From Monday 16 June to Sunday 14 September
234 festival concerts will be offered live to active and associate
Members via the two Euroradio satellite channels. The selection was
made by an ad hoc Group of representatives of the music stations of
Radio Members from Belgium, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland and the
UK.
Among the wealth of concerts
available, mention should be made of the following
festivals:
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Aldeburgh Festival (United Kingdom)
Amadeus Festival, Geneva (Switzerland)
MDR Music Summer, Dresden (Germany)
Mozart/Mendelssohn Driedaagse, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
Aix-en-Provence Festival (France)
Juillet musical d'Aulne (Belgium)
Bayreuth (Germany)
Beaune Festival (France)
Brandenburg Summer Concerts (Germany)
Bregenz Festival (Austria)
Klara Festival, Brussels (Belgium)
Cesky Krumlov Festival (Czech Republic)
Cheltenham Festival (United Kingdom)
Tivoli Festival, Copenhagen (Denmark)
Delft Festival (The Netherlands)
Chopin Festival, Duszniki (Poland)
Echternach Festival (Luxembourg)
Haydn Days, Eisenstadt (Austria)
Haydn Festival, Fertöd-Eszterháza (Hungary)
Flanders Festival (Belgium)
Maggio musicale, Florence (Italy)
Glyndebourne (United Kingdom)
Styriarte Festival, Graz (Austria)
Granada Festival (Spain)
Gstaad Festival (Switzerland)
Schleswig-Holstein Festival, Hamburg (Germany)
Avanti! Festival, Helsinki (Finland)
Innsbruck Festival (Austria)
Valle d'Itria Festival (Italy)
Jaroslaw Festival (Poland)
Killaloe Festival (Ireland)
La Roque d'Anthéron Festival (France)
Lucerne Festival (Switzerland)
Lugano Festival (Switzerland)
Proms, London (United Kingdom)
London Festival (United Kingdom)
Mikkeli Festival (Finland)
Montpellier Festival (France)
Rossini Festival, Pesaro (Italy)
Sanssouci Castle Festival, Potsdam (Germany)
Prague Autumn (Czech Republic)
Ravenna Festival (Italy)
Rheingau Festival (Germany)
Riga Sacred Music Festival (Latvia)
Saar Festival (Germany)
Saint-Denis Festival (France)
St Petersburg White Nights Festival (Russia)
Bach Festival, Schaffhausen (Switzerland)
Salzburg Festival (Austria)
Schubertiade, Schwarzenberg (Austria)
Stavelot Festival (Belgium)
Baltic Sea Festival, Stockholm (Sweden)
Mecklenburg Festival, Ulrichshusen (Germany)
Utrecht Festival (The Netherlands)
Uusikaupunki Festival (Finland)
Verona Arena (Italy)
Wartburg Concerts, Berlin (Germany)
Weilburg Castle Festival (Germany)
Wilanow Summer Academy (Poland)
West Cork International Chamber Music Festival (Ireland)
Competitions
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Queen Elisabeth Competition, Brussels
(Belgium)
Malko Competition, Copenhagen (Denmark)
International Violin Competition, Montreal (Canada)
Concertino Praga (Czech Republic)
Géza Anda Competition, Zurich (Switzerland)
Operas
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Adina (Rossini), Pesaro (Italy)
Belshazzar (Handel), Beaune (France)
Benvenuto Cellini (Berlioz), Proms, London (United Kingdom)
Bohčme (Puccini), Scala, Milan (Italy)
Carmen (Bizet), Verona (Italy)
Fledermaus (Strauss), Proms, London (United Kingdom)
Comte Ory (Rossini), Pesaro (Italy)
Tales of Hoffmann (Offenbach) Salzburg (Austria)
Götterdämmerung (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Damnation de Faust (Berlioz), Grand-Théâtre, Geneva
(Switzerland)
Duchesse de Gérolstein (Offenbach), Graz (Austria)
Fidelio (Beethoven), Scala, Milan (Italy)
Lohengrin (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Otello (Verdi), Maggio musicale, Florence (Italy)
Rheingold (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Orfeo (Graun), Potsdam (Germany)
Cunning Little Vixen (Janácek), Bregenz (Austria)
Proserpine (Paisiello), Martina Franca (Italy)
Prince Igor (Borodin), Mariinsky, St Petersburg (Russia)
Saul (Handel), Proms, London (United Kingdom)
Semiramide (Rossini), Pesaro (Italy)
Siegfried (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Tannhäuser (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Upupa (Henze), Salzburg (Austria)
Flying Dutchman (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Walküre (Wagner), Bayreuth (Germany)
Conductors
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Gerd Albrecht, Claudio Abbado, Riccardo
Chailly, Andrew Davies, Colin Davis, Daniel Barenboim, Frans
Brüggen, Semyon Bychkov, Christoph von Dohnányi, Christoph
Eschenbach, Peter Eötvös, Vladimir Fedosseyev, Adam Fischer, Ivan
Fischer, John Eliot Gardiner, Daniele Gatti, Valery Gergiev,
Leopold Hager, Bernard Haitink, Daniel Harding, Nikolaus
Harnoncourt, Philippe Herreweghe, Richard Hickox, Manfred Honeck,
René Jacobs, Armin Jordan, Vladimir Jurovsky, Ton Koopman,
Alexander Lazarev, James Levine, Jesús López-Cobos, Charles
Mackerras, Zubin Mehta, Marc Minkowski, Ricardo Muti, Kent Nagano,
Roger Norrington, Simon Rattle, Mstislav Rostropovich, Esa-Pekka
Salonen, Leonard Slatkin, Christian Thielemann, Yan Pascal
Tortelier, Gilbert Varga, Marcello Viotti, Franz Welser-Möst, Edo
de Waart, Hugh Wolff, Antoni Wit, David Zinman...
and hundreds of prestigious soloists.
Web sites for the Summer Festivals:
Entire world:
http://www.culture-universal.com/festivals/festivals_home.html
http://festivals.com/~finder/
European Association of Music
Festivals:
http://www.euro-festival.net/
Data bank for European
festivals:
http://www.yourope.org/main_noflash.html
Early/Baroque music
festivals:
http://www.medieval.org/emfaq/concerts/other.htm
United Kingdom:
http://www.artsfestivals.co.uk/a_z/az.html
Germany:
http://www.operone.de/festival.htm
http://www.rondomagazin.de/kalender/kfest.htm
http://www.kulturfeste.de/orte.html
France:
http://www.francefestivals.com/
Hungary:
http://www.artsfestivals.hu/festivals/index.php
Finland:
http://www.festivals.fi/lasso/englanti/tyyppiframet.html
Belgium:
http://festival.start.be/