“We host everything from the Madison Symphony Orchestra, Ballet, and Opera to a full Broadway season that includes Les Misérables, Phantom of the Opera, Lion King, and even Hamilton booked for the 2019 season. “The Center’s number of performances varies, but in a typical calendar year, we might have ‘dark days’ numbering in the single digits total,” says Overture Center technical associate Brian Anderson. Such was definitely the case with Clearwing System Integration’s recent audio system retrofit of more than 100 L-Acoustics loudspeakers at the 2,255-seat Overture Hall, the largest of seven performing arts venues and five galleries that together make up Madison, Wisconsin’s Overture Center for the Arts.īuilt in 2004 with a $204 million donation from the creator of the American Girl doll line, Overture has grown to become the largest performing venue in the state and, according to Pollstar, one of the top venues in terms of ticket sales worldwide. If you make a weekend out of your trip, be sure to check out a Saturday-morning rehearsal.For performance venues, success can be a double-edged sword if the space is constantly booked, carving out time to update technology can present a challenge. 5 in a program that also features the premiere of Carlos Simon’s “Four Black American Dances.” This summer’s Festival of Contemporary Music returns with concerts focused on the work of Gabriela Lena Frank (July 27), Anna Thorvaldsdottir (July 28) and Reena Esmail (July 29). 18, Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays Saint-Saëns’s “Egyptian” Piano Concerto No. On July 16, countertenor Reginald Mobley and baritone Will Liverman join maestro Andris Nelsons, the Tanglewood Festival Chorus and the Boston Children’s Chorus for a performance of Orff’s “Carmina Burana” and Beethoven’s “Leonore” Overture No. On June 28, the Emerson String Quartet and Emanuel Ax perform works by Purcell, Shostakovich and Dvorak and a new work by Sarah Kirkland Snider. The season of concerts at Koussevitzky Music Shed, Ozawa Hall and Studio E is brimming these are just a few highlights. This summer, it’s worth a trip to the western Massachusetts outpost of the Boston Symphony Orchestra.
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