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All concerts for Ravinia’s 2025 season go on sale to the public on Thursday, April 24, at 8:00 a.m. CT, only on Ravinia.org!
We want to ensure you have a quick, easy, and secure experience purchasing tickets to the performances you most want to attend.
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With beautiful music, enthusiastic community, and gorgeous scenery, it’s hardly a surprise that Ravinia is a special place for many. For some concertgoers, however, Ravinia holds extra sentimental value as a venue where their love stories have grown and flourished. Thank you to those who shared their stories with us – we are grateful to be included in such romantic milestones.
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Although Ravinia has been best known for more than a century as a destination for live music bathed in summer’s warm weather and leisure time, the Highland Park venue also offers visitors entertainment for the holiday season as well as in fall and spring.
During its Dec. 6–8 Winter Weekend, Ravinia is presenting three musical lineups, including two directly centered on the yuletide; a specially curated menu and seasonal goodies in two of its onsite eateries; and a pop-up shop with holiday gifts.
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All concerts for Ravinia’s 2024 season go on sale to the public on Wednesday, April 24, at 8:00 a.m. CDT, only on ravinia.org!
We want to ensure you have a quick, easy, and secure experience purchasing tickets to the performances you most want to attend. Here are four tips to make your buying experience better.
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Photo: Nigel Parry
Ravinia is proud to announce the appointment of esteemed violinist Midori as the Artistic Director of Ravinia Steans Music Institute’s Piano & Strings program, effective this fall to begin overseeing the 2024 summer season. Midori will succeed the acclaimed violinist Miriam Fried, who has held that position since 1994, following the tenures of the late Robert Mann (1988) and Walter Levin (1989–93).
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The newly opened Harrison building supports the growth of Reach Teach Play, the festival’s music education programs, by providing greater administrative facilities
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All concerts for Ravinia’s 2023 season go on sale to the public on Monday, May 1, at 8:00 a.m. CDT! Can’t-miss concerts include Charlie Puth, Jesse & Joy, Ne-Yo, Jason Mraz and His SuperBand, Natalia Lafourcade, John Legend, Carrie Underwood, and more, plus the multi-week residencies of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Marin Alsop.
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Over 75,000 community members are served through Ravinia's Reach Teach Play Programs each year, ensuring that music education remains accessible to all. Our programs are designed to educate, foster diverse audience involvement, and provide the population with equitable access to live music experiences in their communities and at Ravinia. Programs that extend Ravinia’s REACH programs bring the joy of music to thousands throughout the Chicago area through programs like Classical Invitations, Ravinia Nights, Kids Lawn, Words & Music, and Opportunity Lawn Pass. Learn more about the programs that are in full swing throughout the entire summer!
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Curated by the GRAMMY Museum and Fab Four Exhibits, Ladies and Gentlemen … The Beatles! brings us back to the early ’60s when rock and roll was re-energized—some say saved—by four lads from Liverpool. This exhibit covers the period from early 1964 through mid-1966—the years Beatlemania ran rampant in America. During this time the band affected nearly every aspect of pop culture, including fashion, art, advertising, media, and, of course, music. On display are many Beatles-related pop culture artifacts from the period, as well as correspondence, instruments, posters, photographs, interviews, and interactive displays.
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Reach Teach Play kindergarten through 3rd-grade students from its Music Discovery Program came together to celebrate and showcase live music and dance performances for their friends, family, and educators.
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Enjoy rooftop views, local brews, and live radio broadcasts on select nights at the BMO Rooftop. This summer, we’re excited to be showcasing three local breweries: ERIS Brewery and Cider House, Funkytown Brewery, and Moor’s Brewing Co.!
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A day in the life of a Steans Music Institute fellow is never all practice, all the time. To share glimpses of the experience with those on the outside, “Tuesday Takeovers” began in RSMI’s Instagram Stories, bringing viewers into the musicians’ jam-packed schedules and daily experiences.
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Not only did live music return to the park after a dark and quiet 2020 season, so did Ravinia’s Reach Teach Play (RTP) education program participants. Although RTP instructors and students were not able to perform or meet in person for over a year, this season brought with it numerous joyful reunions and inspiring moments.
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This month, Reach Teach Play’s Guest Artists in the Classroom brought the Clinard Dance Flamenco Quartet to Hitch Elementary School for two performances in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month. The performances brought zapateado–a Spanish word referring to the shoe strikes flamenco dancers make–to over 100 students along with mesmerizing sounds from traditional Spanish guitar, a cantaora or cante singer, and a violin.
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The 2021 Ravinia season has been unforgettable and, in typical fashion, packed full of numerous memorable musical moments. Yet with so much happening in the park—between 70 different events over three months—it’s easy to have missed something amazing along the way. We invite you to take a look back at the incomparable 2021 season with us through the video recap and image galleries, and remember that while you were making these indelible summer memories, you were also helping make our year-round music education programs possible. Thank you for joining us this season!
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The Ravinia Music Box (RMB) and its immersive theater experience, titled Bernstein’s Answer, is now fully open to the public.
The RMB features an immersive, 65-seat, wraparound 4D theater with a museum gallery space, created by BRC Imagination Arts, the experience design and production company behind the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum in Springfield, and the Ryman Auditorium Backstage Tour in Nashville, among many other brand and cultural destinations.
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This year’s Ravinia Women’s Board fundraising gala raised a total of $750,000 to support and promote the festival’s Reach Teach Play education programs, which serve more than 75,000 community members each year.
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Get familiar with our new seating options for 2021 as well as new digital ticketing and other ticket buying tips. Plan ahead for your summer of live music.
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Jonathan Rush is one of the world's most exciting young conductors and the students of Sistema Ravinia were instantly inspired and moved by his craft and dedication. They saw that being the best wasn’t far from their reach, which is exactly what Rush wanted to accomplish when meeting these students.
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Inaugurated by the Chicago Jazz Orchestra Sextet on July 3, the brand-new Carousel Stage at Ravinia offers a series of casual evening performances of jazz, folk, and bluegrass music, hosted in the carousel-styled rotunda on the North Lawn with general admission Lawn seating only.
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