Princeton Festival Opening Weekend Guide

Princeton Festival Opening Weekend Guide

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Couldn’t be nicer weather in the forecast for the opening weekend of The Princeton Festival.

Tonight at 8:00, radiant soprano Angel Blue will perform arias by Puccini, Verdi, and Gershwin, with music director Rossen Milanov conducting the Princeton Symphony Orchestra in orchestral works by Puccini, Dvořák, Delius, and zarzuela master Ruperto Chapí.

Tomorrow night at 7:00, Broadway star and “American Idol” finalist LaKisha Jones will be a part of a pavilion-rocking Tina Turner tribute show.

Sunday at 4:00, Sonia De Los Santos and her band will be the main attraction of a festival Family Day. Gates open at 1:30 for free, kid-friendly activities, including an instrument petting zoo, musical crafts, and a large toe-tap piano.

73 degrees and clear at 8:00 this evening, for opening night with soprano Angel Blue;

77 degrees and clear tomorrow evening at 7:00, for the Tina Turner tribute concert;

78 degrees and partly cloudy on Sunday afternoon at 4:00, for Sonia De Los Santos. 75 degrees at 1:30 for the start of Family Day.

All three concerts will be held in the performance pavilion on the grounds of historic Morven Museum & Garden at 55 Stockton St. (Route 206).

The fun will continue through June 22, including music in a wide variety of genres, with three fully-staged performances of Mozart’s comic opera “Cosi fan tutte” (June 14, 16 & 18).

Also on the way: chamber music by Shostakovich, Beethoven, and Reena Esmail (with the Abeo Quartet, June 13), dance with American Repertory Ballet (choreography by Arthur Mitchell and Meredith Raine; music by Philip Glass, Edvard Grieg, Miranda Scripp, and Jean Sibelius, June 15), Black choral music (with the Capital Singers of Trenton and friends, directed by Westminster Choir College’s Vinroy D. Brown, Jr., June 19), Baroque favorites, including a selection of “Brandenburg Concertos” (with the ensemble The Sebastians, June 20), genre-bending classical crossover (with the trio Empire Wild, June 21), and cabaret (with Tony Award winning artist – for his tour de force performance in Broadway’s “Tootsie” – Santino Fontana, June 22).

Concerts featuring the Abeo Quartet and The Sebastians will be held across the road at Trinity Church Princeton (technically 33 Mercer St.).

For more information about parking and concessions and additional events, including pre-performance talks, the Juneteenth celebration, and Yoga in the Garden, visit the festival website at princetonsymphony.org/festival.


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