Castleton Festival 2014

The 2014 Castleton Festival, staged by conductor Lorin Maazel and his wife, Dietlinde Turban Maazel, at their home in Rappahannock County, will present new productions of two operas, Puccini’s “Madama Butterfly” and Mozart’s “Don Giovanni,” and a dramatic reading of “Don Juan in Hell” from George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman,” in addition to orchestral and chamber-music concerts, from June 28-July 20.

Orchestral concerts include an all-Mozart program, conducted by Maazel, on June 29; all-American program, conducted by John R. Bourgeois, former director of the U.S. Marine Band (“the President’s Own”), on July 4; and programs entitled “Story in Music” (July 13) and “Love in Music” (July 19).

The Castleton Chamber Players will perform on June 28 and July 6 and 19, and members of the Castleton Artists Training Seminar (C.A.T.S.) will give two programs of opera scenes on July 19 and 20.

In a nod to the festival’s Piedmont Virginia setting, a bluegrass concert will be presented on July 3.

The festival, in its sixth season, will bring nearly 200 young professional singers, instrumentalists and theatrical technicians to work with Maazel and other established artists.

Performances are staged at the Castleton Festival Theatre and Theatre House at the farm and at selected satellite venues elsewhere.

Tickets for festival performances range from $20 to $120, with subscriptions and ticket packages offered. Tickets will go on sale Dec. 16.

For more information, visit the Castleton Festival website, www.castletonfestival.org, or call the festival’s box office at (888) 974-0767.

The Castleton 2014 schedule:

JUNE 28
3 p.m. – Castleton Chamber Players. Program TBA.
5 p.m. – Gala dinner.
7 p.m. – Puccini: “Madama Butterfly,” Lorin Maazel conducting. Jonathan Burton (Pinkerton); other cast members TBA.

JUNE 29
2 p.m. – Castleton Festival Orchestra, Maazel conducting. Mozart: violin concerto TBA (violinist TBA); Clarinet Concerto (clarinetist TBA); orchestral works TBA.

JULY 3
7 p.m. – Bluegrass concert. Artists TBA.

JULY 4
2 p.m. – “All-American Concert,” John R. Bourgeois conducting. Program TBA.

JULY 5
7 p.m. – Mozart: “Don Giovanni,” Maazel conducting. Javier Arrey (Don Giovanni); other cast members TBA.

JULY 6
11 a.m. – Castleton Chamber Players. Program TBA.
2 p.m. – “Madama Butterfly.”

JULY 11
8 p.m. – “Madama Butterfly.”

JULY 12
3 p.m. – “Don Juan in Hell,” dramatic reading from George Bernard Shaw’s “Man and Superman.” Cast TBA.
7 p.m. – “Don Giovanni.”

JULY 13
2 p.m. – Castleton Festival Orchestra, Maazel conducting. “Story in Music.” Prokofiev: “Peter and the Wolf;” Lorin Maazel: “The Giving Tree,” “The Empty Pot,” “Vapours and Capers” (soloists TBA).

JULY 18
8 p.m. – “Don Giovanni.”

JULY 19
11 a.m. – “C.A.T.S. Spectacular,” with Castleton Artists Training Seminar participants. Opera scenes TBA.
4 p.m. – Castleton Chamber Players. Program TBA.
7 p.m. – Castleton Festival Orchestra, Maazel and Rafael Payare conducting. “Love in Music.” Tchaikovsky: “Rococo Variations” (cellist TBA); other works TBA.

JULY 20
11 a.m. – “C.A.T.S. Spectacular,” with Castleton Artists Training Seminar participants. Opera scenes TBA, with orchestra.
2 p.m. – “Madama Butterfly.”