A concert in the Michael Klein Music Tent at the Aspen Music Festival and School.
In Wednesday’s (2/19) Aspen Times (Colorado), a staff-written report states, “The Aspen Music Festival and School (AMFS) celebrates 76 years of performance and mentorship this summer, as more than 450 young artists from around the world come together, with artist-faculty and guests from … orchestras and music schools nationwide, for nearly 200 public events. The 2025 festival explores the theme ‘Concerning the Spiritual in Art,’ inspired by Wassily Kandinsky’s book … It does so through works including ‘Siddhartha, She,’ an AMFS co-commission from composer-in-residence Christopher Theofanidis and his longtime collaborator, librettist Melissa Studdard…. Other festival highlights include a fully staged production of Mozart’s ‘Così fan tutte,’ marking Co-Artistic Director Renée Fleming’s directorial debut … the U.S. premiere of Thomas Adès’s ‘The Origin of the Harp,’ which is another AMFS co-commission; world premieres of new AMFS co-commissions from Samuel Adams, Christopher Stark, and Max Vinetz; performances of recent AMFS co-commissions from Jasmine Barnes, Anna Clyne, Avner Dorman, Edgar Meyer, and Tyshawn Sorey; and a celebration of this year’s Boulez centennial … Davóne Tines performs a wide-ranging solo recital program, Pierre-Laurent Aimard plays site-specific Messiaen, Patricia Kopatchinskaja duets with Sol Gabetta; Enrique Mazzola leads ‘La bohème’ in concert, and Stéphane Denève conducts Richard Strauss. Lang Lang and Patti LuPone both give mainstage solo recitals…. Events will be presented from July 2 to Aug. 24.”
