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.

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Upcoming Events

Sat

Nov 30

HOME ALONE

7:30 pm | Music Hall

Sun

Dec 1

HOME ALONE

2:00 pm | Music Hall

Fri

Dec 6

BACH'S CHRISTMAS ORATORIO

7:30 pm | Music Hall

Sat

Dec 7

BACH'S CHRISTMAS ORATORIO

7:30 pm | Music Hall

Fri

Dec 13

HOLIDAY POPS

11:00 am | Music Hall

Fri

Dec 13

HOLIDAY POPS

7:30 pm | Music Hall

Sat

Dec 14

HOLIDAY POPS

2:00 pm | Music Hall

Sat

Dec 14

HOLIDAY POPS

7:30 pm | Music Hall

Sun

Dec 15

HOLIDAY POPS

2:00 pm | Music Hall

Sun

Dec 15

HOLIDAY POPS

7:00 pm | Music Hall

Meet Renée Fleming

Learn more about one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time and 2025 Festival Director Renée Fleming.

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The Cincinnati May Festival, Vocal Arts Ensemble (VAE) and Cincinnati Boychoir have announced the appointment of Julianne Akins Smith as their new Executive Director following a national search. With an extensive background in performing arts management and a passion for youth education, attracting new audiences and community engagement, Smith is set to lead the organizations into an exciting new era of choral music.

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Singing in the City: Meet Matthew Swanson, the May Festival’s New Director of Choruses

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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