Al fresco performances, of course, are adventures unto themselves.
(Zachary Woolfe) ★ Make Music New York (Friday) This adventurous organization, which entices music lovers with a wide range of al fresco performances each June, returns for its second winter celebration.
The same goes for many other exhibits, like Daniel Bozhkov's hybrid installation "Training in Assertive Hospitality" (2000-04), a richly inventive offering that includes fresco painting, performance, sculpture and video.
Highlights will include a special event in June entitled A Midsummer Night's Dream that will celebrate the 400th anniversary of the death of William Shakespeare with an al fresco picnic and performance.
The campus is already leafy, but work on a "green heart", with al fresco space for performances, socialising, meeting and working, is beginning.
We can just picture Kate and Will enjoying an al fresco sunset dinner complimented with indigenous performances and the very finest Australian wines.
At Live Art Hub, simple thatch walls turned the institute's front yard into an al fresco exhibition and gathering space for talks, performance art, workshops and readings.
The Met in the Parks performance of this Donizetti favorite makes perfect al fresco fare, particularly with the excellent coloratura soprano Elizabeth Futral shining in the title role.
Producers say that a larger variety of shows and the informality of the performances lay behind the increasing popularity of al fresco theatre, and that audiences enjoy the novelty of seeing a play in an unusual and beautiful location without having to spend serious money for the privilege.
As reported in the German magazine Der Spiegel, the première (and only performance to date) on 15 November 1969 of Stockhausen's work Fresco for four orchestral groups (playing in four different locations) was the scene of a scandal.
