Carnegie Hall has announced its 2025-26 season, which will include appearances by Broadway stars Shoshana Bean, Heather Headley, Patti LuPone, and more, as well as Perspectives series curated by conductor Marin Alsop, pianist Lang Lang, mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard, and violinist Maxim Vengerov, plus countless concerts featuring some of the world's most acclaimed orchestras, ensembles, and soloists.
Three-time Tony Award winner Patti LuPone will revive her theatrical concert Matters of the Heart on the occasion of its 25th anniversary. Shoshana Bean, Cheyenne Jackson, and Heather Headley will all also headline concerts with programs and guest artists to be announced.
The New York Pops will present six concerts throughout the season, starting in October with Hugh Panaro and Elizabeth Stanley performing selections from musicals based on films. In November, Mandy Gonzalez will join the Pops for Everything I Know: Mandy Gonzalez Sings Lin-Manuel Miranda, and in December, Megan Hilty and Essential Voices USA will feature in A Place Called Home, the Pops' annual holiday concert. Tony winner Maleah Joi Moon and Avery Wilson will appear as guest artists for If I Ain't Got You: The Best of R&B in February. The New York Pops season will conclude in March with From Then to Now: The Music of the US, featuring Max Clayton, Nova Payton, and Ephraim Sykes. All New York Pops concerts will be conducted by Steven Reineke.
J. Harrison Ghee and Betsy Wolfe will star in The Secret Life of the American Musical, a concert adaptation of Jack Viertel's book of the same name, and written by Viertel and Stuart Ross. Warren Carlyle will direct and choreograph the concert, with musical direction by Rob Berman.
Violinist Maxim Vengerov's three-year Perspectives series continues with its second season, which will comprise three concerts: An all-Brahms chamber program featuring Brahms' Piano Quintet and Clarinet Quintet; a solo recital with pianist Polina Osetinskaya; and a concert with the Budapest Festival Orchestra which will include Sibelius' Violin Concerto, Brahms' Symphony No. 2, and Summa, by Arvo Pärt, who holds the Carnegie Hall's Debs Composer's Chair for the season. Pärt's music will be heard in seven concerts total throughout the season.
Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin will join forces for two Mahler symphonies, with two different orchestras of which Nézet-Séguin is the musical director. In March, Nézet-Séguin will lead the Philadelphia Orchestra and Philadelphia Choir in a performance of Mahler's second symphony, nicknamed "Resurrection," with soprano Ying Fang. In June, it will be the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra performing Mahler's fourth symphony, as well as the composer's Rückert-Lieder.
Lise Davidsen will make her Carnegie Hall recital debut with an all-Schubert program in June. Other vocal recitalists will include Kate Lindsey performing Kurt Weill; Juan Diego Flórez singing Rossini, Donizetti, and more; Joyce DiDonato performing the New York premiere of Kevin Puts' song cycle Emily—No Prisoner Be, based on poems by Emily Dickinson; and two recitals by Perspectives artist Isabel Leonard, who will also join the Met Orchestra in February for a concert of Leonard Bernstein and Samuel Barber.
Additional season highlights include a duo recital by pianist Lang Lang and violinist Hilary Hahn; Gianandrea Noseda leading the National Symphony Orchestra in a concert of Puccini's Il Trittico; and world premieres by composers Timo Andres, Brett Dean, Joseph C. Phillips Jr., Renee Rosnes, and more.
To see the full season lineup, visit CarnegieHall.org.
