Just as the 2015-2016 concert season becomes the stuff of memory, The Princeton Festival steps up for its 12th year to keep us contented for the month of June. The festival will present over three weeks of performances, lectures, previews and special events, beginning on June 1.

Highlights will include three performances of Benjamin Britten’s opera, “Peter Grimes,” ten of Stephen Sondheim’s waltz musical “A Little Night Music,” a screening of the Carl Theodor Dreyer film, “The Passion of Joan of Arc,” with live accompaniment by the Princeton Symphony Orchestra, and an appearance by Grammy Award-winning jazz vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant.

I try to encompass what I can in today’s article in the Trenton Times.

http://www.nj.com/times-entertainment/index.ssf/2016/05/classical_music_princeton_fest_2.html

PHOTOS: (Top) Princeton Festival artistic director Richard Tang Yuk rehearses the opera orchestra; (left to right) Complexions Contemporary Ballet, Cécile McLorin Salvant, and “The Passion of Joan of Arc”