FESTIVAL NAPA VALLEY 2023 HIGHLIGHTS

Eight-time GRAMMY® award-winner Carrie Underwood headlines the Arts for All Gala.

Opening night with Festival Orchestra Napa features guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas, pianist Alexander Malofeev, and this year’s Maria Manetti Shrem Daniel Brewbaker Composer Prizewinner, Yang Bao, unveiling a world premiere.

Matteo Bocelli and Francisco Fullana performing with Festival Orchestra Napa, conducted by Eugene Kohn, an Olivia Decker Power of Music concert..

2023 GRAMMY® winning trio Time for Three makes its Festival Napa Valley debut.

Festival Napa Valley Dance Gala: Reunited in Dance, directed by Xander Parish and featuring Ukrainian and Russian ballet soloists displaced by the war.

Gordon Getty’s choral works Annie Laurie, Shenandoah and the cantata Joan and the Bells, with Melody Moore, Lisa Delan, Lester Lynch, and Volti Chorale

Northern California premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Symphony No. 6, “Vessels of Light,” featuring cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper and soprano Ronit Widmann-Levy and dedicated to Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved thousands of Jewish refugees during WWII.

2023 Manetti Shrem Opera: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini with Constantine Orbelian conducting Festival Orchestra Napa, starring Lucas Meachem, Alexey Lavrov, Serena Sáenz, and Xabier Anduaga

Taste of Napa, Festival Napa Valley’s signature celebration of food, wine and music, at The Meritage Resort and Spa, with music by Shelly Berg and the Frost School of Music All-Stars and Broadway singer Christina Maxwell

Jazz @ Charles Krug starring Gregg Field and the Frost School of Music All-Stars performing Mancini and Gershwin at the Festival Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug.