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2026-27 Season

A New Artis—Naples Season Begins

onnections lend momentum to an Artis—Naples devoted to Broadway, Billy Joel and the unmistakable film scores
season. A musical idea finds visual form in a gallery. A of John Williams. The year also brings extraordinary visiting
C dance program reveals the pulse of an orchestral score. ensembles, including return visits by The Cleveland Orchestra,
A film or musical gives new perspective on a story audiences the London Symphony Orchestra and the Naples debut of the
thought they knew. Munich Philharmonic. Special appearances by Yo-Yo Ma, Audra
Those connections guide the 2026-27 season, which officially McDonald, Itzhak Perlman, and Sutton Foster and Kelli O’Hara
begins this August under the theme To Light: The Art of Hope. with the Naples Philharmonic add to the season’s scope.
From performances in its concert halls to exhibitions in The In The Baker Museum, the season moves through dreams,
Baker Museum and education programs across the Kimberly sound, memory and place. The Surrealist International: Fifty Years
K. Querrey and Louis A. Simpson Cultural Campus, the new of Dreams draws from the holdings of London’s Tate Galleries
Artis—Naples season looks toward works of art born from to explore one of the 20th century’s most imaginative artistic
resilience, restoration and imagination. movements, while Baron Wolman: Capturing the Sound of an Era
Beethoven stands at the center of one of the season’s clearest brings the late 1960s music scene into focus through the lens of
journeys toward light. Two hundred years after his death, his Rolling Stone’s first chief photographer. Louise Nevelson: Dawn to
music remains a force of argument, of struggle, of vast human Dusk traces the artist’s emergence as one of the most distinctive
possibility. His legacy will be seen and heard across 2026- sculptural voices of her time, and Florida Contemporary 2026-27
27 in forms both monumental and intimate: a Masterworks highlights the state’s vibrant arts scene.
season rich with Beethoven, including Artistic and Music The season widens the view onstage, moving between theatrical
Director Alexander Shelley leading the Naples Philharmonic landmarks, popular music, film and comic voices. The Naples
through all nine symphonies; chamber programs in the Sypert International Film Festival returns in October for its 18th year
Salon series—one featuring Artis—Naples Artistic Partner with more than 60 independent films and special events. Hamilton
and violinist James Ehnes leading his Ehnes Quartet; piano and The Sound of Music anchor a Broadway lineup that also
and ensemble works through Grand Piano Series; a theatrical includes The Notebook and The Great Gatsby, bringing familiar
portrait in Beethoven: I Shall Hear in Heaven; and performances stories into bold theatrical frames. Artists and personalities,
by visiting orchestras that bring his music into dialogue with including Paul Anka, David Foster and Katharine McPhee,
other masterpieces. The Baker Museum joins the celebration Michael Feinstein, Larry the Cable Guy and Rita Rudner, add to a
with the currently exhibiting Linling Lu: Fugue in 3 Voices, year filled with music and laughter.
which translates inspiration drawn from Beethoven and
other composers into radiant circular paintings, making the
composer’s presence visible as well as audible.
Around that central thread, the Naples Philharmonic
season opens outward with artists and repertoire spanning the
familiar and the new. Masterworks programs bring Yeol Eum
Son, Anthony McGill, Renée Fleming, Thomas Hampson,
James Ehnes, and others to Hayes Hall, while Principal
Pops Conductor Jack Everly returns to lead Pops programs

Jack Everly conducts the Naples Philharmonic.

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