Case and I had the great honor and pleasure of videotaping an interview with Maestro Lorin Maazel yesterday at the Lorin Maazel Masterclass Concert. (Maestro Maazel recently retired after seven seasons as the Music Director of the New York Philharmonic.)  This wonderful concert,which we taped after the interview (both in high definition), was a part of the Castleton Festival in Castleton, Virginia.  We also taped two performances of Benjamin Britten’s chamber opera, The Turn of the Screw over the Fourth of July weekend.

The Chateauville Foundation brought an exceptional group of nearly 200 singers, instrumentalists, conductors, directors and designers together in the rolling hills of Rappahannock County to live and work together. The schedule  included all four Benjamin Britten chamber operas, as well as orchestral performances.

Previously, we produced videos of the three other Britten chamber operas–The Rape of Lucretia in 2007 and Albert Herring  in 2008,  and The Beggar’s Opera (also 2008) which we shot and edited in high-definition and delivered on Bluray.  In 2008, we also produced a video of a benefit concert for the Chateauville Foundation, hosted by Marvin Hamlisch and Maestro Maazel, at the John F. Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Maestro Maazel and his wife Dietlinde Maazel established the Chateauville Foundation at Castleton Farms in 1997. For more information on this wonderful foundation, whose mission is to “nurture young artists, foster collaborative artistic enterprise and create opportunities within the community for shared cultural experience”, go to www.chateauville.org.