THE 2020 GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVALS

The Musical America Guide to Festivals
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2020 Summer Festivals
The Musical America Worldwide Guide
While the 2020 Guide to Summer Festivals is packed with more than 100 festivals, this Guide is also as much an expression of hope as it is of planning in this unpredictable time.
Festivals’ status and schedules are in continual flux, as you might imagine, so this Guide accurately reflects everyone’s plans for the coming season. We urge you to check with the individual events to confirm; we will be updating these pages as we receive new information.
Musical America’s 2020 Festival Guide offers a wealth of robust programming plans and we hope to see them come to fruition.

GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVALS 2020

FEATURED FESTIVALS
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
At the Santa Fe Opera, the show begins long before curtain. Opera fans come early for tailgate parties in the parking lot, preview dinners, or the prelude talks. Performances of the highest quality are presented in a dramatic theater with stunning views of the surrounding mountain landscape.

The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York, New York
TIME:SPANS is dedicated primarily to the presentation of twenty-first century music. The festival is produced and presented by The Earle Brown Music Foundation (EBMF). Artistic director for TIME:SPANS is Thomas Fichter.

Colorado Music Festival
Chautauqua Auditorium, Boulder, Colorado
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Colorado Music Festival is dedicated to presenting the best of classical music--the work of living composers as well as music by masters of the canon--in Boulder, Colorado's Chautauqua Auditorium, nestled at the base of the Rocky Mountains and known for its natural beauty and magnificent acoustics.
Various location in New York, New York
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
IKIF participant students have the opportunity to hear their teachers in performance and can choose the teachers or teachers they wish to study with during the festival. The public can attend masterclasses and concerts as auditors. The IKIF Competition will award $10,000 plus a performance opportunity at IKIF 2021.
Festival Ljubljana
Križanke complex, Ljubljana, Slovenia
The Festival Ljubljana is regarded as one of Europe’s most important cultural and art institutions, hosting numerous amazing artists from all over the world. The institution continuously provides cultural fare for the public through a wide range of cultural events and organizes activities relating to theatre, music, the visual arts, conventions, and more.
San Francisco, California
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
The Merola Opera Program is widely regarded as the foremost opera training program for aspiring singers, coach accompanists, and stage directors. Merola nurtures the opera stars of tomorrow, presents operatic works that reach a diverse audience, and provides community outreach through educational programs for students and the general public.
Monteux School and Music Festival
Hancock, Maine
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
77th Season of the historic school for conductors and orchestral musicians founded by French Conductor, Pierre Monteux, in Hancock, Maine.
Inspiration Point, Eureka Springs, Arkansas
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
70 years of experience in running a young artist festival with over 3,000 alumni, many of whom are now singing on the best stages in the world. We are the only summer opera festival of its type in the south central states.
Tippet Rise Art Center
Fishtail, Montana
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Set on a 12,000-acre working ranch against Montana's Beartooth Mountains, Tippet Rise Art Center presents classical chamber music and recitals and exhibits large-scale, outdoor sculptures. Tippet Rise celebrates the concept that art, music, architecture, and nature are inextricably linked in the human experience, each making the others more powerful.

Durham, North Carolina
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Fayetteville, Bentonville, Rogers, and additional venues across northwest Arkansas
Event suspended. Please check website for more information.
Aspen, Colorado
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Various locations in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania
Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
Bayreuth, Germany
Lenox and Boston, Massachusetts; Amsterdam, Netherlands; Barcelona, Spain
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
France: Besançon, Belfort, Lons-le-Saunier, Dole
Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Boston and Great Barrington, Massachusetts
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Vail, Colorado
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Bridgehampton, New York
Moved to Fall 2020
Santa Cruz, California
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Katonah, New York
Wien, Austria
Carson City, Nevada
Central City, Colorado
Portland, Oregon
Chautauqua, New York
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Covington, Kentucky
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Cork City & County, Ireland
Canceled. Please check website for update information.
Crested Butte and Gunnison, Colorado
Park City, Utah
Indianola, Iowa
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Dresden, Germany
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Drottningholm, Sweden
Old City of Dubrovnik, Croatia
Paris, France
Various locations in Greensboro, North Carolina
Aix-en-Provence, France
Thiré, Vendée, France
Various locations in the Lanaudière region, Quebec, Canada
Various location in Granada, Spain
Various locations in Napa Valley, California
Postponed until 2021. See website for more information.
Various locations in Kalamazoo and East Lansing, Michigan
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Cooperstown, New York
Hayward, California
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Grafenegg, Austria
Jackson Hole, Wyoming
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Burlington, Vermont
Gstaad and Saanenland, Switzerland
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Hitzacker, Germany
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Suzhou, China
Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey
Various locations in Istanbul, Turkey
Event suspended until second half of September, 2020. Please check website for more information.
La Jolla, California
Ontario, Canada
Lake George, New York
Various locations in Reims, France
Various locations in Lucerne, Switzerland
San Diego, California
Suspended. Please check website for more information.
Marlboro College, Marlboro, Vermont
Minneapolis, Minnesota
Columbia, Missouri
Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Dresden, Germany
Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Würzburg, Germany
Santa Barbara, California
Festival postponed until July 13; Academy to begin as scheduled and online as Music Academy Remote Learning Institute.
Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania
Napa Valley Wineries, Napa Valley, California
Atherton, California
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Breckenridge, Colorado
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Norfolk, Connecticut
Fort Collins, Colorado
Ojai, California
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
Various locations in St. Louis, Missouri
Orcas Island, Washington
Eugene, Oregon
Oxford, United Kingdom
Shelter Island, New York
Los Angeles, California
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Prague and Tabor, Czech Republic
Ravenna, Italy
Riga and Jurmala, Latvia
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Rockport, Massachusetts
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Round Top, Texas
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Salzburg, Austria
Santa Fe, New Mexico
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Various locations in Santa Fe and Albuquerque, New Mexico
Postponed to Summer 2021
Sarasota, Florida
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Saratoga Springs, New York
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Schroon Lake, New York
Harrisonburg, Virginia
Canceled. Please see website for more information.
Sitka, Alaska
Charleston, South Carolina
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Steamboat Springs, Colorado
Various locations in Sun Valley, Idaho
Lenox, Massachusetts
Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Various locations in Russia: Novosibirsk; Krasnoyarsk; Novosibirsk and Krasnoyarsk Regions; Samara; Tyumen; Tobolsk; St Petersburg; Moscow; and stops in France and Japan
Tsinandali Estate, Kakheti, Georgia
Various locations in Verbier, Switzerland
Canceled. Please check website for more information.
Southeastern Coastal Virginia—Norfolk, Virginia Beach, Portsmouth, Newport News, Williamsburg
Vienna, Virginia