ANNOUNCING THE 2025 MAY FESTIVAL!
In her role as 2025 Festival Director, Grammy Award-winning soprano Renée Fleming has curated a series of programs that explore the depths of the human experience — from love and the beauty of dawn, to the fragility of life on Earth. Join us for a Festival of powerful storytelling and discover the voice in everything.
Tue
May 20
5:30 pm | Ballroom, Music Hall
Learn more about one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time and 2025 Festival Director Renée Fleming.
The Cincinnati May Festival announced that Festival Director Renée Fleming will host two additional events next month, as part of the 2025 May Festival.
The Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra (CSO) Board of Directors announced today that Robert McGrath has been appointed as the new President and CEO of the CSO, effective February 17, 2025. McGrath succeeds Jonathan Martin, who announced his retirement at the end of November 2024.
The Cincinnati May Festival has announced five-time Grammy Award winner and celebrated soprano Renée Fleming as its 2025 Festival Director, the second ever in the May Festival’s innovative artistic leadership model launched in 2024.
Matthew Swanson, 35, has been a fixture of the May Festival Chorus since 2012, when he joined the ensemble as a tenor. In the intervening years, he’s worked for the organization at multiple levels: in the box office for two years, as a Festival Conducting Fellow in 2015, and as Associate Director of Choruses, leading the Festival’s special projects and conducting the May Festival Youth Chorus.
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