New productions of Puccini's "La Bohème," Ravel's "L’Enfant et les Sortilèges" and Kurt Weill's "The Seven Deadly Sins," and revivals of Stravinsky's "L'Histoire du Soldat" ("The Soldier's Tale")
and Manuel de Falla's "Master Pedro's Puppet Show," will be staged during the 2011 Castleton Festival at Castleton Farms, the Rappahannock County estate of Lorin Maazel and Dietlinde Turban Maazel.The 2011 festival will run from June 25 to July 24.
Next summer's festival also will expand into the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, with performances of The Gershwins' "Porgy and Bess," a double-bill of "Il Tabarro" and "Gianni Schicchi" from Puccini's "Il Trittico," and a concert with mezzo-soprano Denyce Graves marking the 150th anniversary of the Civil War's First Battle of Bull Run, all at the Hylton Performing Arts Center in Manassas.
The festival brings more than 200 young artists to Castleton Farms to work under the tutelage of Maazel and other established musicians and theatrical figures.
In late July, Maazel will lead two concerts with festival performers at the National Centre for the Performing Arts in Beijing, China. In November, a new Castleton production of Rossini's "The Barber of Seville" will be introduced in Beijing; the production will open the 2012 festival in Virginia.
For more information about the Castleton Festival, visit www.castletonfestival.org
The 2011 Castleton schedule:
June 25 (6 p.m.)
July 1 (7:30 p.m.)
July 10 (7 p.m.)
July 16 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
Puccini: "La Bohème"
Lorin Maazel conducting
June 26 (2 p.m.)
July 9 (7 p.m.)
July 16 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House
Stravinsky: "L'Histoire du Soldat" ("The Soldier's Tale")
Maazel conducting
De Falla: "Master Pedro's Puppet Show"
Han-Na Chang conducting
The Puppet Kitchen
June 26 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Maazel conducting
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
All-Bizet program
July 2 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House
De Falla: "Master Pedro's Puppet Show"
Chang conducting
The Puppet Kitchen
(puppet workshop for children at 3 p.m.)
July 2 (5 p.m.)
Castleton Café
cabaret show
artists TBA
July 2 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
bluegrass concert & dance
artists TBA
July 3 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Maazel conducting
All-Gershwin program
July 7 (8 p.m.)
Hylton Arts Center, Manassas
Maazel conducting
The Gershwins: "Porgy and Bess" (concert presentation)
July 8 (7:30 p.m.)
July 15 (7:30 p.m.)
July 23 (2 p.m.)
Theatre House
Weill: "The Seven Deadly Sins"
Levi Hammer conducting
Ravel: "L’Enfant et les Sortilèges"
Maazel conducting
July 11 (7 p.m.)
The Theatre at Little Washington
artists TBA
recital program TBA
July 14 (8 p.m.)
Hylton Arts Center, Manassas
Puccini: "Il Tabarro," "Gianni Schicchi"
Maazel conducting
July 17 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Maazel conducting
Jennifer Koh, violin
program TBA
July 18 (7 p.m.)
The Theatre at Little Washington
artists TBA
recital program TBA
July 21 (8 p.m.)
Hylton Arts Center, Manassas
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Maazel conducting
Denyce Graves, mezzo-soprano
program TBA, marking 150th anniversary of First Battle of Bull Run
July 24 (7 p.m.)
Festival Tent
Castleton Festival Orchestra
Maazel conducting
Marouan Benabdallah, piano
program TBA