Schedule
Spoleto Festival USA presents Opera Queensland’s production of Dido and Aeneas in association with Circa. Micah serves as assistant/cover conductor to Patrick Dupré Quigley.
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Micah and Joanne (LOAM) reunite to create and perform a new, original work inspired by members of the Charleston community, as a part of the Spoleto Festival’s Tell Your Story project. The piece features the voices and personal stories of local Charlestonians sharing their stories alongside sights and sounds of the region.
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Micah conducts the Utah Symphony as part of their Deer Valley Summer Music Festival.
Mozart’s gripping Overture to Don Giovanni opens the concert with ominous chords and cleverly placed silence, building tension before racing forward with exhilarating momentum. Prokofiev’s sparkling Sinfonietta follows, bursting with playful rhythms colored by the composer’s youthful wit and charm. The program concludes with Louise Farrenc’s Symphony No. 3, an expressive work admired in her lifetime by musicians including Schumann and Berlioz for its elegant structure and dramatic range, moving between brooding drama and romantic warmth.
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Micah Gleason, Conductor
Alicia Eppinga, Cello
CARLOS SIMON: Fate Now Conquers
EDWARD ELGAR: Cello Concerto, Op.85
PETER ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No.4 in F Minor, Op.36
This sonic odyssey explores fate, longing, and triumph! Carlos Simon’s Fate Now Conquers responds to Beethoven’s iconic Seventh Symphony, weaving gospel roots with classical brilliance. Elgar’s haunting Cello Concerto, born from post-war grief, contrasts deep melancholy with flashes of resilience. Tchaikovsky’s autobiographical Fourth Symphony erupts with passion, its “fate” motif driving a journey from turmoil to euphoric triumph.
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In collaboration with Purpose Over Pain, the Negaunee Music Institute at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra presents this special concert celebrating eight years of the Notes for Peace program. Launched in 2018, Notes for Peace empowers Chicago families who have lost loved ones to gun violence to compose, record and perform original songs of tribute. Join Civic Orchestra of Chicago Fellows and the families of Purpose Over Pain, together with guest artists from the U.K.-based organization Irene Taylor Trust, Chicago-area vocalists and CSO Artist-in-Residence Joyce DiDonato, for an inspiring evening that demonstrates the healing power of music.
With guidance from the Civic Fellows, guest teaching artists from the U.K.-based Irene Taylor Trust and professional vocalists, parents compose, perform live and professionally record their music, which is then featured alongside family photos and lyrics on notesforpeace.org.
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Micah serves as cover conductor to Gianandrea Noseda and the National Symphony Orchestra.
Thunder and lightning alongside the smiling, radiant face of a father: it’s Jupiter, the king of all gods! Experience the heavenly drama of Mozart’s Symphony No. 41, “Jupiter,” in the hands of Gianandrea Noseda, who opens the concert with Bach’s large-scale Brandenburg Concerto No. 1 and Jacques Loussier’s jazz-infused, neo-Bach Concerto for Violin and Tabla.
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Music by Christopher Tin
Libretto by Kelley Rourke
Stage direction by Francesca Zambello
Choreography by Jessica Lang
Conducted by Micah Gleason
With music by GRAMMY Award-winning composer Christopher Tin, libretto by Kelley Rourke, stage direction by Francesca Zambello, and choreography by Jessica Lang, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky traces the artist’s journey to becoming one of America’s most iconic creative forces, and the people who shaped her along the way. At its heart is the tension between her passionate but complicated marriage to art dealer and photographer Alfred Stieglitz—her greatest champion, but also controlling and unfaithful—and the liberating influence of Mabel Dodge Luhan, an intellectual and arts patron who brought artists to the Southwest and, in so doing, helped Georgia discover the vast desert landscape that would define her work. Through opera and ballet, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky explores not just the artist’s life but the unpredictable ways relationships shaped her voice and legacy. Commissioned by Washington National Opera, O’Keeffe: Kiss the Sky will receive its world premiere there at a date to be announced.
The week-long workshop culminates with a public performance of excerpts at Cincinnati Ballet on Tuesday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m. Internationally-renowned soprano Christine Goerke will lead the cast in the role of Mabel Dodge Luhan, with mezzo-soprano Natalie Corrigan as Georgia O’Keeffe and tenor Tristan Tournaud as Alfred Stieglitz. Also featured are dancers Sierra Armstrong, SunMi Park, and Tristan Brosnan from American Ballet Theatre, along with student singers and dancers from CCM.
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THE EXOPLANETS — a curious directive and City of London Sinfonia co-production — is an extraordinary blend of theatre, live orchestral performance, and planetarium experience.
Created by Jack Lowe, Artistic Director of Norwich-based curious directive, THE EXOPLANETS is a rare performance collaboration between a multi-award-winning theatre company and an innovative and world-class orchestra.
Micah conducts the London premiere of THE EXOPLANETS.
Micah conducts the world premiere of Pretty Little Room with Opera Memphis, created by composer Robert Patterson and librettist Jerre Dye
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Santa Fe Pro Musica Orchestra
Micah Gleason, conductor
Gabriel Ingliss, violin
Rafael Ingliss, piano
MOZART Symphony No. 36 in C Major, K. 425, “Linz”
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”
MOZART Piano Concerto No. 24 in C Minor, K. 491
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“It is only with the heart that one can see rightly.”
—The Little Prince
An aviator crash lands in the desert. Could that be a mirage? No, it’s a little prince from another planet! When the two become unlikely friends, they learn lessons from the desert’s many creature—from the sly Fox and the deceitful Snake to the vain and needy Rose—and discover new ways of seeing and loving.
Academy Award-winning composer Rachel Portman’s opera based on Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le petit Prince returns for all ages! The beloved story comes to life with “spirited doses of stage humor for the kids and nostalgia-tinged arias for the adults” (Washington Classical Review) in this fantastical and tuneful production showcasing the Cafritz Young Artists along with the Youth Chorus.
When this touching opera first premiered for WNO audiences in 2014, tickets quickly sold out. Here’s your chance to experience the whimsical tale that has captivated hearts for over 80 years.
Micah Gleason, Conductor
Francesca Zambello, Production
Corinne M. Hayes, Revival Director
AJ Guban, Lighting Designer
Anna Maria Bruzzese, Choreographer
Maria Björnson, Set and Costume Designer
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The Grossman Ensemble, in residence at the Chicago Center for Contemporary Composition, begins the 2025-26 concert season by adding four new works to its already impressive roster of 75 world premieres. Conductor Micah Gleason leads premieres by composers Kay Rhie, Ryan Chase, Mikel Kuehn, and Inés Thiebaut in a dynamic performance showcasing diverse and complex sonic worlds.
All audience members are invited to celebrate the creativity and artistry of the evening at an after-party with the musicians, composers, and conductor.
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Micah serves as cover conductor to Jader Bignamini.
Jader Bignamini, conductor
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Wynton Marsalis: Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah**
George Gershwin: Piano Concerto in F
Richard Strauss: Don Juan
Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Romeo and Juliet
Awaken your heart with two distinct visions of love: Strauss’ Don Juan, a man’s restless pursuit of passion; and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet, a fated tale of love at its purest. Led by magnetic Music Director of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra Jader Bignamini, the concert also features Wynton Marsalis’ bold Herald, Holler, and Hallelujah and Gershwin’s jazz-infused Piano Concerto in F with soloist Hélène Grimaud—a fanfare for her “astonishing proficiency and poetic sensibilities” (The Washington Post).
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Micah serves as cover conductor for Emmanuel Tjeknavorian with the National Symphony Orchestra.
Ludwig van Beethoven:
Egmont – Overture
Violin Concerto
Symphony No. 7
Acclaimed violinist Isabelle Faust, whose “sound electrifies” (The New York Times), makes her much-anticipated NSO debut in Beethoven’s Violin Concerto. Beethoven’s joyous Symphony No. 7, a work Richard Wagner called “the apotheosis of the dance,” creates an electrifying finale.
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Join us for the Mannes Opera 2025/2026 Season Opener -- the fully staged chamber version of Kaija Saariaho’s extraordinary oratorio, La Passion de Simone, with a libretto by Amin Maalouf.
One of the 21st century’s most influential female composers, Saariaho created a work of profound contemporary relevance, engaging with themes of war, human suffering, and the philosophical contemplation of "good."
Her oratorio examines the life and work of radical French philosopher Simone Weil in 15 stations; an iteration of the Christian mediation on the 14 Stations of the Cross. Through the compelling figure of Weil, this work examines the impossibility—and the necessity—of contemplating the vast scope of human suffering with unflinching eyes. This piece will be realized in a fully staged production led by conductor Micah Gleason in partnership with Mannes Opera's Emma Griffin as director.
Conductor - Micah Gleason
Director - Emma Griffin
Music Preparation - Cris Frisco
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THE EXOPLANETS — a curious directive and City of London Sinfonia co-production — is an extraordinary blend of theatre, live orchestral performance, and planetarium experience.
Created by Jack Lowe, Artistic Director of Norwich-based curious directive, THE EXOPLANETS is a rare performance collaboration between a multi-award-winning theatre company and an innovative and world-class orchestra.
Micah assists conductor Naomi Woo.
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Micah serves as assistant/cover conductor to Gianandrea Noseda on Carnegie Hall’s 2025 NYO tour to Asia with soloist Ray Chen, beginning with a performance in Carnegie Hall.
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Micah joins the cohort for the 2025 Tanglewood Conducting Seminar.
Micah serves as assistant/cover conductor to Marin Alsop in the finals of the 2025 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition with the Ft Worth Symphony.
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Micah is one of six conductors selected for this year’s public masterclass with the Tonhalle Orchester Zürich and Paavo Jarvi.
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Micah joins the SENSORIUM EX team as assistant music director to Mo Elizabeth Askren for its premiere at the Seen and Heard International festival in Omaha, NE.
SENSORIUM is a multi-modal arts project exploring fundamental questions of what it means to have voice, and the nature of voice beyond language.
The project is centered around the opera, Sensorium Ex by composer Paola Prestini and librettist/poet Brenda Shaughnessy and co-directed by choreographer Jerron Herman and Jay Sheib – it is a multi-sensory narrative woven together at the intersections of disability and artificial intelligence. The Sensorium Ex Opera, commissioned by VisionIntoArt and Beth Morrison Projects, and supported by the Ford Foundation, is centered on the nature of voice beyond language, and how to creatively explore and express forms of non-speaking or non-typical patterns of speech and voice in opera. Artificial intelligence plays a role in expanding the possibilities for voice and expression in this dystopian tale.
Opera Synopsis:
A mother’s love, science/tech ethics, romance, corporate greed, a mystical escape, and a robot named Sophia come together in this story about what it means to be human...
Sensorium Ex is an opera for soloists, choir, chamber orchestra and electronics - exploring the nature of voice beyond language, non-speaking or non-typical patterns of speech and voice in opera, and what it means to be truly human. The use of artificial intelligence expands the possibilities for voice and expression in this dystopian tale.
https://www.visionintoart.org/
https://www.paolaprestini.com/
https://bethmorrisonprojects.org/
Read more here.
Micah serves as assistant/cover conductor to Marin Alsop.
Looking for the heart of America? Take a closer look at American opera—where every note captures the joys, struggles, and dreams of our nation.
Join us as opera luminaries take the stage to celebrate the heart and soul of American composers and their beloved works, weaving tales of struggle, triumph, and everything in between. With works by Samuel Barber to Leonard Bernstein to Margaret Bonds and more, this concert is a lively homage to the music that captures the American spirit.
With this concert, WNO continues its commitment to celebrating opera’s past and building its future.
Featuring Renée Fleming, Denyce Graves, and Thomas Hampson.
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Micah serves as assistant/cover conductor to Lidiya Yankovskaya.
His products changed the world and put instant connection at our fingertips. But behind tech mogul Steve Jobs was a life shaped by triumphs, trials, and contradictions.
Step into the orbit of the Apple co-founder who rose from garage genius to tech titan. With a Grammy®–winning score by Kennedy Center Composer-in-Residence emeritus Mason Bates and libretto by Pulitzer Prize–winning librettist Mark Campbell, The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs offers an operatic journey through the interior workings and spiritual journey of an innovator. Bates merges an electronic soundscape with Campbell’s classical lyricism to immerse audiences in the world of Silicon Valley in the 1980s.
Across his life, Jobs played husband, father, spiritual seeker, and industry leader. He was also protagonist and antagonist, cycling between destruction and redemption, disillusion and reality. As Jobs comes face-to-face with his mortality, audiences will see that some things can’t be programmed—including humanity.
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Micah conducts an exciting and eclectic program of nighttime music with the Iceland Symphony intended for concertgoers of all ages — who are welcome to attend in their pajamas!
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Micah joins the Iceland Symphony to conduct a series of concerts for children featuring Stravinsky’s Firebird suite.
Micah serves as assistant / cover conductor to San Diego Symphony’s Music Director, Rafael Payare.
Rafael Payare, conductor
Alexander Malofeev, piano
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
BILLY CHILDS: Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere, Commissioned by San Diego Symphony)
PROKOFIEV: Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major, Op. 26
BEETHOVEN: Symphony No. 3 in E-flat Major, Op. 55, Eroica
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Micah guest conducts the Symphony of the Americas on a program featuring works by Florence Price, Jessie Montgomery, and Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.
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Micah serves as cover conductor to Ludovic Morlot in a thrilling program with the San Diego Symphony.
Ludovic Morlot, conductor
Jeff Thayer, violin
San Diego Symphony Orchestra
GABRIELLA SMITH: Bioluminescence Chaconne
SAINT-SAËNS: Violin Concerto No. 3 in B minor, Op. 61
AUGUSTA HOLMÈS: “La nuit et l'amour” from Ludus pro patria
SAINT-SAËNS: Symphony No. 3 in C minor, Op. 78, Organ Symphony
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Micah serves as cover/assistant conductor to Elena Schwarz with the San Diego Symphony.
JOHN ADAMS: The Chairman Dances (Foxtrot for Orchestra)
THOMAS ADÈS: Violin Concerto, Concentric Paths
DVOŘÁK: Symphony No. 9 in E minor, Op. 95, From the New World
Elena Schwarz takes the podium to lead the Symphony in a program of modern masterworks by John Adams and Thomas Adès and one of Western classical music’s most beloved and recognizable works: Dvořák's Symphony No. 9. Adams composed The Chairman Dances while working on his opera Nixon in China inspired by an image of Mao Tse-Tung dancing the foxtrot. A specialist in the works of living composers, Leila Josefowicz joins the Symphony for Adès’ modern masterpiece Concentric Paths, co-commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic by the composer who also has many ties to – and a strong history with – California. Written while he was living in the United States, Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 drew inspiration from African-American spirituals introduced to him by his then-student, the great pioneer of American music, composer Harry T. Burleigh.
Micah serves as assistant conductor to Corrado Rovaris on Opera Philadelphia’s fall 2024 mainstage production of Missy Mazzoli’s The Listeners.
Composer Missy Mazzoli and librettist Royce Vavrek follow up on their acclaimed 2016 world premiere Breaking the Waves with a thriller about the seductive power of cults and charismatic leaders in a divided nation.
The Listeners examines the lengths to which we, as Americans, are willing to go to find a sense of place and purpose, and the way in which confident, charming leaders can exploit these needs to their own ends.
A middle-class mother (soprano Nicole Heaston in her company debut) living in a southwestern U.S. suburb notices a “hum,” a high-frequency environmental noise that only a select few people, the "Listeners,” can hear. A community organization quickly forms to solve the mystery of the hum, but when the de facto leader (Kevin Burdette) suggests a spiritual significance, the meetings become increasingly cult-like. Is this community of “Listeners” on a collision course with destruction?
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Micah joins conductors Esa-Pekka Salonen and Jukka-Pekka Saraste for a whirlwind final concert to culminate the 2024 Fiskars Summer Festival. Micah conducts the world premiere of J. A. Hoyle’s new piece, Hämäränsäde.
J. Montgomery: Strum / S. Rachmaninov: Piano Concerto 3 /
J. A. Hoyle: Hämäränsäde (World premiere) / J. Sibelius: Symphony No 5
Boris Giltburg, piano
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Micah is selected to participate in the 2024 Fiskars Festival Masterclass for young conductors, lead by Jukka-Pekka Sarastre, Esa-Pekka Salonen, and Eva Ollikainen throughout the Fiskars Summer Festival.
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Micah serves as music director for Argento’s one man opera, A Waterbird Talk, with baritone Joseph Han and the Musicians of Ma’alwyck at Troy Music Hall.
Micah conducts the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra, in collaboration with Aoife O’Donovan.
A century after winning the right to vote, how much has really changed for American women? That question lies at the heart of Grammy Award- winning singer-songwriter Aoife O’Donovan’s upcoming album All My Friends, set for release this March. Inspired by the letters and speeches of suffragist Carrie Chapman Catt, the album ponders the nation’s evolution amidst a lush soundscape featuring brass, orchestra, girls’ choir, and O’Donovan’s own mysterious and compelling voice. The 2022 Folk Alliance International Song of the Year winner, who was last seen at Spoleto in 2019 performing with her acclaimed trio, I’m With Her, is joined by members of the Spoleto Festival USA Orchestra for a musical event 100 years in the making.
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