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Lincoln Center Festival 2008

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02 - 27 July 2008
Plunge into a world of dance, theatre, opera, music, new circus, puppetry and film this July, as the Lincoln Center Festival opens the door to the summer in a celebration of global arts.
The festival presents nearly 100 performances, including premieres and debuts of opera, chamber and world music, theatre, dance, performance art and ritual from all over the world, in multiple venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus.
Highlights for 2008 includes shows by performance-artist Laurie Anderson and a staging of Bernd Alois Zimmermann's iconic post-war opera, Die Soldaten.

Events

Die Soldaten
This impressive and startling production of German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann's iconic opera Die Soldaten, staged in the Park Avenue Armory, achieves the intimate and immersive "total theater" experience the composer took "decisive steps" to realize more than four decades ago. The audience, literally traveling along the length of a narrow stage extending 220 feet, is transported into Zimmermann's monumental and exhaustive transformation of Jakob Lenz's 1776 play and the composer's dark — and timely — comment on World War II.

Venue: Park Avenue Armory, New York City
Hours: 8 PM
Dates: Saturday, July 5, 2008
Monday, July 7, 2008
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008
Saturday, July 12, 2008
Tickets: $30, $75, $150, $250

The Bacchae
From the moment Scottish actor Alan Cumming's provocative Dionysus is lowered onstage from above, it is clear that in this North American premiere of the National Theatre of Scotland's acclaimed production, playwright David Greig's interpretation takes the mask off one of the last great Athenian tragedies in his unique take on Euripides, making it a Bacchae for the 21st-century.

Venue: Rose Theater
Date & Time:
Wednesday, July 2 at 8 PM
Thursday, July 3 at 8 PM
Saturday, July 5 at 2 PM & 8 PM
Sunday, July 6 at 3 PM
Tuesday, July 8 at 8 PM
Wednesday, July 9 at 8 PM
Thursday, July 10 at 8 PM
Friday, July 11 at 8 PM
Saturday, July 12 at 2 PM & 8 PM
Sunday, July 13 at 3 PM & 8 PM
Tickets: $35, $45, $60, $75, $90

Impressing the Czar
In this magnificently conceived and imaginative production, the Royal Ballet of Flanders from Belgium, stages celebrated choreographer William Forsythe's masterpiece, Impressing the Czar.
Described by The Observer (England) as "a ballet purist and the high priest of post-structural contemporary dance," Forsythe created Impressing the Czar around In the Middle, Somewhat Elevated, a stand-alone piece of pure dance he choreographed for the Paris Opera Ballet.

Venue: Rose Theater
Date & Time:
July 17 and 18 at 8PM
July 19 at 2 PM and 8 PM
July 20 at 3 PM
Tickets: $30, $45, $60, $75, $90

Address:

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc., 140 West 65th Street, New York, NY 10023

Directions:

Lincoln Center is on the Upper West Side of Manhattan, between West 62nd and 65th Streets and Columbus and Amsterdam Avenues. Rose Hall venues are in the Time Warner Center, Broadway at 60th St.

By Subway:
Take the #1 local train to 66th Street/Lincoln Center Station.

For Rose Hall venues: Take the A, B, C, D, #1 trains to 59th Street/Columbus Circle.

By Bus:
The M5, M7, M10, M11, M66 and M104 bus lines all stop within one block of Lincoln Center. For Rose Hall venues: The M5, M7, M10, M11 and M104 bus lines all stop within one block of Jazz at Lincoln Center.

Contact

Ph: +1 212 721 6500
customerservice@lincolncenter.org
http://www.lincolncenter.org/

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