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Florence, Italy
73rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
April 28 to May 12, 2011
Website: http://www.maggiofiorentino.com
The annual festival is a potpourri of operas, dance, concerts, and exhibitions presented at different venues in the city. This year the 74th Festival of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino salutes the 150th anniversary of Italy’s unification with special programs. It will open with Giuseppe Verdi’s Aida, followed by a contemporary opera, L’Italia del Destino by Luca Mosca, and then return to the origins of the melodrama with Claudio Monteverdi’s L’Incoronazione di Poppea. In addition there will be numerous daily events until June 23rd in different locations throughout the heart of Florence. Numerous concerts, ballet performances and theatre complement the festival schedule.
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
April 15 to October 30, 2011
Website: www.stratfordshakespearefestival.com
The six-month-long festival, located just two hours west of Toronto, presents ten plays this year: Camelot, The Grapes of Wrath, The Homecoming, Hosanna, Jesus Christ Superstar; The Little Years, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Misanthrope, Richard III,
Shakespeare’s Will, Titus Andronicus, and Twelfth Night.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen International Festival
May 25 to June 8, 2011
Website: http://www.fib.no/en
Established in 1953, the Bergen International Festival will embrace 160 events in 2011, covering music, opera, theatre, dance and the visual arts. This year’s music program consists of concerts by well-known names such as Evgeny Kissin, Andreas Scholl, Patricia Kopachinskaja, Phantasm and Khatia Buniatishvili. In addition, the festival has invited a ‘supergroup’ of string players in connection with the new project The Flame of Ole Bull, which includes more than twenty concerts, discussions and master classes. New theatrical productions, include a new musical production ±0 that is based on Greenland’s history and life there today with the threat of climate change and major social problems. From Iceland. Gerpla, which is directed by Baltasar Kormákur, takes a humoristic dig at the idealization of Norse culture. Other productions include the opening opera Oedipus Rex by Igor Stravinsky, and Chinese productions of plays by Jon Fosse and Henrik Ibsen which provide a new perspective on Norwegian theatre
The Israeli choreographer Sharon Eyal has specially produced a production for Carte Blanche, Norway’s national contemporary dance company, and the French-Tunisian dancer Héla Fattoumi will perform at this year’s Festival with her controversial solo production about Muslim clothing.
Brussels
Brussels Jazz Marathon
May 27 to 29, 2011
Website: http://www.brusselsjazzmarathon.be /
Some 125 live concerts with jazz musicians will set the capital on fire with its annual jazz marathon. Now into its 16th year, the jazz fete features 400 musicians performing 125 concerts at both outdoor and indoor venues around the city. Best of all, the concerts are free and there are lots of workshops to participate in.
Charleston, South Carolina
34thd Annual Spoletto Festival USA
May 27 to June 12, 2011
Website: www.spoletousa.org
For its 35th season, Spoleto Festival USA will showcase more than 150 performances of internationally and nationally acclaimed artists in opera, theater, dance, music, jazz, music theater, and contemporary circus, in one of the annual Festival’s largest programs ever. The 2011 OPERA program offers audiences three productions of distinct style and subject: Mozart’s The Magic Flute; Émilie by, Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho’and in celebration of the centenary of the birth of Festival founder Gian Carlo Menotti, a fresh look at one of Menotti’s most popular and compelling operas, The Medium. The 2011 Theater productions include Ireland’s renowned Druid Theatre in its Festival debut with its multi-award-winning production of The Cripple of Inishmaan; and the highly innovative Cornwall (UK)-based Kneehigh Theatre will perform Hans Christian Andersen’s The Red Shoes.
Other performances include The Gospel at Colonus that blends the agony of Greek tragedy with the ecstasy of American gospel music; the Spain-based Corella Ballet; choreographer Emmanuèle Phuon’s revival of ancient Khmer dance in Khmeropédies I & II; and Shen Wei Dance Arts’ exploration of Asian cultures in Re-Parts I, II, III.
Dresden, Germany
Dresden Music Festival
May 18 to June 5, 2011
Website: www.musikfestspiele.com
Leading international orchestra s, ensembles and soloists operas, ballets, orchestral works and chamber music in historic Baroque settings from the Semper Opera to the Church of Our Lady. Under the motto "Five Elements" this year’s focus is on the connection between Asia and Europe.
Prague
66th Prague Spring International Festival
May 12 to June 4, 2011
Website: http://www.prague-spring.net
The Prague Spring will celebrate 2011, the Year of Mahler, in grand style. The coming season of the Festival promises to be a show of the best orchestras in the world including the New York Philharmonic and the Berlin Philharmonic. Mahler’s ‘unperformable’ Symphony of a Thousand will also be performed on May 18 by the Czech Philharmonic with the North German Radio Symphony Orchestra from Hamburg, vocal soloists from all over the world, the Prague Philharmonic Choir, choirs from Hamburg and Schleswig-Holstein, and Boni Pueri (the Czech Boys Choir).
Glyndebourne, England
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2011
May 21 to August 28, 2011
Website: www.glyndebourne.com
The 77th annual Festival will open with the first ever staging here of Die Meistersinger von Nürenberg, directed by David McVicar and conducted by Music Director Vladimir Jurowski. Robert Carsen directs a new production of Rinaldo, continuing Glyndebourne’s exploration of Handel operas while former Glyndebourne on Tour Music Director Robin Ticciati conducts the revival of the 2010 Festival production of Jonathan Kent’s Don Giovanni. Melly Still’s 2009 Festival production of Rusalka is revived, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis. Jonathan Kent’s 2006 Festival production of The Turn of the Screw returns, with Glyndebourne on Tour Music Director Jakub Hrŭša conducting all performances.
The 2009 Festival production of The Fairy Queen will be screened nationally and internationally as part of the Opus Arte 2010/11 cinema season. There will also be international screenings of Falstaff and L’elisir d’amore from the 2009 Festival. Further details will be available nearer the time from www.glyndebourne.com
Attendance at the opera performances requires black tie formal wear.
Leipzig, Germany
International Mahler Festival
May 17 to 29, 2011
Website: www.mahler-2011.de
To commemorate the 100th anniversary of Mahler's death on May 18, 2011, the Leipzig Gewandhaus will present a Mahler Festival during which, in addition to concerts by the Gewandhaus Orchestra under Riccardo Chailly, ten leading international orchestras will also appear, including the Royal Concertgebouw, the New York Philharmonic and the Vienna Philharmonicc. All ten of the composer's symphonies will be performed during the festival.
Liverpool, UK
2011 Liverpool City Sound Festival
May 19 to 21, 2011
Website: http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk
The three-day festival offers 300 bands spread across 30 venues in the city. Performances range from indie to rock and hip hop to electro, with appearances by The Black Lips, The Whip, Jamie XX, Spank Rock, Wave Machines, Willy Mason, SBTRKT, Sound of Guns, Lanterns On The Lake, Chain & The Gang, Chad Valley, Alessi's Ark, Mugstar, Handsome Furs, Colourmusic, The Sand Band, Ed Sheeran, Publicist, TEETH, Idiot Glee, Those Dancing Days and Forest Swords to name a few!
Prague
The 66th Prague Spring International Music Festival
May 12 to June 6,2011
Website: www.prague-spring.net
The festival takes place each spring in Prague with orchestral and operatic performances as well as recitals and chamber music performed by international artists. Michael Tilson Thomas opens the opening concert with Mahler’s Symphony No. 8.. At the closing concert on June 4, Sir Simon Rattle conducts the Berlin Philharmonic in Mahler’s Symphony No. 6.
Aland, Finland
Åland Organ Festival
June 26 to July 2, 2010
Website: www.alfest.org
The 37th Åland Organ Festival offers high-class concerts at different venues with both national and international artists from Sweden, Iceland, France, Poland, Lithuania, Croatia, Austria and Italy. This year’s program features classic organ concerts, chamber concerts, Sunday services and one children’s concert which presents an organ fairy tale by Julya Westerberg and Anders Laine. The opening concert is held in Saltvik Church with tenor Mikael Fagerholm and organist Esa Toivola.
Becket, Massachusetts
Jacobs Pillow Festival
June 18 to August 28, 2011
Website: http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival
The 79th annual festival in the Berkshires features more than 160 free and ticketed dance performances including world premieres, U.S. debuts, and live music from around the globe. Highlights include the U.S. debut of 3e Étage: Soloists and Dancers of the Paris Opera Ballet; the dancers and master musicians of Tangueros del Sur performing authentic Argentinean tango; Big Dance Theater in the U.S. premiere of Supernatural Wife; Aspen Santa Fe Ballet's classically trained dancers and adventurous choreography; and the 30th anniversary celebration of Mark Morris Dance Group.
Ballet Genève' presents Romeo and Juliet set to the original ballet score by Sergei Prokofiev; David Dorfman Dance performs to the funk stylings of Sly and the Family Stone; Canadian contemporary dance icon Louise Lecavalier's work is set to Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, and Iggy Pop; Lar Lubovitch Dance Company performs to John Coltrane, Johannes Brahms, and Philip Glass; KEIGWIN + COMPANY uses music by Roy Orbison, Aretha Franklin, and Nina Simone; and Mark Morris Dance Group performances feature musicians from the acclaimed Tanglewood Music Center.
Brevard, North Carolina
Brevard Music Festival
June 24 to August 7, 2011
Website: http://www.brevardmusic.org /
The Brevard Music Center is a summer institute and festival in the mountains of scenic western North Carolina. Each summer students, guest artists and faculty members, and a full staff of technical and support personnel assemble in Brevard, creating a unique community of learning, teaching, and performing. The festival concerts present major orchestral, chamber, and operatic repertoire, with many of the performances free to the public.
Chicago
Ravinia Music Festival
June 9 to September 11, 2011
Website: www.ravinia.org
Located in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, the three-month-long festival features the Chicago Symphony and more than 100 events, including 43 debuts. It will offer free lawn admission to the August 6 concert with conductor Itzhak Perlman and pianist Leon Fleisher. Ravinia’s chamber and recital concerts celebrate Liszt Bicentennial, focusing on his piano works and on the composers who surrounded him or were influenced by him
Premieres include Ravinia commissions from Nico Muhly for 5 pianos and orchestra with The 5 Browns, and Rufus Wainwright making his CSO debut with his own 5 Shakespeare Sonnets. The festival will also celebrate legendary American composer George Gershwin with a program including his most beloved music at 7 p.m. on Saturday, July 23, in honor of the 75th anniversary of Gershwin’s one and only Ravinia performance by recreating the 1936 concert.
Glastonbury, UK
Glastonbury Festival
June 27 to 26, 2011
Website: www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
The Glastonbury Festival held at the Worthy Farm in Pilton in Southwest England draws thousands of people from across the globe to this rock n roll event. This year, performers include U2, Beyonce, Paul Simon, Morrissey and Fisherman’s Friends. According to a posting on the website, the 2011 festival is already sold out.
Katonah, New York
65th Caramoor International Music Festival
June 25 to August 10, 2011
Website: www.caramoor.org
Located just outside New York City in Katonah, the 66th annual festival features renowned musicians and ensembles; This year, the festival programs include a wide range of offerings, from the worlds of opera and bel canto, symphonic and chamber music, family programs, a celebration of American music, a jazz festival and the latest works from young artists breaking new ground.
Kuopio, Finland
42nd International Dance Festival
June 16 to 22, 2011
Website: www.kuopiodancefestival.fi
The 42nd Kuopio Dance Festival 2011 will present two North American dance companies; the Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet and the Ailey II. Other companies performing include the Korean Byuk-Pah Dance Research Society and the Brazilian Mimulus Cia de Dança. Greek choreographer Andonis Foniadakis presents his stunning version of the classic Romeo and Juliet and the male dancers of Belgian Compagnie Thor will perform their African movement. The Festival will premiere Minna Tuovinen and Martin Heslop’s Tango for the Radically Anonymous and Simo Kellokumpu and director Vincent Roumagnac’s work 6/62°53’N27°40E/16062011.
Leipzig, Germany
86th Bach Festival Leipzig 2011
June 10 to 19, 2911
Website: http://www.bach-leipzig.de
At Leipzig's Bach Festival, the works of the great composer are performed by internationally acclaimed musicians in venues associated with the great former cantor of St. Thomas' Church's. Alongside Bach's Masses, the festival also presents orchestral and choral works as well as organ and symphony concerts. In 2011, the works of two important musical personalities will be commemorated: Franz Liszt, the 200th anniversary of whose birth on October 22, and Gustav Mahler, who died one hundred years ago, on May 18, 1911, in Vienna. The program is complemented by special exhibitions and events.
Madrid
Rock in Rio (Ciudad del Rock, Arganda del Rey)
June 4, 5, 6, 11 and 14, 2010
Website: http://www.rockinriomadrid.com/en
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The rock festival returns with a lineup includes, among others, bands such as Metallica, Rage Against the Machine and Bon Jovi; singers Shakira and Rihanna; and DJs Tiesto, David Guetta and Paul Van Dyck.
Montreal
32nd International Festival of Jazz
June 25 to July 4, 2011
Website: http://www.montrealjazzfest.com
The festival, held at different venues in the city, captures the mood, from jazz fusion to American rock, to hip European music. Entertainers include Diana Kroll, Led Zeppelin’s masterful Robert Plant, the grand return of Sade to the Bell Centre, a concert-celebration of the 85th birthday of the Father of Festivals, George Wein, and the arrival of Paco de Lucía after a 10-year absence. Among the immortals, get ready for Marianne Faithfull, Wanda Jackson, Dave Brubeck, Peter Frampton, Tony Bennett, Don McLean, America, Return To Forever, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, and the Glenn Miller Orchestra and the Artie Shaw Orchestra in a new edition of the friendly Battle of the Bands. And much more.
New York
2011 Shakespeare in the Park
June 6 to July 30, 2011
Website: www.publictheater.org/content/view/126/219
The 2011 Shakespeare in the Park summer season will present two Shakespeare plays in repertory at the Central Park’s Dellacorte Theatre: All’s Well That Ends Well and Measure For Measure.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Berkshire Theatre Festival
June 29 to October 18, 2011
Website: www.berkshiretheatre.org
The 2011 Berkshire Theatre Festival (BTF) season will be headlined by a production of The Who’s Tommy, featuring Randy Harrison as Tommy and James Barry (of Bloody, Bloody Andrew Jackson) as Colonel Walker. It will be produced by BTF and staged at the Colonial from July 7 to 16. In addition, three world premieres will be presented: classic plays by A.R. Gurney, Michael Weller and Tennessee Williams as well as another classic musical presented by BTF’s pre-professional Unicorn Company of actors.
Rudolstadt, Germany
International Folk and Dance Festival
June 30 to July 3, 2011
Website: www.tff-rudolstadt.de
Germany’s biggest folk, roots, and world music festival focuses on the music of northern Switzerland, the musical instrument the harp and the waltz. Further highlights will be the German world music award RUTH, the children’s festival, a variety of lectures, workshops, and exhibitions, dozens of street musicians and instrument makers’ stalls.
Stratford-on-Avon, England
Royal Shakespeare Company
April To November, 2011
Website: www.rsc.org.uk
This year, the RSC celebrates is 50th birthday since its founding by Peter Hall in 1961. Two companies of actors will play across both the Royal Shakespeare Theatre and Swan Theatre, presenting a repertoire of work by Shakespeare and his contemporaries, new work and revivals of some of RST’s greatest hits. Productions include Macbeth, The Merchant of Venice, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Marat/Sade, Cardenio, The City Madam, Dunsinane, The Homecoming, and The Taming Of The Shrew.
Verona, Italy
89th Opera Festival
June 17 to September 3, 2011
Website: http://www.arena.it/eng/arenaeng.urd/portal.show?c=14
Since 1913 the Arena di Verona has been presenting opera outdoors at the ancient amphitheater dating back to Roman times. Six different operas are scheduled this year--
La Traviata, Nabucco,Romeo and Juliet, Barber of Seville, la Boheme, Aida-- starring some of the most famous names from the opera world, together with Orchestra, Choir and Corps de Ballet of the Arena di Verona.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
2011 Williamstown Theatre Festival
June 22 to August 28, 2011
Website: www.wtfestival.org
Entering its 57th season, the festival will present eight plays including Three Hotels by Jon Robin Baitz, Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer, and Ten Cents a Dance by John Doyle on the main stage. Other presentations in the Nikos Theatre include Williams’ Streetcar Named Desire and Ibsen’s A Doll House.
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
June 29 to August 21, 2011
Website: http://www.aspenmusicfestival.com/index.cfm?&swf_plugin=0,0,1
Music that has been inspired by literature, painting, sculpture, poetry, architecture, and abstract ideas will be the centerpiece of the eight-week season. Also, within the eight weeks, a presentation of a two-week mini-festival of Shakespeare’s presence in music will be thoroughly explored. Shakespeare will be presented in the Aspen Opera Theater’s season productions, including Verdi’s Falstaff and Britten’s Midsummer Night’s Dream.
Also being presented will be a wide array of standard orchestral repertoire, including the music of Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Strauss, Stravinsky, Rouse, and Pintscher, and a continued recognition of Mahler’s anniversary with many works representing the great output of this iconoclastic composer. Guest artists invited to the 2011 season include violinists Julia Fischer, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Gil Shaham, Adele Anthony, Robert McDuffie, and Augustin Hadelich; pianists Joyce Yang, Wu Han, Jeffrey Kahane, Simone Dinnerstein, Steven Osborne, and Marc-André Hamelin; also bassist Edgar Meyer, and cellists Sol Gabetta, Alisa Weilerstein, Lynn Harrell, Daniel Mueller-Schott, and David Finckel; conductors Nicholas McGegan, Jeffrey Kahane, David Robertson, James Conlon, Robert Spano, Ingo Metzmacher, Vasily Petrenko, Jane Glover, and Tomas Netopil among many other luminaries.
Ensembles-in-residence include the American Brass Quintet, the American String Quartet, the Emerson String Quartet, the Jupiter String Quartet, and the Takács Quartet. Christopher Rouse, Matthias Pintscher, Sydney Hodkinson, and George Tsontakis will be composers-in-residence.
Avignon, France
65th Festival d’Avignon
July 6 to 26, 2011
Website: www.festival-avignon.com
Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Avignon Festival is today one of the most important contemporary performing arts events in the world. In July, Avignon becomes a city-theater, transforming its architectural heritage into various performance venues presenting innovative theater and dance programs. Plays performed this year include Enfant, Levee des Conflits, Le Suicide, Sophocle’s Des Femmes and The Minister’s Black Veil, based on a story by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Bayreuth, Germany
Wagner Opera Festival
July 25 to August 28, 2011
Website: http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/english/english_156.html
The annual festival is devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner.
Cooperstown, New York
Glimmerglass Opera’s 2011 Festival
July 2 to August 23, 2011
Website: www.glimmerglass.org
The 2011 Festival offers a blend of tradition and innovation. Four new productions remain the center of our season—Carmen, Medea, Annie Get Your Gun, Double Bill—that will be supplemented by an array of engaging events – cabarets, concerts, master classes, a discussion series and more. The Festival artists include Anne Bogart, Amy Burton, Rod Gilfry, Nathan Gunn, Tony Kushner, Terrence McNally, John Musto, David Pittsinger, Jeanine Tesori and Festival Artist in Residence Deborah Voigt.
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
July 1 to 10, 2011
Website: http://jazz.dk/en/copenhagen-jazz-festival
The festival presents an impressive array of international and Danish jazz names, dispersed over the entire city at a record number of venues. The program also includes a series of themes that will hopefully make it a bit easier to get an overview of the more than 1,000 concerts that will be held over ten days. Performers include saxaphonist Sonny Rollins, the Keith Jarrett Trio and The Balkan Brass Battle, featuring Boban I Marko Markovic Orkestar and Fanfare Ciocărlia, performing on stage in a unique setting in Koncerthuset.
Dour, Belgium
23rd Dour Music Festival
July 14 to 17, 2011
Website: www.dourfestival.be
Located in the French-speaking village in Belgium, situated in the country’s Walloon region, rock bands from around the world will be strutting their stuff on Dour’s eight stages. Bands include Bikinians, Arsenal, Vismets, Das Pop, Romano Nervoso, Bony King Of Nowhere, Lucy Lucy!, El National Quarterback, Marble Sounds, Alpha 2.1, Dj Sonar, Primitiv 'beatbox', Wahwahsda, Hugo Freegow, Darko, X&TRICK.
Estoril, Portugal
Estoril Music Festival
Website: http://www.estorilfestival.net
Juan-les-Pins, France
Jazz à Juan
July 14 to 24, 2011
Website: www.antibesjuanlespins.com
Now in its 51st season as a premier festival for jazz, it takes place in the coastal town of Juan les Pins in the heart of the French Riviera. Top world performers perform jazz at its best, including Keith Jarrett Trio, Marcus Miller, James Hunter, Herbie Hancock.
Lenox, Massachusetts
Tanglewood Music Festival
July 5 to September 6, 2010
Website: www.tanglewood.org
The 2011 Tanglewood music festival, now in its 74th year as the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, opens on Tuesday, June 28, with a world premiere performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group, and closes with the annual Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival, September 2 to4.
On July 8, the opening concert will feature an extraordinary all-Italian program drawn from the operatic and symphonic repertoire with Music Director James Levine, conducting the BSO, an acclaimed quartet of vocal soloists, and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus. During the season, there will be four appearances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Boston Pops Cole Porter tribute led by Keith Lockhart,; and the popular Film Night with John Williams. Also scheduled are the welcome returns of Itzhak Perlman and Christoph Eschenbach and special appearances by favorite artists Joshua Bell, Stephanie Blythe, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Christoph von Dohnányi, Kurt Masur, and Peter Serkin. The traditional closing BSO performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony will be on August 28/29 under the direction of Lorin Maazel.
Tanglewood 2011 also presents some of the best from the worlds of jazz, pop, and rock, including four extraordinary appearances by singer/song writer legend James Taylor and the first Tanglewood performance by Grammy award-winning Train, to the annual Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion program and the season-ending Labor Day Weekend Jazz Festival. Other highlights include a world premiere performance by the Mark Morris Dance Group, two all-Ravel solo piano programs by Jean-Yves Thibaudet, a concert version of Handel's Orlando, and a recital by Stephanie Blythe, to the debut of the Mark O'Connor String Quartet, and mid-season jazz appearances by Brad Mehldau and John Pizzarelli's Radio Deluxe, the Ozawa Hall schedule offers concertgoers a rich variety of performances in the intimate surroundings of this Berkshire setting.
Tanglewood 2011 brings the debut of 26 important new artists, a Festival of Contemporary Music program under the esteemed direction of Charles Wuorinen, and a wide variety of orchestral, operatic, and chamber music performances by the young musicians of the Tanglewood Music Center, the BSO's music academy for young professional musicians.
New York
Lincoln Center Festival 2011
July 5 to August 14, 2011
Website: www.lincolncenter.com
This year’s lineup includes ten North American, and New York premieres, and debuts. The Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island—the North American premiere of Peter Stein’s 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky’s The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s production of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s searing Teorema, adapted and staged by Ivo van Hove.
Another festival highlight will be performances of the complete works of Edgard Varèse by Maestro Alan Gilbert and The New York Philharmonic and the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), led by Steven Schick, and other musicians and singers. The Festival also presents the US premiere of Yukio Ninagawa’s lavish production, Musashi (which opens the Festival on July 7), based on a legendary samurai story, and the New York premiere of Complicite’s Olivier Award-winning A Disappearing Number, conceived and directed by Simon McBurney, in the David H. Koch Theater. In all there will be 45 performances by artists and ensembles from 12 countries.
Deer Valley, Utah
Deer Valley Music Festival
July 16 to August 13, 2011
Website: www. http://www.deervalleymusicfestival.org
Utah Symphony/Utah Opera’s eighth annual Deer Valley® Music Festival (DVMF) will feature performances by guest artists Idina Menzel and Chris Botti, the music of the Eagles and Queen ,and a performance of Vivaldi’s Four Seasons. Friday Classical concerts and Saturday Pops concerts will be held at the Deer Valley® Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater where audience members are invited to picnic under the stars. Chamber concerts will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the more intimate setting of Park City’s St. Mary’s Church or Temple Har Shalom. Saturday Pops concerts at the Deer Valley® Snow Park Outdoor Amphitheater will include a little bit of everything: rock, pop, jazz and Broadway show tunes.
Marlboro, New Hampshire
Marlboro Music Festival
July 16 to August 17, 2011
Website: http://www.marlboromusic.org
Since 1951, generations of talented musicians have come together in the small town of Marlboro, Vermont (population 978) to share new perspectives and learn from one another. After three weeks of intensive daily rehearsals, Marlboro presents a portion of its musical collaborations at weekend concerts that feature chamber music for diverse instrumental and vocal combinations from all musical periods. Selected from some 70 works in rehearsal at any one time, the programs are announced and posted on the festival website just one week prior to weekend performances.
Prades, France
59th Festival Pablo Casals de Prades
July 26 to August 13, 2011
Website: http://www.prades-festival-casals.com
Great music at different venues. The opening chamber music concert on July 26 takes place at the Cloister of the St Michel de Cuxa Abbey with the Orchestre National Classique d’Andorrea presenting a program of works by Shostakovitch, Mendelssohn, Montsalvatge, and Mozart. The closing concert on August 13 pays homage to the late cellist Pablo Casals.
Rome
Opera At The Baths of Caracalla
July to August 2011
Website: http://www.operaroma.it
Teatro dell'Opera in Rome holds its summer opera and ballet season at the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), where the audience can enjoy opera under the stars.
Salzburg, Austria
Salzburg Festival
July 27 to August 30, 2011
Website: www.salzburgfestival.at
The Salzburg Festival celebrates its 91st birthday this year with a performance schedule that includes opera, concerts and drama.
Saratoga Springs, New York
New York City Ballet Summer Festival
July 5 to 16, 2011
Website: http://www.spac.org/dance.cfm
The 2011 Season of New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center (SPAC)
brings artistic excellence to the forefront with a gorgeous program of masterpieces interwoven with striking contemporary works and new choreography. A major revival of Peter Martins' The Magic Flute, will be presented after an absence of nearly three decades. Also scheduled is Susan Stroman's much-talked-about new ballet For the Love of Duke set to the music of Duke Ellington ;and Benjamin Millepied's Plainspoken with a commissioned score by award winning composer David Lang. Peter Martins' glamorous Thou Swell, performed with an on-stage jazz trio and vocalists, will add more glitter to the Gatsby Gala evening.
City Ballet's new See the Music program, a popular feature with New York audiences, is also scheduled . These brief presentations by Peter Martins and NYCB Music Director Faycal Karoui offer fascinating insights on the evening's music and program.
The Philadelphia Orchestra
July 27 to August 6, 2011
Website: http://www.spac.org/orchestra.cfm
The 2011 Season of The Philadelphia Orchestra at SPAC will feature many firsts including award winning actor and Saratoga Springs native David Hyde Pierce who will narrate the orchestra's performance of Britten's classic, A Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra, an evening with Grammy winning saxophonist Branford Marsalis, and a full screening of classic film Casablanca with a live orchestral performance of the film's score. Guest conductors include Maestra Marin Alsop, Charles Dutoit, pops conductor Stephen Reineke, the Orchestra's own Rossen Milanov, as well as several making their first appearance on SPAC's podium including Giancarlo Guerrero, Stephane Deneve, Bramwell Tovey and Constantine Kitsopoulos.
Guest soloists includes Yo-Yo Ma, Sarah Chang, Gil Shaham and Emanuel Ax as well as two acclaimed artists making their first appearance at SPAC, pianist Gabriela Montero and violinist James Ehnes.
Verbier, Switzerland
The Verbier Festival
July 15 to July 31, 2011
Website: www.verbierfestival.com
The Verbier Festival Orchestra, under the baton of its Music Director Charles Dutoit, kicks off the proceedings. Other performers include Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Nelson Freire, David Garrett, Valery Gergiev, Leonidas Kavakos, Angelika Kirchschlager, Evgeny Kissin, Gidon Kremer, Mischa Maisky, Anne-Sophie Mutter, René Pape, Vadim Repin, Gábor Takács-Nagy, Bryn Terfel and Yuja Wang. The
Béjart Ballet Lausanne will also perform as will accordionist Richard Galliano.
Worms, Germany
Nibelungen Festival 2011
July 16 to August 1, 2010
Website: http://www.nibelungenfestspiele.de
Brecon, Wales
Brecon Jazz Festival
August 12 to 14, 2011
Website: www.breconjazz.org
This world-famous jazz event, takes place in the picturesque market town of Brecon. Performers include Femi Kuti &The Positive Force, Allen Toussaint, Monty Alexander, and a special one-off performance with the BBC Radio 2 Big Band and Maceo Parker.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival 2011
August 12 to September 4, 2011
Website: http://www.eif.co.uk
Festival 2011 celebrates the vibrant and diverse cultures of Asia with the finest artists from countries and regions including China, India, Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Vietnam joining others from around the world for three weeks of classical and contemporary music, dance, theatre, opera and visual arts.
The Peony Pavilion, performed by the National Ballet of China with Western classical ballet techniques, a classic symphony orchestra, traditional Chinese instruments, and a quintessentially Chinese story demonstrates the ideas and ambitions of Festival 2011. This beautiful and moving ballet is based on a love story by one of China’s greatest writers, and contemporary of Shakespeare, Tang Xianzu.
The Tempest is re-imagined by Mokwha Repertory Company from Seoul in a distinctive production weaving Shakespeare’s famous tale with fifth-century Korean chronicles. King Lear is deconstructed as a one man tour-de-force by Contemporary Legend Theatre from Taipei.
In another adaptation of Shakespeare, Shanghai Peking Opera Troupe retells the familiar tale of Hamlet setting it in China and performing the tragedy in the extraordinary acrobatic and elaborately costumed style of Jingju opera.
Festival Helsinki
Helsinki Arts Festival
August 20 to September 5, 2010
Website: http://www.helsinkifestival.fi
Finland’s largest arts festival will once again provide a diverse program of events throughout the city, with experiences ranging from classical to world music and pop, from drama to contemporary dance, and from visual art to film and children’s events. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin plays his first recital in Finland that will include works by Schumann and Chopin.
Kilkenny (Ireland)
Kilkenny Arts Festival
August 6 to 15, 2010
Website: www.kilkennyarts.ie
The festival offers a potpourri of music, theater, dance, film literature and visual arts set against the backdrop of a historic city.
Lucerne
Lucerne Festival
August 12 to September 18, 2010
Website: http://e.lucernefestival.ch
The theme this year is Eros and love focusing on famous lovers from music history. Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will open the festival with that immortal paean to marital fidelity, Beethoven's Fidelio. Other presentations include Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in a staging by Peter Sellars with videos by Bill Viola. The moving tragedy of Romeo and Juliet will resound in the setting by Sergey Prokofiev, and Pelléas and Mélisande will be represented in works by Fauré and Sibelius. Even incestuous love is represented by Byron's Manfred as set to music by Schumann and Tchaikovsky.
La Côte-Saint-André, France
The 17th Festival Berlioz
August 18 to 19, 2010
Website: http://www.festivalberlioz.com
The two-week festival takes place in La Côte-Saint-André in the Rhone/Alps region of France.
Montreux-Vevey (Switzerland)
Montreux Music Festival
August 27 to September 12, 2010
Mostly Mozart Festival
August 2 to 27, 2011
Website: www.lincolncenter.org
The 45th season of the Mostly Mozart Festival offers more than 34 events, including opera, concerts, dance, pre-concert recitals, late-night performances, and lectures, and features music ranging from Baroque and Classical to Neoclassical and contemporary. In addition to Mozart, the music of Igor Stravinsky will also be a special focus of this summer’s festival in nine programs spanning four venues. Louis Langrée, in his ninth season, will conduct the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in eight concerts, combining Festival favorites including Mozart’s beloved Requiem, an expanded exploration of Beethoven’s music and two distinctly different Stravinsky works. New York’s acclaimed contemporary ensemble ICE (International Contemporary Ensemble) also begins a three-year Festival residency this summer and is the centerpiece of the festival’s Stravinsky focus. Mozart’s masterwork, the opera Don Giovanni, makes its Festival debut this summer in a special staged concert led and directed by acclaimed Hungarian conductor Iván Fischer featuring his own Budapest Festival Orchestra, both in their festival debuts.
, Mostly Mozart Festival 2011 as noted is highlighted by presentations and partnerships that reflect the growing diversity of its programming: conductor Iván Fischer stages Mozart’s powerful opera, Don Giovanni, on August 4 and 6 with the Budapest Festival Orchestra before conducting the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra August 9-10 in the composer’s seldom- heard Vesperae solennes de confessore, while the dynamic ICE presents four concerts showcasing new works and leading this season’s focus on Igor Stravinsky. Tickets for all Mostly Mozart Festival events will go on sale for all events on May 1.
Mostly Mozart Festival 2011 opens on August 2 and 3 with an all-Mozart gala performance by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra under Louis Langrée featuring acclaimed violinist Christian Tetzlaff, soprano Susanna Phillips, and violist Antoine Tamestit in his Festival debut. Opening Night in Avery Fisher Hall will be broadcast nationwide on PBS stations.
Pesaro, Italy
Rossini Opera Festival
August 10 to August 23.2011
Website: www.ros2sinioperafestival.it
The 2011 edition of the traditional musical event linked to the city of Pesaro and the cultural and artistic heritage left by Giacomo Rossini opens with Adelaide di Borgogna.
Several other Rossini operas are performed as well as bel canto concerts.
Telluride Jazz Celebration
August 5 to 7, 2011
Website: http://telluridejazz.org
Enjoying its 35th anniversary year forfeaturing the best in classic, mainstream, blues, Brazilian, African and Latin jazz music. Performances are staged outdoors in the daytime and in intimate clubs and historic concert halls at night. Performers include the Clayton Brothers, the Tower of Power, Liz Haley and the Zydekats, Taylor Hicks and the Little Memphis Blues Orchestra, Allen Toussaint and Rita Coolidge.
Berlin
Musikfest Berlin 2011
September 2 to 20, 2011
More than 1,600 musicians will participate in an exceptional program with more than 40 soloists and 24 orchestras, choirs and ensembles that include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Matthias Goerne, Tabea Zimmermann and Maurizio Pollini, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittburgh Symphony Orchestra, the Staatskapelle Dresden, the Philharmonia Orchestra London, the Gesualdo Consort from Amsterdam and the Berlin Philharmonic.
Bonn
2011 Beethovenfest Bonn
September 9 to October 9, 2011
Website: http://www.beethovenfest.de
In this Liszt bicentenary year, the Beethovenfest Bonn under the motto “Music of the Future” is introducing Liszt as a personality, visionary, patron, virtuoso and composer, who revered Beethoven and, starting from here, developed his own “music of the future” whose influence was still felt in the 20th century. Internationally acclaimed soloists include Anne-Sophie Mutter, Hélène Grimaud, Murray Perahia, Arcadi Volodos, Christian Gerhaher and Elena Bashkirova. There also will be three orchestras in residence: the Deutsche Kammerphilharmonie Bremen under Paavo Järvi, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra under Manfred Honeck, and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Colin Davis and Sir John Eliot Gardiner. Other top orchestras performing include Zubin Mehta and the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra, the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly and the Gewandhausorchester, Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest under its chief conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Budapest Festival Orchestra under Iván Fischer, the Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra under Sakari Oramo, the BBC Symphony Orchestra under Sylvain Cambreling and Concerto Köln with Ivor Bolton. Appearing for the first time outside their country is the National Youth Orchestra of Iraq.
Lenox, Massachusetts
2011 Tanglewood Jazz Festival
September 2 to 4, 2011
Website: www.tanglewoodjazzfestival.org
The annual Labor Day Weekend Tanglewood Jazz Festival will take place at the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra in Lenox. Jazz greats highlighting this year’s festival include Dianne Reeves, Angelique Kidjo, Lizz Wright, NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Cobb, Mary Stallings, the Mingus Orchestra, Edmar Castaneda, NEA Jazz Master Gunther Schuller, John Santos, Federico Britos, Geri Allen, Terri Lyne Carrington, Rumero Lubambo, James Genus, Munyungo Jackson, Judy Carmichael, Michael Kaeshammer, Robin McKelle, Ulysses Owens, Sarah Manning, Rebecca Martin, Larry Grenadier, Bill McHenry, Cedric Hanriot and more. All shows will be held in Seiji Ozawa Hall and the Jazz Cafe.
Toronto International Film Festival
September
Website: http://www.tiff.net /
Between 300 to 400 Canadian and international films are screened at approximately 23 screens located at different venues in the city.
Venice, Italy
68th Venice International Film Festival
September 1 to 11, 2010
Belfast
The Belfast Festival at Queen’s
October Website: http://www.belfastfestival.com
Considered Northern Ireland’s oldest performing-arts festival, it has attracted international classical performers in classical music and opera, comedy, and, pop.
Parma, Italy
Festival Verdi
October 2011
Website: www.teatroregioparma.org
October is the month of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, and in celebration the city and its surroundings steeped in the autumnal colors and scents of the Verdi homeland deeply comes to life with musical offerings of the life and work of the venerated composer.
Wexford, Ireland
Wexford Opera Festival
October 21 to November 5, 2011
Website: http://www.wexfordopera.com
Highlights of the festival includes La cour de Célimene (1855) by Ambroise Thomas, a comic opera in two acts, sung in French; Maria (1903) by Roman Statkowski, a tragic opera in three acts and sung in Polish; and Gianni di Parigi (1839) by Gaetano Donizetti, a melodrama in two acts and sung in Italian. Performance dates to be announced later.
4/28/2011