b'Ariodante, 2010 Porgy and Bess, 2014, photo by Jessi Franko Olianodemanding production to date. Its new operaIn 2017, the Festival mounted a critically acclaimed education program successfully engaged familiesnew production of Beethovens Fidelio at McCarter with limited access to the arts in an interactiveTheatre Center. Principals of the Baroque Orchestra workshop. They then attended a full dress rehearsalpresented the first-ever Baroque chamber music of Porgy and participated in a post-rehearsal Q&Arecital in the Princeton Abbey, a new Princeton session with principal artists.venue. The Festivals first pops concert took place 2015 introduced the highly successful Baroquein Richardson Auditorium at Princeton University, Orchestra and Chorus. Country Music duo Strikinganother new venue. Philadelphias BalletX troupe Matches added to the Festivals array of genres.dazzled the audience with works commissioned Pradhanica Indian Classical Dance combined Worldfrom noted choreographers.Music and Dance in one exhilarating show. 2018 saw a new Festival production of Puccinis In 2016, the Festival presented ComplexionsMadama Butterfly in three performances at McCarter Contemporary Ballet, a New York City-basedTheatre Center. Other offerings included Stephen company that combined athleticism, lyricism,Sondheims A Funny Thing Happened on the Way and technical training and experience. Acclaimedto the Forum, three different performances by the jazz singer Ccile McLorin Salvant triumphantlyBaroque Orchestra, chamber music, and a jazz returned to Princeton on the heels of her firstconcert. A poetry series was inaugurated with Grammy win for Best Jazz Vocal Album. Theinternationally recognized Japanese poet Mari Festival partnered with the Princeton SymphonyKashiwagi reading from her then-unpublished Orchestra and the Princeton Garden Theatre onButterfly poems.a presentation of composer Richard EinhornsThe 15th anniversary season in 2019 featured highly Voices of Light, an acclaimed oratorio for chorus,praised productions of John Adams iconic opera orchestra, and vocal soloists written to accompanyNixon in China and the musical She Loves Me, the 1928 silent film The Passion of Joan ofalong with a concert from rising jazz star Jazzmeia Arc. Over 700 attended this event in PrincetonHorn. Also included: the Baroque concert series, a University Chapel. chamber music recital, the piano competition, and 66 The Princeton Festival princetonsymphony.org/festival'