Carnegie Hall’s 2026-27 Season: What We Want to Hear
Nytimes reports that Carnegie Hall will present Wagner’s entire, four-opera “Ring” in concert next March — the first time in the hall’s history it will stage the full 15-hour epic. The cycle, performed over six nights, is an import from the Orchestra of the Zurich Opera House and will be conducted by Gianandrea Noseda.
The season also includes cycles of Mahler symphonies led by Yannick Nézet-Séguin with the Met Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Vienna Philharmonic, with the Eighth Symphony slated for the Metropolitan Opera House because it is too large for Carnegie.
Piano cycles feature Yunchan Lim performing all of Mozart’s piano sonatas and Igor Levit presenting many of Beethoven’s sonatas in April 2027, and a Philip Glass symphony commissioned to honor Abraham Lincoln will be given by the Orchestra of St. Luke’s under Dennis Russell Davies in January 2027 after its planned premiere at the Kennedy Center was withdrawn.