Lincoln Center Festival, 2010, July 7-25: Season Preview and Program

Alessandro Averone (standing), Fulvio Pepe, Giovanni Visentin, Luca Iervolino, and Carlo Bellamio in Peter Stein's production of Dostoyevsky's The Demons. Photo Andrea Boccalini.


LINCOLN CENTER FESTIVAL 

2010 will run from JULY 7 to July 25

10 premieres and debuts, 45 performances over 18 days

Governors Island to be Site of Two theatre Presentations: North American Premieres of The Demons, a 12-hour Marathon by Peter Stein Based on Dostoyevsky’s Novel, and North of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s Production of Teorema From

Pier Paolo Pasolini’s Film and Novel

Varèse: (R)evolution, the complete works featuring Maestro Alan Gilbert and the New York Philharmonic; International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), Led by Steven Schick; So Percussion; Bass-baritone Alan Held; and Others

Celebrated Directors Simon McBurney and Yukio Ninagawa Return With New Works

Bill T. Jones/Arnie Zane Dance Company’s Fondly Do We Hope... Fervently Do We Pray and New York Premieres by Choreographers Saburo Teshigawara and Pichet Klunchun

Master Puppet theatre Artist Rezo Gabriadze’s Ermon and Ramona (North American Premiere) Salvatore Sciarrino’s Chamber Opera, La porta della legge, Based on Kafka Text (U.S. Premiere)

The Blind Boys of Alabama Curate a Three-Concert Series Featuring Dr. Ralph Stanley, Yo La Tengo, Aaron Neville, Hot 8 Brass Band, Joan Osborne and Others

Voodoo/funk group Orchestre Poly-Rythmo de Cotonou From Benin (U.S. Debut) and Serbian Rock/punk Group, Emir Kusturica & The No Smoking Orchestra (U.S. Debut)

There has already been a lot of talk about the wonderful things to come at the Lincoln Center Festival next year. The Cleveland Orchestra will begin a biennial four-day residency in New York, where, as their recent concert under Maestro Franz Welser-Möst showed, they have a large and enthusiastic following. They will not be taking this lightly. Their four concerts will feature symphonies 5, 7, 8, and 9 of Anton Bruckner, and Welser-Möst will be teaching a master class on Bruckner at Juilliard.

Read the full preview on the Berkshire Review for the Arts!

Michael Miller