Friday, July 11
| 6:30PM
Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug
2800 Main Street | St. Helena
Festival Napa Valley kicks off its 19th Summer Season in grand style with a concert featuring three extraordinary talents. Grammy-winning mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato, hailed by The New Yorker as “perhaps the most potent female singer of her generation,” brings her remarkable vocal range and expressive depth to a selection of songs and arias. Tessa Lark, the 2022 Khaledi Prizewinner and a violinist celebrated for her agility and elegance, returns to the Festival Napa Valley stage to perform Butterfly Lovers Concerto, a lush work that blends Western symphonic traditions with Chinese folk melodies. Clelia Cafiero, recipient of the 2025 Joel Revzen Conducting Prize, makes her Festival debut. Joined by Festival Orchestra Napa, these three acclaimed artists set the stage for a season of unforgettable performances.
The program includes video artwork from the Kramlich Collection, in memory of Richard Kramlich.
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Performers
Multi-Grammy Award winner and Olivier Award winner for Outstanding Achievement in Opera, Joyce DiDonato entrances audiences across the globe. With a repertoire spanning over four centuries, a varied and highly acclaimed discography, and industry-leading projects, her artistry has defined what it is to be a singer in the 21st century.
Violinist Tessa Lark is one of the most captivating artistic voices of our time, consistently praised by critics and audiences for her astounding range of sounds, technical agility, and musical elegance. In 2020 she was nominated for a GRAMMY in the Best Classical Instrumental Solo category and received one of Lincoln Center’s prestigious Emerging Artist Awards: the special Hunt Family Award.
2025 Joel Revzen Conducting Prizewinner
Neapolitan conductor Clelia Cafiero currently serves as Principal Guest Conductor at the Opéra de Tours. She first came to international attention with her summer 2023 debut at the Chorégies d’Orange where she led the Orchestre National de Lyon in Carmen.
Festival Orchestra Napa is an all-star ensemble that brings together principal players from major international orchestras and faculty from renowned colleges and conservatories, together with participants from the Frost School of Festival Napa Valley's Blackburn Music Academy. Centered around a core of Frost School of Music faculty, the orchestra also includes hand-picked musicians from ensembles such as the San Francisco Symphony, MET Opera Orchestra, Dallas Symphony, Houston Symphony, and Atlanta Symphony, among others.
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