The Cleveland Orchestra will make its Lincoln Center Festival debut this summer in New York, where Music Director Franz Welser-Möst will lead the orchestra in four performances focusing on symphonies of Bruckner, juxtaposed with works by John Adams. “Bruckner: (R)evolution” will comprise performances at Avery Fisher Hall of the fifth, seventh, eighth (1887 version), and ninth Bruckner symphonies, plus Adams’s Guide to Strange Places, Doctor Atomic Symphony, and Violin Concerto, with Leila Josefowicz as soloist. Other orchestras set to perform at the festival include Russia’s Mariinsky Orchestra, which will perform at the Metropolitan Opera House with the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet; and the Royal Danish Orchestra, which will perform music by Nielsen, Svendsen, and Stravinsky, and serve as the orchestra for Royal Danish Opera’s U.S. premiere of Poul Ruders’s 2010 opera Selma Jezková. Other festival highlights include five Shakespeare plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Park Avenue Armory and the U.S. premiere of director Peter Brook’s adaptation of Mozart’s Magic Flute.
Posted June 2, 2011