Petrushka & Belshazzar's Feast
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Mäkelä, Petrushka & Belshazzar's Feast
Symphony Center Chicago · Chicago
8 Oct 2026
45 $ – 265 $
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Production
Oratorio / Orchestral Concert
Mäkelä, Petrushka & Belshazzar's Feast – Symphony Center Chicago, Chicago
- Date
- Thursday, 8 October 2026
- Time
- 19:30
- Duration
- 02:00
- Venue
- Symphony Center Chicago
- Address
- 220 South Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL, USA
- City
- Chicago
- Organisation
- Petrushka & Belshazzar's Feast
- Price range
- 45 $ – 265 $
About this event
A Chicago Symphony Orchestra program led by Klaus Mäkelä that pairs two Venetian brass works by Giovanni Gabrieli in modern arrangements with Igor Stravinsky’s Petrushka and William Walton’s grand choral cantata Belshazzar’s Feast. Walton’s score is presented with expanded forces—double chorus, two brass bands, and organ—and features baritone Thomas Hampson alongside the Chicago Symphony Chorus under Donald Palumbo. Framing the concert with Gabrieli’s antiphonal splendor, the program highlights vivid orchestral and choral color, from Stravinsky’s carnival world to Walton’s opulent Babylon with jazz-tinged rhythms.
Cast & creative
Baritone
Thomas Hampson
Conductor
Klaus MäkeläConductor
Klaus Mäkelä- D
Chorus Director
Donald Palumbo Conductor
Klaus MäkeläConductor
Klaus Mäkelä- G
Composer
Giovanni Gabrieli - I
Composer
Igor Stravinsky - A
Librettist
Alexandre Benois - G
Composer
Giovanni Gabrieli - W
Composer
William Walton
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