July 24:A highlight of this shortened season at the Tanglewood Music Festival ln Lenox, Mass., the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, is the world premiere of John Williams’ Violin Concerto No. 2 with soloist Anne Sophie Mutter and Williams as conductor. The next day, composer Thomas Adès leads the two-day 2021 Festival of […]
July 26-Aug. 19: Full details Headlining this summer’s 37th installment of the Sun Valley Music Festival is the Aug. 7 world premiere of Jessie Montgomery's Five Freedom Songs, based on traditional African American spirituals, to be sung by soprano Julia Bullock.
"A silent, expectant grove. A violent encounter between a man, a woman, and a notorious brigand. Seven testimonies, each proposing a different perspective on the crime." The Pittsburgh Opera announces the world premiere of In A Grove, based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa's short story that shows how human perception, memory and desire are fallible, imprecise and subject to […]
Chicago's free-on-the-grass outdoor Grant Park Symphony concerts have audiences that come no matter what, open to the eclectic mix that conductor Carlos Kalmar chooses. This season is rich in premieres, in part becomes some were held over from last year's Covid impaired schedule. The June 19 features a Chicago composer deserving of national recognition – […]
One of the most sought-after British composers today, Belize-born Errollyn Wallen has created a new work called Dances for Orchestra, which will receive its world premiere on Nov. 2-3 with the Scottish Chamber Orchestra. The rest of the program, conducted by Ryan Bancroft, is thoroughly American: Ives’ Three Places in New England and Copeland’s complete […]
Based on the 2007 film and the memoir that inspired it, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly is an opera by Joby Talbot and librettist Gene Scheer that will receive its world premiere at the Dallas Opera Nov. 3-11. Lucas Meachem, Sasha Cooke, and Andriana Chuchman star in this production directed by Leonard Foglia. https://dallasopera.org/performance/diving-bell-and-the-butterfly/
Nov. 4 marks the world premiere of The Old Man and the Sea, a new chamber opera by Paola Prestini and Royce Vavrek. While Ernest Hemingway’s famous story is the core of this piece, Vavrek’s libretto interpolates other tales about looking back on one’s life and accomplishments. Karmina Šilec directs this production at Arizona State […]
