... to last evening's Met Romeo because she's officially saving up her dimes and nickels for three spectabulous weekends in the woods of the Berkshires in the sweet midsummer of 2006. Tanglewood, here we come.SCHOENBERG Gurrelieder. Friday, July 14. Boston Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; Christine Brewer (Tove); Waltraud Meier (Wood Dove); Johan Botha (Waldemar); Matthew Polenzani (Klaus Narr); Eike Wilm Schulte (Peasant).
STRAUSS Elektra. Saturday, July 15. Tanglewood Music Center Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; Lisa Gasteen (Elektra); Christine Brewer (Chrysothemis); Felicity Palmer (Klytemnestra); Alan Held (Orest); Siegfried Jerusalem (Aegist); Claudia Waite (Overseer); Jennifer Check, Marjorie Elinor Dix, Sandra Lopez, Mary Philips, Ellen Rabiner (Maids).
MOZART, All-Mozart Program; Friday, July 21. Boston Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor and piano (concert aria); Susan Graham; Richard Goode, piano (piano concerto); "Ch'io mi scordi di te...Non temer, amato bene," K.505, Concert aria with piano obbligato; Piano Concerto No. 27 in B-flat, K.595; Symphony No. 41, Jupiter.
MOZART Don Giovanni; Saturday, July 22. Boston Symphony Orchestra; James Levine, conductor; Mariusz Kwiecien (Don Giovanni); Michele Pertusi (Leporello); Barbara Frittoli (Donna Anna); Soile Isokoski (Donna Elvira); Heidi Grant Murphy, soprano (Zerlina); Matthew Polenzani (Don Ottavio); Patrick Carfizzi (Masetto); Morris Robinson (Commendatore).
J.S. BACH & HANDEL; Friday, August 11. Boston Symphony Orchestra; Harry Bicket, conductor; Corey Cerovsek, violin; Lorraine Hunt Lieberson. BACH Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D; BACH Violin Concerto No. 2 in E, BWV 1042 ; HANDEL Selected arias; HANDEL Royal Fireworks Music.