2023 GUIDE TO SUMMER FESTIVALS
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Des Moines Metro Opera
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Des Moines Metro Opera's 2023 Summer Festival features the return of Bizet's Carmen, a new production and company premiere of Béla Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, a new production and company premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges, and company premieres of Susan Kander and Roberta Gumbel's dwb (driving while black), and Zach Redler and Jerre Dye's The Falling and the Rising. Featured artists include Christian Van Horn, Sara Gartland, Taylor Raven, Matthew Cairns, Christian Pursell, Yunuet Laguna, Allen Michael Jones, Scott Conner, Christopher Sokolowski, Michael Porter, Alexandra LoBianco, Alexander Birch Elliott, Anthony Reed, Flora Hawk, Matt Boehler, Sun-Ly Pierce, Benjamin Taylor, Roberta Gumbel, and Tess Altiveros.
LOCATION
Blank Performing Arts Center, Indianola, Iiowa
WEBSITE
DATES
June 30 - July 23, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Michael Egel
GENRES
Classical • Opera
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$25 to $168
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 515-961-6221
BOOKING CONTACTS
Michael Egel , general & artistic director
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2023 for summer 2024 and summer 2025
SOCIAL LINKS
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Drottningholms Slottsteater
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The Fairy Queen by Henry Purcell, August 5-19, 2023, with the Drottningholm Theatre Orchestra—Francesco Corti, conductor; Josette Bushell-Mingo, stage design; Christer Nilsson, costumes; Anna Kjellsdotter, movement coach; Mike Gamble, wigs and makeup. Cast includes soloists, actors, chorus. There are events and activities for families during the summer and guided tours daily May to September.
LOCATION
Drottningholm, Sweden
WEBSITE
DATES
August 5-19, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Anna Karinsdotter
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€30 to €170
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +46 8 556 931 05
BOOKING CONTACTS
Kristian Holstein , producer
SOCIAL LINKS
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Early Music Days
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The 38th Early Music Days series of events organized by Filharmonia Hungary will take place from 1-8 July in Vác. The master courses, together with the festival concerts featuring world renowned performers, offer splendid developmental opportunities both for professional Hungarian and foreign musicians and for students.
LOCATION
Vác, Hungary
WEBSITE
DATES
July 1-8, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
György Vashegyi
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€50 to €250
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +36 30 799 7192
BOOKING CONTACTS
Andras Beregi , head of Programme Office
mobile: +36 30 361 9250 SOCIAL LINKS
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Eastern Music Festival
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Dedicated page for
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Festival de Lanaudière
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See the website for information. [https://lanaudiere.org]
LOCATION
Locations in the Lanaudière region, Quebec, Californianada
WEBSITE
DATES
July 7 - August 6, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Renaud Loranger
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$13 to $93
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 800-561-4343
BOOKING CONTACTS
SOCIAL LINKS
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Festival de Pâques 2023
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Conductors: Lionel Bringuier, Semyon Bychkov, Iván Fischer, René Jacobs, Fabio Luisi, Klaus Mäkelä, Daniel Reuss, and François-Xavier Roth • Soloists: Martha Argerich, Ian Bostridge, Renaud Capuçon, Barbara Hannigan, Alexandre Kantorow, Igor Levit, and Yuja Wang • Budapest Festival Orchestra, B'Rock Orchestra, the Czech Philharmonic, Gürzenich Orchester Köln, Orchestra Mozart, Orchestre de Paris, and Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI.
LOCATION
Aix-en-Provence, France
WEBSITE
DATES
March 31 - April 16, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Renaud Capuçon
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
€16 to €80
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +33 820 13 20 13
BOOKING CONTACTS
Marie Lanzafame , press officer
04 42 91 69 51; 06 64 76 91 08 Booking cycle date range
Fall 2023 for spring 2024
SOCIAL LINKS
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The Glimmerglass Festival
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This summer, Glimmerglass presents revivals of Puccini's La bohème and Bernstein's Candide, with new takes on Gounod's masterwork Romeo and Juliet and Handel's groundbreaking Rinaldo rounding out the mainstage offerings. In addition, the Festival will present the world premiere of Ben Morris and Laura Fuentes's The Rip Van Winkles, featuring the Glimmerglass Youth Chorus and members of the Young Artists Program. The company will also host a slate of other events, including concerts by 2023 Artist-in-Residence Anthony Roth Costanzo. All will expand upon the themes of the mainstage productions, offering the chance for dialogue and conversation in engaging venues and formats.
LOCATION
Cooperstown, New York
WEBSITE
DATES
July 7 - August 20, 2023
PANDEMIC & SAFETY
DIRECTORS
Robert Ainsley, artistic & general director; Joseph Colaneri, music director
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE
$26 to $160
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 607-547-2255
BOOKING CONTACTS
Lauren Bailey , director of artistic administration
Booking cycle date range
Two years in advance of each Festival season, e.g., summer 2023 for summer 2025
SOCIAL LINKS
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Grand Teton Music Festival
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Dedicated page for
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Green Mountain Chamber Music Festival
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GMCMF audiences will enjoy a series of eight Artist Faculty concerts featuring our 40 distinguished faculty in creatively programmed performances in 2023. Participants in our intensive four-week program of solo and chamber music study energize the audience for our Artist Faculty Concerts. Some 200 string players, ages 14-30, are immersed in the Festival's atmosphere of focused professionalism, with four hours of daily individual practice, chamber music rehearsals, lessons, ensemble coachings, master classes, and extensive student performance opportunities in the concert hall and in unconventional venues in the Burlington community. Guest artists will include Joseph Lin, Norman Fischer and the Balourdet and Ariel quartets. Festival Fellows, select students in the early stages of their careers, will also perform with Artist Faculty during the 2023 season.
LOCATION
St. Michael's College, Coloradolchester, Vermont
WEBSITE
DATES
June 25 - July 23, 2023
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Elizabeth Chang
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE
$35
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 802-503-1220
BOOKING CONTACTS
Amanda Stenroos, general manager
SOCIAL LINKS
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