Between seasons, orchestras, chamber ensembles, conductors and soloists to head for the shade offered by a national network of barns, sheds, tents and pavilions.
When it comes to the summer sun, classical music is a delicate flower. Between seasons, it’s common for orchestras, chamber ensembles, conductors and soloists to head for the shade offered by a well-established network of barns, sheds, tents and pavilions. If you’re a classical fan, you’re probably also a seasoned festival head, and if you’re new to the stuff , the picnic-first approach to Very Serious Music can help level the playing field into something more like a grassy lawn.
For aficionados of new music and the avant-garde end of the classical spectrum, the secluded mill town of North Adams — and its massive contemporary art center— host this reliably ear-ringing festival presented by New York City experimental mainstays Bang on a Can.
A strong summer season awaits at the Cooperstown, N.Y., opera festival, now directed by Robert Ainsley, former director of the Washington National Opera’s Domingo-Cafritz Young Artist Program and the American Opera Initiative.
Incoming Washington National Opera music director Robert Spano is also director of the Aspen Music Festival, which is celebrating its 75th season with a busy summer of concerts. Highlights include Renée Fleming singing Strauss outdoor opera festival returns to the desert with five new productions . Louisa Muller’s “La Traviata” is billed as a “memory play” set in 1939 Paris. Stephen Barlow’s Victorian-tinted “Don Giovanni” filters the opera through Oscar Wilde’s “The Picture of Dorian Gray.
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