{"id":1788027,"date":"2026-06-16T09:08:51","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:08:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/?p=1788027"},"modified":"2026-06-16T09:08:51","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T09:08:51","slug":"a-guide-to-new-englands-summer-classical-music-festivals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/a-guide-to-new-englands-summer-classical-music-festivals\/","title":{"rendered":"A guide to New England\u2019s summer classical music festivals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p class=\"\">The word \u201cfestival\u201d derives from the Latin word for a religious ceremony and morphed into words having more to do with eating (\u201cfeast\u201d) and simply having a good time \u2014 all of which make sense when it comes to summer classical music festivals. Here are the ones that are within a plausible drive from Boston, including a few recommendations of events that sound especially worth making the effort.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"Mass\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>MASSACHUSETTS<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Rockport | Through July 12<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Rockport is closer to Boston than Lenox, and although it doesn\u2019t have as many star performers as Tanglewood, it has a few and is also admirable in introducing \u2014 and bringing back \u2014 some appealing younger international musicians to the Shalin Liu Performance Center. A fine musician himself, Rockport artistic director and violist Barry Shiffman happily takes part in some of them. Here are just a few of the concerts that stand out for me.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">I\u2019ve never heard Poiesis, the young string quartet that won the Banff International String Quartet Competition in 2025, but their Rockport program is so intriguing in its choice of masterpieces (Haydn) and new voices (Jerod Impichchaachaaha\u2019 Tate), that they make me want to hear them (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rockportmusic.org\/upcoming_shows\/poiesis-quartet\/\">June 27<\/a>). And the superb violinist Augustin Hadelich,\u00a0who has been artist-in-residence with the BSO, you want to hear under any circumstances. He\u2019s giving a solo recital featuring works by Telemann, Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson, Ysa\u00ffe and Paganini, and then joined by violinist Jennifer Frautschi,\u00a0violists Hsin-Yun Huang and Rockport director Barry Shiffman,\u00a0and cellists James Baik and Adrian Fung in Tchaikovsky\u2019s\u00a0long but delicious dessert \u201cSouvenir de Florence\u201d (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rockportmusic.org\/upcoming_shows\/rcmf-augustin-hadelich-friends\/\">June 28<\/a>).<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-3\"><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">After the actual festival is over, there are still goodies in store \u2014 a kind of celebrity series of musicians you can\u2019t live without. For example, the two-piano concert with two pianists with almost the same surname but not related except in friendship and phenomenal skill (and were both born in Canada: Marc-Andr\u00e9 Hamelin and Charles Richard-Hamelin. They\u2019ll be playing Mozart\u2019s exquisite Sonata for Two Pianos, Percy Grainger\u2019s two-piano arrangement of Gershwin in his Fantasy on \u201cPorgy and Bess,\u201d along with music by Chaminade, Medtner and Chopin (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rockportmusic.org\/upcoming_shows\/hamelin-and-hamelin\/\">Aug. 16).<\/a> And the great Audra MacDonald comes to Rockport on <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/rockportmusic.org\/upcoming_shows\/audra-mcdonald\/\">Aug. 20<\/a>, but what makes this event so appealing, the rare intimacy of the theater, is exactly why you can\u2019t go, because it\u2019s already sold out. If you\u2019re desperate for a ticket, keep trying. You never know what might suddenly open up.<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Lenox | July 5-Aug. 23<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Boston Symphony Orchestra\u2019s summer season in the Berkshires fits all the definitions of festival. There\u2019s feasting on the lawn (BYO or buy it there), the mood is festive (inspired not only by the outstanding playing by one of the world\u2019s great orchestras but by the magnificent views from the beautiful grounds). And people from Boston and New York and from even farther away return every year as if to a religious ritual. On the weekends, unlike in Boston, there\u2019s a different program every day, so it\u2019s a great place to stay for a whole weekend or longer!<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Among the surfeit of concerts, here are a few that seem particularly tempting. Finnish conductor and composer Esa-Pekka Salonen returns in a program I\u2019d really like to hear him conduct: Wagner\u2019s Prelude and Liebestod, Sibelius\u2019s Seventh Symphony, and Beethoven\u2019s \u201cEmperor\u201d Concerto with celebrated piano virtuoso Yefim Bronfman (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/events\/july-31-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-07-31-20:00\">July 31<\/a>). Probably the most ambitious event of the season is a semi-staged performance of Mozart\u2019s \u201cThe Marriage of Figaro,\u201d with Andris Nelsons (not my first choice for a Mozart conductor) leading a cast of rising young stars with some admirable old-timers in age-appropriate comedic roles (Susan Graham as Figaro\u2019s mother) (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/events\/august-1-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-01-20:00\">Aug. 1<\/a>). The forever young Yo-Yo Ma will be around for four performances and an open rehearsal. I most want to hear him in soulful partnership with violinist Renaud Capu\u00e7on in the Brahms Double Concerto (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/events\/august-7-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-07-20:00\">Aug. 7<\/a>), though I\u2019m guessing that he himself might be most interested in the concert he has curated and will be participating in featuring the BSO cello section in music for multiple cellos (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/events\/august-9-boston-symphony-orch?performance=2026-08-09-14:30\">Aug. 9<\/a>).<\/p>\n<figure class=\"article-fig size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large article-image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-scaled.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-400x267.jpeg 400w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-768x512.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-1000x667.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-1536x1025.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-2048x1366.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-2560x1708.jpeg 2560w, https:\/\/media.wbur.org\/wp\/2026\/06\/8.18.25-Leonard-Weiss-conducts-the-TMCO-for-full-Ozawa-Hall-and-lawn-Hilary-Scott-scaled.jpeg 3000w\" alt=\"Leonard Weiss conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for full audience at Ozawa Hall and on the lawn during the 2025 season. (Courtesy Hilary Scott\/BSO)\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" loading=\"lazy\" \/><figcaption class=\"article-fig-caption\">Leonard Weiss conducts the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra for full audience at Ozawa Hall and on the lawn during the 2025 season. (Courtesy Hilary Scott\/BSO)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"\">Salonen will also be the curator of this year\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/events\/tanglewood-events\/festival-of-contemporary-music\">Festival of Contemporary Music<\/a>, maybe the most important Tanglewood concerts of the summer, in which mostly Tanglewood fellows perform a series of free concerts, which this year are in programs with self-explanatory titles: \u201cThose We Have Lost Too Soon\u201d (Saariaho, Stucky, Knussen), \u201cMeta-Music: Music about Other Music,\u201d \u201cThe Next Generation,\u201d \u201cNordic Boomers\u201d (which includes Salonen conducting his own Cello Concerto), and \u201cGen Z Compared with Iconic Works\u201d (Seiji Ozawa Hall and Linde Center Studio E, July 23-27).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The BSO website for the 2026-2027 season seems a mild attempt to honor the departure (after the Tanglewood 2027 season) of maestro Nelsons, with a webpage listing all of his performances next season under the heading \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bso.org\/performances-conducted-by-andris-nelsons\">Celebrating Maestro Andris Nelsons<\/a>.\u201d The opening fundraising gala is still technically summer, but there isn\u2019t much information yet except that Nelsons will be conducting, the special guest will be Yo-Yo Ma, and there will be a pre-concert dinner and an after-concert reception (Symphony Hall, Sept. 17).<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Waltham &amp; Great Barrington | July 10-Aug. 8<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The 53rd season of violinist Daniel Stepner\u2019s Aston Magna Summer Festival consists, as always, of four programs, each performed once near Boston and once in the Berkshires. So if you are stuck in the big city this summer, it\u2019s just a little schlep out to Brandeis University in Waltham or if you happen to be at Tanglewood, it\u2019s an easy drive to Great Barrington. And either way, it\u2019s worth the effort. The first concert would be my first choice: \u201cThe Genius of the French Baroque: Sonatas and Cantatas of Rameau, Clerambault, and others\u201d not only because I particularly admire Rameau but because Stepner, viola da gambist Laura Jeppesen and harpsichordist Michael Sponseller will be joined by the extraordinary soprano Dominique Labelle making one of her rare return visits to Massachusetts from her home in Canada (July 16 and 18). This opening concert might easily make you want to return for the rest.<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Various locations | July 31-Aug. 18<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The directors of this consistently impressive and imaginative festival, Jon Menasse (clarinet) and Jon Nakamatsu (piano), have what looks like an outstanding series around the Cape, from Falmouth and Chatham to Wellfleet. This summer includes jazz as well as classical, in various intriguing combinations. But what I love most about it is the annual return of one of my favorite string quartets, the profound and probing Borromeo String Quartet \u2014 violinists Nicholas Kitchen (the founder and mind of the quartet) and Kristopher Tong, violist Melissa Reardon, and perhaps the soul of the quartet, cellist Yeesun Kim. They are scheduled for two identical concerts, in <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capecodchambermusic.org\/events\/borromeo-string-quartet\/\">Hyannis<\/a> Aug. 6 and <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/capecodchambermusic.org\/events\/borromeo-string-quartet-2\/\">Wellfleet<\/a> Aug. 7, which will include one of Beethoven\u2019s most gorgeous quartets, and one of the great breakthrough works in the history of the string quartet, Opus 59, No. 1 (the so-called \u201cFirst Razumovsky\u201d) and Dvo\u0159\u00e1k\u2019s String Quartet No. 14.<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>North Adams | July 30-Aug. 1<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Not for the faint of heart, the popular contemporary music group Bang on a Can will be back for its annual LOUD Weekend at MASS MoCA, the culmination of the three-week residency for \u201cinnovative composers and performers\u00a0selected from an international roster of artists.\u201d We are alerted that the programming is \u201cfluid\u201d and \u201csubject to change.\u201d So at the moment, there are no particular dates indicated \u2014 just a list of works and performers, both of which are impressive and challenging, and are likely also to be moving and fun. Among the highlights are a complete new arrangement of Philip Glass\u2019s\u00a0album\u00a0\u201cGlassworks\u201d and a new live arrangement of\u00a0Terry Riley\u2019s important \u201cA Rainbow in Curved Air.\u201d Among the more or less familiar composers and musicians, we\u2019ll find pianist Conrad Tao playing Frederic Rzewski; Eliza Bagg\u00a0and\u00a0Mantra Percussion\u00a0in the premiere\u00a0of Annie Gosfield\u2019s one-act chamber opera\u00a0about Emma Goldman, called \u201cEmma\u201d; Morton Feldman\u2019s \u201cPiano and String Quartet\u201d; Michael Gordon\u2019s\u00a0\u201c8,\u201d a piece for eight cellists and \u201cspecial guests\u201d; and more, including world premieres by the composition fellows.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-5\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/TrengbaA8lM\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Great Barrington | Aug. 22, 25 &amp; 28<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Aside from the BSO\u2019s semi-staged \u201cMarriage of Figaro,\u201d there isn\u2019t a lot of opera in Massachusetts this summer. But you can count on the Berkshire Opera for at least one exciting event, staged at the Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center. This summer, it\u2019s Donizetti\u2019s most famous masterpiece, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshireoperafestival.org\/luciadilammermoor\">Lucia di Lammermoor<\/a>.\u201d More than anything else, \u201cLucia\u201d needs a great Lucia \u2014 a soprano who can sing impossible coloratura and who can also act, and a first-rate tenor who can\u2019t let himself disappear after Lucia\u2019s vocal fireworks (in the Met production with Joan Sutherland decades ago, the tenor rolled himself down a huge flight of stairs to get out attention after the famous \u201cMad Scene\u201d). I\u2019m not familiar with either the soprano, Christine Lyons (she\u2019s pretty impressive on YouTube), or tenor Terrence Chin-Loy, but I trust the company\u2019s co-founders, conductor and artistic director Brian Garman and stage director and director of production Jonathan Loy.<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Boston | June 20-Aug. 12<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Boston\u2019s popular community orchestra, mostly under the direction of Christopher Wilkins, offers free concerts around the city and especially at the Hatch Shell. The most exciting program is surely the rare outdoor performance of Verdi\u2019s soul-stirring \u201cRequiem,\u201d conducted by the Cantata Singers\u2019 Noah Horn. The vocal soloists are soprano Felicia Moore, mezzo-soprano Erica Brookhyser, tenor Jonghyun Park and veteran bass-baritone Donnie Ray Albert (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.landmarksorchestra.org\/events\/2026-season\/verdi-requiem\/\">Aug. 5<\/a>).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"NY\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>NEW YORK<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Saratoga Springs | June 21-28<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This summer\u2019s Opera Saratoga selections are a bit more familiar than last year\u2019s unusually fresh choices. The opera is Donizetti\u2019s comedy, \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.operasaratoga.org\/elixiroflove\">L\u2019elisir d\u2019amore (The Elixir of Love)<\/a>,\u201d best known for its tenor aria \u201cUna furtiva lagrima\u201d (a Pavarotti signature piece), here sung by Wooyoung Yoon. The Broadway show is \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.operasaratoga.org\/myfairlady\">My Fair Lady<\/a>,\u201d which I would probably never recommend without seeing first, but it has, returning as Eliza Doolittle after last year\u2019s \u201cShe Loves Me,\u201d an exciting soprano I\u2019ve seen only on YouTube, Christine Taylor Price, who can sing lovely high soprano and also belt out a showstopper (Barbara Cook crossed with Barbra Streisand?).<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Annandale on Hudson | June 25-Aug. 16<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">This summer festival at Bard College, in upstate New York, is mainly the brainchild of conductor\/Bard College president Leon Botstein and is probably the most ambitious summer festival in the Northeast, if not the entire country. It offers a major opera production (usually a real rarity), concerts, dance, lectures and other ancillary events, most of them taking place in one of Frank Ghery\u2019s major concert halls. This summer, the opera is a rarely produced work by a major composer and his major librettist: Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal\u2019s \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fishercenter.bard.edu\/series\/the-egyptian-helen\/\">Die \u00e4gyptische Helena (The Egyptian Helen)<\/a>,\u201d an imaginative \u2014 even bizarre \u2014 take on post-\u201cIliad\u201d mythology. Botstein conducts soprano Hailey Clark (Helena) and tenor John Matthew Myers (Menelaus). And this year\u2019s composer-under-a-microscope will be an <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/fishercenter.bard.edu\/what-we-do\/bard-music-festival\/\">11-part series on Mozart<\/a>!<\/p>\n<div class=\"\">\n<\/div>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Saratoga Springs | July 8-Aug. 22<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The Saratoga Performing Arts Center is a large open-air theater in a beautiful state park just outside Saratoga Springs, New York \u2014 about an hour-and-a-half drive from Tanglewood. It\u2019s the summer home of the New York City Ballet, The Philadelphia Orchestra, The New York Chamber Music Ensemble, plus various guest stars and rock music giants. If you\u2019ve never seen George Balanchine\u2019s \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spac.org\/events\/new-york-city-ballet-a-midsummer-nights-dream\/\">A Midsummer Night\u2019s Dream<\/a>\u201d or heard all the heavenly music by Mendelssohn that Balanchine added to the famous Overture and Wedding Music, you now have your chance. I\u2019m also eager to see the new ballet by NYCB star Tiler Peck to Lalo\u2019s \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spac.org\/events\/new-york-city-ballet-innovators-and-icons\/\">Symphonie Espagnole<\/a>,\u201d on a program with Balanchine\u2019s iconic \u201cSerenade\u201d (Tchaikovsky) and Jerome Robbins\u2019s \u201cOpus 19\u201d (Prokofiev). At NYCB, the music is as important as the dancing (July 8-11).<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-8\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/aUA_JwoIMBA\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"\">The Philadelphia Orchestra refers to its music director, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin, mainly on a first-name basis. Of the 13 Philadelphia Orchestra performances at SPAC, the only one conducted by Yannick is a program beginning with William Grant Still\u2019s \u201cWood Notes\u201d and concluding with the Beethoven Ninth Symphony, with an impressive vocal ensemble of four celebrated and award-winning singers: soprano\u00a0Leah Hawkins, mezzo-soprano\u00a0J\u2019Nai Bridges, tenor\u00a0Issachah\u00a0Savage and bass-baritone\u00a0Ryan Speedo Green (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spac.org\/events\/philadelphia-orchestra-beethovens-ninth-with-yannick\/\">Aug. 15<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p class=\"\">The highlight of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center visit may be the performance by the young and gifted Calidore String Quartet \u2014 an afternoon of music ranging from top-drawer Haydn and Mozart to jazzy Winton Marsalis (<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/spac.org\/events\/cms-calidore-string-quartet\/\">July 26<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Cooperstown | July 10-Aug. 17<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Cooperstown, New York, is a long ride from Boston, but the Glimmerglass Festival has the most operas crammed into its five-week run, combining popular and unusual operas and at least one Broadway show. This summer, the Glimmerglass season starts with Rodgers and Hammerstein\u2019s \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/glimmerglass.org\/events\/oklahoma\/\">Oklahoma!<\/a>\u201d (if you\u2019ve seen \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wbur.org\/news\/2025\/10\/31\/richard-linklater-nouvelle-vague-blue-moon-film-review\">Blue Moon<\/a>,\u201d you know just what Richard Rodgers\u2019s ex-partner Lorenz Hart thought of it). Among the rest of the productions, one especially stands out, but unfortunately all three performances of it are sold out. It\u2019s a rare production of Kurt Weil, Bertolt Brecht and Elisabeth Hauptmann\u2019s sourly satirical \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/glimmerglass.org\/events\/happy-end\/\">Happy End<\/a>,\u201d which has a handful of their greatest musical numbers. This new production has been on a successful tour of New York and Massachusetts, so maybe there\u2019s a chance of it turning up someday closer to home. Or else an opera company with good sense will see the demand and want to do a new production. (Are you listening, Boston Lyric or Odyssey Opera?)<\/p>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"NH\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>NEW HAMPSHIRE<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Various locations | June 21-Aug. 15<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Surely the best bargain in classical music within two hours from Boston or south of the Canadian border: Monadnock Music, directed by cellist Rafael Popper-Keizer, offers free programs of classical music all over the Granite State. For example, the season gets off to an excellent start at the beautiful Harrisville Community Church with Popper-Keizer, violinists Angelia Cho and Matthew Vera, and violists Yeh-Chun Lin and William Sotiriou for an afternoon including a Norwegian folk song arranged by the Danish String Quartet, Mozart\u2019s soulful D-minor Quartet, K. 421, and Brahms\u2019s late G-major string quintet. The title of this concert: \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.monadnockmusic.org\/classical-music-concert-event-schedule.html#june21\">Inextinguishable Joy<\/a>\u201d (June 21).<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Various locations | July 7-30<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Like Monadnock Music of the 1980s and \u201890s, the New Hampshire Music Festival offers both chamber music and orchestral concerts. This summer, I\u2019m favoring the chamber music, especially the chamber concert, in Plymouth (July 14) called \u201c<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/nhmf.org\/2026-festival\/#Week_2_Ch\">Paris in the Air<\/a>.\u201d The delightful program ranges from Martin\u016f\u2019s comic ballet \u201cLa Revue de Cuisine\u201d and Marie Cl\u00e9mence de Grandval\u2019s Grand Trio for Piano,\u00a0 Oboe, and Bassoon to Bill Marx\u2019s \u201cFriends\u201d (for piano and harp) and, surely the highlight, Mozart\u2019s wonderful Quintet for Piano and Winds. Both the Martin\u016f and the Mozart feature one of my favorite pianists, Leslie Amper.<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-10\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/SZJ_qld77YU\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Putney | July 10-Aug. 10<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">A major point of the Yellow Barn Festival is that we don\u2019t know in advance what all of the music will be, since much of it will be the (mostly) young professional musicians in residence. The public, of course, is invited, and every summer, there\u2019s a week in which a distinguished composer is part of the mix. This year, it\u2019s the Estonian composer Helena Tulve. But there is also a professional concert series, and the most enticing of this summer is the concert dedicated to the 98th birthday of the late Leon Fleisher, one of the greatest American pianists, who spent much of the later part of his career playing with only one hand, and who died in 2020 at the age of 92. The appropriately juicy and surprising program consists of music by Bach, Schubert, Berg, Schoenberg, Korngold, Kurt Weill. and Harold Arlen. Arlen\u2019s \u201cOne for My Baby\u201d will be sung by Fleisher\u2019s famous son, singer Julian Fleisher (July 23).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"RI\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>RHODE ISLAND<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Newport | July 2-19<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Now in its 57th year, the Newport Classical festival fills the grand mansions with soloists and chamber groups, both the well-known and the not-well-known-yet. The season opens with the group <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newportclassical.org\/event\/delirium-musicum\/\">Delirium Musicum<\/a> (need I say more) on July 2 and closes with the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newportclassical.org\/event\/festival-finale-harlem-quartet\/\">Harlem Quartet<\/a> (\u201cand friends\u201d) for an evening of string octets (July 19), both concerts at the grandest of the mansions, the Breakers, right on the shoreline. My first choice would be the refined <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newportclassical.org\/event\/parker-quartet-2\/\">Parker Quartet<\/a> (also at the Breakers) in an evening of early Beethoven, Paul Wiancko\u2019s \u201cStrange Beloved Land\u201d (which the Parkers premiered in 2013), and Schubert\u2019s G-major Quartet (July 5). I also can\u2019t leave out mentioning \u2014 while there are still tickets left \u2014 a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/newportclassical.org\/event\/opera-night\/\">concert of opera<\/a> solos and duets with two of the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s most popular stars, soprano Erin Morley and tenor Lawrence Brownlee (The Breakers, July 18).<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-12\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/AyGwFwYLCRQ\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"Maine\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>MAINE<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Portland | July 23 &amp; 26<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Opera Maine began presenting an annual summer opera in 1995. Now under the artistic direction of Dona D. Vaughan, who is also the company stage director, the company\u2019s 2026 opera is a relatively rare fully staged production of Gounod\u2019s tuneful \u201cRom\u00e9o et Juliette.\u201d I couldn\u2019t find any cast listed on the website. But if you\u2019re in the vicinity this July, Opera Maine bills itself as the only company in Maine offering full-staged opera productions.<\/p>\n<p><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Various locations | Aug. 4-16<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Salt Bay\u2019s season this summer is called \u201cMusic Unearthed,\u201d which sounds a little ominous. But looking at the programs and the players, you find more daylight than darkness. My top choice is the second program, \u201cEarth &amp; Sky,\u201d with such familiar and unfamiliar delights as the opening Allegro movement from Haydn\u2019s heavenly \u201cThe Lark\u201d Quartet (\u201cThe lark at break of day arising\/From sullen earth,\u201d as Shakespeare put it), Hawk Henries playing the Eastern Woodland flute in three of his own pieces (\u201cEarth and Sky,\u201d \u201cSong for the Birds\u201d and \u201cSong for the Earth\u201d), Messiaen\u2019s \u201cAb\u00eeme des oiseaux,\u201d and the great Brahms Clarinet Quintet featuring Boston favorite Romie de Guise-Langlois (Lincoln Theater, Damariscotta, Aug. 7).<\/p>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"Conn\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>CONNECTICUT<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Norfolk | July 3-Aug. 22<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">Yale School of Music\u2019s NCMS offers a summer full of concerts by both the young artists in the summer program and world-renowned visiting guest artists, like the celebrated Brentano String Quartet, which is offering two concerts this summer. I\u2019d pick the second, which includes the fourth of Haydn\u2019s first great series of quartets, Opus 20; Mozart\u2019s sublime and unsettling Quartet in D-minor, K. 421; and one of the least-frequently played of Beethoven\u2019s so-called Middle Quartets, Op. 59, No. 2, the \u201csecond Razumovsky\u201d (July 18). Also, the marvelous violinist Augustin Hadelich turns up here for a solo recital, similar but not quite the same as his concert in Rockport. The composers are Telemann, Coleridge-Taylor Parkinson, and Ysa\u00ffe again, but then there\u2019s also Bach, the heroic second solo Partita in D-minor (July 25).<\/p>\n<div class=\"Youtube_yt__c8hyI \">\n<div class=\"article-section--youtube article-section--embed widescreen\">\n<div class=\"Youtube_youtube__xF9Du\" id=\"yt-embed-15\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/img.youtube.com\/vi\/amOFaM_q_8g\/hqdefault.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" alt=\"\" \/><button class=\"Youtube_playButton__Z8hdD\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Load YouTube video<\/span><\/button><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<hr class=\"enhanced\" \/><span class=\"anchor\" id=\"VT\" \/><span><\/p>\n<h2>VERMONT<\/h2>\n<p><\/span><span \/><span><\/p>\n<h3>Marlboro | July 18-Aug. 16<\/h3>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\">With the possible exception of Tanglewood, the Marlboro festival \u2014 founded in 1951 by some of the most admired musicians in the world (who were all immigrants) \u2014 is probably the most famous summer classical music event east of the Mississippi. And unlike Tanglewood, where you know well in advance what you\u2019re getting, at Marlboro you don\u2019t know anything about the programs until the week before the actual public performance you might be attending. But that\u2019s never stopped anyone from being part of the capacity audience listening to performance by some of the 75 gifted instrumentalists and singers of all ages who have been spending the previous seven weeks (including three weeks of intensive rehearsals) working with celebrities like pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Jonathan Biss, who are the current Marlboro directors, and each year\u2019s composer-in-residence (this year, it\u2019s the exciting Brazilian composer Marcos Balter).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wbur.org \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 O artigo anterior foi obtido e traduzido do site internacional da celebrity.land   \u2019 Source Link <\/em><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The word \u201cfestival\u201d derives from the Latin word for a religious ceremony and morphed into words having more to do with eating (\u201cfeast\u201d) and simply having a good time \u2014 all of which make sense when it comes to summer classical music festivals. Here are the ones that are within a plausible drive from Boston, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1788028,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1788027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-musica"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788027","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1788027"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788027\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1788029,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1788027\/revisions\/1788029"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1788028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1788027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1788027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/pt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1788027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}