The Silkroad Ensemble with Rhiannon Giddons, the Ojai Music Festival, opera at Wolf Trap and Glimmerglass are among the summer's highlights.
The annual Cooperstown, N.Y., opera festival helmed by Washington National Opera Artistic Director Francesca Zambello returns with a strong summer lineup. A production of “The Sound of Music” with the Houston Grand Opera brings Rodgers and Hammerstein’s beloved final musical to life . Mezzo-soprano Briana Hunter sings the lead in a new production of “Carmen,” a production with Minnesota Opera .
Sandra Seaton premieres “The Passion of Mary Cardwell Dawson,” a play with music by Carlos Simon celebrating the founder of the National Negro Opera Company . And Sankaram teams with Kelley Rourke for a new operatic retelling of “The Jungle Book,” featuring the Glimmerglass Youth Chorus .The Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in Lenox, Mass., has a busy season with way too many highlights to list, but here’s a handful.