Our50thSeason
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A Place For Us
October 19 & 20, 2024
Twenty-Somethings
November 9 & 10, 2024
Baroque to Beatles
February 1 & 2, 2025
American Dance Party
March 1 & 2, 2025
Latin Bridges
April 5 & 6, 2025
Salute to Youth
May 18, 2025
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Single Ticket Pricing
Nightingale Concert Hall
Section A - $68.50
pink seats on Nightingale seating map
Section B - $55.50
gold seats on Nightingale seating map
Section C - $28.50
gray seats on Nightingale seating map
Hall Recital Hall
All seats - $50
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Subscription Pricing
available through October 18, 2024
Nightingale Concert Hall
Section A - $295
pink seats on Nightingale seating map
Section B - $245
gold seats on Nightingale seating map
Section C - $145
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Feb 2025 performances, regardless of the price point of their Nightingale Concert Hall seat.
Tickets to the entire RCO season are available now
Subscriptions available through October 18, 2024
A Place For Us
October 19 & 20, 2024
Nightingale Concert Hall
ABOUT A PLACE FOR US
Celebrating its 50th season, RCO makes a case for a chamber orchestra of the 21st century with fresh pieces by Carlos Simon, Malcolm Arnold, and renowned film score composer Danny Elfman alongside a strings feature by Bartok from RCO’s first season, and a showcase for winds by Strauss foreshadowing his great operas.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
MALCOLM ARNOLD Serenade for Small Orchestra
BÉLA BARTÓK Divertimento for Strings
RICHARD STRAUSS Serenade in E-Flat Major, Op. 7
CARLOS SIMON Breathe
DANNY ELFMAN Suite for Chamber Orchestra
RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm
A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time
Twenty-Somethings
November 9 & 10, 2024
Nightingale Concert Hall
ABOUT TWENTY-SOMETHINGS
An intriguing combination of works written by well-known composers when they were in their twenties begins with a Debussy suite which includes Clair de lune, one of the most famous musical pieces of all time, followed by NCMF Artistic Director
Clive Greensmith performing Dobrinka Tabakova’s charming arrangement of Schubert’s Arpeggione Sonata.
Shostakovich’s acerbic wit and seriousness are then on full display in incidental music he wrote for “the most scandalous production (of Hamlet) in the history of Shakespeare,” presented here as a theatrical collaboration with local actors.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Clive Greensmith, cello
Truckee Meadows Community College Visual & Performing Arts Department
Shea King, Instructor, Performing Arts
Alwin Pizana, Hamlet
Gabrielle Rodda, Ophelia & Queen
Isaias Torres, Horatio
Cody Prewett, Ghost, Laertes & Fortinbras
CLAUDE DEBUSSY (orch. Mouton) Suite Bergamasque
FRANZ SCHUBERT/TABAKOVA Arpeggione Sonata
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH Hamlet, Suite from the Theatre Music, op, 32a
RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm
A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time
Baroque to Beatles
February 1 & 2, 2025
Hall Recital Hall
ABOUT BAROQUE TO BEATLES
Guest conductor Emily Senturia leads a program in Hall Recital Hall juxtaposing arrangements of popular music by the Beatles with beloved works from the Baroque canon of Western classical music by Vivaldi, Bach, and Handel. Mezzo-soprano Adriana Zabala and RCO’s own principal bassoon, Dylan Neff, are the featured soloists.
Emily Senturia, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Dylan Neff, Bassoon
Adriana Zabala, Mezzo-soprano
ANTONIO VIVALDI Bassoon Concerto in A Minor, RV 499
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH Cantata No. 82, "Ich habe genug"
JOHN LENNON/PAUL MCCARTNEY (arr. Berio) Beatles Songs
GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDEL Water Music Suite No. 1
This concert will be held at Hall Recital Hall
on the University of Nevada, Reno Campus
RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm
A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time
American Dance Party
March 1 & 2, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall
ABOUT AMERICAN DANCE PARTY
Get ready to jam as the infectious rhythms and tunes of American greats like Ellington, Joplin, and Gershwin will have you dancing in your seats. One of the concert's works get a Reno-themed multi-media treatment by Eve Allen Garza and RCO’s principal strings are featured as soloists in Delights and Dances, a work by Pulitzer-prize winner Michael Abels, known widely for his score to the film Nope.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
Eve Allen Garza, Choreographer
James Winn, Piano
SCOTT JOPLIN Overture to Treemonisha
LEONARD BERNSTEIN (arr. Garth Sunderland) Fancy Free
MICHAEL ABELS Delights and Dances
DUKE ELLINGTON (arr. Prustman) Three Songs of Duke Ellington
for Chamber Orchestra
GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. Farrington) I Got Rhythm Variations
RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm
A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time
Latin Bridges
April 5 & 6, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall
ABOUT LATIN BRIDGES
Handel’s Messiah returns to the RCO after over two decades in a Spanish translation as we highlight Easter selections from El Mesías: Messiah for a New World. A chamber orchestration of Gershwin’s infectious Havana-inspired Cuban Overture and Piazzolla’s fresh tango-jazz-classical Sinfonietta fill out this program influenced by Latin connections.
Kelly Kuo, conductor
The Gilbert & Elizabeth Lenz Podium
GEORGE GERSHWIN (arr. Diaz) Cuban Overture
ASTOR PIAZZOLLA Sinfonietta
GEORGE FREDERIC HANDEL excerpts from The Messiah (en Español)
RCO Saturday concerts are at 7:30pm
RCO Sunday concerts are at 2:00pm
A free 30-minute pre-concert talk begins inside the hall one hour prior to concert time
Salute to Youth
May 18, 2025
Nightingale Concert Hall
ABOUT SALUTE TO YOUTH
Talented Nevada youth perform side-by-side with RCO in Barber’s famous Adagio for Strings before the winners of our concerto competition take the stage as soloists. RCO’s Sound Investment commissioning program makes its debut with a new work before the season concludes with a symphony chosen by you, our audience and supporters.
One Performance Only
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Tickets to Salute to Youth must be purchased individually and may be added to your season subscription purchase.