2025 GUIDE TO FESTIVALS
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American Dance Festival (ADF)
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The season includes performances by new and established companies, highlighting the breadth and excellence of today's modern dance field, from the classic to the experimental.
LOCATION
Durham, North Carolina
WEBSITE
DATES
June 12 - July 26, 2025
HEALTH & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Jodee Nimerichter
GENRE
Modern Dance
TICKET PRICE RANGE $18 to $70
Additional ticket information: See here for a variety of ADF ticket offers and discounts.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 919-684-4444
BOOKING CONTACTS
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Arena di Verona Opera Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Arena di Verona, the largest outdoor opera venue in the world, presents its 102nd Festival. From June 13 to September 6, 51 evening events feature the most important performers on the international scene, with hundreds of artists as well as stage sets that are unique in their attention to detail. Offerings include spectacular productions of Nabucco, Aida, La Traviata, Rigoletto, and Carmen as well as “Roberto Bolle & Friends,” “Zorba il Greco,” “Jonas Kaufman in Opera,” Carmina Burana, and “Viva Vivaldi.”
On the stage will be artists from all over the world including Anna Netrebko, Marina Rebeka, Luca Salsi, Ludovic Tèzier, Yusif Eyvazov, Amartüvshin Enkhbat, and many others. Since 1913, the Arena di Verona has welcomed up to 12,000 spectators every night. LOCATION
Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy
WEBSITE
DATES
June 13 - September 6, 2025
HEALTH & SAFETY
GENERAL MANAGER
Cecilia Gasdia
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE €22 to €365
Additional ticket information: There is a world of possibilities to make your Arena experience a unique one, with flexible offers for all. See here for details.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: Official call centre +39 045 8005151
BOOKING CONTACTS
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Bergen International Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The 2025 festival opens on May 21 with The Great Yes, The Great No by Artist-in-Residence William Kentridge, followed by “Oh To Believe in Another World” on May 24, featuring Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony and Kentridge's stop-motion film. Mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato makes her debut on May 25. On May 28 is the world premiere of Terminus, a Norwegian opera by Therese Ulvo and Marit Eikemo. May 28 is Mozart's Requiem performed by all-male choirs and the Bergen Philharmonic, conducted by Jan Willem de Vriend. Festival musician Grete Pedersen conducts the Norwegian Soloists' Choir on May 30. On June 1, pianist Shani Diluka performs at Troldhaugen, and the festival closes on June 4 with the Bergen Philharmonic, conducted by Gemma New, performing Mendelssohn's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Grieg's Piano Concerto in A minor.
LOCATION
Various venues in Bergen, Norway, such as Grieghallen, Håkonshallen
WEBSITE
DATES
May 21 - June 4, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & CHIEF EXECUTIVE
Lars Petter Hagen
GENRES
Classical • Theater/Dance
TICKET PRICE RANGE €8 to €80
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: +47 470 36 065 | billett@fib.no
BOOKING CONTACTS
Lars Petter Hagen, artistic director and dhief executive
Tonje Elisabeth Storm Peersen, chief programming officer Booking cycle date range
From one to five years in advance
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Berkshire Choral International
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Choral programs for amateur singers include a Tanglewood program of Brahms, Hagenberg, and Shank with Anthony Trecek-King conducting; music of Alice Parker conducted by Cameron LaBarr; Haydn, Brahms, and Runestad's Into the Light conducted by Rob Istad; Johnson's Considering Matthew Shepard oratorio at Washington National Cathedral led by Jeffrey Benson; and a week in Berlin with Marie Bucoy-Calavan conducting Mozart's Requiem and Bernstein's Chichester Psalms at Haus Des Rundfunks.
LOCATION
Lenox & Amherst, Massachusetts; Washington, District of Columbia; Berlin, Delaware
WEBSITE
DATES
May 22 - August 3, 2025
HEALTH & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Anthony Trecek-King
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $45
Additional ticket information: Most events are general admission. Reserved tickets in Berlin must be purchased at the venue. Ticket links will be posted in spring 2025.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 413-229-8526
BOOKING CONTACTS
Steven Smith, president & CEO
Booking cycle date range
fall 2025 for summer 2026.
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Boscobel Chamber Music Festival
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Boston Early Music Festival
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Bowdoin International Music Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The Bowdoin International Music Festival is one of the world's premier music institutes, providing an intensive and in-depth exploration of chamber and solo music. Every summer, 275 students make life-long connections with peers, enhance musicianship through study and performance, and engage with world-renowned faculty. During the six-week Festival, audiences gather for nearly 100 performances, master classes, lectures, and more.
The 2025 season will include appearances by Richard Goode, Simone Porter, Orion Weiss, Attacca Quartet, Hub New Music, Jasper Quartet, Jupiter Quartet, Takács Quartet, Ying Quartet, among many other renowned artists. LOCATION
Brunswick, Maine
WEBSITE
DATES
June 28 - August 9, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTORS
David Ying, Phillip Ying
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE $49 to $816
Additional ticket information: The Festival offers hundreds of free events. Ticketed events prices include: individual tickets ($49); six-concert flex pass ($270); 12-concert flex pass ($522); and full season passes, 20 concerts ($816). See here for more details.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 207-373-1400
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Bravo! Vail Music Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Bravo! Vail expands to present five orchestras—Dallas Symphony Orchestra, The Philadelphia Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, and Sinfónica de Minería—led by conductors including Marin Alsop, Stéphane Denève, Jakub Hrůša, Constantine Kitsopoulos, Peter Oundjian, Rafael Payare, Matthias Pintscher, Carlos Miguel Prieto, and Santtu-Matias Rouvali. Yefim Bronfman plays both Brahms Piano Concertos; Anne-Marie McDermott champions Amy Beach’s Piano Concerto; Wu Man performs Zhao Jiping’s Pipa Concerto No. 2; Yulianna Avdeeva plays Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. 1.
Additional soloists include Sol Gabetta, Randall Goosby, Patricia Kopatchinskaja, Nikolai Lugansky, Miah Persson, Blake Pouliot, Pablo Sáinz-Villegas, Gil Shaham, Yekwon Sunwoo, Alisa Weilerstein, and Charles Yang. New works by composers Jessie Montgomery, Gabriela Lena Frank, and Sophia Jani. Exquisite chamber concerts include an “Immersive Experience of Chopin.” LOCATION
Colorado: Vail, Beaver Creek, Eagle, Avon, Edwards, Gypsum
WEBSITE
DATES
June 19 - July 31, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Anne-Marie McDermott
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE $0 to $500
Additional ticket information: Youth Lawn Tickets start at $10 for the Orchestral Series season. Children 4 and under are free on the lawn. Pavilion is paid for all ages and requires a ticket.
Free events require a reservation, which can now be made.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 877-812-5700
BOOKING CONTACTS
Jacqueline Taylor, director of artistic planning
Booking cycle date range
Fall/winter 2025 for summer 2026 & 2027
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Brevard Music Center Summer Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Brevard Music Center's summer festival will feature legendary pianist Yuja Wang in concert (July 23), a performance by the iconic Mavis Staples (June 29), and a family-friendly presentation of “Jurassic Park in Concert” (July 26). Artistic Director Keith Lockhart will conduct major works including Stravinsky's Rite of Spring (June 28), Dvořák's New World Symphony (July 3), Mahler's Symphony No. 7 (July 11), and the season finale, Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 25 and Vaughan-Williams’s A Sea Symphony (August 3).
Opera productions include Mozart's The Magic Flute (July 24 & 26). Additional highlights include Béla Fleck's Blue Ridge Banjo Concert (August 16) and performances by Steep Canyon Rangers (June 24). LOCATION
Brevard, North Carolina
WEBSITE
DATES
June 20 - August 3, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Keith Lockhart
GENRES
Classical • Jazz • Symphony • Opera • Chamber • Jazz • Bluegrass • Broadway
TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $125
Additional ticket information: Subscriptions to the 2025 BMC Summer Music Festival are currently on sale; single tickets go on sale on May 5 to the general public. For information, click the above link or call the BMC box office at 828-862-2105.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 828-862-2105
BOOKING CONTACTS
Jason Posnock, president and CEO
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Bridgehampton Chamber Music Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
The festival's 42nd season will present 12 concerts over five weeks, including a Telemann & Bach program, a BCM commission by Lowell Liebermann, and a program pairing Vivaldi's Four Seasons with Piazzolla's Four Seasons of Buenos Aires.
Led by flutist and Artistic Director Marya Martin, Festival artists include pianists Michael Stephen Brown, Albert Cano Smit, Gilles Vonsattel, Orion Weiss, and Shai Wosner; violinists Stella Chen, Paul Huang, Ani Kavafian, Erin Keefe, Kristin Lee, David McCarroll, Julian Rhee, Tien-Hsin Wu, and Kevin Zhou; violists Natalie Loughran, Matt Lipman, Cynthia Phelps, Masumi Per Rostad, and Cong Wu; cellists Carter Brey, Brannon Cho, Mihai Marica, and Tommy Mesa; bassists Nina Bernat and Donald Palma; oboist James Austin Smith; clarinetists Tommaso Lonquich and Osmo Vänskä; bassoonist Peter Kolkay; percussionist Ian David Rosenbaum; and harpsichordist Kenneth Weiss. LOCATION
Bridgehampton and Water Mill, New York
WEBSITE
DATES
July 18 - August 13, 2025
HEALTH & SAFETY
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR
Marya Martin
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE $10 to $175
Additional ticket information: Concert prices vary depending on venue. Student tickets are $10.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 212-741-9403
BOOKING CONTACTS
Michael Lawrence, executive director
Booking cycle date range
Spring 2025 for summer 2026
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Carmel Bach Festival
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FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS
Set in the stunning coastal town of Carmel-by-the-Sea, the Carmel Bach Festival returns for its 88th season with a program themed, ‘'Dialogues,'’ exploring musical conversations across time via works such as J.S. Bach's Mass in B Minor and The Art of the Fugue, Mozart's Requiem, Haydn's Harmoniemesse, and works by Stravinsky and Jessie Montgomery.
LOCATION
Carmel-by-the-Sea, California
WEBSITE
DATES
July 12-26, 2025
ARTISTIC DIRECTOR & PRINCIPAL CONDUCTOR
Grete Pedersen
GENRE
Classical
TICKET PRICE RANGE $25 to $156
Additional ticket information: Some concerts and events are free, check here for details.
TICKET PURCHASE INFORMATION
Telephone: 831-624-1521
BOOKING CONTACTS
Nathan Lutz, executive cirector
Booking cycle date range
Fall 2025 for summer 2026
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