Christian Reif’s Lakes Area Music Festival 2022 highlighted in Minnesota’s Star Tribune

Christian Reif’s Lakes Area Music Festival 2022 highlighted in Minnesota’s Star Tribune (Photo Credit: David Boran)

Classical concerts (many of them free) to check out around Minnesota this summer
Star Tribune
June 30, 2022

Lakes Area Music Festival

Musicians from many of America's major orchestras and opera companies converge upon the Brainerd Lakes area for this annual four-week festival, which celebrates its 14th year. Highlights include a fully staged production of the Richard Strauss opera "Ariadne auf Naxos" (Aug. 12 & 14), pianist Natasha Paremski soloing on a Dmitri Shostakovich concerto (Aug. 17), and music director Christian Reif closing the festival by conducting Gustav Mahler's Fifth Symphony (Aug. 20-21). (July 29-Aug. 21; Gichi-ziibi Center for the Arts, 702 S. 5th St., Brainerd; $20; www.lakesareamusic.org.)

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