Week of Events
Aucoin Conducts ‘Figaro’ at Aspen
The Aspen Opera Theatre and VocalARTS program presents a fully-staged performance of Mozart’s comic masterpiece Le nozze di Figaro, directed by Sara Erde and conducted by Matthew Aucoin, an award-winning opera composer himself. Only on the first night of the Aug. 12-17 will the performance include all the Act 4 arias commonly cut from the […]
Audiences Invited to Watch Opera Creation
To inaugurate the Project Pipeline initiative at Glimmerglass, the opera-in-progress The House on Mango Street will have its first public performance on Aug. 12. The Pipeline’s purpose is to help composers—in this case, composer Derek Bermel and librettist Sandra Cisneros—develop new works while allowing opera-lovers to witness the process. https://glimmerglass.org/events/pipeline-preview-the-house-on-mango-street/
Kalmar Bids Grant Park Adieu with Mahler
Talk about going out with a bang! The Grant Park Music Festival closes its 2024 season with Mahler’s mighty Symphony No. 8, Symphony of a Thousand, so named because of the many forces required to perform it. Carlos Kalmar, marking the end of his 25-year tenure as the festival’s artistic director, will lead the Grant […]
