Announcing our 2026-27 Season! We hope you have been enjoying our 2025-26 Season, and we know you have been waiting to see what comes next! So... we are thrilled to announce our upcoming 2026-27 Season (our 88th) featuring beloved classics as well as contemporary new works. This season will be a season of old favorites and fresh beginnings as we welcome our new General Director William Powers this July. Filled with centuries of stirring music, and old tales made new again, this upcoming season will have something for everyone... plus our sixth world premiere ! RIGOLETTO Music by Giuseppe Verdi Libretto by Francesco Maria Piave Based on the play Le Roi s'Amuse by Victor Hugo Benedum Center October 10, 16, 18, 2026 ORPHEUS & EURYDICE Music by Christoph Willibald Gluck, with instrumentation by Hector Berlioz Libretto by Ranieri de' Calzabigi Byham Theater November 14, 20, 22, 2026 PARTENOPE Music by George Frideric Handel Original libret...
MUSIC HALL Mai Khôi & the Dissidents Five Years in Exile Album Release Concert Friday, April 10 at 8:00 PM The Andrew Carnegie Free Library & Music Hall is pleased to welcome Mai Khôi & the Dissidents for their Carnegie Carnegie debut, celebrating the release of their new album Five Years in Exile . This performance is part of a Northeast and Midwest tour that also takes the band to New York City, Philadelphia, and Cleveland. The album follows Khôi through her first five years in the United States, where she sought refuge in 2019 after fleeing political persecution in Vietnam. Co-written with keyboardist Mark Micchelli, the songs are personal and introspective, weaving through jazz, experimental music, math rock, art song, and even the pop and dance music Khôi once sang in Vietnam. Protest music sits alongside songs of love, nostalgia, loneliness, and grief. Read more about Mai Khôi on her website at mai-khoi.com Following the concer...