Lincoln Center Festival 2014
The Lincoln Center Festival annually presents classical performing arts productions from around the world. As of 2014, artists and productions from over 50 nations have presented work at the festival.
Under the direction of Nigel Redden, this year’s festival will feature works varying from traditional theater, classic ballet, and contemporary dance, to opera and Kabuki theater by artists, including the Heisei Nakamura-za theater company from Japan, the Houston Grand Opera, and the Bolshoi Opera and Ballet from Russia. Productions will run at four different venues in New York City. The Festival spans five weeks from early July to mid-August.
Of particular note at this year’s festival, the Sydney Theatre Company will present The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews, and starring Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett. Recent productions in New York City by the Sydney Theater Company of Uncle Vanya (2012) and A Streetcar Named Desire (2009), both starring Blanchett, were huge critical and popular successes. The Maids is a classic absurdist French play by Jean Genet, based on the true story of the Papin sisters who murdered their employer. You would be wise to get tickets to this production as early as possible.
LOCATION
| Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts 10 Lincoln Center Plaza New York City |
Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue New York City |
New York City Center 131 West 55th Street New York City |
Gerald Lynch Theater |
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DATES
July 7 – August 16, 2014
TICKETS & SHOWS
Shows
Kaidan Chibusa No Enoki
The Japanese Heisei Nakamura-za theater company presents Kaidan Chibusa No Enoki (“The Ghost Tale of the Wet Nurse Tree”) — a rarely-performed, 19th Century ghost story about an artist murdered by a handsome samurai who coveted the victim’s wife. Nakamura Kankuro VI — actor and co-chief of Heisei Nakamura-za alongside his brother — plays all three characters in this Kabuki theater performance, which boasts lightning-fast transformations (some of which occur within the same scene). The production combines melodrama, slapstick, and live action, in an elaborate fight-to-the-death scene.
A two-and-a-half-hour show performed in Japanese with English supertitles.
July 10 – July 12
Lincoln Center’s Rose Theater
The Passenger
Based on the novel by Zofia Posmysz and performed by the Houston Grand Opera, composer Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s The Passenger centers upon a former SS prison camp overseer on board an ocean liner, who is afraid her secret past is about resurface. This version of the late-20th Century work will feature a towering multi-level set designed to move seamlessly between the buoyant world of the ocean liner above, to the grim realm of the camp below. The production is three-hours long.
Prior to each show, the Artists of the Royal Conservatory Canada Ensemble will perform chamber concerts in homage of Weinberg’s music. The Ensemble will play different scores each night.
July 10 – July 13
Park Avenue Armory
The Bolshoi
The renowned Bolshoi Ballet and Opera will showcase three classic works: Swan Lake, Don Quixote, and Spartacus. The Bolshoi Opera, Orchestra, and Chorus will also perform Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov’s most renowned work outside of Russia, The Tsar’s Bride.
July 15 to July 27
The ballets are at the David H. Koch Theater.
The Tsar’s Bride are at Avery Fisher Hall.
Buy tickets to all three Bolshoi ballets and save 15%. Purchase tickets to all three ballets and The Tsar’s Bride and save 20%. Use code BBPACK.
Rosas
Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker returns to her choreography roots alongside her Belgium-based dance company, Rosas. Together they revive four of De Keersmaeker’s early iconic works: Fase, which features music by Steve Reich; Rosas canst Rosas, which showcases the choreographer’s exploration of repetition in music and movement; Elena’s Aria, a dance set to operatic arias; and Bartok/Mikrokosmos, an evening in three parts about the pleasure of pairing dance with play music.
July 8 – July 16
The Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College.
Buy tickets to all four dances and save 20% (must buy tickets to all four performances to receive discount; not valid on the lowest full price tickets).
The Maids
The Sydney Theatre Company presents The Maids, directed by Benedict Andrews. Golden Globe and Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett will star in this adaptation of the classic absurdist French play by Jean Genet, based on the true story of the Papin sisters who murdered their employer.
August 6 – August 16 (opening night is August 8)
New York City Center.