GREENFIELD — The Pioneer Valley Symphony is bringing together various choruses, orchestras and guest soloists from across the region for its season finale, a performance of Carl Orff’s classic “Carmina Burana” and other compositions.

The performance, titled “Ancient Burlesque,” will be held Saturday, April 26, at 7 p.m. at Greenfield High School. Participating in the production are local groups including the PVS Chorus and Orchestra, the Hampshire Young People’s Chorus and Illumine Vocal Arts Ensemble. Also included in the lineup are professional guest soloists Maggie Finnegan, Patrick Dailey and Bradford Gleim.

“We’re bringing together the whole orchestra, the whole chorus, extra singers from alumni and vocal arts ensembles and the children’s choir,” said Joanna Faraby Walker, executive director of the Pioneer Valley Symphony. “With 168 people on stage, it’s going to fill the whole Greenfield High School auditorium.”

The performance represents the culmination of the symphony’s 86th season. Along with “Carmina Burana,” the night’s main event, the PVS Orchestra will open the evening with a rendition of John Adams’ “Lollapalooza.”

“Carmina Burana” is perhaps one of the most easily recognizable compositions. Composed in 1935 and 1936 by Orff, it is based on 24 poems from the medieval manuscript of the same name. The composition’s opening and closing movement, “O Fortuna,” is the most iconic section, commonly featured in movies, advertising and pop culture. It has also been sampled by musicians such as American rapper Nas.

Leading the performance as maestro is Pioneer Valley Symphony’s music director and Mount Holyoke College music professor Tianhui Ng. Ng has conducted orchestras across the world, including in the Czech Republic, Belgium, the United Kingdom and Spain. He has also been the recipient of numerous awards and grants, most recently the Mount Holyoke College Meribeth E. Cameron Faculty Award for Scholarship.

“The first time I ever heard [“Carmina Burana”] was on the radio, and I remember being 13 or 14 and hearing it and just being completely enthralled,” Ng said. “This piece is one of those top 10 greatest choral hits of all time. One of the things we asked the chorus was, ‘What would you love to sing?’ And this has been on the list for a while, so we decided to do it.”

The Pioneer Valley Symphony had been waiting for the right moment to perform a composition as complicated and production-heavy as this one. The pandemic led to the shutdown of many choirs in the area and complicated the ability to hire enough instrumentalists to put on a piece like this. Now, years after the pandemic, Ng said he feels the Pioneer Valley Symphony is finally well-equipped to put on a production of this scale.

“We thought there might be a need for us to come together and sing something irreverent, just get it off our chests and be together in community for that,” he said. “And this is just the right piece for that.”

As music director, Ng was personally responsible for finding and hiring the soloists for this performance. He had previously worked together with both Finnegan, a soprano, and Dailey, a countertenor, and felt their voices were perfectly suited for the composition. Although Ng and Gleim, a baritone, had not worked together before, he found Gleim’s voice and performance skills to be perfect for the composition’s relatively high baritone solo.

“I’m personally ready to be blown away. It’s going to be massive. It’s like a Titanic musical endeavor,” Ng said.

John Thomas, a member of the PVS Chorus, was first drawn to the group due to its creativity, innovation and commitment to the Pioneer Valley community. He feels the most challenging part of putting together this composition has been the speed at which the lyrics must be sung, particularly for the deeper male voices. The number of movements in the composition are also daunting, but he feels the Pioneer Valley Symphony is ready to do it justice.

“When do we all get to work together in a way like this that is so positive and affirming and engaging as putting together a musical production of this size?” he said. “Everything in music is all about collaboration and no one person can do what the other person can do, so we have to work together as a team.”

David Schneider, a musicologist and lecturer for Pioneer Valley Symphony, will be delivering a pre-concert talk at 6 p.m. before the show.

Tickets for the performance can be purchased at pvsoc.org/tickets and are being offered at a sliding scale from $15 to $35, with a recommended price of $25.