FREE concerts
The performances will last ~2 hours, including one intermission
Ticketing for all three concerts is closed; the performances are sold out.
However, you can consider trying to get a seat as a walk-up patron, taking the tickets of any unused reservations due to no-shows.
Update
At our Friday and Saturday concerts, we began with a sold-out hall. Because a large number of reservations were not used (no-shows) we were able to admit more than 50 walk-up patrons each day, and we still had some empty seats in the hall.
- If you don’t have a reservation: come early. Our admission tables will be open from 1 hour before concert time.
- We will hand out numbered coupons to walk-up patrons in the order of their arrival.
- At 10 minutes before curtain we will treat any unused reservations as no-shows and admit walk-up patrons in order until we reach the capacity of the hall.
- Once you have a green coupon, you can wait under the roof outside Hertz Hall, but bring a sweater! Once you have a green coupon you can leave and come back – just be back at the Hall at 10 minutes before curtain.
Erin Ridge, soprano
Mariya Kaganskaya, mezzo-sooprano
Kevin Gino, tenor
Andrew Pardini, bass
Ming Luke, music director
Natalia Ter Agapova, assistant conductor
Verdi Requiem is one of those “pieces that have a greatness that extends beyond the written page…”
We open our 60th anniversary season with Verdi’s Requiem. During WWII, Rafael Schächter led performances of this work from a smuggled copy of the score while he was interned in the Terezin concentration camp. To finish the season, BCCO has commissioned a new Terezin Requiem by composer Michael Schachter, a descendant of Rafael Schächter, which will be premiered at BCCO’s June 2026 concerts.
“With these performances, we honor the artistry of the musicians, artists, poets and intellectuals who came together in difficult times.” — Ming Luke
“An opera in ecclesiastical robes… encompassing the entire spectrum of human emotion and expression. Verdi used his operatic sensibilities to speak straight to the heart: from the quietest, most intimate moments to the terrifying ‘Dies irae’… to the heartbreakingly beautiful melody of the ‘Lacrymosa.’ —Eric Choate
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