MD Fabio Luisi & Dallas Symphony Orchestra’s world premiere of Angélica Negrón’s for everything you keep losing on medici.tv (Nov 18); upcoming performances include Jonathan Cziner and Moni Jasmine Guo premieres (Nov 20–22), Madama Butterfly in concert (Jan 9 & 11), Bruckner 9 (Jan 15 & 16)
(November 2025) — Grammy-winning Music Director Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra (DSO)’s recent world premiere of former DSO Composer-in-Residence Angélica Negrón’s for everything you keep losing is set for broadcast on medici.tv later this month (Nov 18). Meanwhile, they continue to celebrate the orchestra’s 125th anniversary season with two premieres on the same upcoming program: Jonathan Cziner’s synagogue- and klezmer-influenced Clarinet Concerto featuring DSO Principal Clarinet Gregory Raden (Mr. & Mrs. C. Thomas May, Jr. Chair) and Moni Jasmine Guo’s “the sound of where i came from” 乡音, an homage to the composer’s grandmother (Nov 20–22). Coming up in the new year, Luisi leads the orchestra in concert performances of Puccini’s Madama Butterfly, starring Jennifer Rowley in the title role (Jan 9 & 11), and the following week in Bruckner’s towering Ninth Symphony, the composer’s final and unfinished orchestral masterpiece (Jan 15 & 16).
Medici.tv and premieres
As part of its 125th anniversary celebration, the DSO commissioned former Composer-in-Residence Angélica Negrón’s for everything you keep losing, a large-scale choral work for orchestra, SATB chorus, and four soloists that explores sonic loss and the erasure of sonic diversity, tied to habitat destruction, species extinction, and climate change. Performed live in October and recorded for broadcast, Luisi and the DSO’s performance can be seen and heard on medici.tv beginning November 18. The piece weaves together poetry by Roque Raquel Salas Rivera, Ricardo Alberto Maldonado, Nicole Delgado, and Amanda Hernández; orchestral music; and the recorded sounds of some of the Puerto Rican species and elements that have been or are in danger of being lost. It also reflects on the loss of language due to colonialism, the displacement of communities, and the silencing of voices, particularly those impacted by the climate crisis. Featured soloists are soprano Lauren Snouffer, mezzo-soprano Kimberly James, countertenor Key’mon Murrah, and tenor Paul Appleby, alongside the Dallas Symphony Chorus directed by Anthony Blake Clark.
Two more Luisi-conducted world premieres share the spotlight on an upcoming program. Dallas-based composer Jonathan Cziner’s Concerto for Clarinet and Orchestra, featuring DSO Principal Clarinet Gregory Raden, is heavily influenced by Jewish music, both the cantorial chant the composer heard in the synagogue growing up and klezmer dances. Composer/pianist Moni Jasmine Guo’s new work titled “the sound of where i came from” 乡音, commissioned by the League of American Orchestras with the generous support of the Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation Orchestral Commissions Program for women composers, began as an exploration of the idea of “home,” but became an homage to the composer’s grandmother, especially her voice. Now suffering from Alzheimer’s disease, she is no longer able to call Guo by name, yet the sound of her voice lives on in memory and inspired this work. The premieres are bookended by Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3 and Mozart’s Symphony No. 40 (Nov 20–22).
Winter performances
On the heels of the DSO’s internationally acclaimed and historic performances of Wagner’s complete Ring cycle in the 2024–25 season, Luisi will present Puccini’s Madama Butterfly as this season’s opera-in-concert production. “Splendid, soaring and confident” (Opera Libera) soprano Jennifer Rowley stars in the title role, which was also the vehicle two seasons ago for her debut at Genoa’s Teatro Carlo Felice under Luisi’s baton. Tenor Evan LeRoy Johnson sings Pinkerton, a role with which he makes his Lyric Opera of Chicago debut next March. The cast is rounded out by mezzo-soprano Manuela Custer as Suzuki, baritone Alessandro Luongo as Sharpless, tenor Keith Jameson as Goro, and baritone Kidon Choi as Yamadori and the Bonze, along with the Dallas Symphony Chorus led by Anthony Blake Clark. Paul Curran serves as stage director (Jan 9 & 11).
When Luisi conducted the DSO in Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony during the 2024–25 season, the Dallas Morning News commented:
“Lasting over an hour, Bruckner’s Seventh Symphony has the composer’s signature gestures: lots of dotted rhythms, fanfares alternately solemn and celebratory, pacing bass lines, Wagnerian effusions. Pulling it all together is no small challenge, but Luisi displayed an impressive sense of structure and timing.”
Luisi and the DSO continue their exploration of Bruckner’s expansive symphonies in January with his Symphony No. 9. The epic Ninth Symphony was Bruckner’s final symphonic work, the composition of which was interrupted by his failing health and left unfinished at the time of his death in 1896 (Jan 15 & 16).
Dallas Symphony Orchestra and Fabio Luisi, live and on medici.tv
(All concerts take place at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center unless otherwise noted)
Nov 18
medici.tv premiere
Inon Barnatan, piano
Lauren Snouffer, soprano
Kimberly James, mezzo-soprano
Key’mon Murrah, countertenor
Paul Appleby, tenor
Dallas Symphony Chorus
Anthony Blake Clark, chorus director
Angélica NEGRÓN: for everything you keep losing (world premiere*)
GERSHWIN: Rhapsody in Blue
GOULD: Latin-American Symphonette
*Generously funded by the Norma and Don Stone New Music Fund
Nov 20–22
Dallas, TX
Gregory Raden, clarinet
BEETHOVEN: Leonore Overture No. 3
Jonathan CZINER: Clarinet Concerto (world premiere)
Moni Jasmine GUO: “the sound of where i came from” 乡音 (world premiere, Toulmin commission)
MOZART: Symphony No. 40
Jan 9 & 11
Dallas, TX
Jennifer Rowley: Butterfly
Evan LeRoy Johnson: Pinkerton
Manuela Custer: Suzuki
Alessandro Luongo: Sharpless
Keith Jameson: Goro
Kidon Choi: Yamadori & Bonze
Dallas Symphony Chorus
Anthony Blake Clark, chorus director
Paul Curran, stage director
PUCCINI: Madama Butterfly (opera-in-concert)
Jan 15 & 16
Dallas, TX
BRUCKNER: Symphony No. 9 (1896, unfinished)
March 26–28
Dallas, TX
Amaryn Olmeda, violin
RÓZSA: Violin Concerto, Op. 24
BARTÓK: Romanian Folk Dances
BRAHMS: Selection of Hungarian Dances
April 30–May 3
Dallas, TX
GLINKA: Overture to Ruslan and Ludmila
TCHAIKOVSKY: Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”
STRAVINSKY: The Firebird Suite (1945 version)
May 7, 9, & 10
Dallas, TX
Kathryn Henry, soprano
Nathan Olson, violin
Stuart Stephenson, trumpet
BEETHOVEN: “Ah! Perfido,” Scene and Aria for soprano and orchestra
BACH: Violin Concerto in E, BWV 1042
HAYDN: Trumpet Concerto in E-flat
MOZART: Symphony No. 35, “Haffner”
May 15 & 17
Dallas, TX
Rachel Willis-Sørensen, soprano
Meghan Kasanders, soprano
Deanna Breiwick, soprano
Olesya Petrova, mezzo-soprano
Renée Tatum, mezzo-soprano
Limmie Pulliam, tenor
Luke Sutliff, baritone
Insung Kim, bass
Dallas Symphony Chorus & Baltimore Choral Arts
Anthony Blake Clark, chorus director
Dallas Symphony Children’s Chorus
Ellie Lin, artistic director
MAHLER: Symphony No. 8, “Symphony of a Thousand”