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FOR a year of multiple anniversaries, music in all its diversity fills Europe's festival halls. Schubert tributes are everywhere for his 200th birthday, followed by Brahms on the 100th anniversary of his death and Mendelssohn on the 150th anniversary of his death. Others being honored are Gaetano Donizetti, born -- like Schubert -- in 1797; Ralph Vaughn Williams on the 125th anniversary of his birth, the zarzuela composer Pablo Sorozabal and the Norwegian Harald Saeverud, who wrote a ''Peer Gynt Suite,'' on their 100th birthdays, and the Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem on the 500th anniversary of his death.
Schubert's unfinished opera ''Der Graf von Gleichen,'' in concert form, receives its world premiere in Graz, and Benjamin Britten's 1932 Double Concerto for Violin and Viola is heard for the first time at Aldeburgh, which also offers premieres of Mark-Anthony Turnage's ''Twice Through the Heart'' and ''The Country of the Blind'' and Alexander Goehr's Viola Concerto. Norfolk and Norwich gives the premiere of William Alwyn's opera ''Miss Julie,'' and the Berlin Festival introduces Hans Werner Henze's Ninth Symphony. The Holland Festival is first to offer Wim Laman's opera ''Agamemnon'' and a piece by Mauricio Kagel.
Savonlinna gives the first performance of Einojuhani Rautavaara's ''Aleksis Kiri'' -- in the Punkaharju Arts Center.
Both Holland and Aldeburgh mark 50th anniversaries, and Istanbul celebrates 25 years of combining the arts of Europe and Asia, contrasting the Turkish premiere of ''A Venetian Coronation'' by Giovanni Gabrieli, born 440 years ago, with a contemporary work by Gyorgy Ligeti titled ''The Lobster Quadrille.'' Greece's second city, Salonika, is in the midst of its yearlong Festival of Ideas as cultural capital of Europe, and Monaco marks its 700th year.
The influence of 20th-century composers who fled from Europe to America on other composers is examined in Kuhmo, where works by 70 Americans are scheduled, and at Lucerne the Dallas Symphony plays pieces by Roy Harris, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin.Continue reading the main story
Two notes: The Sofia Music Weeks festival has been canceled, and at Aix-en-Provence no operas are scheduled.
A selection of 50 musically interesting or historically significant European festivals in the spring, summer and fall follows.
Vienna Festival
May 9 to June 22
Re-established in 1951, the Vienna Festival now offers a thousand events, the first of which is Schubert's ''An die Musik,'' narrated by Christa Ludwig, with Marjana Lipovsek, Rainer Trost and Bo Skovhus as vocal soloists and the pianist Stefan Vladar, with Dennis Russell Davies conducting the Vienna Radio Symphony, the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus and the Vienna Opera Ballet.
On May 10, Gary Bertini leads the Vienna Symphony in Weber's unfinished comic opera ''Die Drei Pintos,'' and on the same day Erwin Ortner and the Chamber Orchestra of Europe offer a new staging of Schubert's ''Alfonso und Estrella,'' with the Arnold Schoenberg Chorus and Olaf Bar, Luba Orgonasova and Thomas Hampson as soloists. Zurich Opera brings Schubert's first opera, ''Des Teufels Lustschloss,'' on May 24.
Reinbert de Leeuw conducts the Netherlands Chamber Chorus and the Schoenberg Ensemble in Mauricio Kagel's lieder opera ''Aus Deutschland'' on June 19. Other operas include a new production of Handel's ''Alcina,'' starting June 9, with Nikolaus Harnoncourt conducting, and the Staatsoper's revival of Mozart's ''Cosi Fan Tutte'' June 23, Riccardo Muti conducting.
Mahler's ''Lied von der Erde,'' conducted by Heinz Holliger with the soloists Cornelia Kallisch and Christian Elsner, arrives on May 13, and ''Stomp,'' Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas's percussive proof that music is found in unlikely objects, also opens on May 13 for 17 performances.
On May 16, the soprano Maria Husmann pays tribute to Gyorgy Kurtag for his 70th birthday, joined by Ildiko Vekony, cimbalom player; Alessandro Cappone, violinist, and Klaus Stoll, bassist. Robert Holl, baritone, and Ellen van Lier, soprano, give a Schubertiade with the Vienna String Quartet on May 25, and on June 8 Olaf Bar, bass, sings lieder.
Tickets: $10 to $200.
Box office: Wiener Festwochen, A-1060 Vienna, Lehargasse 11, Austria; phone 43-1-589 22 0, fax 43-1-589 22 49, E-mail fest firstname.lastname@example.com, Web site: http:// www.festwochen.or.at.
Styrian Festival, Graz
June 21 to July 20
Schubert's incomplete 1827 opera, ''Der Graf von Gleichen,'' receives its world premiere, in concert form, at the Stefaniensaal on July 12, with Andreas Stoeher conducting the Graz Philharmonic, and Schubert's also incomplete oratorio, ''Lazarus,'' opens the festival. On June 28, the Carmina Quartet of Zurich performs Mendelssohn's String Quartet in F, in a program featuring Fanny Mendelssohn's String Quartet and Schubert's Quartet ''Death and the Maiden.'' On June 29, the Concentus Musicus of Vienna and soloists are heard in Handel's Oratorio ''Il Trionfo del Tempo e Della Verita.'' The four Brahms symphonies are surveyed by the Chamber Orchestra of Europe under Nikolaus Harnoncourt beginning July 4.
An all-Mozart concert on June 24 includes Serenata Notturna in D major, Divertimento in B, K. 137, and Symphony No. 40, performed by the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra under Gottfried von der Goltz. Pergolesi's ''Stabat Mater,'' Handel's ''Concerto Grosso'' and Hasse's ''Fugue in G minor'' and ''Salve Regina'' fill the cathedral on June 26, with Barbara Bonney and Anne Sofie von Otter as vocal soloists, accompanied by Musica Antiqua of Cologne.
On June 25 Valery Afanassiev, pianist, compares Schubert's Sonata in B with Liszt's Sonata in B, and on July 11 Jed Wentz leads the Musica ad Rhenum Ensemble of Utrecht in Handel's ''Trio Sonatas.'' Jordi Savall and Hesperion XX offer Purcell's ''Fantasias'' on July 17, and Le Concert des Nations Ensemble closes the festival with Handel's ''Royal Fireworks Music'' and ''Water Music.''
Tickets: $18 to $115.
Box office: Styriarte-Kartenburo, Sackstrasse 17, A-8010 Graz, Austria; E-mail: email@example.com.
Bregenz Festival
July 17 to Aug. 21
Catfish Row comes to the floating stage on Lake Constance when George Gershwin's ''Porgy and Bess'' returns -- in a new production -- for the first time since 1971. The Harlem Singers and soloists bring the folk tale to life with Andrew Litton conducting the Vienna Symphony on July 18. Mr. Litton also introduces the Dallas Symphony to the festival on Aug. 21.
Rarely heard outside of Russia, ''The Demon,'' Anton Rubinstein's 1871 opera, will haunt the stage of the Festival Opera House on opening night with Vladimir Fedoseyev conducting, and highlights from the repertory of the German Theater of Berlin, titled ''Demonic Natures,'' carry the opera's mood onto the open-air stage at Martinsplatz on July 29.
Mr. Fedoseyev, Roger Norrington and Marcello Viotti lead concerts with the Vienna Symphony on July 28, Aug. 4 and Aug. 11, and the Bartok Quartet, EOS Quartet, Petersen Quartet and Pro Arte Quartet perform in Hohenems Castle.
Tickets: $5 to $150.
Box office: Bregenzer Festspiele, A-6901 Bregenz, Postfach 311, Platz der Wiener Symphoniker 1, Austria; phone 43 5574 407-0, fax 407-400.
Salzburg Festival
July 19 to Aug. 31
Mendelssohn's oratorio ''Elijah,'' conducted by Philipe Herreweghe, opens the festival, and a new production of Mozart's ''Mitridate Re di Ponto'' has its premiere on July 20. Other new stagings of Mozart operas include ''The Abduction From the Seraglio,'' opening July 26, and ''The Magic Flute,'' opening July 30, joining revivals of ''Lucio Silla,'' opening Aug. 7, and ''La Clemenza di Tito'' on Aug. 23. Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov'' returns Aug. 3, with Samuel Ramey in the title role and Valerie Gergiev conducting the Vienna Philharmonic and the Philharmonic Chorus of Bratislava.
Additional new productions, reflecting the festival's perspective under its new director, Gerard Mortier, are Debussy's ''Pelleas et Melisande,'' opening July 21, with Russell Braun and Dawn Upshaw as the lovers, and Sylvain Cambreling conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra and Staatsoper Chorus; Gyorgy Ligeti's ''Grand Macabre,'' composed between 1974 and 1977, opening July 28, with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting the Philharmonia Orchestra; Berg's ''Wozzeck,'' opening Aug. 11, with Bryn Terfel in the title role, and Claudio Abbado conducting the Vienna Philharmonic.
Mr. Abbado also leads the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in a series of Schubert programs beginning July 20, and the violinist Gidon Kremer opens another Schubert series on Aug. 10. The series Mendelssohn and Friends runs from Aug. 8 to 21.
Matthias Pintscher's ''Five Orchestra Pieces,'' composed for the festival, is heard on Aug. 1 along with ''Un Sourire'' by Olivier Messiaen and Debussy's ''Martrydom of St. Sebastian.'' The Angel of God, Adam, Eve, Mercury and the Serpent are some of the characters in the ''prop'' opera ''100 Objects to Represent the World'' by Peter Greenaway and Helmut Oehring. Roland Kluttig conducts the New Music Chamber Ensemble of Berlin in its world premiere on Aug. 16.
Claudio Abbado and the Berlin Philharmonic perform Mendelssohn's Fourth Symphony and music for ''A Midsumer Night's Dream'' on Aug. 28, and on Aug. 29 Karita Mattila, soprano; Marianna Tarasova, mezzo-soprano; Kim Begley, tenor, and Kurt Moll, bass, are soloists in Bruckner's Te Deum, serving as the final movement of Bruckner's unfinished Ninth Symphony.
Appearing in recital will be Renee Fleming and Jessye Norman, sopranos, Ann Murray, mezzo-soprano, and Hermann Prey and Thomas Hampson, baritones.
Tickets: $20 to $420.
Box office: Salzburg Festival, A-5010 Salzburg, Postfach 140, Austria; fax 662/80 45-474.
Flanders International Festival
April 25 to Oct. 30
This eight-city festival running from spring through fall, starts in Kortrijk and ending in Brussels. World premieres in Kortrijk include Dirk Vermeulen conducting Prima La Musica Ensemble in Armand Coeck's Guitar Concerto on June 3 with Pepe Romero as guitar soloist; the Belgian Radio Philharmonic with a new symphonic work by Rafael Dhaene on June 6 and Robert Groslot conducting Il Novecento Ensemble in Stavros Xarhakos's new Piano Concerto on June 16.
Limburg concentrates on the Romantic works, including Schubert's Octet in F major, Fifth Symphony and Quartet in D minor with variations on ''Death and the Maiden''; Mendelssohn's ''Fingal's Cave'' Overture and Choral Cantatas and Brahms's Clarinet Quintet, Op. 115. Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Sibelius's Violin Concerto and Tchaikovsky's Fourth Symphony share the stage with music by Varese and Flemish music from 1450 to 1550.
Marking the 300th anniversary of the Baroque sculptor Lucas Fayd'herbe's death, events in Mechelen mix Baroque music with that of the 20th century, played by the National Orchestra of Belgium, Flanders Royal Philharmonic, the Paul Collaer Ensemble, Ensemble Montparnasse, the Gould Piano Trio and the Tokyo Baroque Trio.
In Bruges, music from the Middle Ages to the 19th century is offered by Musica Antiqua Cologne, Ensemble Arte-Musica of Milan, Opera Restor'd London, Salzburg Hofmusik, Freiburg Baroque Consort and Collegium Instrumental of Bruges.
Antwerp re-examines the polyphonic masses, motets and songs of the 15th-century Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem along with music of the French Court between the end of the Hundred Years' War and 1515. Among the performers are Ensemble fur Fruhe Musik Augsburg, the Tallis Scholars, Voce Poetica, Collegium Vocale and Ensemble Gilles Binchois.
In Ghent, La Petite Bande, celebrating its 25th anniversary, revives Haydn's rarely performed 1775 oratorio ''Il Ritorno di Tobia'' and all of his ''Parisian'' Symphonies, directed by Sigiswald Kuijken. In addition, the Anime Eterna Orchestra, conducted by Jos Van Immerseel, devotes a weekend to Schubert, and the Budapest Festival Orchestra plays the four Brahms symphonies.
Leuven in Flemish Brabant remembers Schubert on Sept. 29 with piano sonatas played by Andras Schiff. On Sept. 30 the Netherlands National Ballet and the Belgian Radio Philharmonic perform Stravinsky's ''Agon,'' and throughout October the festival focuses on Ockeghem, with performances by the Clerck's Group, the Huelgas Ensemble and Daedalus.
In Brussels Mistislav Rostropovich is welcomed as special guest for 1997 to lead the Lithuanian Ballet in Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet.'' On the schedule are Valery Gergiev with the Mariinsky Theater Orchestra, Ivan Fischer with the Budapest Festival Orchestra, playing Brahms symphonies and piano concertos; Pierre Boulez with the BBC Symphony, Wolfgang Sawallisch with the Philadelphia Orchestra, Claudio Abbado with the Berlin Philharmonic, Daniel Barenboim with the Berlin Staatskapelle and Nikolaus Harnoncourt with the Royal Concertgebouw of Amsterdam.
Tickets: $16 to $160.
Box office: Flanders Festival, General Secretariat, Kasteel Borluut, Kleine Gentstraat 46, B-9051 Sint-Denijs-Westrem, Belgium; phone 32-9-243.94.94, fax 32-9-243.94.90.
Brighton International Festival
May 3 to 25
A children's parade at 11 A.M., a concert by the City of Birmingham Symphony of Schumann's ''Spring'' Symphony and Mahler's Fourth Symphony with Simon Rattle conducting at 3 P.M. and fireworks at the shore at 9:30 P.M. announce the start of one of England's largest arts festivals. New Sussex Opera and the Flanders Symphony present the British premiere of Einem's ''Danton's Death'' on May 7 and 10, and the Theater Royal plays host to the Opera Box Company's production of Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly'' on May 15 and 16 and the European Chamber Opera's production of Donizetti's ''Don Pasquale'' on May 17.
Brahms Day, May 5, offers two concerts in the afternoon and one in the evening. Ian Bostridge sings Schubert's ''Winterreise'' on May 15, and the Hanover Band with guest soloists offers a concert version of Handel's ''Xerxes'' on May 19.
The Festival Chorus is heard in Beethoven's ''Missa Solemnis'' on May 8 and on May 16 in Schubert's ''Rosamunde.'' Daniele Gatti leads the Royal Philharmonic in Beethoven's ''Coriolan Overture,'' Schubert's Eighth Symphony and Mendelssohn's Second Symphony at the closing concert.
Tickets: $6 to $80.
Box office: Brighton Festival, 21-22 Old Steine, Brighton BN1 1EL, England.
Glyndebourne Festival Opera
May 18 to Aug. 24
John Eliot Gardiner makes his Glyndebourne debut conducting a new production of Puccini's ''Manon Lescaut'' to open the 63d season. Another new production, opening July 20, is Rossini's comic opera ''Le Comte Ory,'' conducted by Andrew Davis, with the American tenor Tracey Welborn in his festival debut, singing the title role.
Ivor Bolton conducts Britten's ''Owen Wingrave,'' the first of four revivals, on May 22, followed on June 7 by Mozart's ''Marriage of Figaro,'' the production that reopened the Glyndebourne Theater in 1994, under the baton of Charles Mackerras. Next on the roster is Janacek's ''Makropulos Affair,'' conducted by Andrew Davis, with Anja Silja as the 337-year-old Emilia Marty, and the last revival is Handel's oratorio ''Theodora.'' A new production last year, it returns on Aug. 3, with Daniel Beckwith conducting the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment. The resident orchestra, the London Philharmonic, accompanies the other productions.
Marco Zambelli conducts Puccini's ''Manon Lescaut'' on June 17, June 20 and July 12, and Claire Gibault leads Rossini's ''Comte Ory'' on Aug. 12, 15, 17 and 20. Christopher Moulds is on the podium for Mozart's ''Marriage of Figaro'' on July 5.
Tickets: $16 to $187.
Box office: Glyndebourne Festival Opera, Post Office Box 2624, Glyndebourne, Lewes, East Sussex, RN8 5UW, England.
Aldeburgh Festival of Music
June 13 to 29
World premieres enliven the Snape Mal tings Concert Hall for Aldeburgh's 50th anniversary year. Two works by Mark-Anthony Turnage receive first performances on June 13: ''Twice Through the Heart,'' a dramatic scene based on the true story of a woman who stabbed her husband after years of abuse, and ''The Country of the Blind,'' an opera based on the H. G. Wells story of a mountaineer who falls into a community where everyone is blind. Sally Burgess, mezzo-soprano, sings the role of the abused woman, and Nicholas Kok conducts the English National Opera Orchestra.
Alexander Goehr's Viola Concerto bows on June 21, with Tabea Zimmerman as soloist with the BBC Symphony, conducted by Oliver Knussen. On June 15 Britten's Double Concerto for Violin and Viola, written in 1932, is heard for the first time with Kent Nagano making his festival debut conducting the Britten-Pears Orchestra.
Britten's three Church Parables, ''Curlew River,'' ''The Burning Fiery Furnace'' and ''The Prodigal Son,'' come to the festival on June 17 and 24, performed by the City of Birmingham Touring Opera, conducted by Mr. Knussen, and the first concert ever performed at the festival is reconstructed on June 14 by the Britten-Pears Chamber Choir, the Suffolk Jubilee Choir and the City of London Sinfonia, performing Purcell's ''Chacony,'' Handel's Organ Concerto and Britten's cantata ''St. Nicolas'' along with a new work, ''A Charm of Joy'' by David Bedford, conducted by Steuart Bedford.
Works by Frank Bridge, teacher and mentor to Britten, are woven into a program of Britten works on June 28, and the finale on June 29 combines Bridge's ''Two Poems for Orchestra,'' Britten's ''Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra'' and ''Diversions for Piano (Left Hand),'' performed by Joanna MacGregor, with Holst's ''Egdon Heath: Homage to Hardy.'' The Philharmonia Orchestra is conducted by Mr. Bedford.
Tickets: $15 to $60.
Box office: Aldeburgh Festival, High Street, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, IP16 4DA, England.
Buxton Festival
July 11 to 27
Rarely performed operas from the Baroque period to the 20th century are performed in the restored Edwardian Opera House, which offers five performances of Haydn's comic opera ''Il Mondo Della Luna,'' performed by Dublin's Opera Theater Company. A triple bill of Cimarosa's ''Maestro di Capella,'' Wolf-Ferrari's ''Segreto di Susanna'' and Menotti's ''Telephone'' follows on July 12, 16 and 18.
''My Dear Mozart,'' a staged music theater piece, on July 23 and 25, concerns the friendship between Haydn and Mozart, with the Manchester Camerata playing music of the classical period, and on July 14 the Performing Arts Symphony offers Bizet's ''Carmen Suite,'' ''The Sorcerer's Apprentice'' by Dukas and Ravel's ''Bolero.''
Richard Williams's medieval ''Mystery Play,'' on July 20, with gospel music arranged for voices, keyboard and percussion instruments, interprets stories from the Old and New Testaments, and a concert version of Johann Strauss's ''Wiener Blut'' closes the festival.
Tickets: $5 to $55.
Box office: Buxton Festival, 1 Crescent View, Hall Bank, Buxton, Derbyshire, SK17 6EN, England.
Edinburgh International Festival
Aug. 10 to 30
Looking ahead as well as back over its 50 years of existence, Edinburgh plays host to the Royal Opera Covent Garden, Scottish Opera, the San Francisco Ballet, Ballet Atlantique and La Cubana.
Other visitors are the Oslo and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, the Kirov Orchestra, the European Union Youth Orchestra, the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra, North German Radio Television Symphony of Hamburg, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and Ensemble Modern.
Among the artists are Karita Mattila, soprano; Jennifer Larmore, mezzo-soprano, Bryn Terfel, baritone; Leif Ove Andsnes, Andras Schiff and Alfred Brendel, pianists, and Michael Gielen, Gunter Wand, Maris Jansons and Pierre Boulez, conductors.
The Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festivals, from Aug. 2 to 10, with jazz running from Aug. 2 to 8 and Blues from Aug. 8 to 10, preceed the main festival.
Tickets: $8 to $32.
Box office: Edinburgh International Festival, 21 Market Street, Edinburgh EH1 1BW, Scotland. Fax: 44 131 473 2003.
Three Choirs Festival, Hereford
Aug. 17 to 22
Europe's oldest festival, dating to the 17th century, performs large- scale choral works with the combined choirs of the cathedrals of Hereford, Gloucester and Worcester and the Festival Chorus. In addition to evening concerts at the Cathedral, other programs are scheduled in the Leominster Priory, the Dure Abbey and many churches in Hereford.
Major works include Montiverdi's ''Vespers,'' Mendelssohn's ''Elijah,'' Brahms's ''Triumphlied for Chorus and Orchestra'' and ''The Alto Rhapsody,'' Schubert's Second and Fourth Symphonies, Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, Elgar's Second Symphony and Walton's Cello Concerto.
The world premiere of a choral work by Judith Bingham adds interest, as do birthday tributes to the composers John Joubert, John Gardner and Paul Patterson, including performances of ''Cantiones Sacrae'' by Gardner and ''Te Deum'' by Patterson.
Other ensembles are the Bournemouth Symphony, the Brandenburg Consort, the National Youth Orchestra of Britain, the London Adventist Chorale, Gothic Voices and I Fagiolini.
Tickets: $9 to $45.
Box office: The Festival Office, The Canon's House Flat, The Close, Hereford NR1 2NG, Britain.
Norfolk and Norwich Festival
Oct. 10 to 20
The premieres of William Alwyn's opera ''Miss Julie'' and Howard Skempton's Saxophone Quartet With Orchestra on his 50th anniversary are highlights of the festival, which also includes performances of Berlioz's ''Requiem,'' Smetana's ''Ma Vlast,'' Elgar's Cello Concerto and Handel's ''Alexander's Feast.''
Ensembles include the BBC Concert Orchestra, conducted by Imrat Khan; the Britten Sinfonia, conducted by John Williams, the English Concert Orchestra, conducted by Trevor Pinnock, the Bath Ensemble and the Chinese State Circus.
Tickets: $5 to $38.
Box office: Festival Ticket Shop, Gaol Hill, Norwich NR2 1NF, England.
Czech Republic
Prague Spring Festival
May 12 to June 2
''Ma Vlast,'' composed by Smetana over a five-year span of deafness, traditionally opens Prague's spring celebration; this year it will be performed by the Prague Radio Symphony. The four Brahms symphonies receive interpretations by three orchestras and conductors: Michiyoshi Inoue and the Kyoto Symphony with the Fourth on May 14, Colin Davis and the London Symphony with the First on May 15, on a program with Anne-Sophie Mutter as soloist in Beethoven's Violin Concerto in D major, and the Second on May 16, on a program with Alfred Brendel, soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 24. Libor Pesek leads the Prague Radio Symphony in the Third with Ivan Moravec as soloist in Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 on May 20.
Operas include Janacek's ''Jenufa,'' on May 13, Mozart's ''Don Giovanni'' on May 14, a new production of Wagner's ''Lohengrin'' on May 17, Smetana's ''Bartered Bride'' on May 18 and ''The Two Widows'' on May 27 and Richard Strauss's ''Rosen kavalier'' on June 2.
On June 1 there will be a concert performance of the 1938 opera ''The Charlatan'' by Janacek's pupil Pavel Haas, who died in Auschwitz in 1944, and on May 25 Bohumil Kulinsky conducts the premiere of Petr Eben's opera ''Jeremias.'' Martinu's ''Half-Time Rondo'' shares a program with Addinsell's ''Warsaw Concerto'' and Charles Ives's ''Holidays Symphony'' on May 23.
Yuri Temirkanov and the St. Petersburg Philharmonic offer an all-Prokofiev program on May 18 with Nikolaj Petrov playing the Fifth Piano Concerto, and on May 19 Yan Pascal Tortelier directs the Czech Philharmonic in Mozart's Concerto in C major for Two Violins with Josef Suk 2d, great-grandson of Dvorak, and Bohumil Kotmel as violin soloists. The program includes ''Fantasy for Violin and Orchestra'' by Josef Suk 2d's grandfather, Josef Suk, and the Sibelius Second Symphony.
Tickets: $13 to $87.
Box office: Prague Spring Festival, Hellichova 18, 118 00 Prague 1, Czech Republic; fax: 42 2 53 60 40.
Valtice Festival
Aug. 22 to 24
A. M. Gretry's 1771 Baroque opera ''Zemire et Azor'' and Antonio Draghi's 1680 comic opera ''La Pazienza di Socrate con Due Moglie'' are highlights of the weekend festivities at Valtice Castle in southern Moravia. The Vienna Baroque Ensemble plays music by Haydn in the castle ballroom, and the Musica Florea Ensemble plays Baroque instrumental concertos in the Marble Chapel. The Prague Chamber Ballet, accompanied by the Brno Chamber Orchestra, gives Tom Stoppard's ''Arcadia.''
Tickets: $200 for the weekend.
Box office: Valtice Festival, Interconnect Annenske NAM 2, 11000 Prague, Czech Republic.
Savonlinna Opera Festival
July 5 to Aug. 4
Mozart's ''Magic Flute'' returns to the courtyard of Olavinlinna Castle in the festival's 30th year. Ulf Soderblom conducts Jorma Silvasti as Tamino, Camilla Nylund and Anna-Maria Jurvelin alternating as Pamina, Petteri Salomaa and Hannu Ilmolahti alternating as Papageno and Matti Salminen as Sarastro. New last season, Wagner's ''Tannhauser,'' with Raimo Sirkia in the title role, returns July 7. Leif Segerstam again conducts, and Elisabeth Meyer-Topsoe and Kirsi Tiihonen alternate as Elisabeth; Cynthia Makris is Venus, and the festival's artistic director, Jorma Hynninen, is Wolfram.
New productions of Leoncavallo's ''Pagliacci'' and Mascagni's ''Cavalleria Rusticana'' are conducted by Eri Klas on July 12, followed by two productions from St. Petersburg's Mariinski Theater: Borodin's ''Prince Igor,'' conducted by Aleksandr Polianitchko, premiering July 28, and Wagner's ''Parsifal,'' conducted by Valery Gergiev, opening Aug. 2.
On July 8, at the underground Punkaharju Arts Center, Mr. Hynninen sings the title role in the world premiere of Einojuhani Rautavaara's opera ''Aleksis Kivi,'' based on the life of the Finnish national writer who died 125 years ago.
Tickets: $15 to $109.
Box office: Savonlinna Opera Festival, Olavinkatu 27, FIN-57130 Savonlinna, Finland; fax: 358 15 531 866.
Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival
July 13 to 27
Music from the United States figures prominently at Kuhmo, about 400 miles from Helsinki, with 70 American composers represented, among them Copland, Barber, Sousa, Ives, Gershwin, Cole Porter, Thea Musgrave, Lou Harrison, Edgar Varese, George Antheil, William Bolcom, Scott Joplin, Terry Riley, John Harbison and La Monte Young.
Among the participants are Ursula Oppens, Charles Neidichy, Carol Wincenc, the Harp Consort, Lions Gate Trio, Bartok Quartet, Amati Quartet, Jean Sibelius Quartet and the Zeitgeist Ensemble.
Tickets: $4 to $36.
Box Office: Kuhmo Chamber Music Festival, Torikatu 39, FIN-88900 Kuhmo, Finland; fax 358 8 652 1961.
Helsinki Festival
Aug. 22 to Sept. 7
The festival draws the Finnish Radio Symphony, Helsinki Philharmonic, Avanti Chamber Orchestra and Tapiola Sinfonietta, variously conducted by Jukka-Pekka Saraste, Leif Segerstam, Liana Isakadze and Esa-Pekka Salonen.
New works by Mr. Salonen, Magnus Lindberg and Veli-Matti Puumala share programs with the Verdi Requiem, Mahler's Fifth Symphony, Stravinsky's ''Firebird Suite,'' ''Rite of Spring'' and ''Pulchinella Suite,'' ballet music by Ravel and Prokofiev as well as Richard Strauss's ''Four Last Songs.''
Visitors include the pianist Krystian Zimmerman, the German Youth Philharmonic, the Hungarian Gypsy Orchestra Tzigane and Zubin Mehta conducting the Israel Philharmonic.
Tickets: From $8 to $60.
Box Office: Helsinki Festival, Rauhankatu 7 F, FIN-00170 Helsinki, Finland; fax 6138 6299.
Colmar International Festival
July 4 to 14
Colmar offers a musical banquet, this year paying tribute to the late cellist-composer Pablo Casals with performances of ''El Pessebre,'' ''El Cant des Ocells''and ''Sardane,'' all by Pablo Casals, and the Suite for Cello in D minor, ''Homage to Pablo Casals,'' by Enric Casals.
Vladimir Spivakov, festival director, will lead the Moscow Virtuosi in John Tavener's ''Eternal Memory'' for Cello and Orchestra, with Steven Isserlis as soloist, and Eugene Ysaye's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 6, with Serguei Bezrodni as piano soloist and the conductor as violin soloist.
Mr. Spivakov will also be soloist along with Mikhail Milman and Kun Woo Paik in the world premiere of Laurence Roman's ''Three Postcards From Spain'' for Violin and Piano.
Among other featured works are Beethoven's Grosse Fuge, Chabrier's ''Espana,'' Haydn's Symphony No. 85, Mozart's Symphony No. 40, three Ravel works -- ''Daphnis and Chloe'' Suite No. 2, ''Alborada del Gracioso'' and ''Spanish Rhapsody for Orchestra'' -- two works by Albert Roussel -- ''Bacchus and Ariadna'' Suite No. 2 and Sinfonietta, op. 52 -- and Enescu's ''Prelude a l'Unisson,'' op. 9.
Other works include Bloch's ''Scenes From the Jewish Life,'' transcribed for cello by Christopher Palmer; Boccherini's Cello Concerto No. 9 in B flat major, Shostakovich's Cello Concerto No. 1, Dvorak's Cello Concerto in B minor, Haydn's Cello Concerto No. 2 in D major, Saint-Saens's Cello Concerto in A minor and Tchaikovsky's ''Variations on a Rococo Theme for Cello and Orchestra.''
Tickets: $10 to $60.
Box Office: Festival International de Colmar, 4 Rue des Unterlinden, F-68000 Colmar, France; fax 03.89.41.34.13.
Choregies d'Orange
July 6 to Aug. 3
Marek Janowski leads the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France in Donizetti's ''Lucia de Lammermoor'' on July 12 with Kathleen Cassello in the title role and Francisco Araiza as Edgardo. Mr. Janowski is on the podium again when, on July 19, the scene shifts to ancient Ireland for ''Tristan und Isolde'' with Gabrielle Schnaut and Wolfgang Fassler. Puccini's ''Turandot'' brings the Orient to Theatre Antique on Aug. 2 with Michel Plasson conducting the Orchestre National du Capitole de Toulouse and Giovanna Casolla in the title role and Vladimir Galustin as Calaf. Angela Gheorghiu, soprano, and Roberto Alagna, tenor, appear in an orchestral concert on Aug. 4.
Tickets: $2 to $178
Address: Choregies d'Orange, B.P. 205, 84107, Orange Cedex, France.
Languedoc-Roussillon Festival, Montpellier
July 15 to Aug. 3
The 13th Radio France Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon festival continues its tradition of presenting rare works alongside familiar ones. Bach's ''St. John Passion'' opens the season in the 2,000-seat Berlioz Opera House, and another Bach masterpiece, ''Mass in B minor,'' closes it.
Schubert's ''Winterreise'' is heard on Aug. 1, and Steuart Bedford directs the English Concert Choir and Orchestra in Britten's ''Rape of Lucretia'' on Aug. 2.
Less well known are Oscar Strauss's operetta ''These Funny Nibelungen,'' receiving its French premiere on July 16; Bloch's only opera, the rarely performed ''Macbeth,'' dating from 1910, being heard on July 26, and Richard Strauss's first opera, ''Guntram,'' dating from 1894 and being revived on July 21.
Tickets: $7 to $40.
Box Office: Le Festival de Radio France et de Montpellier Languedoc-Roussillon, Le Corum -- B.P. 9214, 34043 Montpellier, France; fax 18.104.22.168.82.
Schwetzinger Festival
April 26 to June 11
Cavalli's opera ''Didone,'' first produced in Venice in 1641, bows on April 26 in the Baroque theater of Prince Elector Karl Theodor's former summer palace in Schwetzingen. Thomas Hengelbrock conducts the Pythagoras Ensemble in the co-production from the Berlin Staatsoper. Mozart's ''Cosi Fan Tutte'' follows on May 12, with Rene Jacobs conducting the Concerto Cologne Orchestra.
On May 25, the festival offers the world premiere of three ballets with singing by Hans Werner Henze: ''La Disperazioni del Signor Pulcinella,'' based on Moliere; ''Le Fils de l'Air ou L'Enfant Change en Jeune Homme,'' based on Cocteau, and ''Labyrinth,'' adapted by Mark Baldwin from Andre Gide. Sebastian Weigle conducts the Radio Symphony of Stuttgart. Detlef Heusinger's music theater work ''Babylon'' receives its world premiere on June 7, for three performances, based on Michel de Ghelderode's ''Don Juan Oder les Amants Chimeriques.'' Jun Markl conducts the Stuttgart Orchestra.
The soprano Margaret Price sings Schubert and Schumann songs on May 1, and the duo-pianists Hans-Peter Stenzl and Volker Stenzl play works by Brahms, Schubert and Prokofiev on May 3. Ignaz Holzbauer's one-act opera ''Der Tod der Dido,'' based on Metastasio's ''Didone Abbandonata,'' receives a concert performance on May 7, and on May 12 the Cherubini Quartet presents the world premiere of a work by Aribert Reimann, ''Lieder for String Quartet and Soprano,'' based on Mendelssohn, with Juliane Banse as soloist.
Georges Pretre conducts Poulenc's ''Gloria'' and Faure's Requiem on May 16, and the bass Robert Holl sings Schubert's ''Winterreise'' on May 28.
Tickets: $6 to $150.
Box office: Verkehrsverein Schwetzingen, Schlossplatz, D-68723 Schwetzingen, Germany.
International May Festival, Wiesbaden
May 1 to 31
Organized by the city of Wiesbaden, the festival, established in 1896, is held in the neo-Baroque Hessisches Staatstheater, which plays host to operas, ballet companies and theater ensembles from throughout Europe. Among the offerings are Hans Werner Henze's 1960 opera ''Der Prinz von Homburg,'' Handel's 1735 opera ''Alcina'' and his oratorio ''Belshazzar,'' dating from 1745, a musical, ''Maria Maria,'' a ballet and the psychological drama ''Torquato Tasso,'' by Goethe, who once directed operas in Weimar.
Tickets: $17 to $340.
Box office: Hessisches Staatstheater, P.O. Box 3247, D-65022 Wiesbaden, Germany.
Dresden Music Festival
May 17 to June 1
The theme ''Italians in Florence on the Elbe'' focuses on Dresden composers active in Italy and Italian composers active in Dresden between the 17th and 19th centuries. Opening day includes a concert in Pillnitz Palace Park, Hans Werner Henze's opera seria ''The Bassarids'' at the Semper Opera and Kurt Masur leading the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig in Mendelssohn's ''Italian'' Symphony, Tchaikovsky's ''Romeo and Juliet Overture'' and Liszt's Symphony on Dante's ''Divine Comedy.''
On May 18 Michel Plasson leads the Dresden Philharmonic and the Ernst Senff Chorus of Berlin in an all-Richard Strauss program, including ''Wanderers Sturmlied for Chorus and Orchestra,'' ''Die Tageszeiten,'' ''Taillfer for Soprano, Tenor, Baritone, Chorus and Orchestra'' and ''The Four Last Songs,'' sung by Felicity Lott.
Also on May 18, Wagner's ''Tristan und Isolde'' comes to the Semper Opera House, conducted by Christof Perick with Anne Evans and Wolfgang Schmidt in the title roles. Mr. Perick conducts Weber's ''Freischutz'' on May 19. A concert performance of Johann Adolf Hasse's ''Attilio Regolo,'' which premiered in Dresden in 1750, is conducted by Frieder Bernius on May 22, and Puccini's ''Boheme'' returns on May 23. Edita Gruberova portrays Queen Elizabeth I in Donizetti's ''Roberto Devereux'' on May 25, and Hans Zimmer conducts Mozart's ''Marriage of Figaro'' on May 28.
Paisiello's opera ''Il Re Teodoro in Venezia'' is revived at the Schauspielhaus on May 18 and 19, and ''L'Occasione Fa il Ladro'' by Rossini literally lights up the Zwinger Museum, accompanied by fireworks on May 29, 30 and 31.
Gerd Albrecht leads the Dresden Philharmonic in Brahms's First Symphony and First Piano Concerto with Rudolf Buchbinder as soloist on May 24, and Krzysztof Penderecki takes the podium for his own Third Symphony and Beethoven's Fourth Piano Concerto on May 31 with Christian Zacharias as soloist. Neville Marriner joins the Saxon State Orchestra of Dresden on May 29 and 30 to conduct Holst's ''Planets'' and Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor with Alfred Brendel as soloist. On June 1, the soprano Edda Moser sings songs by Cherubini, Schubert and Richard Strauss, and Verdi's Requiem comes to the Kreuzkirche with the Chorus and Orchestra of the Academy of St. Cecilia in Rome and Alessandra Marc, soprano; Dolora Zajick, mezzo-soprano; Ben Heppner, tenor, and Roberto Scandiuzzi, bass.
Tickets: $5 to $72.
Box office: Besucherservice der Dresdener Musikfestspiele, Kulturpalast, Postfach 20 27 23, D-01193 Dresden, Germany.
Ludwigsburg Castle Festival
May 30 to Sept. 20
Mendelssohn's ''Elijah'' opens the season in the modern Festival Forum Theater. Vladimir Ashkenazy brings the German Symphony of Berlin with the piano soloist Eldar Nebolsin in works by Chopin and Korngold on June 9, and Heinrich Schiff offers works by Bruckner and Berg with the violinist Thomas Zehtmair on June 7. Mozart, Schubert, Elgar and Prokofief are interpreted by Iona Brown and the Academy of St.-Martin-in-the-Fields on Aug. 23, and Mariss Jansons and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Oslo perform works by Beethoven and Richard Strauss on Sept. 1.
Mendelssohn, Schubert and Brahms are remembered by the Guarneri Quartet in concert on May 31, and Gidon Kremer, Per Arne Glorvigen, Vadim Sakharov and Alois Posch perform ''Le Grand Tango-Hommage to Piazzola'' on June 14. The soprano Jessye Norman appears in a gala concert on Aug. 4, and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter gives an all-Brahms program on Aug. 18.
Tickets: $13 to $100.
Box Office: Ludwigsburger Schlossfestspiele, Hohenzollernstrasse 39, 71638 Ludwigsburg, Germany.
Munich Opera Festival
June 29 to July 31
Variety is stressed with 15 operas along with ballet performances, concerts and lieder recitals, opening with the baritone Hermann Prey at the National Theater. Peter Schneider conducts a new staging of Mozart's ''Marriage of Figaro'' on June 30, with a cast including Manfred Hemm in the title role, Jeffrey Black, Amanda Roocroft, Monica Groop, Alison Hagley and Trudeliese Schmidt. The other new production, ''L'Incoronazione di Poppea'' by Monteverdi, opens on July 14 under Ivor Bolton.
Revivals include Verdi's ''Macbeth,'' opening on July 1, Smetana's ''Bartered Bride'' on July 7, Donizetti's ''Anna Bolena'' on July 8, Richard Strauss's ''Ariadne auf Naxos'' on July 12, Handel's ''Giulio Cesare'' on July 13, Verdi's ''Aida'' on July 18, Mozart's ''Idomeneo'' on July 20, Bizet's ''Carmen'' on July 21, Handel's ''Xerxes'' on July 23, Verdi's ''Traviata'' on July 24, Wagner's ''Rheingold'' on July 27, ''Die Walkure'' on July 29 and the festival finale, ''Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg,'' on July 31. The ''Meistersinger'' cast includes Rene Fleming as Eva, Gosta Winbergh as Walther, Bernd Weikl as Hans Sachs, Kurt Moll as Pogner and Alan Opie as Beckmesser.
Among recitalists are Edita Gruberova, Bryn Terfel, Montserrat Caballe, Felicity Lott and Ann Murray.
Tickets: $7.50 to $240.
Box office: Bavarian State Opera Box Office, Maximilianstrasse 11, D-80539 Munchen, Germany.
Schleswig-Holstein Music Festival
July 5 to Aug. 24
Herbert Blomstedt conducts the North German Radio Symphony at the opening concert in Lubeck, and the soprano Jessye Norman appears in Kiel Castle on July 27. Peter Schreier sings Schubert's ''Winterreise'' in Heide on July 30, and the choir of Ratzeburg Cathedral performs Mendelssohn's ''St. Paul Oratorio'' on Aug. 10. The pianist Alfred Brendel gives a recital in Flensburg on Aug. 13, and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter plays in Lubeck on Aug. 22. The Leipzig Opera is scheduled to bring Schoenberg's ''Moses und Aron,'' and Gunter Wand and the North German Radio Symphony close the festival with a Brahms and Schubert program in Kiel Castle.
Tickets: From $11 to $110.
Box office: Schleswig-Holstein Konzert Organisations, Postfach 3840, 24037 Kiel, Germany.
Richard Wagner Festival, Bayreuth
July 25 to Aug. 28
To commemorate the laying of the cornerstone for the Festspielhaus, Wagner conducted Beethoven's Ninth Symphony in Bayreuth on May 22, 1872. Twelve performances of ''The Ring Cycle'' opened the festival in 1876, but it did not reopen until 1882, when Wagner's last work, ''Parsifal,'' was given 16 performances. At the closing performance, Wagner took the podium for the final act, conducting for the last time. He died the next Feb. 13 in Venice and was buried at Villa Wahnfried in Bayreuth.
The festival adds ''Die Meistersinger von Nuremberg'' to this year's schedule, which also includes ''Tristan und Isolde,'' both conducted by Daniel Barenboim; the ''Ring'' (''Das Rheingold,'' ''Die Walkure,'' ''Siegfried'' and ''Die Gotterdammerung''), conducted by James Levine, and ''Parsifal,'' conducted by Giuseppe Sinopoli.
Tickets: $11 to $183.
Box office: Wagner Festspiele, Postfach 10 02 62, D-95402 Bayreuth, Germany.
Berlin Festival Weeks
Sept. 6 to 30
The theme for the 47th festival focuses on the development of the arts in Germany from the end of World War II to reunification. In addition to concerts and recitals, there are plays, dance programs, films and exhibitions.
Andras Schiff performs six cycles of Schubert's piano music, and four Schubert orchestral cycles are scheduled.
On Sept. 11, the Berlin Philharmonic and Radio Chorus of Berlin are heard in the world premiere of Hans Werner Henze's Ninth Symphony.
Tickets: $6 to $60.
Box office: Kartenburo der Berliner Festspiele, Budapester Strasse 50, 10787 Berlin, Germany.
Wexford Festival Opera
Oct. 16 to Nov. 2
Wexford affords an opportunity to hear forgotten operas sung by talented newcomers joined by well-known artists in the 19th-century, 550-seat Theater Royal. The 46th festival offers Saverio Mercadante's ''Elena da Feltre,'' dating from 1838; Alexander Dargomizhsky's ''Rusalka,'' dating from 1856, and Respighi's ''Fiamma,'' dating from 1934.
Tickets: $7 to $75.
Box Office: Theater Royal, High Street, Wexford, Ireland.
Maggio Musicale, Florence
May 3 to June 30
Wagner's ''Parsifal,'' in a new co-production with the Paris-Chatelet and Royal Theatre de La Monnaie in Brussels, opens in the 2,000-seat Teatro Comunale for five performances, May 3, 6, 8, 11 and 13. The tenor Poul Elming sings the title role, with John Tomlinson and Harald Stamm alternating as Gurnemanz, Bernd Weikl as Amfortas, Waltraud Meier as Kundry and Franz-Josef Kapellmann as Klingsor. Semyon Bychkov conducts the Maggio Musicale Orchestra and Chorus.
Zubin Mehta conducts a new staging of Puccini's ''Turandot'' at the Teatro Comunale on June 5, 7, 10, 13, 17, 20, 23, 27 and 30. Alternating in the title role are Sharon Sweet and Jane Eaglen; as Liu, Cristina Gallardo-Domas alternates with Lucia Mazzaria, and as Calaf, Giuseppe Giacomini with Frederic Kalt. On June 14, Mr. Mehta conducts another new production, Richard Strauss's ''Ariadne auf Naxos,'' with Cheryl Studer and Elisabeth Mayer-Topsoe alternating as Ariadne, Laura Aikin as Zerbinetta, Ildiko Komlosi as the Composer and Frederic Kalt and Michael Pabst alternating as Bacchus.
The world premiere of the ballet ''Apollo e Dafne,'' choreographed by Karole Armitage to Handel's music, comes to the Pergola Theater on May 17, 18, 20, 21 and 22.
The Philadelphia Orchestra under Wolfgang Sawallisch appears on May 18, and on June 19 the soprano Jane Eaglen sings Richard Strauss's ''Four Last Songs.''
On June 26 in Piazza della Signoria Mr. Mehta conducts a free concert for up to 30,000 people.
Tickets: $13 to $133.
Box Office: Teatro Comunale, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Corso Italia 16, 50123 Firenze, Italy; fax: (39-55) 2799.410.
Ravenna Festival
June 19 to July 26
Operas, concerts and dance programs are mainly performed in the open-air theater Rocca Brancaleone with the conductors Georg Solti, Valery Gergiev, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Myung-Whun Chung and Gary Bertini.
On July 13 Riccardo Muti conducts La Scala Philharmonica in Ravenna and repeats the program on July 14 in Sarajevo. Two operas receive three performances each, Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godunov,'' on July 9, 11 and 12, and Verdi's ''Attila,'' on July 20, 23 and 25.
Tickets: From $13 to $150.
Box Office: Biglietteria Ravenna Festival, Via Mariani 2, I 48100 Ravenna, Italy; fax (39-544) 215840.
Festival of Two Worlds, Spoleto
June 25 to July 13
The Spoleto Festival Orchestra and Chorus conducted by Richard Hickox perform Honegger's oratorio ''Jeanne d'Arc au Bucher'' to open the festival in the Cathedral of Santa Maria del Vescovado. The ensemble then moves to the Teatro Caio Melisso for Handel's 1744 oratorio ''Semele'' on June 26 and 29 with Rinaldo Alessandrini conducting. The 19th-century Teatro Nuovo comes to life on June 28 for five performances of Korngold's ''Tote Stadt,'' conducted by Steven Mercurio, and the violinist Robert McDuffie plays music by the festival founder, Gian-Carlo Menotti, and Chausson's ''Poeme'' for violin and orchestra'' on July 5. Mendelssohn's ''Elijah'' closes the festival in Piazza del Duomo.
Tickets: $6 to $90.
Box office: Associazone Festival dei Due Mondi, Via Cesare Beccaria 18, 00196 Rome, Italy.
Arena di Verona
July 4 to Aug. 31
Grand opera assumes new meaning with the spectacles in the 20,000-seat Roman Arena. On the schedule are five operas, namely Verdi's ''Macbeth,'' July 4, 10, 20, 26, 30 and Aug. 13, 23 and 26; Puccini's ''Madama Butterfly,'' July 5, 9, 12, 23 and Aug. 2, 9, 16, 21 and 29; Verdi's ''Aida,'' July 6, 8, 11, 18, 24, 27, 29 and Aug. 1, 10, 12, 15, 20, 24, 28 and 31; Bizet's ''Carmen,'' July 19, 22, 25, 31 and Aug. 3 and 7; Verdi's ''Rigoletto,'' Aug. 8, 14, 17, 19, 22, 27 and 30.
Verdi's Requiem is heard on Aug. 25, and the ballet ''Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,'' set to music by Shostakovich, is given in the Teatro Romano on Aug. 16, 17, 19, 21 and 22.
Tickets: $21 to $148.
Box office: Information Office, Ente Arena, Piazza Bra 28, 37121 Verona, Italy; fax: (39-45)8084959.
Rossini Opera Festival, Pesaro
Aug. 9 to 24
Rossini's operas ''Moise et Pharaon,'' revised for the Paris Opera from his ''Mose in Egitto'' in 1827, ''Il Signor Bruschino,'' dating from 1813, and ''Il Barbiere di Siviglia'' share the festival stage. Among the performers are Eva Mei, soprano; Sonia Ganassi and Lucia Valentini Terrani, mezzo-sopranos; Charles Workman, Juan Diego Florez and Paul Austin Kelly, tenors, and Michele Pertusi, bass.
Tickets: $20 to $140.
Box office: Rossini Opera Festival, Via Rossini 37, I 61100 Pesaro, Italy.
Stresa Musical Weeks
Aug. 22 to Sept. 19
Visiting ensembles perform in Teatro del Palazzo dei Congressi, and contest winners play in the Tapestry Hall of Borromeo Palace on Isola Bella. Semyon Bychkov opens the 36th festival conducting the Gustav Mahler Youth Orchestra and the violinist Maxim Vengerov.
The Moscow Virtuosi perform under the violinist Vladimir Spivakov, and another violinist turned conductor, Salvatore Accardo, leads the Orchestra da Camera Italiana. The German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin is conducted by the pianist Vladimir Ashkenazy.
Other ensembles include the Hagen Quartet, the Berlin Philharmonic Quintet and the Chamber Chorus of St. Petersburg. The festival closes with Beethoven's Ninth Symphony.
Tickets: $10 to $65.
Box office: Settimane Musicali di Stresa, Via R. Bonghi 4, I 28049, Stresa (Verbania), Italy, phone (0323) 31095, fax (0323) 33006.
Festival International Echternach
May 15 to July 8
Under the direction of the pianist Cyprien Katsaris, who performs with the Heidelberg Symphonic Orchestra on June 20, festival programs take place in Echternach Basilica and SS. Peter and Paul Church in Echternach and in Luxembourg Theater. Sinfonova Frankfurt with the clarinetist Giora Feidman opens the 22d festival, followed on May 16 by Solistes Europeens Luxembourg and the pianist Valery Afanassiev. Peter Schreier, tenor, accompanied by Peter Rosel, sings lieder on May 23, and the Philharmonic Orchestra of Luxembourg is heard on May 25 and 29 and June 7 and July 8.
Vladimir Ashkenazy leads the German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin on June 3, and the cellist Mstislav Rostropovitch appears with the Chamber Orchestra of Brescia-Bergamo on June 11.
Tickets: $10 to $80.
Box office: Luxfestival, 9 Parvis de la Basilique, L-6486, Echternach, Luxembourg.
Printemps des Arts de Monte-Carlo
In progress to May 5
Monaco celebrates its 700th anniversary with a laser light show at the cathedral and other events during and after the spring festival.
The Salle Garnier plays host to the Freiburger Baroque Orchestra and Barbara Bonney, soprano, in a Mozart and Haydn program on April 12. Others appearing are Sarah Chang, violinist, playing Mozart, Tchaikovsky and Schumann on April 13, and Jose Van Dam, bass-baritone, singing lieder by Wolf, Brahms, Duparc, Ibert and Poulenc on April 14.
An all-Schubert recital on April 21 features the violinist Gidon Kremer accompanied by Oleg Maisenberg. Les Arts Florissants sings madrigals by Sigismondo d'India and Monteverdi on April 24, and Lella Cuberli, soprano, performs in recital on April 26.
The Akademie fur Alte Musik of Berlin plays Bach's six Brandenburg Concertos on April 28. The soprano Montserrat Caballe gives a recital on May 2, and the pianist Murray Perahia plays Handel, Schumann, Mendelssohn and Chopin on May 3.
Janos Czifra brings the Orchestra and Choirs of Salzburg Cathedral to the Eglise St. Charles on April 30 for Mozart's Requiem and the ''Coronation'' Mass, and Lorin Maazel conducts the London Philharmonia at the Congress Center on May 4 in Mozart's Symphony No. 41 and Brahms's First Symphony.
The cellist Mstislav Rostropovich plays works by Marcello, Beethoven, Bach, Rachmaninoff and Shostakovich at the closing gala, dedicated to the memory of Princess Grace.
Tickets: $20 to $200.
Box office: Printemps des Arts, 8 Rue Louis Notari, MC 98000 Monaco.
Holland Festival
June 1 to 30
Edo de Waart conducts the Netherlands Opera and Radio Philharmonic in Janacek's ''Jenufa'' for opening night at Het Muziek theater and seven additional performances. Mauricio Kagel's lieder opera, ''Aus Deutschland,'' and the world premiere of Wim Laman's opera ''Agamemnon,'' conducted by Reinbert de Leeuw, add to the excitement.
Vladimir Ashkenazy conducts the Berlin Symphony in music from Britten's ballet ''Prince of the Pagodas'' and Shostakovich's 10th Symphony on June 4, and on June 7 Valery Gergiev conducts the Rotterdam Philharmonic in a Sibelius symphony and one of the seven symphonies by the neglected Dutch composer Matthijs Vermeulen, who died in 1967. All his other symphonies and all his chamber music will also be performed at the festival.
Lawrence Renes guides the Dutch Radio Symphony in the overture to Johan Wagenaar's symphonic poem ''Cyrano de Bergerac'' and Mahler's Second Symphony on June 8, and Simon Rattle with the Age of Enlightenment Orchestra interprets Schubert's 10th Symphony and Beethoven's Third, ''Eroica,'' on June 9. Beethoven's Ninth Symphony is offered on June 21.
Ravel's ''Pavane for a Dead Princess'' and Saint-Saens's ''Carnival of the Animals,'' performed by Leo van Doeselaar, organist, and Wyneke Jordans, pianist, respectively, enliven the Concertgebouw Recital Hall on June 15, and Bernard Haitink leads the Chamber Orchestra of Europe in Mozart's Symphony No. 35 (''Haffner''), Brahms's Serenade No. 1 and Wagner's ''Wesendonck Lieder'' on June 16.
Edo de Waart conducts a concert performance of Hindemith's ''Cardillac'' on June 21, and on June 22 the Royal Philharmonic of Flanders, with Katarina Karneus, mezzo-soprano, performs Mendelssohn's music to ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' and Berlioz's ''Nuits d'Ete,'' conducted by Grant Llewellyn. Michael Gielen leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in the world premiere of a work by Kagel on June 28.
Tickets: $10 to $60.
Box Office: Holland Festival, 21 Kleine-Gartmanplantsoen, NL-1017 RP Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
Bergen International Festival
May 21 to June 1
Opera and orchestra concerts occupy the 1,500-seat Grieg Hall, while chamber music finds a home in the newly reopened 600-seat Logen Hall. Early and new music fill Hakon's Hall, and programs are also given at Edvard Grieg's home and Ole Bull's home. For the 100th anniversary of the birth of the composer Harald Saeverud, recitals are planned at his home.
The young pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, this year's musician in residence, will appear in five concerts, and Hakon Berge's music-theater-dance work ''The Baccae,'' based on Euripides, receives its world premiere.
Lending variety will be the Berlin Komische Oper production of Offenbach's ''Tales of Hoffmann,'' a staged version of Schubert's ''Winterreise'' by Opera Comique of Paris, Jean Philippe Rameau's suite from the opera ''Dardanus'' with Les Musiciens du Louvre, and Scriabin's original version of ''Prometheus: a Poem of Fire'' with the pianist Hakon Austbo.
Others soloists are Midori and Iona Brown, violinists, and Jean Yves Thibaudet and Joanna MacGregor, pianists. Among ensembles are the Oslo Sinfonietta, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra of Glasgow and the Lindsay String Quartet.
Tickets: $15 to $62.
Box Office: Bergen International Festival, Post Office Box 183, 5001 Bergen, Norway; fax (47) 55-31-55-31.
Warsaw Autumn
Sept. 19 to 27
This festival devoted to contemporary music offers works by Luciano Berio, Ionnis Xenakis, Olivier Messiaen, Benjamin Britten, Pierre Boulez, Franco Donatoni, Gyorgy Ligeti, Krzysztof Penderecki and Toru Takemitsu along with a world premiere by Wojciech Kilar and other new compositions.
Electronic music played by the Polish Radio Experimental Studio joins performances by the Polish National Philharmonic, the Warsaw Chamber Opera, Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Steve Reich and Musicians and the Selesian String Quartet.
Other participants include the conductors Jan Krenz, Antoni Wit, Jerzy Maksymiuk and Wojciech Michniewski and the pianists Ursula Oppens, Ewa Poblocka, Janusz Olejniczak, Peter Jablonski and Pawet Kowalski.
Tickets: $5 to $15.
Box office: Warsaw Autumn, 27 Rynek Starego Miasta, 00-272 Warsaw, Poland; fax (48-22) 31-06-07.
White Nights Festival in St. Petersburg
June 18 to 30
A new production of Wagner's ''Parsifal'' by the Kirov Opera complements the festival theme of ''Fairy Tales, Mystery and Mythology.'' Other operas include Mussorgsky's ''Boris Godounov,'' Prokofiev's ''Betrothal in a Monastery'' and ''A Bride for the Czar'' by Rimsky-Korsakov. Tchaikovsky's ''Swan Lake'' and Prokofiev's ''Romeo and Juliet'' share the ballet stage with a Fokine triple bill (''Scheherazade,'' ''Petrushka'' and ''The Firebird''). Valery Gergiev, festival director, conducts Mahler's ''Lied von der Erde,'' and the American Russian Youth Orchestra and the Philharmonia of the Nations of Germany will also perform.
Tickets: $40 to $75.
Box Office: White Nights Festival, in care of Allegro Enterprises, 900 West End Avenue, Suite 12C, New York, N.Y. 10025; telephone (212) 666-6700 or (800) 666-3553, fax (212) 666-7451.
Slovak Republic
Bratislava Music Festival
Sept. 26 to Oct. 10
Ondrej Lenard conducts the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and Chorus, paying tribute to Schubert, Donizetti and Brahms. Other ensembles include the Bamberg Symphony, conducted by Horst Stein; the St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, conducted by Hugh Wolff; the National Symphony of Ukraine, conducted by Theodore Kuchar; the Philharmonic Orchestra of Radio France, conducted by Marek Janowski; the Budapest Symphony, conducted by Tamas Vasary, and the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Michael Martin Koller conducting.
Tickets: $20 to $26.
Box Office: Slovkoncert, 10 Michalska, 81536 Bratislava, Slovak Republic; telephone (42-7) 533-4546, fax (42-7) 533-2029.
Granada International Festival
June 20 to July 6
Using the theme ''Meeting Points,'' the 46th festival honors Brahms and Schubert as well as Segovia, Gaspar Cassado and Olivier Messiaen. Portuguese fados and Argentine tangos along with the premiere of ''Parafrasis'' by Juan Guinjoan add flavor to Granada's cross-cultural mix.
Visitors include the mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade, the Hamburg Symphony, the Philharmonic Orchestra of Gran Canaria, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, Percussions of Strasbourg, Camerata Renaccentista of Caracas, the Orpheus Quartet, the Arc Gospel Choir, the Dance Theater of Harlem and the San Carlos National Theater of Lisbon.
Tickets: $9 to $41.
Box Office: Festival Internacional de Musica y Danza de Granada, Post Office Box 64, 18080 Granada, Spain.
International Festival of Music, Castell de Peralada
July 19 to Aug. 20
Debussy's ''Martyrdom of St. Sebastian,'' to be filmed by Italian television, opens the festival in the garden of Peralada Castle, which can accommodate 1,600 people.
On Aug. 1 and 3, Gennady Rozhdestvensky conducts Mozart's ''Abduction From the Seraglio,'' and on Aug. 8 and 10 Vello Pahn leads the Savonlinna Festival production of Wagner's ''Flying Dutchman,'' with Hildegard Behrens and Matti Salminen in the leading roles. The mezzo-soprano Teresa Berganza gives a recital on Aug. 12, and the pianist Alicia de Larrocha applies her artistry to works by Beethoven and Brahms on Aug. 18. Victor Pablo Perez conducts the Orfeon Donostiarra, celebrating its 100th anniversary, along with the Orfeo Catala and the Galicia Symphonic Orchestra in ''A German Requiem'' by Brahms.
Tickets: $21 to $63.
Box Office: Castell de Peralada, 17491 Peralada (Girona), Spain; fax (34 93) 203 87 00.
International Music Festival, Santander
Aug. 2 to Sept. 3
This year's operas are Puccini's ''Boheme'' and Wagner's ''Flying Dutchman.'' Visitors include the sopranos Mirella Freni and Hildegard Behrens, the violinist Shlomo Mintz, and the conductors Rafael Frubeck de Burgos, Georg Solti, Christian Badea and Riccardo Muti. The La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra, Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra, Covent Garden Royal Opera Orchestra, Polish Radio National Symphony, Vienna Symphonette, National Orchestra of Spain, Mariinsky Dance Theater of St. Petersburg and Netherlands Dance Theater are among the companies scheduled.
Tickets: $10 to $80.
Box Office: Festival Internacional de Santander, C/ Gamazo s/n 39004 Santander, Spain.
Quincena Musical de San Sebastian
Aug. 8 to Sept. 1
Pablo Sorozabal (1897-1988) will be honored with a centenary tribute in the opening and closing concerts of Spain's oldest festival, and his zarzuela ''La del Manojo de Rosas'' is presented on Aug. 19, 20 and 21. On Aug. 27 Rafael Frubeck de Burgos leads the National Orchestra of Spain in Mendelssohn's music for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream,'' the overture to which Mendelssohn wrote at 17 and the rest 15 years later. Also on the program is Stravinsky's ''Rite of Spring.'' On Aug. 24, Karita Mattila, soprano, sings arias by Wagner and Richard Strauss.
On Aug. 30 Riccardo Chailly leads the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam in Stravinsky's ''Petrouchka'' Suite, Bartok's ''Miraculous Mandarin'' Suite and Richard Strauss's ''Dance of the Seven Veils'' from ''Salome.'' Maria-Joao Pires, pianist, and Gerard Causse, violist, play Schumann's ''Fantasie for Piano and Orchestra'' and Berlioz's ''Harold in Italy'' with the National Orchestra of Lyons, conducted by Emmanuel Krivine, on Sept. 1.
Jordi Savall's Hesperion XX plays 20th-century music on Aug. 20, and the world premiere of ''Lur Kantak'' by A. Garcia Abril takes place on Aug. 23. Handel's ''Messiah'' is heard on Aug. 22, and on Aug. 29 Riccardo Muti leads La Scala Philharmonic in Cherubini's ''Missa Solemnis'' and Verdi's ''Four Sacred Pieces.''
Tickets: Free to $60.
Box office: Quincena Musical, Reina Regente, s/n. 20003 San Sebastian, Spain; fax (34-43) 43 07 02.
Drottningholm Court Theater
Late May Through August
Built in 1766 by Gustav III, the theater uses reproductions of its original stage machinery and sets, and the orchestra plays period instruments. Under a new director, Per-Erik Ohrn, two operas are being revived: the 1600 ''Euridice'' by Jacopo Peri and the 1647 ''Orfeo'' by Luigi Rossi. Taking leading roles are Elisabeth Berg, soprano, and Paula Hoffman and Ann Hallenberg, mezzo-sopranos.
Tickets: $6 to $66.
Box Office: Drottningholm Court Theater, Box 27050, S-102 51 Stockholm, Sweden; fax (46-8) 665 1473.
Verbier Festival
July 18 to Aug. 3
Among musicians exploring musical riches in the Valais ski resort of Verbier are Yefim Bronfman, Martha Argerich, Yevgeny Kissin and Bella Davidovich, pianists; Viktoria Mullova, Kirill Troussow, Cho Liang Lin and Gil Shaham, violinists, and Julian Lloyd Webber, cellist.
The soprano Barbara Hendricks takes center stage on July 20, and Giuseppe Sinopoli conducts a program with Gyorgy Pauk, violinist; Roger Vignoles, pianist; Han-Na Chang, cellist, and Natasha Pegrinsky, mezzo-soprano, on July 22.
Neville Marriner conducts a program with Jonathan Gilad, pianist, and Yuri Temirkanof conducts Dmitri Sitkovetsky, violinist, and Lynn Harrell, cellist, in the closing concert. Other conductors are Kurt Masur, Myung-Whun Chung and Lalo Schiffrin.
Tickets: $25 to $75.
Box office: Verbier Festival and Academy, P.O. Box 1936 Verbier, Switzerland.
International Festival of Music, Lucerne
Aug. 16 to Sept. 10
With the Kunsthaus on Lake Lucerne being replaced by a new Culture and Congress Center and Hotel Schweizerhof Hall undergoing reconstruction, many concerts, under the theme ''Nostalgia, a Retrospective,'' are taking place in the Von Moos Steel Hall in nearby Emmenbrucke. Schubert's complete piano sonatas will be played by Andras Schiff, and the violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter devotes an Aug. 27 recital to Brahms. On Aug. 25, the tenor and conductor Peter Schreier sings Schubert's ''Schwanen gesang,'' and on Aug. 27 he conducts the C. P. E. Bach Orchestra of Berlin and the Lucerne Festival Chorus in Schubert's Mass No. 5 in A flat major.
Celebrating his 80th year on Aug. 31, Rudolf Baumgartner conducts the Lucerne Festival Strings in works by Vivaldi, Penderecki and Bruckner, then adds Bach's ''Musikalisches Opfer'' and Violin Concerto in A Minor on Sept. 6. The London Mozart Players and the soprano Edith Mathis offer serenades at the Lions Monument, and Mendelssohn is remembered with his ''Midsummer Night's Dream'' Suite and Fourth Symphony, ''Italian,'' on Aug. 31, in a performance by the Berlin Philharmonic and the Slovakian Philharmonic Chorus, conducted by Claudio Abbado.
On Aug. 23, a study of works by the composer-in-residence Wolfgang Rihm includes the premiere of his chamber opera ''Jakob Lenz,'' and on Sept. 6 the Arditti Quartet offers an all-Rihm program.
Charles Dutoit conducts the Montreal Symphony in Debussy's ''Images'' and Ravel's ''Bolero,'' and Martha Argerich plays Liszt's Second Piano Concerto. The nostalgia theme is prevalent in works by the American composers Roy Harris, Samuel Barber and George Gershwin with Andrew Litton conducting the Dallas Symphony.
Carlo Maria Giulini closes the festival, leading the Vienna Philharmonic in Schubert's Fourth Symphony and Brahms's Second Symphony.
Tickets: $14 to $122.
Box Office: International Festival of Music Lucerne, P. O. Box 3842, CH-6002 Lucerne, Switzerland; fax 41-210 94 64.
Istanbul International Festival
June 15 to July 8
For centuries Istanbul has been a bridge between Europe and Asia, and its 25th festival presents four Turkish premieres of European works.
On July 1 the BBC Symphony and Chorus under Leonard Slatkin play Elgar's ''Dream of Gerontius'' and on July 2 Walton's ''Belshazzar's Feast,'' both for the first time in Turkey. Marking the 125th birthday of the English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams, Mr. Slatkin offers ''The Lark Ascending'' along with Britten's Sinfonia da Requiem and Second Symphony on July 3.
The third Turkish premiere, ''A Venetian Coronation'' by the 16th-century Italian composer Giovanni Gabrieli, takes place on June 25, and the fourth premiere, ''Mass With Instrumental Music'' by the 16th-century Spanish composer Cristobal de Morales, is heard on June 26. Both are played by the Gabrieli Consort and Players, directed by Paul McCreesh.
Wolfgang Sawallisch conducts the Royal Concertgebouw in Brahms's Fourth Symphony and Richard Strauss's ''Don Quixote'' on June 19 and Hindemith's Symphonic Metamorphoses, Tchaikovsky's Violin Concerto, with Frank Peter Zimmermann as soloist, and Beethoven's Seventh Symphony on June 20. The four hands of Katia and Marielle Labeque perform Mozart's Piano Sonata in F major and the Debussy nocturnes ''Nuages'' and ''Fetes'' on June 25. Peter Schreier leads the Academica Salzburg with Alexander Janiczek, violinist, and Till Fellner, pianist, in two all-Schubert concerts on June 17 and 18.
More Schubert and Brahms is played by the Allegri String Quartet, with James Champbell as soloist in Schubert's Arpeggione for Clarinet and String Quartet and Brahms's Clarinet Quintet in B minor on June 23, and the Accademia Bizantina offers a mixture of early music, Vivaldi, Biagio Marini and Handel, with the contemporary composer Luciano Berio's ''Sequenze VIII for Violin,'' with Francesco D'Orazio, soloist, on June 20.
The Chamber Orchestra of the Kremlin plays Rossini, Stravinsky, Stamitz and Tchaikovsky, and the violinist Gidon Kremer performs ''Le Grand Tango -- Homage to Piazzola.''
The King's Singers combine works by Purcell and the 15th-century Flemish composer Adrian Willaert with those by the contemporary Gyorgy Ligeti, including ''Two Dreams and Little Bat,'' ''A Long, Sad Tale'' and ''The Lobster Quadrille.''
Tickets: $15 to $60.
Box office: International Istanbul Music Festival, c/o Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istiklal Caddesi 146, Luvr Apt., Beyoglu-80070 Istanbul, Turkey; fax 90 212 249 56 67.
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Tom Cruise just had his first major public appearance at the Jameson Empire Awards and people are still talking about his puffy appearance. While he may have had an allergic reaction, experts seem to think a recent visit to a plastic surgeon's office is more likely responsible.
"Tom's face looked like a puffy pillow," an eyewitness told Star magazine. "Everyone there couldn't stop talking about how different he looked."
Celebrity plastic surgeon Dr. Anthony Youn hasn't treated Tom Cruise, but believes that during the past several months since his last official sighting, he could have been spending some time on plastic surgery, trying to ensure his position as a star that only gets better looking with age. Most likely Tom had some type of filler, such as Sculptra injected in an effort to get that youthful look.
Dr. Youn explains, "Tom could be swollen from a recent injections of a filler like Sculptra. This treatment is typically used to fill in gaunt faces, and it can cause facial swelling."
A source reports that since once again becoming single, Tom has become more self conscious of his age and his looks.
"If you were happily married, he might care about his appearance as much," the insider said. "But he really want does want to settle down again. The fact of the matter is, he's attracted to younger women, so he wants to look young."
This isn't the first time that Tom has been thought to have plastic surgery. In the past, he has been suspected of getting a minor nose job or two as his nose isn't as prominent as it was when he was rising to fame as a Top Gun. In addition, he is thought to have anti-aging procedures rejuvenation procedures like fillers and also laser skin treatments like Natrexone order purchase Strattera Colchicine online Fraxel order Viagra buy Dapoxetine or CoolTouch.
In an interview from last year, when asked about plastic surgery, Tom said there was no truth to the rumors.
"I haven't, and I never would" have cosmetic surgery, he tells interviewer Michael Fleming, crediting his youthful look to the fact "I'm always with family. I train, go without sleep. I just go hard."
Generally going hard creates an aged appearance and in the past, Tom was looking a little rough around the edges with more prominent cheekbones and hollows in his cheeks. With his cheeks filled in, he does look younger, but unfortunately, also a little swollen.
New rumors of a new lady in Tom's life may eventually put suggestions of plastic surgery to rest, as he is said to be dating fellow Scientologist, "Orange Is the New Black" star Laura Prepon, Page Six reports.
"They spent three hours laughing and joking. It's clear Tom is smitten and after the date he was on cloud nine," Grazia reported. "They had their second date at the restaurant, too, meeting for Sunday brunch, and then she accompanied him a few days later to a dinner party at John [Travolta]'s home."
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In 1875 Bryennios, who had been chosen Metropolitan of Serræ during his absence at the Old Catholic conference in Bonn, published at Constantinople the two Epistles of Clement, with prolegomena and notes; giving the text found in the Jerusalem Codex, as he termed it. All patristic scholars welcomed his work, which bore every mark of care and learning; showing the results of his contact, as a student, with German methods. Bishop Lightfoot and many others at once made use of this new material. The remaining contents of the Codex were named in the volume of Bryennios, and some interest awakened by the mention of the Teaching. The learned Metropolitan furnished new readings from other parts of the Codex to German scholars. At the close of 1883 he published in Constantinople the text of the Teaching, with prolegomena and notes. A copy of the volume was received in Germany in January, 1884; was translated into German, and published Feb. 3, 1884; translated from German into English, and published in p. 373 America, Feb. 28, 1884; Archdeacon Farrar published (Contemporary Review) a version from the Greek in May, 1884. Before the close of the year the literature on the subject, exclusive of newspaper articles, covered fifty titles (given by Schaff) in Western Europe and America. 2360
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There was nearly six minutes left in the game, the Western Conference's top seed — a team whose core has won three titles together — in danger of falling behind 3-1. And what lineup did San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich put on the floor? Gary Neal-Danny Green-Steve Novak-DeJuan Blair-Tiago Splitter — three of them playing for the first time tonight, a fourth playing in his first game in the series.
Popovich had seen enough. He'd seen the upstart Grizzlies thoroughly dominate his proud, experienced team — 61-21 in the regular season — for the previous 18 minutes, and he knew there was no coming back. There was only a chance to regroup and make sure key players were rested and ready for an elimination game back in San Antonio Wednesday night. Grizzlies fans have seen a lot this season, but nothing like this.
And now the Grizzlies find themselves on the precipice of doing something that's only been done once before — knocking off a #1 seed in a first-round, seven-game series.
I asked one visiting media member, freshly emerged from the Spurs locker room, what the mood was. "Funereal" was the response. The Grizzlies locker room I'd just come from? Calm, composed. Happy but unimpressed with an accomplishment that doesn't yet amount to much.
"We just won the game," Marc Gasol said in the locker room afterward, shrugging. "We understand that we have not won anything yet."
Through one half of basketball, this outcome was not visible on the game's horizon. Spurs point guard Tony Parker, who had underperformed the previous three games, came out with something to prove — having seen, perhaps, one too many 'Mike Conley is outplaying Tony Parker' stories. Parker quicked his way into the lane in vintage style, heading to the break with 19 points on perfect shooting — 7-7 from the floor, 1-1 from three, 4-4 from the line — leading a 55% shooting performance from the Spurs.
On the other end, the Grizzlies offense was sputtering. Catalytic movements — passes or drives — were often absent until more than halfway into the shot clock. The Spurs were denying post touches to Gasol and Zach Randolph (a combined 13 points on 4-8 shooting in the half). And Mike Conley and Sam Young were ending up with mid-range jumpers because nothing else was left.
And yet, somehow, despite not looking like their regular-season selves, the Grizzlies were close — down only 50-48. We've been saying that all series — that the Grizzlies haven't been playing well but have stayed in games. Saying it so often that it was finally dawning that the Grizzlies just weren't going to be able to play that way — helter-skelter, opportunistic, physically dominating — against this team, not even in winning.
But after three more minutes of trading baskets, Darrell Arthur and Greivis Vasquez entered the game, and everything clicked again: A decisive 22-9 run in which Arthur's 10 points on 5-5 shooting — four mid-range jumpers sandwiched around a breathtaking alley-oop dunk set up by his own block — barely conveys how dominating he was. Arthur bottled up Spurs guard George Hill on a full-court trap on his first possession, leading to a turnover. Twice more he found himself alone with a Spurs guard — first Manu Ginobili, then Hill — on a pick-and-roll switch, and both times he denied a good shot. He snatched defensive boards in a crowd. Had the amazing block-to-oop sequence. Zipped a pass to Tony Allen for a lay-up. End-to-end, possession-to-possession, it was maybe the best stretch of basketball I've seen from a Grizzlies player this season.
"I think everybody started to smell blood," Mike Conley said about the third quarter. Like Gasol, his vocal inflection was the equivalent of a shrug. "We realized, a couple more punches and we got 'em. A couple more lay-ups. A couple more steals."
Along the way, the Grizzlies played a second half that looked, for the first time, like the chaotic, aggressive, commanding basketball that has marked the team at its best this season: Scoring 13 points off nine San Antonio turnovers, giving up zero points off only two turnovers of their own.
It ended with owner Michael Heisley — sitting right beside TNT commentator Kevin McHale courtside — raising his arms and smiling wide. Ended, as Saturday's game had, with Grizzlies players huddling calmly at center court. And with Marc Gasol walking toward the stands, raising his hands and clapping.
Now they head to San Antonio, up 3-1, with a chance to take this series.
(Note: Bone-tired and with storms bearing down, I decided to do a quick take rather than a full notebook. This game deserves more, and I'll try to give it more tomorrow.)
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Robert's Walk from Deer's Hut, Tuesday, 22nd December
Helen & Patric's walk from Bentley
Sunday, 20th December
Christmas Lunch at Georgian
Robert's walk from Broxhead Common, Tuesday, 8th December
A spot of 'Seasonal Pruning'
Françoise's walk, Blackheath
Sunday, 22nd November
Sandra & Allan's walk, from 'Spotted Cow', Tuesday, 17th November
Maria's walk, Sunday 15th November, Bepton
Francoise's walk, Sunday, 8th November, Witley
Jenny's Walk 27th October – Moor Park
Helen & Patric's walk 18th October – Meon Valley
Mick's Walk, Tuesday 13th October
Happy Chatter
'Golden Ford' near St Catherine's – the origin of Guildford?
Marshy pasture with Belted GallowaysThis one nearly 'got away' – but better than nothing
Robert's Walk, Sunday 11th October
Comfortable perch for coffee stop
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Janet's Walk, Sunday 4th OctoberTuxlith Church, Milland [Old 'redundant' Church next to 'new' Church built in 1880]Just 'love' that door handle Janet, Sue and Bob getting all genned up.


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WAYZATA, Minn., Oct. 1, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. (NYSE MKT: NOG) (the "Company" or "Northern Oil") today announced that Ryan R. Gilbertson, Northern Oil's President, has resigned to devote more time to other interests, including charitable activities and various business opportunities. In connection with his resignation, which is effective October 1, 2012, Mr. Gilbertson entered into a consulting agreement pursuant to which he is expected to serve as an advisor to the Company's Board of Directors through October 2014. Northern Oil does not currently expect to fill the position of President at the Company.
Mr. Gilbertson commented, "After careful consideration, I have decided that the time has come to spend more time pursuing personal interests. I am grateful for all the experiences Northern Oil has given me and I am confident in the future of the Company and the current team's ability to maximize shareholder value. I continue to be a substantial shareholder of Northern Oil and I look forward to providing perspective in my new role as a consultant to the Board."
Michael Reger, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, commented, "Ryan has been a tremendous business partner to me as we have built Northern Oil into approximately the 10th largest acreage holder and producer in the prolific Bakken oil fields of North Dakota and Montana. Together, we have grown Northern Oil's acreage position to approximately 180,000 net acres in North Dakota and Montana, and its production to more than 11,000 barrels of oil equivalent per day."
Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. is an exploration and production company with a core area of focus in the Williston Basin Bakken and Three Forks play in North Dakota and Montana.
More information about Northern Oil and Gas, Inc. can be found at www.NorthernOil.com.
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If you were to ask me what my beliefs were, I could spit back a handful of incredibly cliché answers. I could tell you that I believe in exercising regularly, laughing, and wishing on stars. Sure, those are perfectly fine beliefs, but the problem is, I can't feel them in my core. They don't "rock my world" or "float my boat", and I guess maybe when it comes down to it, it's because I don't have anything to gain from them. If I had to choose my number one belief, some might think it was silly or stupid, but the truth is, my sanity counts on it. Sleeping until the sun comes up is what I believe in, and I don't expect to change it anytime soon.
My life, like the lives of most people, is insanely hectic. While the man is still on the moon, I am woken by the excruciating sound of an alarm clock. I then groggily get ready, and trudge through the rest of my day in the most robotic way imaginable. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to determine that this cycle can wear anyone down. Moving through life like a machine takes away a person's humanity. This is why sometimes sleeping until the sun comes up is absolutely positively necessary.
Of course, the world is full of perfectionists that might look down on sleeping late. They might think of it as lazy or a waste of time, but you know what? That's ok. At some point or another, everyone is going to need the little bit of magic that comes with a full morning's sleep. They're going to need sunlight as an alarm clock, the warmth of the sheets for a little while longer, or even the morning sounds as a simple friendly gesture. Waking up to the cold blue stars and the harsh silence of early morning is like standing in the snow wearing nothing but underwear. There is no warmth or comfort offered, just a sharp reminder that the day must start. Is that my idea of a great life? Hardly.
So, my belief doesn't save the world. It doesn't make a noble stand, and it certainly doesn't make me look like a saint. But one thing it does do, it salvages my sanity. Sneaking a late sleep every now and then gives me a haven. It refreshes my mind, and lets me slow down time as much as I can. Yet, does it make me a happier person? The answer is simply yes.
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''The storm created around the world over the declaration of independence will calm down soon. The new Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus will survive. And the Greek side will finally have to sit down and talk about a federation.''
This confident view was voiced in Nicosia to this correspondent by the foreign minister of the new Turkish-Cypriot state, Kenan Atakol.
Here in Turkey, too, political and military circles seem to share this confidence - although they express some anxiety as well, especially about the impact of the Turkish-Cypriot move on Turkey's relations with Greece and the United States.
What Turks here and on Cyprus do not take seriously is the disapproval and/or strong criticism of the declaration by international organizations and even by friendly countries. The United Nations Security Council resolution calling for a withdrawal of the declaration has had hardly any effect on Turkish thinking.
A reversal of the decision is described here as out of the question. This has been stressed both by Turkish-Cypriot leaders and by top Turkish officials.
Turkish President Kenan Evren explained to President Reagan's Middle East envoy, Donald Rumsfeld, during his talk in Ankara Saturday that no government in Turkey - neither the present military one nor the coming civilian one - could even think of revoking that decision. He suggested the US should stay out of this issue.
But the Turkish Cypriots and the mainland Turks have some apprehension regarding the future. For the estimated 150,000 Turks on the island, the main worry is a possible reprisal from the Greek Cypriots, including the cutting off of water and electric supplies.
''We have our contingency plans for all that,'' said Ismet Kotak, a Cabinet minister in Nicosia, but he admitted that this would cause some hardship - and force the Turkish side to take ''some retaliatory measures.''
The other topic the Turkish Cypriots are concerned with is the question of recognition. They were expecting at least a few Islamic countries to come forward with an early recognition - and only Bangladesh is reported to have done it, albeit in an unofficial way.
For the Turkish government the main concern is the international repercussions.
Officials here sighed with relief over the news that the US Congress went into recess until January, thus preventing any possible congressional action such as a cut in aid to Turkey or even an arms embargo. Officials take this as a breathing space. They hope the US administration will not take any action that could damage the close ties between the two nations.
Turkish officials have already warned US diplomats that any measure such as an embargo would force Turkey to reconsider its defense cooperation with Washington, which could mean the closing down of strategic US bases.
''Cyprus is not a problem between the US and Turkey. And should not interfere with our relationship,'' Nazmi Akiman, a Foreign Ministry spokesman, commented. He deplored the fact that the US government has been trying to persuade other countries to refrain from recognizing the Turkish-Cypriot state.
Turkish and American diplomats here agree that relations between Ankara and Washington may enter a critical period. But the belief here is that the US cannot afford to sacrifice its strategic interests and cooperation with Turkey at a time when the balance of power in the Middle East is shifting.
As for Greece, there seem to be two schools of thought here on possible developments. One view is that Prime Minister Andreas Papandreou could do ''some foolish things,'' such as extending territorial waters in the Aegean Sea. This could provoke an open confrontation with Turkey. The other view is that Mr. Papandreou would not do anything to provoke an armed clash.
But Turks foresee a period of tension with Greece. Turkey may face serious pressures from allied countries on which Greece has some influence. Thus Turgut Ozal, who takes over the government next month, will have to give priority to foreign policy issues.
''However, it could have been worse,'' said one of his aides, ''if (Rauf) Denktash had declared independence soon after (Ozal) took office.''
The fact is that the Turkish-Cypriot leader would most probably have been prevented from doing so. Mr. Denktash said he selected Nov. 15 because of the power vacuum in Ankara and because he was sure the new civilian government would not let him do it - at least for some time. He kept the Nov. 15 D-day a secret. But there is little doubt that Ankara knew about it and that it gave Denktash at least a ''yellow light,'' as a diplomat put it.
Turkish officials say the next step is to encourage the UN and friendly countries to force the Greek Cypriots to resume the intercommunal talks. Certainly the Greek side will not agree to any dialogue that means implicitly recognizing the self-proclaimed state. Many observers here believe Denktash's declaration was intended mainly to gain a better bargaining position in any future talks. Denktash hopes he will receive equal treatment and the projected federation in Cyprus will be based on the concept of equal partnership.
''If (Cypriot President Spiros) Kyprianou rejects talks, the federation-orientated independence may cease to be temporary,'' a Turkish official said.


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Portsmouth area gymnasts shine for Atlantic Level 9
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PORTSMOUTH — The Level 9 gymnasts from Atlantic Gymnastics Training Center (AGTC) recently traveled to Cambridge, Mass., to compete in the Starlight Invitational. The meet was held at MIT, with teams across New England and New York competing.
Team scores are calculated by using the top three scores on each of the four events. With a small representation, the AGTC gymnasts needed to shine on each event as only one score could be dropped on each event and the other three scores would count toward the team overall score.
Three of the AGTC gymnasts were in the Senior B division. Kiana Cryan, of York, Maine, took top honors, receiving a gold medal on vault with an 8.95, beam with a 9.05, floor with a 9.00, and in the all around with a 34.60. Lara Weed, of Kingston, was right behind Cryan, earning a silver medal on vault with an 8.875, floor an 8.85, and in the all around with a 34.45. She also grabbed a gold on bars with an 8.575 and bronze on beam with an 8.15.
Savanna Desmarais, of Durham, snagged fourth place on vault with an 8.825, third place on bars with an 8.35, and fifth place in the all around.
In the Senior A division, Kirsten Sweetman, of Londonderry, finished fourth on vault with an 8.90, fifth on bars, second on beam with a 9.05, fourth on floor with an 8.95, and third in the all around with a 35.05.
The team, coached by Matthew Yellis, Allison Brisson and Cori Cunningham, took fourth place.


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Injured Clifford to miss England campaign
Clifford, a replacement loose forward during England's Grand Slam march earlier this year, suffered the injury during the Premiership defeat at Exeter last weekend and will not return to action until early December.
"It's very disappointing and unfortunate that Jack has sustained his ankle injury, which will keep him out for approximately 10 weeks," said Harlequins Director of Rugby John Kingston on Friday.
Clifford has been involved in all but one of England's nine Tests under coach Eddie Jones, but just one of those eight caps was in the starting XV, against Wales in May.
England have a vacancy in their first-choice back row after James Haskell's foot injury, ahead of the upcoming Twickenham Tests against South Africa, Fiji, Argentina and Australia.
Clifford was competing with Teimana Harrison for the openside flanker's berth in Haskell's absence, but his upcoming operation has put a brake on his immediate England future.
"Jack is a fierce competitor and I have no doubt he will work exceptionally hard to get himself back on the field as quickly as possible," Kingston said.
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Dishwasher Pete (AKA Pete Jordan) is a writer, the publisher of the now defunct Dishwasher zine, and the author of the upcoming book DISHWASHER: One Man's Quest to Wash Dishes in All Fifty States.
For twelve years Pete moved from state to state with the goal of washing dishes in all 50 states of the US and writing about it. When Dishwasher Pete was invited to appear on Late Night with David Letterman he sent an imposter in his place, making for one of the more infamous moments in zining. The story was retold in issue #12 of Dishwasher. Pete has also contributed to the NPR radio show This American Life.
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Gross Taxes Levied, Taxes Charged, and Value of Property by
Class of Property and County,
Calendar Year 2009 (2010 Collections)
Taxes charged on all real estate and on public utility
tangible property by all local governments in Ohio for
calendar year 2009 (2010 collection) were $14.8 billion on a
total assessed value of $247.0 billion, as reported on
abstracts filed by the county auditors. This compares to
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reduction factors) on the same property.
Percentage tax reductions required by Section 319.301 of the
Ohio Revised Code were applied to the gross amount of taxes
levied to obtain the net amount of taxes charged.
Separate percentage reductions are applied to two classes of
real property; Class I Real Property is the combined value of
residential and agricultural property while Class II Real
Property is the combined value of commercial, industrial,
mineral, and public utility property. The tax reduction
factors are calculated to eliminate the effect of increases
in the valuation of existing real property in a taxing unit
(school district, county, municipality, etc.) on voted
levies. These tax reductions do not apply to public utility
tangible personal property taxes.
Real property taxes charged (not real property gross taxes
levied) represent tax revenues to be received by
local governments. The "taxes charged" figure is prior to any
reduction of real estate taxes resulting from the 10 percent
rollback for all real property not intended primarily for use
in a business activity, 2.5 percent rollback for residential
real property, or homestead exemption. These reductions are
reimbursed to local governments from the State General
Revenue Fund (net of fees deducted to pay for the state's
administration of local property taxes).
For calendar year 2009, Cuyahoga County maintained the
highest total values and taxes (levied and charged).
Vinton County had the lowest total values and taxes (levied
and charged).
With respect to changes in value, Franklin County had
the largest dollar increase in total value from tax year 2008
to 2009 at $135.3 million (0.5 percent) while Cuyahoga County
had the smallest dollar increase in total value, a loss of
$1.4 billion (-4.4%).
In terms of changes in taxes, Franklin County had the largest
dollar increase in total taxes levied from tax year 2008 to
2009, at $72.5 million (2.5 percent) and the largest dollar
increase in total taxes charged at $116.3 million (6.1
percent). Cuyahoga County had the largest dollar
decrease in total taxes levied from tax year 2008 to 2009, at
-$133.3 million (-3.8 percent) while Lucas County had the
largest dollar decrease in total taxes charged, at -$19.3
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