The Maine Sea Coast Mission will be the picturesque setting for the Festival’s opening day concert at 4 p.m. Sunday, June 30, in which soprano Angela Mannino and pianist Joseph Li will present an afternoon of art song, lieder, opera and operetta by Robert Schumann, Mozart, Wolf, Debussy, Obradors, Sigmund Romberg and Luigi Arditi. Tea will be served during intermission.

Brass Venture will be returning at 8 p.m. Tuesday, July 2, at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church. The celebrated brass quintet will perform music by Ewazen, Giovanni Gabrielli, Praetorius, Puccini, Hojnacki and Herb Alpert.

Performing next at the church will be pianist Christopher Johnson in an all-Beethoven program at 8 p.m. Friday, July 5. The critics have consistently praised this young pianist’s unusual talent.

The musical festivities will continue at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 7, with a Festival favorite, the Pops concert, “Cat Fight Cabaret.” Metropolitan Opera soprano Janinah Burnett will square off with mezzo-soprano Fenlon Lamb as they fight for Figaro on the the cabaret stage. Joseph Li will officiate at the piano. The battle for one man’s heart promises to be a fun and frolicsome night of Broadway and pop music.

Returning at 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 10, at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church will be Synchronicity. The sensational Landes brother team of Garah Landes, pianist and Gregory Landes, percussionist will perform a fascinating program, “Rhythm and Ritual.” There will be three world premieres of new music by Edmund Cionek, Garah Landes and Alexandre Lunsqui.

The Bar Harbor Music Festival Opera Theatre will present “The Marriage of Figaro,” Mozart’s comic-opera masterpiece at 8 p.m. Friday, July12, at the Criterion Theatre. Featured will be Angela Mannino, the rising young star at the Metropolitan Opera as Susanna and bass-baritone Andrew Gray as Figaro.

At 8 p.m. Sunday, July 14, attend the Festival debut of the emerging Spanish pianist Antonio Galera-Lopez performing music by Schubert, Brahms, Debussy and Ginastera at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church.

Returning by popular demand at 8 p.m. Friday, July 19, will be the Ardelia Trio: Janey Choi, violinist; Clara Lang, cellist; and Jihea Hong, pianist; performing music by Mozart, Schubert, Astor Piazzola and Dmitri Shostakovich’s Piano Trio No. 2 in E minor, opus 67.

The Wolverine Jazz Band is slated for a return engagement at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 21, at the Jackson Laboratory Commons. Considered to be one of Boston’s finest Dixieland, traditional jazz and swing bands. Jimmy Mazzy, banjo and vocals, now a legend in his own lifetime, will be the special guest artist. A cash bar will be available for the jazz night audience in the Jackson Laboratory Commons.

The Bar Harbor Festival String Orchestra conducted by Francis Fortier will perform three concerts in the final week of the festival. Music by Mozart, J.S. Geminiani, Edmund Cionek and Tchaikovsky is scheduled. Guest soloist will be oboist Gerard Reuter.

At 8 p.m. Wednesday, July 24, the String Orchestra will perform its 41st annual admission-free but donations accepted Acadia National Park Outdoor Concert at Blackwoods Campground Amphitheatre in Otter Creek. Public parking is not available. Shuttle buses depart from the Jackson Laboratory parking lot on Route 3 for the Amphitheatre every 10 minutes beginning at 6:45 p.m., returning during and after the concert. Rain date 8 p.m. Thursday, July 25.

The String Orchestra can next be heard at the Bar Harbor Congregational Church at 8 p.m. Friday, July 26, in the ninth annual Bob Noonan Memorial Concert, followed by the annual Festival Gala at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 28, at the Bar Harbor Club. There will be dancing to the waltzes of Johann Strauss immediately following the concert.

Regular tickets are $25 and student tickets are $15. Pops, Jazz, and Gala tickets are $40. Opera tickets are $30, $40, $50 and $80. All tickets entitle the purchaser to a reserved seat. For tickets and information, call 212-222-1026; email info@barharbormusicfestival.org; or visit www.barharbormusicfestival.org.

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