The Brevard Music Center Festival closes the 2012 season with a full weekend of special programs. On
Thursday, August 2 at 7:30 PM and Saturday, August 4 at 2:00 PM the Janiec
Opera Company closes its 2012 season with two performances of Puccini’s
classic La bohème. One of the most frequently performed operas
worldwide, this tale of life, young love, and loss in Paris’s Latin
Quarter has become not only a beloved opera, but serves as the basis for
the hit Broadway musical Rent.
Friday
at 7:30 PM BMC Artistic Director Keith Lockhart leads the Transylvania
Symphony Orchestra in a rare performance of the complete incidental
music from Grieg’s Peer Gynt. Friday’s
concert will be the largest performance of the 2012 season with 300
performers on stage as the TSO is joined by the Brevard Festival Chorus
and narrator Ray Dooley. 
Saturday at 7:30 PM the powerhouse comedy duo Igudesman & Joo present their over-the-top orchestral show BIG Nightmare Music. Appearing on stages and televisions across Europe, the pair has become a YouTube sensation with their unique blend of Classical technique and comedic presentation. This tour stop in Brevard will be Igudesman & Joo’s only appearance in the Southeastern US this year.
Sunday
at 3:00 PM BMC Artistic Director Keith Lockhart will conduct the Brevard
Music Center Orchestra in the festival’s Season Finale concert
featuring Dzubay’s Shadow Dance, Grieg’s Piano Concerto in A minor, and Berlioz’s spectacular Symphonie fantastique. Soloist on the Grieg will be celebrated pianist André Watts. A
world-renowned artist, Watts has played before royalty in Europe and
heads of government in nations all over the world throughout his over 45
year long career. 
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