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A beloved community tradition! The annual free Fourth of July band concert features the Aspen Festival Band playing a rousing selection of patriotic favorites, marches, and American classics. Members of Dance Aspen will premiere new choreography by Matthew Gilmore set to Leonard Berstein's Three Dance Episodes from On the Town. Wear your red, white, and blue!

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Fourth of July Concert

Aspen Meadows Resort

Directed by LBO’s Artistic Director and visionary James Darrah, George Frideric Handel’s glorious music and surprisingly relevant drama re-emerges as a site specific, cinematically driven, wildy raucous contemporary party. A story of ill-fated romance, long lost familial relationships and conquerors and their captors, LBO’s GIUSTINO will elevate the ambiguities of gender already present in baroque opera and examine how stereotypes can be shattered even in the most traditional stories. Darrah’s breakthrough stylistic hybrid of cinema-theater recontextualizes the salon-like qualities of Handel’s 18th century work to a transitory, temporal space, further challenging the current norms of 21st century classical music consumption.

The libretto and score will be taken apart and reassembled by Darrah, conductor Christopher Rountree, and exciting young composer Shelley Washington, and will be performed with both authentic baroque specialists as well as contemporary musical and dramatic updates. The action of the scenes will move amongst the audience and to different parts of the location, and will be live-filmed to create a movie within an opera playing at all times. And just as spectators did during the time of Handel, the audience will be encouraged to truly revel in the decadence and transcendence of Handel’s glorious music without the trappings of traditional, staid classical music performances.

Dante Mireles

Baritone

Events

Jul 4, 2023

Fourth of July Concert · Aspen Music Festival

21 - 28 May, 2022

Giustino · Long Beach Opera

Future and recently performed repertoire

Polidarte in Giustino by Handel

Long Beach Opera

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