Lincoln Center Summer Festival to Bring Back Some Classical Music
The collective, American Modern Opera Company, which is made up of musicians and dancers, will present a dozen productions, making its Lincoln Center debut. The festival, Summer for the City, will run June 11 through Aug. 9, and it will also include a six-performance engagement by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider to celebrate the group's 20th anniversary.
Since the festival began, in 2022, it has scaled back the classical music and opera programming that used to define summer events like the Lincoln Center Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival. This edition is a restoration of some of those types of offerings.
'This is a constantly evolving city and artist community and audience, and it's our job to be in that conversation,' Shanta Thake, Lincoln Center's chief artistic officer, said in an interview. 'You will never see a summer that looks like the summer before.'
Summer for the City is part of the center's efforts to appeal to new audiences by promoting an array of genres, including classical music, comedy, pop and social dance. Last year, the festival attracted 442,000 people, up from 380,000 in 2023, the center said.
In June, members of the American Modern Opera Company will perform the New York premiere of 'The Comet/Poppea,' which pairs George Lewis's adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois's story 'The Comet' and Monteverdi's 'L'Incoronazione di Poppea.' Additional programming by the collective includes a staging of Messiaen's song cycle 'Harawi,' sung by the soprano Julia Bullock, and the staged premiere of Matthew Aucoin's 'Music for New Bodies,' directed by Peter Sellars. The lineup also features 'Rome Is Falling,' written by the bass player Doug Balliett, and described as a 'zany lesson on the absurdity of what can happen when influential people lose power.'
Lincoln Center said it hoped this year's festival would help shine a light on the city's vibrant cultural communities. The lineup includes 'Mahabharata,' a large-scale retelling of a Sanskrit epic by Why Not Theater, a Canadian group, and a weeklong celebration of Brazilian culture featuring the singer-songwriter Lenine and the rock band Os Mutantes.
The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, under the baton of its music and artistic director Jonathon Heyward, will perform a mix of new and old. Each of its programs will feature at least one living composer. But the ensemble will also perform Robert Schumann's Fourth Symphony, Clara Schumann's Konzertsatz in F minor, Beethoven's Seventh Symphony and other classic works.
The giant disco ball that has become a staple of the festival will once again hang over a dance floor built on Lincoln Center's main plaza. Clint Ramos, the Broadway costume and set designer, will return to decorate the center's outdoor spaces, this year based on the theme of birds.
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