The festival's opening weekend stretches Carmel's ears with collages of old and new.
The Americana-laced opening concert involved the famed Young People’s Chorus of New York City and genre-bending string trio Time for Three.
The annual festival run by the Piedmont East Bay Children's Choir will include 260 singers from abroad.
All 86 concerts of the 2026 Proms — the summer's greatest music festival — will be simulcast on BBC Radio 3.
