https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/maurice-ravel“Music should be the beautiful, fragile wing of the soul. It should enchant, caress, and disturb.”  —Maurice Ravel The music of Ravel brings a unique form of magnetism, delicacy, passion, and a frisson of disquiet to our concert experience. Beneath his shimmering sound canvases lie an extraordinary craft and fanatical precision that underpins every silken […]

https://smithsonianassociates.org/ticketing/programs/georges-bizet-and-carmenWhen Georges Bizet died suddenly and tragically at the early age of 36 in 1875, his new opera, Carmen, had just been dubbed a humiliating failure, panned by critics at its Paris premiere barely three months beforehand. Bizet would never know that only a few months later its performances in Vienna, St. Petersburg, London, and […]