THEATER

Comédie-Française

• Fables de La Fontaine (North American Premiere)
• Direction, Set Design and Lighting by Robert Wilson
• Original Music by Michael Galasso
• Presented in French with English supertitles
• 7 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College
• (1 performance cancelled and rescheduled due to company injury)

Contemporary Legend Theatre of Taiwan

• Co-founder and Artistic Director Wu Hsing-kuo
• The Tipsy Concubine/Farewell My Concubine
  Two short Beijing operas performed with Intermission
  Featuring Wei Hai-Ming and Wu Hsing-kuo
  2 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center
• King Lear (New York Premiere)
  One man version adapted from Shakespeare’s King Lear
  Adapted, Directed, and Performed by Wu Hsing-kuo
  1 performance in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Cente

Heisei Nakamura-za

• Artistic Director Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII
• Acclaimed Japanese Kabuki Troupe’s second appearance in the Lincoln Center Festival
• Avery Fisher Hall was reconfigured to resemble a traditional Kabuki theater
• Renjishi
  Rare performance featuring Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII and his two sons
  1 performance in Avery Fisher Hall
• Hokaibo(North American Premiere)
  Starring Nakamura Kanzaburo XVIII in the title role
  A contemporary take on a classic Kabuki story
  10 performances in Avery Fisher Hall

Teatro de Ciertos Habitantes (from Mexico)

• De Monstruos y Prodigios: La Historia de los Castrati
• Written by Jorge Kuri and Claudio Valdés Kuri
• Directed by Claudio Valdés Kuri
• Featuring a performance by Mexerico, a Lusitano horse from Portugal
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Compañía Teatro Cinema (from Chile)

• Gemelos (North American Premiere)
• A free adaption of the novel The Notebook by Agota Kristof
• Directed by Laura Pizarro and Juan Carlos Zagal
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 5 performances in the Pope Auditorium at Fordham University

Centro Dramático Nacional (from Spain)

• Divinas Palabras (North American Premiere)
• Written by Ramón del Valle-Inclán
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Proyecto Chejov (from Argentina)

• Un Hombre que se Ahoga (North American Premiere)
• A freely interpreted Three Sisters by Anton Chekov
• Directed by Daniel Veronese
• Performed in Spanish with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater

DANCE

Ballet National de Marseille

• Metapolis II (North American Premiere)
• Artistic Director and Choreographer Frédéric Flamand
• Concept by Frédéric Flamand and Zaha Hadid
• Production Design by Zaha Hadid
• 3 performances in the New York State Theatre

MUSIC

Book of Longing (New York Premiere)

• A concert work by Philip Glass
• Based on the poetry of Leonard Cohen
• Music Direction by Michael Riesman
• Stage Direction by Susan Marshall
• Featuring 4 singers, 7 musicians, Philip Glass on piano, and Leonard Cohen’s voiceovers and drawings
• 2 performances in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Os Mutantes

• Brazilian pop-rock featuring Zélia Duncan, Ronaldo “Dinho” Leme and band founders Sérgio Dias Baptista and Arnaldo Baptista
• 1 night only concert in the Rose Theater at Jazz at Lincoln Center

Sō Percussion and Matmos

• Collaboration between NY based Sō Percussion (Josh Quillen, Adam Sliwinski, Jason Treuting and Lawson White), and San Franciso electronica music duo Matmos (M.C. Schmidt and Drew Daniel)
• Special guests including Zeena Parkins and Dave Douglas
• 2 performances in the Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center

MUSIC THEATER

The Full Monteverdi (North American Premiere)

• Performed by early music ensemble I Fagiolini
• Artistic Director Robert Hollingworth
• Directed by John La Bouchardière
• A site specific staging of Claudio Monteverdi’s Fourth Book of Madrigals, featuring 6 singers and 6 actors
• 7 performances in the Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse

Mongolia: Music, Dance & Balladv

• Secret History of the Mongols(North American Premiere)
  1. Recited in 2 parts
     Co-production with Festival d’Automne à Paris
     2 (4 hour) performances in the Clark Studio Theater
  A recitation of the 13th century epic by professional bard Burenbayar
  2. Mongolia: Concert(North American Premiere)
     9 musicians and storytellers from Inner Mongolia
     Featuring Mongolian music performed on traditional instruments
     Indigenous dance rarely seen outside of family gatherings in Mongolia
     Co-production with Festival d’Automne à Paris
     7 performance in the Clark Studio Theater

OPERA

Kirov Opera of the Mariinsky Theatre

• Kirov Ring Cycle
• Conducted by Valery Gergiev
• Concept by Valery Gergiev and George Tsypin
• Co-presented by Lincoln Center Festival and The Metropolitan Opera
• Presented in German with English supertitles
• 2 complete cycles at the Metropolitan Opera House

George Benjamin’s Into the Little Hill (North American Premiere)

• Composer George Bejamin’s first chamber opera
• Libretto by Martin Crimp
• Conducted by Franck Ollu
• Directed by Daniel Jeanneteau
• Performed by soprano Anu Komsi, contralto Hilary Summers, and Ensemble Modern
• A haunting adaptation of The Pied Piper of Hamelin
• Presented in English
• Co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival, Festival d’Automne à Paris, Paris National Opera, Ensemble Modern, T&M, Frankfurt Opera, Vienna Festival, Holland Festival and Liverpool, European Cultural Capital 2008
• 3 performances in the Gerald W. Lynch Theater at John Jay College

Shen Wei Dance Arts

• Second Visit to the Empress (New York Premiere)
• Production Design, Choreography, and Direction by Shen Wei
• Conductor and Music Director Zhengou Liu
• Featuring 4 Beijing opera singers, 12 Shen Wei Dancers, and 16 Chinese opera orchestra musicians
• Performed in Chinese with English supertitles
• 3 performances in the New York State Theater

INSTALLATION

Slow Dancing (World Premiere)

• Conceived and Directed by David Michalek
• An outdoor multi-channel video installation featuring hyper-slow motion portraits of 43 dancers
• Projected onto the façade of the New York State Theater on three 40’-tall screens
• Nightly from July 12th through July 29th (9pm – 1am)