BSO music director Seiji Ozawa conducts Corigliano's Second Symphony, James Conlon leads Britten and Mahler. Michael Tilson Thomas takes his first summer break, leaving it to Neville Marriner to conduct a 10-day Mozart Festival. Hollywood Bowl, June 16-Sept. Jeffrey Kahane revives Rachmaninoff's Fourth Piano Concerto. Conductors of operas and concerts with the Vienna, Berlin, and other philharmonics include Christoph von Dohnanyi, John Eliot Gardiner, Lorin Maazel, Valery Gergiev, and Claudio Abbado.
Fans gird themselves with food during the intermissions.
Munich's opera house, gutted by firebombs in October 1943, took 21 years to reopen. Today, it crowns the Max-Joseph Platz, its sweeping stone steps, pillared portico, and gleaming mosaics shining in the sun. Switzerland Lucerne International Music Festival, Aug. 19-Sept. Attend concerts in the new concert hall . Orchestras, instrumental recitals, and chamber music are generally the focus rather than opera.