Season Tickets
The Manitowoc Symphony Orchestra, led by Dylan Chmura-Moore, explores the richness and power of tone color.
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7:30pm Sat, Oct 3, 2026
Capitol Civic Centre
Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent film reveals a world forged in the polished perfection of technology, luxury, and industry’s power. Experience it with live orchestra and a rich, luminescent new score by Michelle McQuade Dewhirst.
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A cult classic, it’s a fairytale. It’s of the best and most influential films in history. Gold is the shimmering tether between the divine and the mechanical in Fritz Lang’s 1927 silent masterpiece Metropolis. Gold speaks to the film’s obsession with luxury, industry and the worship of the polished perfection of technology. A new score composed for the film by one of our own, MSO composer and performer Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, brings a luminous humanity to the screen—warmth and soul set against the machine.
“Metropolis is one of the great achievements of the silent era, a work so audacious in its vision and so angry in its message that it is, if anything, more powerful today than when it was made.”
—Roger Ebert
3:00pm Sun, Dec 20, 2026
Capitol Civic Centre
Santa’s suit, Rudolph’s nose, the love we feel this season, and passionate pieces from The Nutcracker. A joyous program with local choral groups and Hollywood’s holiday hits.
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Holiday magic is found in Tchaikovsky’s (alternative!) Nutcracker ballet. Hear the greatest music from the ballet that you’ve never heard before.
Six big-budget Hollywood films offer us popular music fitting the season—Home Alone, Elf, and The Polar Express lead the way. The familiar music is sung by the Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale and Lincoln High School Choirs.
7:30pm Sat, Feb 13, 2027
Capitol Civic Centre
A landscape of wide open spaces… a new canvas on which our American composers painted their distinct sound—dazzling, colorful, and deeply human. Featuring Erin Bryan, soprano.
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Two American legends, Aaron Copland and Samuel Barber, offer us a picture of where we’ve been. Two living masters, Jessie Montgomery and Michael Torke, surmise where we’re going.
Lyric Soprano Erin Bryan sings the monumental Knoxville: Summer of 1915, a time capsule of Americana about nostalgia and the space between childhood and maturity. It’s sophisticated, emotional, and welcoming.
7:30pm Sat, Apr 10, 2027
Capitol Civic Centre
Deep. Intense. Soulful. Beethoven. We continue our Beethoven series with his Symphony No.2, plus works by Mozart. A Candlelight Concert with Violinist Addison Teng.
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Resolve and optimism. This is year two of our Beethoven cycle! Beethoven is most known for his dramatic, powerful, and outgoing Romantic works, but much of his music is intimate, even soothing. This season, we take an intimate look at Beethoven’s more youthful music, an earlier sound very close to his soul.
Star violinist, Addison Teng, will perform Beethoven’s two Romances—gentle, loving music. Also, he’ll perform the first movement of Mozart’s third violin concerto, where Mozart reaches his mature aesthetic. Also, Mozart’s overture to The Marriage of Figaro: witty music.
Mark Barkley Miller
The Aschenbrenner Foundation of Lakeshore Community Foundation
Tom & Virginia Bare Charitable Fund
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Roy & Darlene Geigel Foundation
Season Benefactor
Dave Wage & Sandra Murzyn
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Friends of Anne McCracken, In Memory
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Susan & Alex Murtaugh
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Season Media Underwriter
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Hospitality Sponsor
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In Memory of Herman Balaban
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Michael & Marilynn Dunlap
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Gary and Ann Gold
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Paul “Biff” & Sheila Hansen Family
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Mark & Michelle Klaiber
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Christine Kornely, Independent cabi Stylist
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Jim & Barbee Lester
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John & Laurale Stern
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Important dates related to season tickets:
April 1: Letter mailed to current subscribers with renewal information (no foolin’).
April 5: Current subscribers can renew in person at the concert for 10% off and receive a special gift.
April 7: Online and box office sales begin for renewals and new subscriptions at 10% off.
April 30: Last day of special gift offer, while supplies last.
Aug 4: Last day to claim same seats. Non-renewed seats are released.
Aug 11: Individual tickets to all concerts go on sale online and at box office.
Oct 4: First concert of the season; last day to subscribe.
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Saturday, Oct 4, 2025 7:30pm
Sibelius’ radiant second symphony—a favorite of founding Music Director Karl Miller—launches the season. And we recognize music education as Holy Family Conservatory turns 100, with a Mozart double piano concerto performed by Diana Shapiro and Stanislava Varshavski.
Sunday, Dec 21, 2025 3:00pm
Esteemed former Music Director Maestro Wayne Wildman returns to lead a joyous performance of Bach and Handel concertos, perfectly suited to the season. The Capitol Civic Centre Community Chorale will share festive carols, old and new.
Saturday, Feb 14, 2026 7:30pm
Pianist Kelleen Strutz returns to play Gershwin’s heartfelt and innovative piano concerto and LHS alums Cassie Glaeser and Zach Glaeser stir our Valentine’s Day passion with arias from Carmen and Turandot.
Saturday, Apr 11, 2026 7:30pm
We toast our 75th year by starting a new nine-year cycle of Beethoven’s influential and superb symphonies. Native son, violinist Andrew Dunlap, returns to the Lakeshore to perform a dazzling concerto by Bruch.