The Impresario)
- Mozart: Bastien und Bastienne