California wine nation’s flagship pageant, Pageant Napa Valley, returns for its seventeenth season with a wealthy lineup of music, meals and wine occasions for each style and price range, July 8-23, at venues all through Napa Valley.

“Our 2023 summer season season options one-of-a-kind performances and occasions surrounded by the incomparable magnificence and enchantment of Napa Valley,” mentioned Pageant President & CEO Richard Walker.

“This 12 months’s Pageant options an unimaginable range of artists and applications from world wide,” added Robin Baggett, Chairman of the nonprofit Pageant’s Board of Administrators. “We’re thrilled to supply reasonably priced programming and meals and wine occasions that showcase the easiest of Napa Valley.”

Furthering Pageant Napa Valley’s dedication to creating the humanities assessable to all, admission to daytime concert events is free, together with the every day Pageant Dwell! sequence, the Bouchaine Younger Artist sequence, and the family-friendly Novack Concert events for Children.

The Pageant continues to play a number one position in arts schooling with two tuition free pre-professional summer season coaching applications: the Frost Faculty at Pageant Napa Valley’s Blackburn Music Academy for orchestral and chamber music, and the Manetti Shrem Opera Program for vocalists.

Pageant Napa Valley 2023 highlights embody:

● Eight-time GRAMMY® award-winner Carrie Underwood headlines the Arts for All Gala, benefiting arts schooling and the Pageant’s group applications at Nickel and Nickel, with a chic dinner ready by Michelin-star chef Charlie Palmer paired with beautiful choices from the Far Niente and Nickel & Nickel household of wines

● Opening evening with Pageant Orchestra Napa options guitarist Pablo Sáinz Villegas performing Joaquin Rodrigo’s iconic Concierto de Aranjuez, pianist Alexander Malofeev celebrating Rachmaninoff’s one hundred and fiftieth anniversary with the Piano Concerto No. 2, and this 12 months’s Maria Manetti Shrem Daniel Brewbaker Composer Prizewinner, Yang Bao, unveiling a world premiere

● Matteo Bocelli in live performance with Pageant Orchestra Napa performed by Eugene Kohn, an Olivia Decker Energy of Music live performance

● 2023 GRAMMY® profitable trio Time for Three makes its Pageant Napa Valley debut

● Pageant Napa Valley Dance Gala: Reunited in Dance, directed by Xander Parish, options Ukrainian and Russian ballet soloists displaced by the warfare

● World premiere of Gordon Getty’s Annie Laurie and the presentation of his monumental cantata Joan and the Bells. Screening of Getty’s acclaimed function size opera movie Goodbye, Mr. Chips at Cameo Cinema

● Northern California premiere of Lera Auerbach’s Symphony No. 6, Vessels of Mild, that includes cellist Kristina Reiko Cooper, devoted to Chiune Sugihara, the Japanese diplomat who saved 1000’s of Jewish refugees throughout WWII

● 2023 Manetti Shrem Opera: Donizetti’s Don Pasquale directed by Jean-Romain Vesperini with Constantine Orbelian conducting, that includes baritones Lucas Meachem and Alexey Lavrov, soprano Serena Sáenz, tenor Xabier Anduaga, and contributors of the Pageant’s Manetti Shrem Summer season Vocal Conservatory

● Style of Napa, Pageant Napa Valley’s signature celebration of meals, wine and music at The Meritage Resort and Spa

● Jazz @ Charles Krug that includes the Frost Faculty of Music All-Stars performing Mancini and Gershwin on the Pageant Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug

● Ladies within the Arts Dinner with celebrated flutist and professor Jennifer Grim at The Meritage Resort and Spa

● Admission-free Kaiser Permanente Thrive Neighborhood Concert events on the Pageant Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug

● Day by day admission-free Pageant Dwell! concert events that includes contributors from the Frost Faculty of Music at Pageant Napa Valley’s Blackburn Music Academy

● Three Bouchaine Younger Artist Concert events that includes siblings: violinists Hina and Fiona Khuong-Huu, twins Harper and Cole Randolph on viola and cello, and the Breshears String Quartet

Pageant Napa Valley 2023 Venue and Occasion Hosts embody ADAMVS, Alpha Omega, B Cellars, Beringer Vineyards, Bouchaine Vineyards, Cameo Cinema, Castello di Amorosa, Charles Krug, Cliff Lede Vineyards, Culinary Institute of America (CIA) at Copia, Dana Estates, Darioush, Duckhorn Vineyards, Frank Household Vineyards, HALL St. Helena, The Meritage Resort and Spa, Napa Valley Faculty, Nickel & Nickel, Odette Property Vineyard, ONEHOPE Vineyard, Quintessa, Stanly Ranch, Trefethen Household Vineyards, Trinchero Household Estates, the Inexperienced Automotive Barn, and Boisset Assortment/Wappo Hill.

Performances happen on the Pageant Napa Valley Stage at Charles Krug in St. Helena, the Jackson Household Wines Amphitheater at CIA at Copia in Napa, Nickel & Nickel in Oakville, and at wineries, resorts, and estates all through Napa Valley. Live performance tickets are priced from free to $35. A restricted variety of Patron Passes are additionally accessible and supply entry to particular occasions together with Vintner’s Luncheons, Patron Dinners and the Arts for All Gala. Style of Napa normal admission tickets are $150 and $295 for reserve salon entry.

Pageant Napa Valley 2023 Premier sponsors are Bouchaine Vineyards, Kaiser Permanente/Thrive, Audi, Pomellato, and The Meritage Resort and Spa.