The Aspen Opera Theater Center kicks off its season this Thursday with the first opera from the Beaumarchais trilogy, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. The comedic masterpiece introduces the audience to some of opera’s most beloved characters, including the sly and witty barber Figaro. The Barber of Seville opens tomorrow, July 15, with a benefit performance at 8 pm and continues Saturday, July 17, and Monday, July 19, at 7 pm.
The Aspen Music Festival and School will set the stage for an American premiere of a work composed by Phillip Glass and performed Robert McDuffie.
If the pieces fall into place at the Aspen Music Festival and School, it will fall to longtime benefactor Kay Bucksbaum to quiet the troubled waters as chair of the board.
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ASPEN, Colo.—Broadway and television star Audra McDonald makes her highly-anticipated Aspen Music Festival and School debut this Saturday evening, July 24, at 6 p.m. in Harris Concert Hall, as a part of this year’s season benefit. The four-time Tony Award and two-time Grammy Award winner will present an evening of show tunes, standards and original songs written especially for her, followed by―for the first time ever―an elegant dinner with McDonald on the stage of the Benedict Music Tent.
Continue Reading July 20th, 2010
The Aspen Opera Theater Center kicks off its season this Thursday with the first opera from the Beaumarchais trilogy, Rossini’s The Barber of Seville. The comedic masterpiece introduces the audience to some of opera’s most beloved characters, including the sly and witty barber Figaro.
The Barber of Seville opens tomorrow, July 15, with a benefit performance at 8 pm and continues Saturday, July 17, and Monday, July 19, at 7 pm.
The opening night event will be this summer’s most glamorous benefit evening. Patrons of the black-tie 2010 Opera Benefit will enjoy a 5 pm cocktail hour at the home of Richard Edwards, followed by an elegant dinner at the Caribou Club. Opera-only tickets are also available, including an intermission reception featuring sparkling wine, cocktails, and hors d’oeuvres.
Continue Reading July 14th, 2010
Aspen Post,
We're running a ticket giveaway contest for the U.S. premiere of the new Philip Glass piece at the Aspen Music Festival on July 22. We would love to get the word out about it by announcing it to Aspen residents/visitors on your site and in whatever ways might be helpful to you! To enter the contest, all Aspen residents and visitors have to do is visit facebook.com/RobertMcduffieViolin.
Continue Reading July 13th, 2010
ASPEN, COLO.— The Aspen Music Festival and School announced today that the nominating committee of the board of trustees has nominated Kay Bucksbaum as chair of the board of trustees of the AMFS, and she has accepted this nomination. The full board of trustees will meet on June 29, 2010 to vote on its new officers, including Bucksbaum. Prior to that meeting, Bucksbaum will work with the nominating committee to develop a slate of other officers.
Continue Reading June 25th, 2010
You can’t tell the players without a scorecard at The Aspen Music Festival and School, but the scorecard just got smaller.
The Music Fest’s board chair Rob LeBuhn got the heave-ho this week when a majority of the board said he had to go. His walk down the gangplank follows the unforced departure of longtime Music Director David Zinman.
The winner and still champeen on the Castle Creek Campus is CEO Alan Fletcher, a composer who took the brunt of criticism for layoffs and cutbacks actually mandated by LeBuhn and the board.
Continue Reading June 8th, 2010
The Aspen Music Festival and School announced today that Rob LeBuhn will step down as board chair, effective immediately. This action is the result of a majority vote taken during a 3-hour-long special meeting of the board held today. In the immediate term, AMFS board vice-chair Mike Murray will serve as chair until the full 48-member board can convene to elect a new chair. The next regularly scheduled board meeting is June 29. The festival season begins July 1.
In the same meeting, the board voted to offer president and CEO Alan Fletcher a 2-year contract renewal, through September 2012. Fletcher has indicated he will accept the offer.
Continue Reading June 7th, 2010
Monies will make possible a transformation of the festival’s recording and broadcast sound
Funds support the purchase of state-of-the-art recording engineering equipment, completion of the festival’s audio archive, and underwrite a 2-week residency at the AMFS by America’s top classical music show, Performance Today
Continue Reading May 20th, 2010
As one of today's preeminent dramatic sopranos, superstar Deborah Voigt has garnered acclaim from both critics and audiences. This August 6, Voigt joins David Zinman in what will surely be one of the most memorable concerts of the summer. The program includes music of Beethoven and Strauss.
Also, please join us for the Festival and School's 60th Anniversary Celebration that will take place prior to this concert at 5pm. Come eat, drink, and reminisce about your favorite Festival memory. Celebration-only tickets are $35. Tickets with special seating at the Deborah Voigt concert with Celebration are $150.
This event is sure to be very popular, so get your tickets early by calling 970-925-9042.
March 30th, 2009
Each winter the Aspen Music Festival and School enriches and deepens the winter Aspen experience with inspiring performances of classical music. The 2009 Artist Recital Series offers a luminous lineup of top classical artists, including Colorado Symphony Orchestra music director Jeffrey Kahane (Feb. 16) performing on the piano; flutist Marina Piccinini and piano virtuoso Andreas Haefliger (Feb. 25); and rising-star pianist Simone Dinnerstein (March 14) who returns after a triumphant and highly individual performance of Bach’s Goldberg Variation, here last summer.
On February 16 the CSO’s beloved music director Jeffrey Kahane playing a piano program which includes Schubert’s Piano Sonata in A major, D. 959 and movements from Rachmaninoff’s emotional Ten Preludes, op. 23 and 13 Preludes, op. 32. Kahane enters his twelfth season as music director of the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra and is ending his successful tenure as music director of the CSO after this season. In addition to these posts, Kahane is a piano soloist of great acclaim. In 2008 in Aspen, he combined these talents by conducting the Aspen Chamber Symphony from the piano.
Pianist Andreas Haefliger takes the stage on February 25 with flutist Marina Piccinini for a colorful duo recital. Haefliger is a recitalist and chamber musician who was described in the Guardian as a “fascinating artist;” Piccinini is widely recognized as one of the world’s leading flute virtuosos. They will be performing the works of Prokofiev, Debussy, Marc André Dalbavie, and Franck, with the pianist playing unaccompanied on Liszt’s transcription of Isolde’s Liebestod from Tristan and Isolde by Wagner.
American pianist Simone Dinnerstein has fast been gaining international attention since making a triumphant New York recital debut at Carnegie Hall in 2005. Last summer, her Aspen audience enthusiastically confirmed the accolades she’s received and embraced her highly individual and dynamic style. The AMFS closes the winter series on March 14 with a Dinnerstein program including Schubert’s Four Impromptus, D. 899, op. 90 and Schumann’s Kreisleriana, op. 16, considered to be one of the composer’s finest compositions for the piano.
All Artist Recital concerts begin at 6:30 pm in the 500-seat Harris Concert Hall (960 N. Third Street, Aspen, CO). Single tickets are available at the AMFS Harris Concert Hall Box Office, by calling 970-925-9042 or online at www.aspenmusicfestival.com.
February 12th, 2009
A CELEBRATION OF ART, IDEAS AND THE HUMAN SPIRIT
June 25 to August 23, 2009
David Zinman conducts five concerts throughout the summer, joined onstage by superstar soprano and AMFS alumna Dawn Upshaw, alumnus and violinist Gil Shaham, European sensation Janine Jansen and renowned pianist Jeffrey Kahane
Aspen Opera Theater Center presents La bohème, The Rape of Lucretia and Don Giovanni
Dawn Upshaw performs a recital featuring works by acclaimed composer Osvaldo Golijov, including his critically acclaimed work written for the singer, “Ayre”
Nicholas McGegan conducts Bach’s complete Brandenburg Concertos over two special evenings
Continue Reading February 5th, 2009
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