2010 International Performing Arts Festivals
April May June July August September October
Florence, Italy
73rd Maggio Musicale Fiorentino
April 29 to June 22, 2010
Website: http://www.maggiofiorentino.com
The annual festival is a potpourri of operas, dance, concerts, and exhibitions presented at different venues in the city. Scheduled performances include Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten Strauss (April 29, May 2, 5, 8); Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail (May 14, 16, 19, 21) and the world premiere of Natura Viva written by Riggero Cappuccio (June 15, 17). Numerous concerts, ballet performances and theatre complement the festival schedule.
Stratford, Ontario
Stratford Shakespeare Festival
April 30 to October 31, 2010
Website: www.stratfordshakespearefestival.com
The six-month-long festival, located just two hours from Toronto, presents ten plays this year: As You Like It, Dangerous Liaisons, Do Not Go Gentle, Evita, For the Pleasure of Seeing Her Again, Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, King of Thieves, Kiss Me, Kate, Peter Pan, The Tempest, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, and The Winter's Tale.
Bergen, Norway
Bergen International Festival
May 26 to June 9, 2010
Website: http://www.fib.no/en
Established in 1953, the Bergen International Festival will embrace 160 events in 2010, covering music, opera, theatre, dance and the visual arts. Bergen, Norway’s second city is the location of Edvard Grieg’s home at Troldhaugen, and home to one of the world’s oldest orchestras, the Bergen Philharmonic founded in 1765 and now under the directorship of Andrew Litton. This year, the festival will showcase musical talent from Norway – including pianist Leif Ove Andnes, violinist Henning Kraggerud two Norwegian trumpeters Tine Thing Helseth and Nils Petter Molvær who performs with the Bergen Big Band, Norwegian conductor Eivind Gullberg Jensen with the NDR Radiophilharmonie from Hanover, the Norwegian Chamber Orchestra and the Trondheim Symphony Orchestra – and from around the world, including violinist Nicolas Znaider, pianists Gabriela Montero and Saleem Abboud Ashkar, the Faust Quartet and Les Musiciens du Louvre under Marc Minkowski.
Brussels
Brussels Jazz Marathon
May 28 to 30, 2010
Website: http://www.brusselsjazzmarathon.be/
More than 125 live concerts with jazz musicians will set the capital on fire with its annual jazz marathon. Now into its 15th year, the jazz fete features more than 450 musicians performing 125 concerts at both outdoor and indoor venues around the city. Best of all, the concerts are free and there are lots of workshops to participate in.
Charleston, South Carolina
33nd Annual Spoletto Festival USA
May 28 to June 13, 2010
Website: www.spoletousa.org
The 2010 Spoleto Festival USA offers an expansive program showcasing internationally and nationally acclaimed artists in approximately 45 productions. Held annually in historic Charleston, the 34th festival features numerous US and festival debuts and the return of several audience favorites along with the reopening of the newly restored Dock Street Theatre, Charleston’s most beloved theatrical space, which will reopen with a Spoletto production of Flora. the first opera ever performed in the American colonies. Also scheduled is the US premiere of Wolfgang Rihm’s opera Proserpina, The return of Dublin’s Gate Theatre in Noël Coward’s Present Laughter; the Colla Marionette Company’s production of Franz Joseph Haydn’s marionette opera Philemon and Baucis; the ballet Giselle danced by Nina Ananiashvili and the National Ballet of Georgia; and the revival of Lucinda Childs’ Dance, a seminal collaboration with Philip Glass and Sol LeWitt.
Glyndebourne, England
Glyndebourne Festival Opera 2010
May 20 to August 29, 2010
Website: www.glyndebourne.com
The 76th annual Festival includes revivals of Così fan tutte, Macbeth, Hänsel und Gretel and The Rake's Progress as well as two new productions: Mozart's Don Giovanni and the first ever production of Britten's Billy Budd.
Attendance at the opera performances requires black tie formal wear.
Liverpool, UK
2010 Liverpool City Sound Festival
May 19 to 22, 2010
Website: http://www.liverpoolsoundcity.co.uk
The three-day festival offers more than 400 bands spread across 30 venues in the city. Performances range from indie to rock and hip hop to electro, and much more.
Prague
The 65th Prague Spring International Music Festival
May 12 to June 4, 2010
Website: www.prague-spring.net
The festival takes place each spring in Prague with orchestral and operatic performances as well as recitals and chamber music performed by international artists.
Aland, Finland
Åland Organ Festival
June 27 to July 31, 2010
Website: www.alfest.org
The 36th annual festival features artists from Åland, Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, France, Holland, Poland and Italy. The varied concert program includes classic organ music, lunch concerts, jazz music and a traditional concert for children at different venues.
Becket, Massachusetts
Jacobs Pillow Festival
June 19 to August 24, 2010
Website: http://www.jacobspillow.org/festival/
The 78th annual festival in the Berkshires will showcase more than 50 companies from nine countries. Highlights include three world premiers from young choreographers Kyle Abraham, Monica Bill Barnes and Camile A. Brown as well as the US debuts of Goteborg Ballet of Sweden and the Pichet Klunchun Dance Company from Thailand. Among the 50 companies appearing are Dance Theater of Harlem, State Ballet Company of Georgia, and Les Ballets Jazz de Montréal.
Brevard (North Carolina)
Brevard Music Festival
June 25 to August 8, 2010
Website: http://www.brevardmusic.org/
The Brevard Music Center is a summer institute and festival in the mountains of scenic western North Carolina. Each summer students, guest artists and faculty members, and a full staff of technical and support personnel assemble in Brevard, creating a unique community of learning, teaching, and performing. The festival concerts present major orchestral, chamber, and operatic repertoire each year under the musical directorship of Keith Lockwood.
Chicago
Ravinia Music Festival
June 3 to September 7, 2010
Website: www.ravinia.org
Located in the Chicago suburb of Highland Park, the three-month-long festival features the Chicago Symphony and a host of artists including Rene Fleming, Misha Dichter, Sting with the Royal Philharmonic, Kiri Te Kanawa, YoYo Ma, and the Dave Brubeck Quartet. A special tribute to Stephen Sondheim is also scheduled.
Glastonbury, UK
Glastonbury Festival
June 23 to 28, 2010
Website: www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
The Glastonbury Festival held at the Worthy Farm in Pilton in Southwest England draws thousands of people from across the globe. This year, performers include U2, Snoop Dog, Stevie Wonder, Ray Davies and Willie Nelson. According to a posting on the website, the 2010 festival is already sold out.
Katonah, New York
65th Caramoor International Music Festival
June 26 to August 11, 2010
Website: www.caramoor.org
Located just outside New York City in Katonah, the festival features renowned musicians and ensembles; This year, the festival programs include a wide range of offerings, from the worlds of opera, classical music, family programs, Sonidos Latinos, chamber music, traditional American music, jazz, and the latest work from young artists breaking new ground.
Kuopio, Finland
41st Kuopio Dansfestival
June 17 to 23, 2010
Website: www.kuopiodancefestival.fi
The 41st Kuopio Dance Festival 2010 will present dance from the Nordic area to China and Argentina, from classical ballet to contemporary dance and tango. Highlights include first-time appearances by the Shanghai Ballet, Julio Bocca's Ballet
Argentino and the Chinese Jin Xing Dance Theatre, and includes appearances by the Cullberg Ballet from Sweden, Iceland Dance Company, Carte Blanche from Norway, Danish Dance Theatre from Denmark, Danish Palle Granhøj and Skånes Dansteater from Sweden with Finnish Susanna Leinonen's and Jorma Uotinen's latest pieces. Dance
Theatre Minimi and Savonia University of Applied Sciences, Music and Dance from Kuopio will be presenting Finnish dance.
Leipzig, Germany
85th Bach Festival Leipzig 2010
June 11 to 20, 2010
Website: http://www.bach-leipzig.de
At Leipzig's Bach Festival, the works of the great composer are performed by internationally acclaimed musicians in venues associated with the great former cantor of St. Thomas' Church's. Alongside Bach's Masses, the festival also presents orchestral and choral works as well as organ and symphony concerts. The program is complemented by special exhibitions and events. This year, the festival celebrates the 200th anniversary of Schumann’s birth who was one of the initiators of the first complete edition of Bach’s works, and even planned his own Bach edition. The Well-Tempered Clavier, which he regarded as the work of all works, was at the centre of his musical studies even in his early years and served as a model for his own compositions. Schumann conducted the first performance in Düsseldorf of Bach’s St. John Passion in 1851, making him a pioneer of the work, which, at that period, was still rarely performed.
Madrid
Rock in Rio (Ciudad del Rock, Arganda del Rey)
June 4, 5, 6, 11 and 14, 2010
Website: http://www.rockinriomadrid.com/en /
The rock festival returns with a lineup includes, among others, bands such as Metallica, Rage Against the Machine and Bon Jovi; singers Shakira and Rihanna; and DJs Tiesto, David Guetta and Paul Van Dyck.
Montreal
31st International Festival of Jazz
June 25 to July 6, 2010
Website: http://www.montrealjazzfest.com
The festival, held at different venues in the city, captures the mood, from jazz fusion to American rock, to hip European music.
New York
2010 Shakespeare in the Park
June 9 to August 1, 2010
Website: www.publictheater.org/content/view/126/219
The 2010 Shakespeare in the Park summer season will present two Shakespeare plays in repertory at the Central Park theatre: The Winter’s Tale and The Merchant of Venice.
Spoleto, Italy
Festival of Two Worlds 2010
June 18 to July 4, 2010
Website: http://www.spoletofestival.it/index.en.htm
The festival will present for the first time the opera Gogo no eiko by German composer Hans Werner Henze based on a novel by Yukio Mishima, will be staged in Spoleto featuring the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano. This dark-toned opera investigates the tormented conflict between generations and is accompanied throughout the entire opera by the enchanting energy of a vigorous and consuming music performed in a masterly fashion. Other performances include the Hamburg Ballet; the Berliner Ensemble and Robert Wilson presenting Shakespeare’s Sonnets, with the original music of the American songwriter Rufus Wainwright; and Venezuelan orchestra conductor and violinist Diego Matheuz, conducting the final concert with music from Bernstein’s West Side Story and Mahler’s First Symphony.
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Berkshire Theatre Festival
June 22 to October 24, 2010
Website: www.berkshiretheatre.org
The 2010 Berkshire Theatre Festival season features one world premiere, two musicals, and multiple classics from the theatrical canon. Plays scheduled this year include Jason Robert Brown’s The Last Five Years; Molnar’s The Guardsman; Shakespeare’s Macbeth and Albee’s A Delicate Balance.
Stratford-on-Avon, England
Royal Shakespeare Company
May through August 2010
Website: www.rsc.org.uk
During the summer months, the renowned Royal Shakespeare Company is presenting four productions at the Courtyard theater: Romeo and Juliet, Hamlet, King Lear and Morte D'Arthur.
Verona, Italy
88th Opera Festival
June 18 to August 28, 2010
Website: http://www.arena.it/eng/arenaeng.urd/portal.show?c=14
Since 1913 the Arena di Verona has been presenting opera outdoors at the ancient amphitheater dating back to Roman times. Five different operas are scheduled this year: Turandot, which opens the festival; Aida, Madama Butterfly, Carmen, and Il Trovatore.
Williamstown, Massachusetts
2010 Williamstown Theatre Festival
June 30 to August 22, 2010
Website: www.wtfestival.org
The preliminary schedule for the Williamstown Theatre Festival (WTF), entering its 56th season, which begins June 30, opens with Stephen Sondheim’s A Funny thing Happened on the Way to the Forum for a 12 day run. Other plays to be presented include Thorton Wilder’s Our Town and Landford Wilson’s Fourth of July.
Aspen, Colorado
Aspen Music Festival
July 1 to August 22, 2010
Website: www.aspenmusicfestival.com
The 2010 edition of the Aspen Music Festival and School season will continue to foster new ideas and explore musical works created in The Magic Years of 1800–1810, 1900–1910 and 2000–2010—periods of heightened activity and brilliant works. 2010 is also an anniversary year of Robert Schumann, whose works will be explored through the musical eyes of Johannes Brahms, perhaps his greatest protégé. The great American composer Samuel Barber also celebrates his centenary. A wide array of standard orchestral repertoire will be performed, including the music of Beethoven, Debussy, Ravel, Mendelssohn, Berlioz, Mahler, Bruckner, Strauss, Stravinsky, Rouse, and Golijov.
Guest artists include violinists Adele Anthony, Joshua Bell, Sarah Chang, Julia Fischer, Leila Josefowicz, Robert McDuffie, Gil Shaham and Valeriy Sokolov; vocalists Isabel Bayrakdarian and Michelle DeYoung; conductors Andrey Boreyko, Josep Caballé-Domenech, James Conlon, James DePreist, Edo de Waart, Jane Glover, Miguel Harth-Bedoya, Jeffrey Kahane, Nicholas McGegan, Peter Oundjian, Leonard Slatkin, Robert Spano and Mark Wigglesworth; pianists Inon Barnatan, Cipa and Misha Dichter, Simone Dinnerstein, Vladimir Feltsman, Ingrid Fliter, Marc-André Hamelin, Stephen Hough, Jeffrey Kahane, John O'Conor, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Yuja Wang and Joyce Yang.
Ensembles include the American String Quartet, the American Brass Quintet, the Emerson String Quartet and the Takács Quartet. Christopher Rouse and Steven Stucky will be composers-in-residence.
Avignon, France
64th Festival d’Avignon
July 7 to 27, 2010
Website: www.festival-avignon.com
Founded in 1947 by Jean Vilar, the Avignon Festival is today one of the most important contemporary performing arts events in the world. In July, Avignon becomes a city-theater, transforming its architectural heritage into various performance venues presenting innovative theater and dance programs. Plays performed this year include The Man Without Qualities by Musil, Kafka's The Trial, Brecht's Baal and Ionesco's Frenzy for Two or More. presented at the Palace of the Popes and other venues.
Bayreuth, Germany
Wagner Opera Festival
July 25 to August 28, 2010
Website: http://www.bayreuther-festspiele.de/english/english_156.html
The annual festival is devoted to the operas of Richard Wagner.
Cooperstown, New York
Glimmerglass Opera’s 2010 Festival
July 9 to August 24, 2010
Website: www.glimmerglass.org
Glimmerglass Opera’s 2010 Festival features new productions of Puccini’s Tosca, Copland’s The Tender Land, Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro and the US premiere of Handel’s Tolomeo.
Copenhagen
Copenhagen Jazz Festival
July 2 to 11, 2010
Website: http://jazz.dk/en/copenhagen-jazz-festival
The festival presents an impressive array of international and Danish jazz names, dispersed over the entire city at a record number of venues. The program also includes a series of themes that will hopefully make it a bit easier to get an overview of the more than 1,000 concerts that will be held over these ten days. Performers include Herbie Hancock, Martha Wainwright, Joe Lovano, Caetano Veloso, Marcus Miller and
Valby Jazz Festival
July 2 to 11, 2010
Organized by the Danish jazz musician Benjamin Koppel, this festival is being held in conjunction with the Copenhagen Jazz Festival, showcasing 20 of the world's best jazz musicians just ten minutes from the center of Copenhagen, and at affordable prices.
Valby Summer Jazz will be showcasing.
Dour, Belgium
22nd Dour Music Festival
July 15 to 18, 2010
Website: www.dourfestival.be
Located in the French-speaking village in Belgium, situated in the country’s Walloon region, 200 bands from around the world will be strutting their stuff on Dour’s eight stages. Bands include Dub Pistols, Back Sun Empire, The Very Best and Third World. Looking for Alternative rock, Ambiant, Electro Dumb, Eurocrunk. Glam Punk, New Wave, Psychobilly, Tekstep and UK Garage?
Estoril, Portugal
Estoril Music Festival
Website: http://www.estorilfestival.net
Juan-les-Pins, France
Jazz à Juan
July 15 to 25, 2010
Website: www.antibesjuanlespins.com
Now in its 50h season as a premier festival for jazz, it takes place in the coastal town of Juan les Pins in the heart of the French Riviera. Performers include bassist Marcus Miller, pianist Keith Jarrett, bossa nova great Carlinhos Brown, sax-player David Sanborn, and drummer Manu Katché.
Lenox, Massachusetts
Tanglewood Music Festival
July 5 to September 6, 2010
Website: www.tanglewood.org
The Tanglewood Music Center (TMC), the summer home of the Boston Symphony, begins its season-long celebration of its 70th anniversary at the Tanglewood Music Center (TMC) in Seiji Ozawa Hall on July 5 with performances of works by Falla, Albéniz, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Debussy, led by Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and TMC conducting fellows. The official opening is on July 8 with James Levine conducting the Boston Symphony in a performance of Mahler’s Symphony No. 2. Other season highlights include the world premiere of a work by Elliott Carter (July 12); Mahler’s Symphony No. 3 led by James Levine (July 17); Ravel’s Daphnis and Chloé led by Seiji Ozawa (July 25), and a fully staged performance of the Strauss opera Ariadne auf Naxos (August 1 and 4). The TMC orchestra also joins the Boston Symphony and Boston Pops for the ever-popular Tanglewood on Parade on August 3. Kurt Masur leads the BSO’s final program of the 2010 Tanglewood season (August 29), with the traditional season-ending performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9, with the Tanglewood Festival Chorus
Kicking off Tanglewood’s variety of pre-season events June 26 is A Prairie Home Companion at Tanglewood with the inimitable Garrison Keillor and a colorful cast of friends from the shores of Lake Wobegon. Mark Morris Dance Group makes its annual appearance in two highly anticipated concerts June 27 and 28. Also on June 27 and 28, the Tanglewood Music Center Instrumental Fellows offer their annual String Quartet Marathon. On July 5, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and TMC Conducting Fellows lead the TMC Orchestra in a program of works by Falla, Albéniz, Rimsky-Korsakov, and Debussy.
Contemporary Music at Tanglewood
The 2010 Festival of Contemporary Music will celebrate the 70th anniversary of the TMC and the seven decades of great composers who have led and taken a major role in its composition program, teaching and inspiring the next generation of composers and performers. Directed and programmed by the three still-living composers who have chaired the composition activities at the TMC—Gunther Schuller, Oliver Knussen, and John Harbison—the Festival will feature works by these three composers as well as by some of the great figures of the 20th and early 21st centuries, starting with Copland and Hindemith, and continuing up to recent resident.
New York
Lincoln Center Festival 2010
July 7 to 25, 2010
Website: www.lincolncenter.com
Theater, music, and dance shine at the festival with artists from around the world sharing their stories on the human experience, ranging from tragic to enraged, from poignant to hopeful and joyful. This year’s lineup includes ten North American, and New York premieres, and debuts. The Festival will unfold in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus, including two major theater events on Governors Island—the North American premiere of Peter Stein’s 12-hour marathon production of Dostoyevsky’s The Demons (also known as The Possessed) and the North American premiere of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s production of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s searing Teorema, adapted and staged by Ivo van Hove.
Another festival highlight will be performances of the complete works of Edgard Varèse by Maestro Alan Gilbert and The New York Philharmonic, International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), led by Steven Schick, and other musicians and singers. The Festival also boasts the US premiere of Yukio Ninagawa’s lavish production, Musashi (which opens the Festival on July 7), based on a legendary samurai story, and the New York premiere of Complicite’s Olivier Award-winning A Disappearing Number, conceived and directed by Simon McBurney, in the David H. Koch Theater. In all there will be 45 performances by artists and ensembles from 12 countries.
Mostly Mozart Festival
July 27 to August 21, 2010
Website: www.lincolncenter.org
The 44th season of the Mostly Mozart offers more than 35 events, including concerts, dance, pre-concert recitals, late-night performances, and lectures.
Park City, Utah
Deer Valley Music Festival
July 17 to August14, 2010
Website: www. http://www.deervalleymusicfestival.org
The annual festival with the Utah Symphony presents five weeks of performances of pops, classical, and chamber music performances. Highlights of the 2010 Deer Valley® Music Festival include performances with Ben Folds, Randy Travis, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, a concert featuring the music of Led Zeppelin and a performance of Disney® favorites. Friday Classical concerts and Saturday Pops concerts will be held at the Deer Valley® Snow Park Outdoor while chamber concerts will be held on Wednesdays and Thursdays in the more intimate setting of Park City’s St. Mary’s Church and Temple Har Shalom.
Prades, France
The 58th Festival Pablo Casals de Prades
July 26 to August 13, 2010
Website: http://www.prades-festival-casals.com
Great music at different venues. The opening chamber music concert on July 26 takes place at the Cloister of the St Michel de Cuxa Abbey with a program of Bach, Mozart, Schubert and Casals.
Rome
Baths of Caracalla
July 1 to August 8, 2010
Website: http://www.operaroma.it
Teatro dell'Opera in Rome holds its summer opera and ballet season at the Baths of Caracalla (Terme di Caracalla), where the audience can enjoy opera under the stars. The performances for the 2010 summer season include Prokoviev’s ballet Romeo and Juliet, and two Verdi operas--Aida and Rigoletto.
Rudolstadt, Germany
International Folk and Dance Festival
July 2 to July 4, 2010
Website: www.tff-rudolstadt.de
The 20th world festival presents more than 60 bands on more than 20 stages.
Salzburg, Austria
Salzburg Festival
July 25 to August 30, 2010
Website: www.salzburgfestival.at
The Salzburg Festival celebrates its 90th birthday this year with a performance schedule that includes opera, concerts and drama. The extensive drama program exploring the theme of Myths includes three productions –Peter Stein’s production of Oedipus at Colonus with Klaus Maria Brandauer as Oedipus; the German-language premiere of Jon Fosse’s adaptation of Sophocles’ Oedipus trilogy, entitled Death in Thebes, as part of the Young Directors Project; and Matthias Hartmann directs Racine’s Phaedra with Sunnyi Melles in the title role. Operatic presentations include: Rihm’s Dionysus, Gluck’s Orfeo ed Euridice, Berg’s Lulu, Strauss’s Elektra, Mozart’s Don Giovanni, and Gounod’s Romeo and Juliet. Orchestra and musical ensembles performing include the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertebouw Orchestra, the Swedish Chamber Orchestra, and the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra.
San Francisco
Summer and the Symphony
July 8 to July 25, 2010
Spend an invigorating musical summer with the San Francisco Symphony and Donato Cabrera, Assistant Conductor and Wattis Foundation Music Director of the Youth Orchestra. Beginning July 8, Summer & the Symphony presents a sensational series of concerts, featuring some of Western music’s greatest masterpieces performed by the SFS with a cadre of today’s most exciting conductors and virtuosos. Explore the music of composers from Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, and Rachmaninoff to George Gershwin, Duke Ellington, and more. The SFS also reprises last season’s acclaimed performance of music from the popular video game Final Fantasy, and offers a special presentation of Alfred Hitchcock’s film Psycho, accompanied by a live performance of Bernard Herrmann’s genre-defining film score. The concerts take place at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall.
Saratoga Springs, New York
New York City Ballet Summer Festival
July 6 to 17, 2010
Website: www.spac.org
The 2010 Season of New York City Ballet at Saratoga Performing Arts Center will feature 16 stunning ballets including three opening week performances of Balanchine's full-length, story ballet A Midsummer Night's Dream. The classic work, based on Shakespeare's famous play, features elaborate sets and costumes and a cast of over 100 dancers including 27 children. Other season highlights include the July 10 Ballet Gala featuring Saratoga premieres of new works by Alexei Ratmansky and Christopher Wheeldon and Balanchine’s The Steadfast Tin Soldier.
Verbier, Switzerland
The Verbier Festival
July 16 to August 1, 2010
Website: www.verbierfestival.com
In a new concert hall the Verbier Festival Orchestra, under the direction of Charles Dutoit, with soloist Yuja Wang, will open this year’s Verbier Festival. The orchestra will also perform under the baton of Semyon Bychkov, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos and Daniel Harding. Concerts not to be missed include the Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra under the direction of Gábor Takács-Nagy, two recitals by Evgeny Kissin, and the complete cycle of Schubert’s piano sonatas performed by Elisabeth Leonskaja. Martha Argerich, Joshua Bell, Leonidas Kavakos, Gidon Kremer. The closing concert on August 1 will feature Richard Strauss’s opera Salome under the direction of Valery Gergiev.
Worms (Germany)
Nibelungen Festival 2010
July 16 to August 1, 2010
Website: http://www.nibelungenfestspiele.de
Brecon (Wales)
Brecon Jazz Festival
August 6 to 8, 2010
Website: www.breconjazz.org
This world-famous jazz event, features 50 concerts in the picturesque market town of Brecon.
Edinburgh
Edinburgh International Festival 2010
August 13 to September 5, 2010
Festival 2010 is a journey of discovery through the diverse contemporary cultures of North, Central and South America, and Australasia. The Festival opens with John Adams’s El Niño and closes with the annual spectacular Bank of Scotland Fireworks Concert this year celebrating music from the movies.
Orchestra and opera performances include the Royal Concertgeboux Orchestra, Opera Australia, the Opera de Lyon, Cleveland Orchestra, Russian National Orchestra, Minnesota Orchestra, Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra and the Sydney Symphony Orchestra as well as opera, drama and dance performances. Website: www.eif.co.uk
Helsinki
Helsinki Arts Festival
August 20 to September 5, 2010
Website: http://www.helsinkifestival.fi
Finland’s largest arts festival will once again provide a diverse program of events throughout the city, with experiences ranging from classical to world music and pop, from drama to contemporary dance, and from visual art to film and children’s events. Russian pianist Evgeny Kissin plays his first recital in Finland that will include works by Schumann and Chopin.
Kilkenny (Ireland)
Kilkenny Arts Festival
August 6 to 15, 2010
Website: www.kilkennyarts.ie
The festival offers a potpourri of music, theater, dance, film literature and visual arts set against the backdrop of a historic city.
Lucerne
Lucerne Festival
August 12 to September 18, 2010
Website: http://e.lucernefestival.ch
The theme this year is Eros and love focusing on famous lovers from music history. Claudio Abbado and the Lucerne Festival Orchestra will open the festival with that immortal paean to marital fidelity, Beethoven's Fidelio. Other presentations include Esa-Pekka Salonen will conduct Wagner's Tristan und Isolde in a staging by Peter Sellars with videos by Bill Viola. The moving tragedy of Romeo and Juliet will resound in the setting by Sergey Prokofiev, and Pelléas and Mélisande will be represented in works by Fauré and Sibelius. Even incestuous love is represented by Byron's Manfred as set to music by Schumann and Tchaikovsky.
La Côte-Saint-André, France
The 17th Festival Berlioz
August 18 to 19, 2010
Website: http://www.festivalberlioz.com
The two-week festival takes place in La Côte-Saint-André in the Rhone/Alps region of France.
Montreux-Vevey (Switzerland)
Montreux Music Festival
August 27 to September 12, 2010
Pesaro (Italy)
Rossini Opera Festival
August 9 to August 22, 2010
Website: www.ros2sinioperafestival.it
The 2010 edition of the traditional musical event linked to the city of Pesaro and the cultural and artistic heritage left by Giacomo Rossini marks the festival's 30th anniversary. The season opens with Rossini’s Sigismondo. Other Rossini operas
include Demetrio E Polibio and La Cenerentola.
Bonn
2010 Beethovenfest Bonn
September 10 to October 9, 2010
Website: http://www.beethovenfest.de
The annual festival will present 67 concerts at 25 venues. This year it celebrates the 200th anniversary of Robert Schumann. A new concerto by Peter Ruzicka the composer and artist in residence will be presented. Guest conductors include Kent Nagano, Sir Colin Davis and Sir Neville Mariner.
Lenox, Massachusetts
2010Tanglewood Jazz Festival
September 4 and 5, 2010
Website: www.tanglewoodjazzfestival.org
The 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival lineup will include feature Kurt Elling, John Pizzarelli, the legendary Count Basie Orchestra, Eddie Daniels, Bob James, Donal Fox, Julian Lage, Jessica Molaskey, and the Laurence Hobgood Trio performing in the Seiji Ozawa Hall at Tanglewood.
Toronto
Toronto International Film Festival
September 9 to 19, 2010
Website: http://www.tiff.net /
Between 300 to 400 Canadian and international films are screened at approximately 23 screens located at different venues in the city.
Venice, Italy
67th Venice International Film Festival
September 1 to 11, 2010
The 67th Venice Film Festival lineup of films will be announced in late July. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to Asian and Hollywood director and producer, John Woo.
Belfast
The Belfast Festival at Queen’s
October 15 to 30, 2010
Website: http://www.belfastfestival.com
Considered Northern Ireland’s oldest performing-arts festival, it has attracted international classical performers in classical music and opera, comedy, and, pop.
Parma (Italy)
Festival Verdi
October 2010
Website: www.teatroregioparma.org
October is the month of Giuseppe Verdi’s birth, and in celebration the city and its surroundings steeped in the autumnal colors and scents of the Verdi homeland deeply comes to life with musical offerings of the life and work of the venerated composer. Operas presented this year include Il Trovatore, I Vespri siciliani, and Attila.
Wexford, Ireland
Wexford Opera Festival
October 17 to 30, 2010
Website: http://www.wexfordopera.com
This year’s annual Wexford Opera Festival promises an expanded artistic program spanning 15 days instead of 12. Taking place in the new Wexford Opera House, the 2010 program presents three operas: Virginia by Saverio Mercadante, The Golden Ticket by Peter Ash and Donald Sturrock, and Hubička (The Kiss) by Bedřich. A return of a new version of the popular afternoon short-opera performances, previously known as the shortworks is scheduled as are the lunchtime recitals in St. Iberius, the Gala Concert, two Choral Concerts and the return of the Dr. Tom Walsh Lecture.
Updated 5/25/10