Bask in the brilliance of Beethoven with the National Symphony Orchestra, under its esteemed music director Gianandrea Noseda, and Wolf Trap Opera artists. This all-Beethoven program opens with the Handel-inspired overture toThe Consecration of the Houseand his rarely performedElegiac Songbefore concluding with Beethoven’s Ninth, the symphony by which all others are measured. The cosmic drama of this colossal masterwork—its grand, emotional melodies and the tremendous closing “Ode to Joy”—reminds us why Beethoven’s final symphony resounds as loudly today as it did two centuries ago.Tessa McQueen, sopranoCecelia McKinley, altoDemetrious Sampson, tenorJonathanPatton, baritonePROGRAMLUDWIG VAN BEETHOVENThe Consecration of the House– OvertureElegiac Song, Op. 118Symphony No. 9