The Castleton Festival, held on conductor Lorin Maazel's estate in Rappahannock County, Va., announced today that several high-profile guests will be joining the 2014 festival, which is set to open on June 28.
Guest conductor Donald Runnicles, music director of Deutsche Oper Berlin, will lead "King Mozart," a program of Mozart concertos and symphonic works on Sunday, June 29.
The Festival also welcomes Broadway and television stars Maria Tucci (Law & Order, To Die For), Dylan Baker (The Good Wife, Spider Man 2), and Patrick Breen (Blue Bloods, CSI Miami), who will present a theatrical reading of George Bernard Shaw's Don Juan in Hell. Tucci will direct this reading on July 12 at 1:30 p.m.
This year the Festival is presenting an Independence Day program, "All-American Band Concert," led by Col. John Bourgeois, director emeritus of the United States Marine Band. Joseph Alessi, principal trombone of the New York Philharmonic, will appear as soloist on this program, July 4 at 2:00 p.m.
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