Special Events
23-24 Opening Night Gala
Hilbert Circle Theatre
The Performance
The Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra welcomes back Indiana Living Legend and Grammy Award-winning violinist Joshua Bell along with the ISO’s fourth Music Director John Nelson for the 2023 Opening Night Gala. Bell has performed with every major orchestra worldwide and first came to national attention at the age of 14. Nelson was the ISO’s fourth music director and served the ISO from 1976 to 1987.
The program features Joshua Bell performing Bruch’s passionate First Violin Concerto. John Nelson leads a program that includes Mendelssohn’s joyful “Italian” Symphony. Soprano Larisa Martínez, who performed with Andrea Bocelli and the ISO in 2022 at Gainbridge Fieldhouse, brings her stunning operatic talent to the Hilbert Circle Theatre stage for Mendelssohn’s Ah, ritorna, eta dell’oro.
The Gala is the ISO’s largest fundraising event of the year and is featured as part of the IU Health Plans Classical Series presented by the Christel DeHaan Family Foundation. Single tickets for the concert are still available.
Artistic Leadership
Artists
Program to Include
Symphony No. 4 “Italian”
Mendelssohn
Violin Concerto No. 1
Bruch
Ah, ritorna, eta dell'oro
Mendelssohn
