Spring and Summer Opera Festivals in Europe and North America
Here is a list of web sites for people who want to check out the various opera festivals in Europe, with their schedules and ticket sales. This is a 2011 list, but most of them happen every year so the links must remain valid; a few maybe were a one-time affair, do your own checking. Scroll down for North America annoucements:
Austria
Bregenz Festival – www.bregenzerfestspiele.com
Lehár Festival – www.leharfestival.at
Salzburg Festival – www.salzburgfestival.at
Shubertiade – www.schubertiade.at
Wiener Festwochen – www.festwochen.at
The Salzburg Whitsun Festival has released its 2013 program, centered around the theme of 'Sacrifice' and 'victim, or more precisely, the German word 'Opfer', full of delicious ambiguity when it's translated into English.
The operatic offering is Bellini's Norma with Ceci as the Priestess herself. Other highlights include a staged Rite of Spring.
Press release
Program
Czech Republic
Prague Sprinc International Music Festival – www.prague-spring.net
Finland
Savolinna Opera Festival – www.operafestival.fi
France
Festival d’Aix-en-Provence - www.festival-aix.com
Château de Versailles – www.chateauversailles.fr
Chorégies d’Orange – www.choregies.asso.fr
Festival de Radio France et Montpellier Languedoc Roussilon – www.festivalradiofrancemontpellier.com
Germany
Festspiele Baden-Baden – www.festspielhaus.de
Bayreuth-Richard Wagner Festival – www.bayreuther-festspiele.de
Dresden Music Festival – www.musikfestspiele.com
Göttingen International Handel Festival – www.haendel.org
Munich Opera Festival – www.muenchner-opern-festspiele.de
Rossini in Wildbad – www.rossini-in-wildbad.de
Schwetzingen Festival – www.schwetzinger-festspiele.ed
Great Britain
Aldeburgh Festival – www.aldeburgh.co.uk
Buxton Festival – www.buxtonfestival.co.uk
Edinburgh International Festival – www.eif.co.uk
Garsington Opera – www.garsingtonopera.org
Glyndebourne Festival Opera – www.glyndebourne.com
Grange Park Opera – www.grangeparkopera.co.uk
Opera Holland Park – www.operahollandpark.com
Iford Arts Festival – www.ifordarts.co.uk
Italy
Arena di Verona – www.arena.it
Festival della Valle d’Itria – www.festivaldellavalleditria.it
Maggio Musicale Fiorentino – www.maggiofiorentino.com
Festival Puccini – www.puccinifestival.it
Ravenna Festival – www.ravennafestival.org
Rossini Opera Festival – www.rossinioperafestival.it
Teatro La Fenice – www.teatrolafenice.it
Terme di Caracalla Teatro dell’Opera – www.operaroma.it
Festival Verdi, Parma – www.teatroregioparma.org/verdifest
Romania
George Enescu International Festival – www.festivalenescu.ro
Russia
Stars of the White Nights Music Festival – www.mariinsky.ru
Sweeden
Drottningholm Court Theater – www.dtm.se
Switzerland
Lucerne Festival – www.lucernefestival.ch
Verbier Festival and Academy – www.verbierfestival.com
Zurich Festival – www.zuercher-festspiele.ch
North American Festivals
May 19-June 24, the Wells Fargo Advisors 2012 Festival at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis: Carmen, Sweeney Todd, Così fan Tutte, and Alice in Wonderland.
Des Moines Metro Opera has a Summer Festival - June 22-July 15, 2012. Don Giovanni, La Rondine, and Eugene Onegin.
Santa Fe Opera, June 14/August 24, 2012 Summer Festival: Tosca, The Pearl Fishers, Maometto II, King Roger, Arabella
Spoleto Festival USA from May 25 through June 10, 2012 - only two operas this year, but lots of other stuff. The operas are Glass' Kleper, and Guo Wenjing's Feng Yi Ting.
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