Season Tickets

All Tickets $10, $25 or $40

The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra’s 2012-13 season explores centuries of great music, bridging the early innovators of the Baroque and Classical periods with their twentieth and twenty-first century artistic heirs. The coming season features a fascinating array of programs designed to illuminate all corners of the repertoire and invites listeners to hear timeless masterpieces afresh while discovering lesser-known gems of the modern era. This season, Edo de Waart leads Beethoven’s Third ( Eroica ), Fourth and Fifth Symphonies, viewed through the modernist lenses of Stravinsky, Schoenberg, John Adams and Kurt Weill. Roberto Abbado explores the music of Haydn and Mozart, juxtaposed with works by Bartók, Berg, Strauss and Ravel. Audiences will also survey the kaleidoscopic musical landscape of our time, highlighted by world premieres of music by John Luther Adams, Nicola Campogrande, Shawn Jaeger and Matthias Pintscher. An elite lineup of classical music’s finest soloists and conductors—including SPCO Artistic Partners Abbado, de Waart, Dawn Upshaw, Christian Zacharias and Thomas Zehetmair, as well as an exciting roster of returning and debut artists—will join the SPCO for a captivating season-long musical exploration. From the transcendent strains of Bach and Mozart to the otherworldly beauty of Takemitsu and Cage, the SPCO’s 2012-13 season offers all listeners a multitude of opportunities for musical discovery.