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RAVINIA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER RESIDENCY IN 2011
October 07, 2010

RAVINIA FESTIVAL ANNOUNCES 75TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE CHICAGO SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA SUMMER RESIDENCY IN 2011

Ravinia Festival Music Director James Conlon concludes multi-year Mahler Cycle with Das klagende Lied and leads Patricia Racette, Bryn Terfel and Salvatore Licitra in Puccini's Tosca

Ravinia celebrates Franz Liszt bicentennial with performances featuring Lang Lang and André Watts led by Christoph Eschenbach, as well as works by his allies Hector Berlioz and Richard Wagner, and (his nemesis) Johannes Brahms

Ravinia commissions Nico Muhly composition for the 5 Browns and orchestra and co-commissions settings of Shakespeare sonnets from Rufus Wainwright, all making their CSO debuts

Gala benefit celebrates Gershwin with vocalists Sylvia McNair, Kelli O'Hara and Brian Stokes Mitchell and pianist Kevin Cole

Ravinia joins citywide exploration of the Soviet Arts Experience with Shostakovich's 5th Symphony and Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet Suite, which is the 2011 One Score, One Chicago selection

CSO performs Oscar-winning score of hit movie The Lord of the Rings' The Fellowship of the Ring while complete film is projected on video screens in pavilion and on lawn

Three concerts offered at special price of $25 in the pavilion, including Beethoven Eroica Symphony, all-Tchaikovsky evening, and Itzhak Perlman leading the CSO with Leon Fleisher

Guest artists include Deborah Voigt, Christoph von Dohnányi, Emanuel Ax, Yo-Yo Ma, Jeffrey Kahane and Alexander Romanovsky in his Ravinia debut

Ravinia President and CEO Welz Kauffman and Music Director James Conlon today announced details of the festival's 2011 Chicago Symphony Orchestra programming, which commemorates the 75th anniversary of the CSO's summer residency. Running from July 7 through August 19, the 17-concert residency showcases the variety and versatility of the mighty ensemble with a world premiere, timeless classic repertoire, superstar virtuosos, two movie nights, a complete opera, two major commissions and a multi-layered celebration of the 200th birthday of composer/pianist Franz Liszt.

In recognition of the 75th anniversary, anyone who donates at least $75 to the not-for-profit festival can purchase CSO tickets now at www.ravinia.org (general sales begin April 27) and receive a 20 percent discount on their total order in addition to other member benefits, such as early entry to the park on CSO concert nights. Ravinia has created a special brochure highlighting the CSO residency that details each of the concerts, and it is expected to hit 200,000 mailboxes between Sept. 30 and Oct. 4. To give buyers a sense of the music, full pieces from the 2011 repertoire can be heard at www.raviniaradio.org.

The prime reason I came to Ravinia more than a decade ago was to work with this brilliant orchestra in building new audiences for classical music, Kauffman said. Ravinia is known for presenting something different every day sort of a Carnegie Hall without walls and at the center of our classical programming is an orchestra that can do anything and everything. They've proved that over 75 glorious summers, and our 2011 season will give audiences a smorgasbord of the CSO's infinite abilities.

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