October 30

Sat Oct 25, 2025 at 9:59 am
By Steven Brown

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Il Trittico
Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Arturo Chacón Cruz, Jamie Barton; Patrick Summers, conductor
7 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Mercury
Vivaldi: The Four Seasons
7:30 p.m. Bayou Theater, University of Houston-Clear Lake

November 1

Orchestra of New Spain
Dan Kyzer, mandolin
Stephen Lochbaum, guitarist
Works by Vivaldi, Scarlatti, Granados and others
3 p.m. Home concert, Dallas address given with ticket purchase

ROCO
Mei-Ann Chen, conductor
Laura Frautschi, violinist
Wineglass: Sacred Ground (world premiere)
Bach: Toccata and Fugue in D minor (arr. DiLorenzo)
Ravel: La Valse (arr. DiLorenzo)
Contreras: “Himno a la Mujer” from La Minerva
Little: Haunted Topography
Beethoven: Symphony No. 10 (constructed Cooper)
5 p.m. Church of St. John the Divine

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

November 2

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Il Trittico
Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Arturo Chacón Cruz, Jamie Barton; Patrick Summers, conductor
2 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Harmonia Stellarum
Cavalli: Missa pro defunctis
Sances: Selections from Motetti a una, due, tre, e quattro voci
4 p.m. First Lutheran, Houston

November 3

DACAMERA
Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitarist
Works by Assad, Albéniz, Brouwer, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and others
7:30 p.m. Menil Collection

November 4

DACAMERA
Raphaël Feuillâtre, guitarist
Works by Assad, Albéniz, Brouwer, Piazzolla, Villa-Lobos and others
7:30 p.m. Menil Collection

November 5

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

November 6

Cliburn Concerts
Beatrice Rana, pianist
Prokofiev: Selections from Romeo and Juliet
Debussy: Selections from Etudes, Book II
Tchaikovsky: Nutcracker excerpts (arr. Pletnev)
Prokofiev: Sonata No. 6
7:30 p.m. Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth

November 7

Dallas Opera
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Joyce El-Khoury, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Leah Hawkins, Patricia Racette, Deanna Breiwick; Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Karen Slack, soprano
Strauss: Don Juan
Bostic: Drag (world premiere)
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Texas Performing Arts
Miró Quartet
Isidore String Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 76, no. 4 “Sunrise”
Shaw: Microfictions, Vol. 1
Mendelssohn: Octet
7:30 p.m. Bates Recital Hall, University of Texas at Austin

November 8

Chamber Music Society Fort Worth
CMSFW Ensemble with Louis Lortie, pianist
Fauré: Piano Trio in D minor
Saint-Saëns: Piano Trio in F major
Dvořák: Piano Quintet in A major
2 p.m. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
cmsfw.org

Bach Society Houston
Kelly Hall-Tompkins, violinist
3 p.m. Christ the King Lutheran Church

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Il Trittico
Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Arturo Chacón Cruz, Jamie Barton; Patrick Summers, conductor
7 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Karen Slack, soprano
Strauss: Don Juan
Bostic: Drag
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Gonzalo Farias, conductor
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Ortiz: Antrópolis
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

Mercury
Antoine Plante, conductor
Thomas Carroll, clarinetist
Mozart: Symphony No. 41 “Jupiter”
Mozart: Clarinet Concerto
Haydn: Symphony No. 88
8 p.m. Wortham Theater Center

November 9

Dallas Opera
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Joyce El-Khoury, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Leah Hawkins, Patricia Racette, Deanna Breiwick; Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
2 p.m. Winspear Opera House

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Marin Alsop, conductor
Karen Slack, soprano
Strauss: Don Juan
Bostic: Drag
Brahms: Symphony No. 2
2 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
2 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Houston Symphony
Gonzalo Farias, conductor
Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun
Ginastera: Variaciones Concertantes
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Ortiz: Antrópolis
Hindemith: Symphonic Metamorphosis on Themes by Weber
2 p.m. Jones Hall

November 11

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Cliburn Concerts
Sybarite5, string quintet
8 p.m. Tannahill’s Music Hall, Fort Worth

November 12

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Il Trittico
Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Arturo Chacón Cruz, Jamie Barton; Patrick Summers, conductor
7 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

Dallas Opera
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Joyce El-Khoury, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Leah Hawkins, Patricia Racette, Deanna Breiwick; Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House

November 13

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

November 14

Houston Grand Opera
Puccini: Il Trittico
Corinne Winters, Ryan McKinny, Arturo Chacón Cruz, Jamie Barton; Patrick Summers, conductor
7 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

ROCO
Chamber ensemble accompanies film screenings of Disney’s Music Land, Chaplin’s The Immigrant and Laurel and Hardy’s Liberty
8 p.m. River Oaks Theatre, Houston

November 15

Apollo Chamber Players
Amelia Rico, narrator
Lembit Beecher: New work (world premiere)
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate: MoonStrike
3 and 6 p.m. Live Oak Meeting House, Houston

Dallas Opera
Poulenc: Dialogues of the Carmelites
Joyce El-Khoury, Stéphanie D’Oustrac, Leah Hawkins, Patricia Racette, Deanna Breiwick; Emmanuel Villaume, conductor
7:30 p.m. Winspear Opera House

Houston Grand Opera
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess
Michael Sumuel, Angel Blue, Blake Denson, Demetrious Sampson Jr., Latonia Moore; James Gaffigan, conductor
7:30 p.m. Wortham Theater Center
houstongrandopera.org

November 16

Houston Symphony
Brett Miller, organist, accompanying the silent film Nosferatu
3 p.m. Jones Hall

November 17

The Danish Quartet
Stravinsky: Three Pieces for String Quartet
Greenwood: Suite from There Will Be Blood
Beethoven: Quartet in F major, Op. 135
7:30 p.m. Caruth Auditorium, Southern Methodist University

November 18

Chamber Music Houston
Modigliani Quartet
Haydn: Quartet in F major, Op. 77, no. 2
Beethoven: Quartet in G major, Op. 18, no. 2
Brahms: Quartet in A minor, Op. 51, no. 2
7:30 p.m. Brockman Music and Performing Arts Center, Rice University

November 20

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Gregory Raden, clarinetist
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Cziner: Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)
Guo: the sound of where i came from (world premiere)
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

November 21

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Gregory Raden, clarinetist
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Cziner: Clarinet Concerto
Guo: the sound of where i came from
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Fort Worth Opera
Glass: La Belle et la Bête
Veronique Filloux, Andre Courville; David Bloom, conductor
7:30 p.m. Ridglea Theater

Fort Worth Symphony
Jane Glover, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Imogen Cooper, pianist
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Baiba Skride, violinist
Britten: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

Austin Symphony
Peter Bay, conductor
Stephen Girko, clarinetist
Alex Maynegre-Torra, pianist
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Debussy: Première rapsodie
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
8 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts

November 22

Fort Worth Opera
Glass: La Belle et la Bête
Veronique Filloux, Andre Courville; David Bloom, conductor
2 and 7:30 p.m. Ridglea Theater

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Fabio Luisi, conductor
Gregory Raden, clarinetist
Beethoven: Leonore Overture No. 3
Cziner: Clarinet Concerto
Guo: the sound of where i came from
Mozart: Symphony No. 40
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Fort Worth Symphony
Jane Glover, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Imogen Cooper, pianist
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
7:30 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Baiba Skride, violinist
Britten: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

Austin Symphony
Peter Bay, conductor
Stephen Girko, clarinetist
Alex Maynegre-Torra, pianist
Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2
Debussy: Première rapsodie
Enescu: Romanian Rhapsody No. 1
Gershwin: Second Rhapsody
Beethoven: Symphony No. 5
8 p.m. Long Center for the Performing Arts

November 23

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Bradley Hunter Welch, organist
Dupré: Allegro deciso from Evocation
Coleridge-Taylor: Melody from Three Short Pieces
Bach: Toccata, Adagio and Fugue in C major
Belli: Lumina Luminis
Widor: Symphony No. 6
2 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Fort Worth Symphony
Jane Glover, conductor
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Imogen Cooper, pianist
Mozart: Exsultate, jubilate
Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 27
Mahler: Symphony No. 4
2 p.m. Bass Performance Hall

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Baiba Skride, violinist
Britten: Violin Concerto
Shostakovich: Symphony No. 10
2 p.m. Jones Hall

Houston Symphony
Chamber music by Britten, Musgrave, Vaughan Williams and others
6:30 p.m. Jones Hall

November 28

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Jun Märkl, conductor
Javier Perianes, pianist
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, pianist
Čekovská: New work (world premiere)
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

November 29

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Jun Märkl, conductor
Javier Perianes, pianist
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
7:30 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, pianist
Čekovská: New work
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
7:30 p.m. Jones Hall

November 30

Dallas Symphony Orchestra
Jun Märkl, conductor
Javier Perianes, pianist
Ravel: Alborada del gracioso
Falla: Nights in the Gardens of Spain
Falla: The Three-Cornered Hat Suite No. 2
Ravel: Rapsodie espagnole
2 p.m. Meyerson Symphony Center
dallassymphony.org

Houston Symphony
Juraj Valčuha, conductor
Behzod Abduraimov, pianist
Čekovská: New work
Tchaikovsky: Piano Concerto No. 1
Strauss: Ein Heldenleben
2 p.m. Jones Hall


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