Caramoor International Music Festival
- Caramoor International Music Festival
The Caramoor International Music Festival is a summer music festival founded in 1945 that is held on the 90 acre estate of the Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts Inc., which includes a Mediterranean-style stucco villa and is located about convert|50|mi|km north of New York City in Katonah, New York.
The Caramoor estate became a centre for the arts and music following the World War II death of the son of its owners, Walter and Lucie Rosen. The couple donated the property in their son's memory, and it quickly became an established summer festival. Performances are given in the Spanish Courtyard of the house and in the 1,700-seat Venetian Theatre, a tented facility on the grounds. The Music Room in the house is also used for year round concerts.
For the past eight years, the opera focus has been "Bel Canto at Caramoor", with explorations of the "bel canto" repertoire under the direction of the conductor, Will Crutchfield. Semi-staged performances of such rarities (for the New York area) as Rossini's "Otello" and Donizetti's "Elisabetta" (the manuscript of which was discovered and then reconstructed by Crutchfield). Other innovative approaches to "bel canto" have resulted in 2005 productions of "La sonnambula" where the tenor's role was sung in the original keys and a "La traviata" where the majority of the standard cuts were restored.
The Caramoor International Music Festival also features a wide variety of music beyond Bel Canto Opera. Included are concerts by the Orchestra of St. Luke's, string quartets, various soloists, and two day-long jazz festivals. Caramoor also features a composer in residence, with such composers as John Musto (2006) and Paquito D'Rivera (2007) holding the post. The Orchestra of St Luke's is the orchestra in residence under conductor Donald Runnicles of the San Francisco Opera. Former music directors have included Julius Rudel and Andre Previn; the present one is Michael Barrett.
References
* Waleson, Heidi, "Tradition with a twist", "Opera Now", January/February 2006
ee also
*List of opera festivals
External links
* [http://www.caramoor.org Caramoor Festival official website]
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