As the festival’s founders hand over the reins to new artistic directors, they reflect on 25 years of success.
In Palo Alto, the German ensemble showcased the risks and rewards of adventurous chamber music interpretation.
Attendees will take in the visual artist’s sprawling installation in honor of Isang Yun before experiencing the composer’s music played live.
Sci-fi golems, a dissident Iranian poet, internet radicals, and a morally compromised reporter are all in the mix in the festival of new operas.
Conductor Manfred Honeck interpolated other music by Mozart to fill out the work left incomplete at the composer’s death.
