NSO: Julia Wolfe's 'Her Story' with the Lorelei Ensemble | Marin Alsop conducts 'Scheherazade'

National Symphony Orchestra

Thursday, February 27, 2025 @ 7:00am – 9:00pm (EST)

Concert Hall at John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC, United States

$17-$119

Lorelei Ensemble
Marin Alsop, conductor

Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov — Scheherazade, Op. 35
Julia Wolfe — Her Story (NSO co-commission)

Exceptional all-female vocal group Lorelei Ensemble joins the NSO to perform Her Story, Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Julia Wolfe's large-scale theatrical work drawn from letters written by the trailblazing suffragettes fighting for their right to vote.

Conductor Marin Alsop opens the concert with Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, an exotic journey of love, peril, and intrigue inspired by the famous folktale about a clever young queen who spins 1001 fantastical stories to outwit a murderous sultan.

Performances on Feb. 27 & Mar. 1.

About National Symphony Orchestra

https://www.kennedy-center.org/nso/home/

About Lorelei Ensemble

Through commissioning, performance, recording, and education, Lorelei is changing what it means to be a group of women's voices sharing a stage. We collaborate with living creators to expand and deepen the repertoire of sounds, timbres, words, and stories women use to reflect and challenge our world. The result is honest, intimate, thrilling, unparalleled music-making that starts from the unique position of power and cultural influence that women hold.

https://www.loreleiensemble.com/