In a May 31 program, the Spoleto Festival USA Chorus blends the atmospheric music of Arvo Pärt’s The Deer’s Cry and The Woman with the Alabaster Box with two early-music masterpieces: Josquin des Prez’s Missa Pange Lingua and Heinrich Schütz’s St. Matthew Passion. Conducted by Joe Miller. https://spoletousa.org/events/chorus/
Spoleto USA will present the world premiere of Reena Esmail’s String Quartet. The June 5-6 chamber program also includes Darius Milhaud’s Suite for Clarinet, Violin, and Piano, and the Schumann Piano Quartet. https://spoletousa.org/events/bank-of-america-chamber-music/
On June 15-17, Atlanta Opera will give the world premiere of Forsyth County is Flooding (with the Joy of Lake Lanier) as part of its 96-Hour Opera Project. The one-act dark comedy by Marcus Norris explores some of Georgia’s terrifying, uncomfortable, and uncanny happenings at Lake Lanier in Forsyth County, Georgia. Chaowen Ting conducts. https://www.atlantaopera.org/forsyth-county-is-flooding/
