Four evenings of aerial thrills and chills, set to frightful masterworks of music.

Seattle Metropolitan Chamber Orchestra is joined by some of the world’s greatest aerial artists in a one-of-a-kind performance spectacular, just in time for Halloween. Carnevolar: DéComposition is a partnership with Emerald City Trapeze Arts and the School of Acrobatics and New Circus Arts, featuring a world-class flying trapeze act and other awe-inspiring aerial arts such as silks, contortion, and Chinese pole. The orchestra is expanded in size for this program, conducted by Geoffrey Larson.

Tickets: $25-$95

8:00 PM Friday, October 20
8:00 PM Saturday, October 21
8:00 PM Friday, October 27
8:00 PM Saturday, October 28

Doors open at 7:00 PM, performance begins at 8:00 PM
Runtime: one and a half hours, with one intermission

Emerald City Trapeze Arts
2702 6th Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134 | map | Sodo Light Rail Station nearby

Ages 21+
Note: Strobe lights are momentarily used in the second half of this performance, and may affect sensitive groups.

Our favorite monstrously delicious snacks are available at the on-site bar, as well as cocktails crafted by creatures of the dark.

Join us after the show on Saturday, October 28th for a Halloween-themed dance party until 2:00 AM!

On the Program

Giuseppe Verdi: Prelude to Macbeth
Camille Saint-Saëns: Danse Macabre
Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky: Selections from Swan Lake
Antonín Dvorák: The Water Goblin
Antonín Dvorák: Slavonic Dance, Op. 72 No. 5
Christoph Willibald Gluck: Dance of the Furies from Orpheus and Eurydice
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov: Selections from Scheherazade
Engelbert Humperdinck: Witch’s Ride from Hansel and Gretel
Modest Mussorgsky, orch. Rimsky-Korsakov: Night on Bald Mountain
Gounod: Selections from Faust
Aram Khachaturian: Selections from Masquerade
Chopin: Nocturne No. 19 in E minor
Schubert, arr. Liszt: Der Erlkönig
Weber: Selections from Der Freischutz

Caitlin Kelley, concertmaster and solo violin
Geoffrey Larson, conductor 

Marcia Davis