The Aspen Music Festival and School has canceled its Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra concerts and reduced its enrollment significantly for 2022 due to the inability to find seasonal lodging, marking a disquieting milestone in Aspen s ever-worsening housing crisis.
The Aspen Music Festival and School has canceled its Aspen Philharmonic Orchestra concerts and reduced its enrollment significantly for 2022 due to the inability to find seasonal lodging, marking a disquieting milestone in Aspen s ever-worsening housing crisis.
The nonprofit is spending a record $2.6 million this summer on housing costs. “We’ve had to increase our budget substantially,” the festival housing director said.
The newly released 2022 Aspen Music Festival and School lineup includes the return of Aspen’s three weekly orchestras, recitals in Harris Concert Hall and Bryan Terfel starring in Verdi’s “Falstaff.”