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Dan’s Diary: Now’s the Time to Get Good Seats for Tanglewood and Bard Summerscape
There’s a not-so-secret way to get the best seats to Tanglewood this summer: Order them online this Sunday, February 15, when they go on sale at 8 AM. Last year, I followed my own advice and scored front row seats to see Marian McPartland at Ozawa Hall during the Tanglewood Jazz Festival. This is a blockbuster season with the return of James Levine, Michael Tilson Thomas, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Sir James Galway, Diana Krall, Garrison Keillor, and, of course, James Taylor (whose tickets went on sale last week because his fans apparently just can’t wait.)
If you want to get the first crack at good seats to Bard Summerscape (July 9 - August 23), you need to join Bard’s email list, which will grant you access to purchase tickets beginning Tuesday, February 17. Bard will e-mail a password to you for early access to the Online Box Office. The 20th annual music festival will celebrate “Wagner and His World.” The festival will include a production of the opera Les Huguenots staged by the American director Thaddeus Strassberger in collaboration with the Spanish photographer Eugenio Recuenco; Lucinda Child’s 1979 Dance set to a Philip Glass score which is the soundtrack of a film by Sol LeWitt; and a modern-dress version of Aeschylus’s The Orestia (with a Ted Hughes translation), which will be staged by Gregory Thompson and Ellen Cairns who created the 2007 Summerscape production of St. Joan.
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