Tanglewood Festival overview
This summer, Andris Nelsons returns to Tanglewood to conduct the Boston Symphony and the Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra. This exciting festival season will feature exceptional soloists. Here’s an overview:
July 10 – Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No. 1 with Seong-Jin Cho and Excerpts from Swan Lake
July 11 – Mahler Symphony No. 4 with Erin Morley and Mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 with Emanuel Ax
July 13 – Haydn’s Symphony No. 31 and Beethoven Symphony No. 5
July 17 – Simon, Barber, and Selections from Nixon in China with Renée Fleming and Thomas Hampson
July 19 – Haydn, Beethoven, and Shostakovich Piano Concerto No. 1 with Daniil Trifonov
July 20 – Beethoven’s Leonore Overture No. 3, Hindemith’s Konzertmusik for strings and brass, and Richard Strauss Don Juan and Till Eulenspiegel
July 25 – Tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4 and Paul Lewis Plays Mozart Piano Concerto No. 27
August 1 Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro with Hanna-Elisabeth Müller as the Countess, Nikola Hillebrand as Susanna, Emily D’Angelo as Cherubino, Joshua Hopkins as the Count, Michael Sumuel as Figaro and Susan Graham as Marcellina.
August 2 Joshua Bell performs Bruch Scottish Fantasy, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Marmoris and Robert Schumann’s Symphony No. 3