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Livestreams, radio broadcasts, competitions and opera in cinemas, wherever you live. Members tap I’ll watch or I’ll listen to see who else is. Times are in your time zone.

17th International Henryk Wieniawski Violin Competition, Poznań, Poland

Stage 1 Oct 9-12, Stage 2 Oct 13-15, Stage 3 Oct 17-18, Stage 4 Final A Oct 20-21 and Final B Oct 22

Free live stream on the Wieniawski Society YouTube channel (youtube.com/@WieniawskiSociety); also on The Violin Channel, medici.tv and Amadeus.tv

One of the oldest violin competitions (first held in 1935), held every five years; all the auditions are broadcast, ending with the final on Oct 22.

Garsington Opera; Douglas Boyd (conductor), Louisa Muller (director); Madison Leonard (Violetta), Oleksiy Palchykov (Alfredo), Roland Wood (Giorgio Germont); Philharmonia Orchestra

Verdi: La traviata (recorded 20 July 2026)

OperaVision (operavision.eu) and its YouTube channel. Available until 16 April 2027

A summer 2026 production from the English country-house festival, with the Philharmonia in the pit.

Metropolitan Opera; Lise Davidsen (Lady Macbeth), Quinn Kelsey (Macbeth), Freddie De Tommaso (Macduff), Ryan Speedo Green (Banquo); conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin

Verdi, Macbeth: new production directed by Louisa Proske (about 3 hrs 30 min)

Live in cinemas across the US (find one on metopera.org); US encore screenings Wed Oct 21 (times vary by cinema). Tickets vary by cinema. US encore screenings on Wednesday, Oct 21, 2026

A new Met production shown live, with Lise Davidsen singing Lady Macbeth and Nézet-Séguin conducting.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Jader Bignamini (conductor), Alexandra Dariescu (piano)

Michael Abels: Emerge; Kashperova: Piano Concerto in A minor; Respighi: Fountains of Rome; Respighi: Pines of Rome

Free on YouTube Live (youtube.com/@detroitsymphony/streams), Facebook Live and Live from Orchestra Hall (livefromorchestrahall.vhx.tv)

Respighi's two Roman tone poems are big orchestral showpieces, and the program also has a rarely heard piano concerto by Leokadiya Kashperova.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Hilary Hahn (violin), Seth Parker Woods (cello)

Tchaikovsky: Polonaise from Eugene Onegin; Carlos Simon: Double Concerto Suite; Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Act 2

CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org. Encore broadcast Monday at 8 PM; the page says episodes are available on demand

It is a new double concerto by the BSO's composer chair, Carlos Simon, played by Hilary Hahn and Seth Parker Woods.

St. Louis Symphony Orchestra, Kristiina Poska (conductor), Marie-Ange Nguci (piano)

Krigul: Proteus Pulse (U.S. premiere); Mozart: Piano Concerto No. 21; Schumann: Symphony No. 3 'Rhenish'

90.7 KWMU St. Louis Public Radio and Classic 107.3 (both stream online)

Broadcast live from the concert, including a U.S. premiere by the Estonian composer Krigul.

The Cleveland Orchestra, Dalia Stasevska (conductor)

Revueltas: La Noche de los Mayas; Dvořák: Symphony No. 9 'From the New World'

WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Nov 22, 2025)

Revueltas's colorful Mexican score, built from music he wrote for a film, is paired with Dvořák's best-known symphony.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Esa-Pekka Salonen (conductor), Iveta Apkalna (organ)

R. Strauss: Don Juan; Salonen: Sinfonia Concertante for Organ and Orchestra; Bartók: Concerto for Orchestra; plus Boulez's 1992 recording of Stravinsky's Four Studies for Orchestra

WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and wfmt.com (CSO Radio Broadcast Series)

Salonen conducts his own organ concerto with Iveta Apkalna, between Strauss's Don Juan and Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra.

Sahun Sam Hong (piano), Stella Chen (violin), Clive Greensmith (cello), Tommaso Lonquich (clarinet), Radovan Vlatković (horn); Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Rose Studio

Czerny: Grande sérénade concertante, Op. 126; Brahms: Horn Trio in E-flat major, Op. 40

Free livestream from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center (chambermusicsociety.org)

A rarely played Czerny serenade alongside Brahms's Horn Trio, with the horn player Radovan Vlatković.

New York Philharmonic, Simone Young (conductor), Sheku Kanneh-Mason (cello); The New York Philharmonic This Week on WFMT

Bach (arr. Webern): Ricercata from Musical Offering; Dvořák: Cello Concerto; Brahms: Symphony No. 1

WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and the live stream at wfmt.com (a 2021 performance at Alice Tully Hall)

The cellist's New York Philharmonic debut, recorded in 2021, with Simone Young conducting Brahms's First Symphony.

Cleveland Orchestra Chorus and members of The Cleveland Orchestra; Lisa Wong and Eric Whitacre (conductors)

Corigliano: Fern Hill; Whitacre: Eternity in an Hour (US premiere)

WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (live)

Broadcast live for the chorus's 75th anniversary, with Eric Whitacre conducting the US premiere of his own work.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Kent Nagano (conductor)

Mendelssohn: The Hebrides; Tod Machover: already and not yet (world premiere, BSO commission); Alex Nante: Ein feste Burg (US premiere); Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5 'Reformation'

CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org

A program built around the Lutheran chorale 'Ein feste Burg', which Mendelssohn quotes in his 'Reformation' Symphony, plus two new works.

Cape Town Opera; Kamal Khan (conductor), Magdalene Minnaar (director); Nobulumko Mngxekeza (Aida), Nonhlanhla Yende (Amneris), Lukhanyo Moyake (Radamès)

Verdi: Aida (recorded 21 May 2025)

OperaVision (operavision.eu) and its YouTube channel. Available until 25 April 2027

A South African company's Aida, cast with singers from Cape Town Opera's own ensemble.

The Cleveland Orchestra, Franz Welser-Möst (conductor)

Mozart: Symphony No. 41 'Jupiter'; Shostakovich: Symphony No. 11 'The Year 1905'

WCLV 90.3 FM Cleveland and ideastream.org/wclv (recorded Jan 10, 2026)

Mozart's last symphony is set against Shostakovich's huge symphony about the 1905 uprising in St. Petersburg.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chorus, Daniel Harding (conductor), Jenny Wong (chorus director)

Schumann: Manfred Overture; Brahms: Schicksalslied; Holst: The Planets; plus Solti's 1997 Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky)

WFMT 98.7 FM Chicago and wfmt.com (CSO Radio Broadcast Series)

Holst's The Planets with the CSO Chorus singing the wordless final movement, alongside Brahms's 'Song of Destiny'.

Wexford Festival Opera; Riccardo Bisatti (conductor), Max Hoehn (director); Maria Barakova (Ernestina), Stefan Astakhov, Gurgen Baveyan, Sebastian Mach

Rossini: L'equivoco stravagante (recorded 16 October 2026)

OperaVision (operavision.eu) and its YouTube channel. Available until 30 April 2027

An early Rossini comedy that is rarely staged, from the Irish festival known for reviving forgotten operas.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Andris Nelsons (conductor), Yo-Yo Ma (cello), Julien Labro (bandoneon)

Arturs Maskats: Tango; Elgar: Cello Concerto; Brahms: Symphony No. 4

CRB Classical 99.5 FM Boston and classicalwcrb.org (recorded Sept 17, 2026, the BSO's opening night)

The BSO's 2026-27 opening-night concert, with Yo-Yo Ma in the Elgar concerto and Brahms's last symphony.

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