With a plot echoing a dark version of Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” Handel’s operatic drama explores romance, jealousy, and revenge. Peter Kozma directs this inventive production, accompanied by a period instrument ensemble led by conductor and harpsichordist Benjamin Bayl.

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Ariodante

Opera Neo

Caroline Shaw is “often cited as proof that classical music has an exciting future” (The Atlantic). She’s a musician who moves between roles, genres, and mediums, trying to imagine a world of sound that has never been heard before but has always existed. As the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in Music, she works often in collaboration with others, as producer, composer, violinist, and vocalist. Step into her world and discover what makes this prolific and brilliant artist tick.

Artist Lounge: Caroline Shaw

The Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

Acclaimed as “a perfect musician” (Le Monde) and “vocally brilliant and dramatically fearless” (The New York Times), countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo began performing professionally at the age of 11 and has gone on to appear with many of the world’s leading opera houses. This summer he’ll work with stage director, choreographer, and dancer Zack Winokur, who is recognized as one of the most innovative and exciting talents working in opera today, creating masterpieces described as “pure poetry” (Boston Globe). Get to know these great artists ahead of their newly conceived celebration of Kurt Weill on Thursday, August 18.

Artist Lounge: Anthony Roth Contanzo & Zack Winokur

Known for her “poetic and sensitive pianism” (Washington Post) and a “wondrous sense of color” (San Francisco Classical Voice), GRAMMY-nominated pianist Joyce Yang has captivated audiences with her virtuosity, lyricism, and interpretive sensitivity through more than 1,000 debuts and re-engagements. Born in 1986 in Seoul, South Korea, Yang received her first piano lesson from her aunt at the age of four. Discover who influenced her and what inspired her to become one of the most captivating pianists today.

Artist Lounge: Joyce Yang

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The Artelize Podcast and Kasper Holten - Pedefining Opera for the modern world

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The Artelize Podcast - A legacy of innovation in Opera: Celebrating Marc A. Scorca

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The Artelize Podcast: A love letter that was never sent

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The Artelize Podcast and Adolfo Corrado: Mediterranean flavors, opera and social media

Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most fascinating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. A budding superstar in the classical realm, she is also a highly acclaimed fiddler in the tradition of her native Kentucky, delighting audiences with programming that includes Appalachian and bluegrass music. Learn how this genre-defying collaborator has inspired composers to write for her and enchanted audiences world-wide.

Artist Lounge: Tessa Lark

Composers in Paris took pride in absorbing the artistry of others and building on it to create their own auditory worlds. Composers like Milhaud, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, and Ravel drew inspiration from Baroque composers and idioms to create the masterworks in this concert.

A Weekend in Paris: Beg, Borrow and Steal

Conrad Prebys Performing Arts Center

As the youngest recipient of the Pulitzer Prize in music, GRAMMY Award-winning composer Caroline Shaw strives to create intricate soundscapes that have never been heard before but have always existed. For this season’s Takeover @ The JAI, Shaw will curate a cabaret-style concert of music she composed and music she loves, with the Miró Quartet and other friends, accompanied by cocktails and conversation.

Takeover @ The JAI with Caroline Shaw

This special event transforms The Conrad for the spellbinding, once-in-a-generation vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant, a multi-GRAMMY-winner and MacArthur Fellow. Salvant has a captivating passion for storytelling and weaves together jazz, blues, Baroque, and folk traditions from the world over. This evening’s concert will feature works from her new album, Ghost Song, her “most revealing and rewarding album yet” (The New York Times). You’ll leave the concert entranced, but don’t float away too soon. Stick around after the show for the best of San Diego’s culinary scene, craft cocktails, and more live music.

Synergy Under the Influence: Cécile McLorin Salvant

Alex Ross, award-winning author and music critic for The New Yorker, draws from his new book, Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music, and delves into the life and music of composer Richard Wagner.

Encounter: The Wagner Effect

Founding teacher John Heginbotham leads a session of the internationally-acclaimed, research-backed Dance for PD® program, which welcomes people with Parkinson’s and their families to transform their lives through dance. People living with Parkinson’s at all levels of ability and mobility are invited to explore movement and music in this interactive class.

Encounter: Dance for PD

Concertmaster of the Minnesota Orchestra, Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient, and winner of the Pro Musicis International Award, violinist Erin Keefe is among the leading chamber musicians of her generation. She joins the Aestas Trio for our first Fellowship Artist Spotlight performance with Pelia Quartet.

Encounter: Fellowship Artist Spotlight I

The first Asian musician ever appointed to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra—and now its longest-serving clarinetist—beloved SummerFest artist John Bruce Yeh joins Fellowship Artists Pelia Quartet for a delightful afternoon performance along with the Aestas Trio.

Encounter: Fellowship Artist Spotlight II

Audiences will be captivated by a newly conceived, semi-staged celebration of Kurt Weill’s extraordinary body of work. Directed by Zack Winokur, one of the most innovative and exciting talents working today, the program features two of the world’s most in-demand vocalists—countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, who became an international sensation and won a GRAMMY for his portrayal of the pharaoh in Philip Glass’s opera Akhnaten, and GRAMMY Award-winner Cécile McLorin Salvant—alongside an ensemble of SummerFest musicians creating an incomparable evening you will not want to miss.

Synergy: An Evening of Kurt Weill

Step into the famed halls and studios of Le Conservatoire de Paris, the epicenter of Paris’ most innovative musical minds where, whether as student or professor, composers like Debussy, Lili Boulanger, Franck, and Fauré reflected the great artistic and intellectual movements of their times.

Join us for the Music Prelude for Aestas Trio’s performance of Tailleferre’s Trio for Piano, Violin, and Cello and Wynona Yinuo Wang’s performance of Selections from Ravel’s Le tombeau de Couperin

A Weekend in Paris: Le Conservatoire

An orchestra transformed into a trio, a string orchestra to a septet, and a quartet to a string orchestra—these powerful works not only transform themselves but transport the listeners. The merry pranks of Till Eulenspiegel are followed by the stirring postwar elegy of Metamorphosen in two of Strauss’s most ingenious works, and we close the festival with Schubert’s dramatic and powerful String Quartet re-envisioned by Mahler as an even more dramatic and powerful symphonic work, performed by an all-star string ensemble.

Join us for the Musical Prelude with Pelia Quartet for their performance of Ravel’s String Quartet in F Major.

Finale: Metamorphosis

SummerFest welcomes back the fan-favorite Miró Quartet. For more than 25 years, the Miró Quartet has balanced a loyalty to the legacy of the string quartet and a devotion to the future of the form, regularly commissioning new works and collaborating with the finest artists of our time. For this special Wednesday evening event at The Conrad, the Miró partners with the sensational GRAMMY-winning composer and performer Caroline Shaw, presenting the West Coast première of Microfictions, a new work co-commissioned by La Jolla Music Society for SummerFest, as well as performing Mendelssohn’s energetic and dramatic String Quintet No. 2 with Shaw on viola.

Under the Influence: Miró Quartet

Using the instrumentation of some of the most iconic pieces in music—Mozart’s Clarinet Quintet and Schubert’s Octet and “Trout” Quintet—composers Brahms, Françaix, and Chris Rogerson create their own unique and masterful works.

Join us for the Musical Prelude with Aestas Trio for their performance of Schoenberg’s Verklärte Nacht (arr. for piano trio by Eduard Steuermann)

New Wine, Old Bottles

In The Baker-Baum Concert Hall, observe the intricate rehearsal process that goes into every SummerFest performance and engage in conversation with the artists during post-rehearsal Q&As. 

Open rehearsals are free and open to the public, no registration is required.

Open Rehearsal II

Open Rehearsal III

Produced in collaboration with The Hungarian State Opera, Mozart’s rarely performed early opera is a darkly comic exploration of requited and unrequited love. The production, featuring young artists from the Hungarian State Opera performing along-side Opera Neo young artists, is directed by András Almási-Tóth and conducted by Peter Kozma.

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