Event Series Aspen Music Festival & School

AMFS | Opera Encounters

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS faculty coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching. Featured artists: Patrick Summers conductor, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra

Event Series Aspen Music Festival & School

AMFS | Opera Encounters

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS faculty coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching. Featured artists: George Manahan, Chía Patiño, Aspen Conducting Academy Orchestra

Event Series Aspen Music Festival & School

AMFS | Opera Encounters

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS faculty coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching. Featured artists: Opera scenes with Francesca Zambello

Event Series Aspen Music Festival & School

AMFS | Opera Encounters

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Aspen Opera Theater and VocalARTS faculty coach the program's major emerging talents in arias and scenes. Enjoy excerpts from the repertoire, ravishing voices, and insightful coaching. Featured artists: Contemporary music with Christopher Theofanidis and Matthew Aucoin

Event Series Met Live In HD

AMFS presents The Met: Live in HD – Anthony Davis’s X: The Life and Times of Malcolm X

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Anthony Davis’s groundbreaking and influential opera, which premiered in 1986, arrives at the Met at long last. Theater luminary and Tony-nominated director of Slave Play Robert O’Hara oversees a potent new staging that imagines Malcolm as an everyman whose story transcends time and space. An exceptional cast of breakout artists and young Met stars enliven … Continued

AMFS presents The Met: Live in HD – Bizet’s Carmen

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Acclaimed English director Carrie Cracknell brings a vital new production of one of opera’s most enduringly powerful works, reinvigorating the classic story with a staging that moves the action to the modern day and finds at the heart of the drama issues that could not be more relevant today: gendered violence, abusive labor structures, and … Continued

AMFS presents The Met: Live in HD – Verdi’s La Forza del Destino

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Verdi’s grand tale of ill-fated love, deadly vendettas, and family strife, with stellar soprano Lise Davidsen as the noble Leonora, one of the repertory’s most tormented—and thrilling—heroines. Director Mariusz Treliński delivers the company’s first new Forza in nearly 30 years, setting the scene in a contemporary world and making extensive … Continued

Aspen Music Festival and School | Matthew Aucoin: Music for New Bodies

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Premiered in April 2024, this major new work is from the creative team of MacArthur award-winning composer Matthew Aucoin, whose commissioning credits include the Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, and Lyric Opera of Chicago, and director Peter Sellars, celebrated for his operatic collaborations with John Adams, Tyshawn Sorey, and the late Kaija Saariaho. Inspired by the … Continued

Aspen Music Festival and School | Leonard Bernstein’s Young People’s Concerts Presented by Carnegie Hall: The Anatomy of a Symphony Orchestra

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

New! In a special partnership between Carnegie Hall+ and the Aspen Music Festival and School, Aspen viewers of all ages can screen two of Leonard Bernstein’s legendary Young People’s Concerts with the New York Philharmonic. In his most important role as music educator, Bernstein’s pioneering series of nationally televised broadcasts began in 1958 live from … Continued

Aspen Music Festival and School | The National Piping Centre Class

Wheeler Opera House 320 E Hyman Ave, ASPEN, CO, United States

Finlay MacDonald, Director of Piping at The National Piping Centre, demonstrates and teaches basic elements of bagpiping. The National Piping Centre's Aspen residency is generously underwritten by Mr. and Mrs. Thomas D. Rutherfoord, Jr.