Last Minute Plans: May 9 - 11

This weekend’s guide is all about artistic renewal, unexpected connections, and full-bodied finales. In Vancouver, the Chamber Choir brings fresh commissions to life ahead of their next recording project. Seattle Opera delivers Puccini’s high-stakes Tosca, while Native Fashion Week returns to Santa Fe with bold collections from top designers. Chicago Sinfonietta closes their season with a program built on transformation, and Beethoven, Verdi, and Tchaikovsky echo across Las Vegas and Portland. Sunday brings stories of friendship and reckoning in San Francisco, and a luminous pairing of Florence Price and Rachmaninoff in Boston.

Friday, May 9

Vancouver: Fresh Ink – Vancouver Chamber Choir
New music, new voices. This concert previews the choir’s first recording project under Kari Turunen, with premieres and commissions by Canadian and international composers.
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Seattle: Tosca – Seattle Opera
Passion, betrayal, and one of opera’s most infamous villains. Puccini’s Tosca returns in a classic production with a rotating cast of powerhouse vocalists.
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Saturday, May 10

Santa Fe: SWAIA Saturday Runway – Southwestern Association for Indian Arts
Part of the second annual SWAIA Native Fashion Week, this showcase features runway collections by House of Sutai, Lesley Hampton, Ally’s Ribbons, and TOC Legends. Your ticket includes all-day access to pop-ups and activation spaces, with seating opening 30 minutes before showtime.
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Chicago: Tonal Transformation – Chicago Sinfonietta
From Brittany J. Green’s lush sound worlds to Hailstork’s fiery new saxophone concerto, this season finale pairs new work with the emotional weight of Tchaikovsky’s Symphony No. 4.
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Las Vegas: Beethoven’s Seventh – Las Vegas Philharmonic
Rei Hotoda leads a dynamic program that moves through Clyne, Higdon, and Montgomery before landing in Beethoven’s rhythmic, triumphant Symphony No. 7.
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Portland: Falstaff – Portland Opera
Verdi’s final opera gets a fresh visual twist with projection design, keeping all the cleverness and chaos that’s made Falstaff a comic gem for over a century.
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Sunday, May 11

San Francisco: To My Girls – New Conservatory Theatre Center
A Palm Springs getaway brings big laughs and even bigger truths in this heartfelt comedy about friendship, aging, and being seen by the people who matter most.
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Boston: Adoration – Longwood Symphony Orchestra
Florence Price’s tender Adoration and Rachmaninoff’s sweeping Symphony No. 2 anchor this elegant program, with guest voices from Cambridge Common Voices.
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