{"id":100928,"date":"2026-01-30T18:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100928\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T18:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T18:18:09","slug":"philadelphia-orchestra-announces-2026-27-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/100928\/","title":{"rendered":"Philadelphia Orchestra Announces 2026-27 Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In Thursday\u2019s (1\/29) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.inquirer.com\/arts\/philadelphia-orchestra-new-season-kimmel-center-concerts-20260129.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Philadelphia Inquirer<\/a>, Peter Dobrin writes, \u201cSimon Rattle is returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra after a decade. New works are being unveiled by Spirited Away composer Joe Hisaishi. And a major orchestral piece by Leonard Bernstein is receiving its world premiere\u2014sort of. The Philadelphia Orchestra\u2019s 127th season will be a mix of standard repertoire, newly minted scores, film music, family concerts, and guest artists new and familiar. Emanuel Ax has been dubbed \u2018artist of distinction\u2019 for the season \u2026 The Philadelphians will perform their first-ever complete Bach Christmas Oratorio. Following on the heels of last season\u2019s Tristan und Isolde, the orchestra takes on Wagner\u2019s Lohengrin for the first time\u2026. Music and Artistic Director Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin \u2026 will lead 12 weeks of programs in 2026-27 (plus special concerts), with podium appearances by Esa-Pekka Salonen, Anthony Parnther, Dima Slobodeniouk, Jane Glover, Fabio Luisi and others\u2026. Marin Alsop, the orchestra\u2019s principal guest conductor, leads three weeks of programs plus special concerts\u2026. Among the premieres, or first performances by the Philadelphia Orchestra, are works by Reena Esmail, Julia Wolfe, Unsuk Chin, Anna Meredith, Erkki-Sven T\u00fc\u00fcr, Gabriela Ortiz, and Caroline Shaw\u2026. A Marin Alsop program includes the world premiere of The Party, a collaboration between composer Austin Fisher and conceptual artist Alex Da Corte \u2026 commissioned by the orchestra\u2026. Garth Edwin Sunderland, a composer and vice president of creative projects at the Leonard Bernstein Office, was engaged to create Symphonic Rituals from Mass, which contains about 40 minutes of music\u2014a \u2018new\u2019 work drawn from Bernstein\u2019s [1971] score.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In Thursday\u2019s (1\/29) Philadelphia Inquirer, Peter Dobrin writes, \u201cSimon Rattle is returning to the Philadelphia Orchestra after a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[49183,29964,29965,69,71,70,29966],"class_list":{"0":"post-100928","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-philadelphia","8":"tag-artistic-planning","9":"tag-composers","10":"tag-conductors","11":"tag-philadelphia","12":"tag-philadelphia-headlines","13":"tag-philadelphia-news","14":"tag-repertoire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100928\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}