Ravinia Festival, one of the Chicago area’s favorite summer concert series, has officially launched its full 2023 line-up, with performances ranging from Jethro Tull, to John Legend, to a six-week residency from the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.
The highly anticipated summer concert series was announced Thursday.
“Ravinia’s 2023 season has something for everyone,” Jeffrey P. Haydon, President and CEO of Ravinia, said in a press release.
Haydon’s statement continued, “From highlighting female composers of various genres to bringing the best of pop, rock, jazz and classical to our diverse performances.” Ravina’s summer shows reflect the wide-ranging musical tastes of Chicagoans and beyond. Whether you’re attending for the first time or your fiftieth, a concert here is a special experience and we hope our audience will appreciate it.”
The Chicago Symphony Orchestra will also return again this year for a six-week summer residency, beginning in July. According to the organizers, “Most CSO programs this summer include at least one piece by a female composer.”
The season runs from June 6 to September 10, and tickets go on sale May 1.
Below is the full collection, broken down by type. Performances may take place in the main stage suite, the indoor Martin Theater and Bennett Gordon Auditorium, or the outdoor Carousel Theatre.
Pop, Rock, R&B, Indie, Country Hip-Hop and DJ
- Ms. Lauryn Hill, June 17th
- ChicagoAnd June 18th
- Counting crows And Dashboard recognition23 June
- charlie puth, June 24th
- santana, June 30 and July 1
- straight no chaser And ambrosia, July 2
- ne yo, July 7th
- John Fogerty And hearty hare, July 9th
- Miko MarxJuly 13, Carousel
- Jason Mraz and owner of SuperBand, Aug 2
- The Blues Traveler And Big Head Todd and the BeastsAugust 12
- john legend, August 13th and 14th
- Jethro Tull, Aug 18th
- Kenny Loggins And rock revo yacht, Aug 19
- Classic Albums Live dark side of the moon, Aug 25th
- Boys II Men And Easley brothersAugust 26
- train And Barmaley 30 Aug
- Brandi Carlisle, 31 Aug
- Carrie Underwood September 1 and 2
- queen! Featuring resident DJs Derek CarterAnd Michael SerafiniAnd Garrett Davidwith the hosts Lucy StollAnd Nicoand special guests, September 9
Jazz, Blues, Folk, Gospel, American, World and Latin Songwriters
- Michael Feinstein and Jean-Yves Thibaudet, June 14th
- Jacob Collier And lawrence, With a pre-concert performance at the Carousel by Small habitsAnd June 16th
- Pat Metheny, June 20th
- Melody Gardot June 22nd
- Adrian Dunn Singers, July 14 (before the CSO concert that evening)
- Maria Schneider OrchestraJuly 23
- The birth of a brass band July 26th
- Elvin Bishop and Charlie Musselwhite, Aug 3
- Bose Scaggs And Cape moAugust 6
- own consensusAugust 8
- man’s companion And George BensonAugust 23
- Staines Institute of Music Jazz Directors Billy ChildsAnd Rufus ReidAnd Steve WilsonPlus Sarah Caswell And Christian AumannAnd with Kurt EllingAnd September 8th
Family and cinema
- ralph world, June 24th
- The Ravinia National Screenplay Orchestra along with the Chicago Philharmonic, July 8th
- Laurie Berkner, July 30th
- Opera for young people: Rossini The Barber of SevilleAnd August 12th
- Oki Doki Brothers, 26 Aug
- encanto at a concertAnd Complete Film with Live Recording Performed by the Chicago Philharmonic with Conductor Thiago Tiberio, August 27
- Jurassic Park 3rd Anniversary ConcertAnd Complete film with live recording performed by the Chicago Philharmonic with conductor Scott Terrell, August 29
Concerts and chamber music
- Arnaud Sussmann, violinAnd and Michael Stephen Brown, piano; June 18th
- Karim Suleiman, tenorAnd And Sean Shippey, guitar21 June
- Jorge Federico Osorio, piano, In Brahms and Beethoven, June 20th
- Calidor QuartetComprehensive Beethoven Program. June 29th
- Staines Conservatory of Music, Miriam Fried and Mark Steinberg, violin, Paul Bess and Kim Kashkashian, viola, Marcy Rosen, cello, and Alessio Pax, piano, in the Haydn, Busoni, and Brahms programme; July 1st
- Apollo fireIrish folk music programme, 8 July
- Ariel QuartetAnd Ayano Ninomiya, violin, Matthew LippmanAnd ViolaAnd Karen Ouzounian, celloAnd Henry Kramer, pianoJuly 20
- Danish String QuartetThe program ranges from Haydn and Bach to Shostakovich and Scandinavian folk music, July 27th
- Aline Perez, SopranoAnd And Kevin Murphy, pianoAugust 15
- Lara Downes, pianoAnd And Nicole Capel, soprano, with a program of music by women composers from Clarice Assaad to Florence Price and Billie Holiday to Missy Mazzoli; Aug 22
- Misha Dichter, piano, Program Brahms, Beethoven, Debussy, and Liszt; Aug 27
- Jory Venikor, harpsichord, Sept. 2
- Tessa Lark too in a program of Ysaÿe sonnets interspersed with Lark’s own compositions; Sept. 3
- Baroque music Gene Glover, Commander, And James Ince, violin; Sept. 5
- Black Oak Band He will play instruments from Violins of Hope, a concert project featuring a private collection of violas, violas, and cellos that belonged to Jewish musicians before and during the Holocaust, as well as music by composers who lost their lives in that time; September 9th
dance
- Ruth Paige Civic Ballet and Friends, June 15th
- Ruth Paige Civic Ballet and FriendsJune 17
- The Chicago Black Dance Heritage Project: Transformation, Sept. 7
Chicago Symphony Orchestra
- July 14: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with a new text for “Ode to Joy” and jazz and drum breaks between movements
- July 15th: Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with a new text for “Ode to Joy”—commissioned by former American poet Tracy K. Smith by Carnegie Hall—and jazz and drum breaks between movements
- July 16: Tony and Grammy Award-winning singer Heather Headley and the Ravinia Lundell Choir
- July 19: Mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke joins in the All-Mahler program that begins with the songs of Alma Mahler, who was a composer in her own right, and ends with Gustav Mahler’s Symphony No. 5.
- July 21st: Chicago Symphony Choir performance of works by Roxana Panufnik in a program that also features music from Gabriela Montero, performing her Piano Concerto
- July 28th: Mei-Ann Chen, former TACF Fellow known to Chicago audiences from her role conducting the Chicago Sinfonietta, guest conducting CSO in the music of Price, Copland and Beethoven, with solo pianist Jeremy Dink
- July 29th: Guest Conductor Ted Sperling salutes three famous female singer/songwriters on Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon’s Pop Show
- Aug 4And 6: Mozart’s full-length opera half-staged at the Martin Theatre
- August 5: Van Klebernov Piano Competition gold medalist Yunshan Lim performs Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, as well as works by the CSO’s former residence composer Augusta Red Thomas and Beethoven.
- August 9: Guest Conductor Jonathan Heyward—the newly appointed Musical Director of the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra—performs his conducting debut led by Pulitzer Prize-winning CSO Tanya Lyon. a brooch with violinist Benjamin Bellman; And Rachmaninov.
- August. 10: Teddy Abrams leads the CSO in a program with pianist Jeffrey Kahane, featuring music by TJ Cole, Gabriel Kahane, and Prokofiev
- August 11th: Wainwright joins the CSO for an evening of fresh orchestral arrangements of songs from his critically acclaimed albums “Want One” and “Want Two”
- August 17th: guest leader Joshua Wellerstein makes his CSO debut directing a program of concerts by Steele, Shostakovich and Elgar, featuring acclaimed cellist Alyssa Wellerstein as soloist
- August 20: Guest conductor George Stilotto conducts the annual Tchaikovsky Spectacular
According to the organizers, tickets will go on sale to the public on May 1. Rafinha guests are allowed to bring their own outings, including food and alcoholic beverages.