The Florida Orchestra

Opening Night: Carmina Burana
Fri, Oct 14, 8 pm, Straz Center, Carol Morsani Hall

Mixing monk-like chant, angelic arias, writhing rhythms, raucous lyrics and raw visceral power, Orff’s Carmina Burana is an intoxicating powerhouse of a piece for over 200 instrumentalists and voices on a program with Mozart’s Abduction from the Seraglio Overture and Haydn’s Symphony No. 100, Military.

Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 21
Fri, Dec 2, 8 pm, Straz Center, Carol Morsani Hall

Award-winning Austrian pianist Cornelia Herrmann performs Mozart’s sunny and buoyant Piano Concerto No. 21 on a program with Haydn’s La fedelta premiata overture and Bruckner’s monumental Symphony No. 3.

Pictures at an Exhibition
Fri, Jan 13, 8 pm, Straz Center, Carol Morsani Hall

From carefree and spirited to almost overwhelming, it is a night of musical impressions inspired by great art:  Botticelli in Respighi’s Trittico Botticelliano, Matthias Grünewald in Hindemith’s Mathis der Maler and Victor Hartmann in Ravel’s orchestration of Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition.

Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2
Fri, Feb 17, 8 pm, Straz Center, Carol Morsani Hall

Hailed as “a gigantic talent” by The Baltimore Sun, Valentina Lisitsa reveals the rapturous beauty and rhapsodic themes of one of the most popular of all romantic concertos, Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2...in a night with Nielsen’s Helios Overture and Sibelius’ Symphony No. 1.

Brahms' Symphony No. 4
Fri, Apr 13, 8 pm, Straz Center, Ferguson Hall

Acclaimed simply as “one of the greats” by the Manchester Evening News, internationally renowned conductor Günther Herbig is joined by Principal Trumpet Robert Smith in Hummel’s Trumpet Concerto on a program with Brahms’ mighty Symphony No. 4.