Fresh off her role in the celebrated Metropolitan Opera production of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra welcomes Angel Blue, one of the opera’s stars who “soared impressively” (The New Yorker), “bringing her luminous soprano voice and unforced charisma” (The New York Times).

Barber’s Knoxville and Rachmaninoff’s Second Symphony bask in the beautiful, bittersweet glow of nostalgia, while Janáček’s Tara Bulba shines under the baton of the accomplished opera conductor Oksana Lyniv.

Maestra Oksana Lyniv is currently one of the most in-demand conductors with regular appearances at the world’s most important opera houses and concert venues such as ROH Covent Garden, Paris Opera, Bayreuth Festival among many others with her MET debut to follow next season. Being Ukrainian and to pay homage to her home country she requested this change in repertoire: Janáček’s Taras Bulba is a rhapsody for orchestra based on the 19th-century novel by Nikolai Gogol, in which warriors from what is now Ukraine defend their lands from advancing Polish armies.

The Rachmaninoff celebration continues at the Meyerhoff! Pose with a life-sized image of Sergei himself at the Main Lobby step and repeat, learn fun facts about "The Six Foot Scowl," and compare your hands to Rachmaninoff's at the BSO Concierge Desk for a chance to win a pair of tickets to the April 15 concert performance of Rachmaninoff's Concerto No. 3.

The BSO's Rachmaninoff 150 Festival is made possible by the major support of Judy and Scott Phares.

Oksana Lyniv, conductor
Angel Blue, soprano

JANÁČEK Taras Bulba
BARBER Knoxville: Summer of 1915
TERENCE BLANCHARD “Peculiar Grace” from Fire Shut Up in My Bones
RACHMANINOFF Symphony No. 2