#ClassicsaDay #ClassicalSummer Week 3, 2021
Summer is the time of music festivals, which is why the Classics a Day team opted to make it August’s theme. The idea is to post performances from summer festivals, either past or present. Some of these events have been going on for decades (if not centuries) so there’s a lot to choose from.
But there are also challenges with this theme. Not every festival shares its performances online. Some only offer promotional excerpts. Here are my posts from various festivals for week three of #ClassicalSummer
08/17/21 Bachfest Leipzig 2020
Sebastian Heindl plays the Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543 at St. Thomas Church where Johann Sebastian Bach was Thomaskantor.
08/18/21 Spoleto Festival (Italy), 2008
Daniel Harding conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in a performance of Richard Strauss’ “Don Juan.”
08/19/21 Verona Opera Festival, 2019
La Traviata – Libiamo ne’ lieti calici. This was a Franco Zeffirelli production with Aleksandra Kurzak and Stephen Costello.
08/20/21 Destination Opera! Festival, 2009
Jason C. Tramm directs the NJ State Opera Chorus and Orchestra in a performance of Verdi’s Requiem.
