Summertime, and the living is easy! Time Out New York named this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival special staged concert presentation of Le nozze di Figaro with the Buadpest Festival Orchestra as its top classical music pick for the summer. Learn more about this great program here.
Lincoln Center Fun Facts:
On May 10, 1994, the inaugural performance at Lincoln Center’s Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse took place, featuring a cabaret performance with Karen Akers. The Kaplan Penthouse, which offers a glowing view of the Manhattan skyline from the Rose Building, is a performance site for many Lincoln Center festivals, and will be the venue for several “A Little Night Music” events this summer during the Mostly Mozart Festival.
(Photo: International Contemporary Ensemble at the Kaplan Penthouse, 2006. Credit: Chris Lee)
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Detroit Tigers First Baseman Prince Fielder comes to the plate to the sounds of Mozart’s Requiem?
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Tickets are now on sale for this summer’s Mostly Mozart Festival featuring the Music Director Louis Langrée, Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Emerson String Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, and more.
Visit mostlymozart.org for more information.
The 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival is unveiled! This summer’s Festival, running July 27 - August 24 in New York features more than 50 events spanning concerts, opera productions, pre-concert lectures and recitals, late-night performances, a film screening and premieres of new work. The Festival kicks off with a free performance led by Renée and Robert Belfer Music Director Louis Langrée and the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on July 27 at Avery Fisher Hall.
A major highlight of the 2013 Festival is the thematic focus on the rich musical lineage between Mozart and Beethoven, with several concerts throughout the Festival pairing music by both composers. In addition, the Budapest Festival Orchestra returns with a staged concert of Le nozze di Figaro, the first time Mozart’s great opera is presented in full at the Festival. International Contemporary Ensemble also returns with 10 concerts featuring 10 world premieres by 10 established and emerging composers, ranging from David Land Pauline Oliveros to Tyshawn Sorey and Phyllis Chen. Debuts this season include conductors Gianandrea Noseda, David Afkham and Steven Schick, among others. Chamber music features prominently, with performances by the Emerson, Calder and Leipzig quartets.
Single tickets go on sale April 29.
Click here to read the full press release about the Festival
Click here to visit the new Mostly Mozart website
Get ready for Mozart! We announce details the 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival tomorrow…
So, what did Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart really look like? The International Mozarteum Foundation in Salzburg, birthplace of the famed composer, is tackling this specific question with a new exhibition in Austria, reports The New York Times. Read on to learn more and see photos that may (or may not be) Mozart himself.
Stay tuned later this spring for details about Lincoln Center’s 2013 Mostly Mozart Festival.
(Photo: Mozarteum Foundation/New York Times)
Don’t forget to catch Mostly Mozart Festival Music Director Louis Langrée’s Berlin Philharmonic debut, leading Mozart’s Overture to La clemenza di Tito K. 62, Symphony No. 40, and Davide penitente, Cantata for two sopranos, tenor, choir and orchestra K. 46. Click here to watch the the Maestro’s debut via the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall, today at 2pm (Eastern
Mostly Mozart Festival Music Director Louis Langrée makes his conducting debut at the world-renowned Berlin Philharmonic this week, leading an all-Mozart program (what else?!). You can see it live via the Berlin Philharmonic’s Digital Concert Hall! Click here to see an exclusive dress rehearsal and video and tune in again to watch the performance on Friday at 2pm (Eastern)
As we approach the end of 2012, several critics have considered Lincoln Center productions among the best of this year’s performances. Here are some highlights:
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(Cate Blanchett as Yelena and Richard Roxburgh as Uncle Vanya; Photo of Uncle Vanya by Lisa Tomasetti 2010)
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