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appearance Stateside) as the lovers, Matilde and Arnold. Mezzo-soprano Vanessa Cariddi performs Tell’s wife, Hedwige. Also included in this summer idyll are soprano Talise Trevigne, bass Nicolas Masters, tenors Rolondo Sanz and Brian Downen and baritones Scott Bearden and Michael Nyby. Conductor Will Crutchfield leads the Orchestra of St Luke’s. www.caramoor.org nortH adaMs Bang on a Can summer Festival (July 11-31) Lenox, MA, boasts Tanglewood, but North Adams, MA (home to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) celebrates each summer with Banglewood. David Lang, Michael Gordon and Julia Wolfe’s brainchild Bang on a Can takes its new music show on the road each summer, setting up shop at Mass MoCA. Now in its tenth year, the festival fosters the creation and performance of new works in the Berkshires. In addition to Lang, Gordon and Wolfe, this year’s faculty includes clarinettist and composer Evan Ziporyn, violinist Todd Reynolds and conductor Brad Lubman.

Beyond daily gallery recitals at 1.30pm and 4.30pm, an all-John Adams concert on July 23 and a Composer Premiere concert on July 25, Bang on a Can’s signature music marathon features six straight hours representing more than 30 musicians and composers on July 30. www.bangonacan.org

CinCinnati Cincinnati opera Eugene Onegin (July 14 and 16) After nearly 30 years, Tchaikovsky’s best-known opera makes a comeback in Cincinnati with a pedigree cast. The Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra’s principal conductor Vasily Petrenko (currently doing justice to another Russian composer, Shostakovich, for the Naxos label) also returns to the Buckeye State to lead this Pushkinbased work of unrequited love. Director Mark Streshinsky crafts a new production starring Nathan Gunn in his debut as the icy title role. Gunn is surrounded by a Slavic cast including Muscovite soprano Tatiana Monogarova as Tatyana, Polish mezzo Edyta Kulczak as Olga and Russian-Israeli bass Denis Sedov as Gremin. Adding to the www.gramophone.co.uk

Bang on a can All Stars take up residence at the Massachusetts Museum of contemporary Art on July 11

multiculti ensemble are American tenor William Burden as Lensky and Japanese mezzo Mika Shigematsu as Filippyevna. www.cincinnatiopera.org lenoX tanglewood Nikolaj Znaider (July 14 and 16) Jean-Yves Thibaudet (July 20-24) James Levine’s schedule has been up in the air as of late, but regardless of whether or not he is able to fulfil his full roster of conducting duties at Tanglewood this season, two recurring soloists will be sure to keep calm and carry on. Violinist Nikolaj Znaider weekends in Massachusetts offering two distinct programmes: on July 14 he teams up with pianist Saleem Aboud Ashkar for sonatas by Beethoven, Schumann and Franck in Seiji Ozawa Hall. On the 16th, he goes under Levine’s baton for Sibelius’s hot-and-cold Violin Concerto. The all-Sibelius programme also includes Finlandia, Valse triste and the composer’s Symphony No 5. Four days later, masterful French pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet lends his flair to the complete piano works of Ravel. The solo performance on July 20 boasts Miroirs and Gaspard de la nuit while the next day highlights Pavane pour une infante défunte, Valses nobles et sentimentales and Le tombeau de Couperin. Levine reprises Valses nobles on the orchestral programme of July 24 that showcases Thibaudet in both

Ravel’s Piano Concerto in G and Piano Concerto in D for left hand. The celebration of this French composer ends with Boléro. www.bso.org

CHiCago grant Park Music Festival Penderecki Conducts Penderecki (July 15-16) For a time, Chicago had the largest Polish population outside Warsaw. Two world wars and countless other historical events later and the demographics may have changed, but the impression lasts. So when it came to planning the city’s annual free music festival in Grant Park this summer, pairing the work of a Polish composer with Beethoven’s heroic Symphony No 3 seemed all too fitting. That the work is by leading contemporary Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki — and that Penderecki will be in Chicago to conduct both works on the programme — is inspired. Penderecki leads his own Concerto Grosso for three cellos and orchestra, played by the Grant Park Orchestra, before diving into Beethoven. Here’s one of those few blessed moments when you don’t get what you pay for. www.grantparkmusicfestival.com santa Fe santa Fe opera Griselda (July 16 – August 19) Who but Peter Sellars would direct the first

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