Guest Appearances - Pacific Chorale

Guest Appearance: Lunar New Year

Jan. 28, 2023, welcome the Year of the Rabbit with Pacific Symphony’s annual Lunar New Year celebration, with Music Director Carl St.Clair conducting a concert of joyous music, festive dance and a delightful fusion of musical traditions from East and West.

Guest Appearance: Verdi’s Rigoletto

April 20, 22, and 25, 2023; A lecherous Duke, who lives to take his pleasure. His twisted court jester, who lives to take his revenge. Carl St.Clair conducts this season’s semi-staged opera production: Verdi’s Rigoletto, the composer’s masterpiece of duplicity and deception.

Guest Appearance: Cathedrals of Sound

June 15-17, 2023; The New York Times calls Scottish composer Sir James MacMillan as “ceaselessly inventive, evocative and penetrating.” He joins Pacific Symphony on a spiritual journey with his major commission Fiat Lux (“Let There Be Light”); a perfect pairing to Strauss’ eternal tone poem Death and Transfiguration.