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Tanglewood Jazz Festival: Tickets Go On Sale

The famous Tanglewood Jazz Festival will be selling tickets to the public on the 14 Febuary, however anticipation has led to the ticket hotline crashing and the Boston Symbony Orchestra website being overrun with record levels of traffic.

In a season that offers a rich array of artists and repertoire representing the best of the classical music world and beyond, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s 2010 Tanglewood season will open on July 9 with BSO Music Director James Levine leading Mahler’s titanic Symphony No. 2, Resurrection, featuring soprano Layla Claire*, mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe* and the Tanglewood Festival Chorus.

Levine, marking his sixth season as BSO Music Director, will lead eight Tanglewood programs, including a BSO concert performance of Mozart’s delightful comic opera The Abduction from the Seraglio (July 23), with a cast to include sopranos Lisette Oropesa and Ashley Emerson and bass Morris Robinson, and fully-staged Tanglewood Music Center performances of Strauss’s Ariadne auf Naxos (August 1 and 4).

About Tanglewood

Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony Orchestra since 1937, is located in Lenox, MA. Considered one of the world’s internationally acclaimed and preeminent summer music festivals, Tanglewood attracts more than 300,000 music lovers for 10 weeks of concerts and recitals by the BSO, visiting orchestras, internationally acclaimed guest musicians, and popular artists; the season ends each year with a Jazz Festival over Labor Day weekend.

Tanglewood is also home to the Tanglewood Music Center, an intensive summer training program for emerging professional musicians of exceptional ability and a vital component of the BSO’s ongoing educational mission.