In Wednesday’s (4/16) New York Times, Javier C. Hernández writes, “Lincoln Center’s summer festival will highlight the city’s diverse cultural traditions … including performances by an experimental collective; a celebration of Brazilian culture; and the staging of a Sanskrit epic…. The festival, Summer for the City, will run June 11 through Aug. 9, and it will also include a six-performance engagement by the string quartet Brooklyn Rider to celebrate the group’s 20th anniversary. Since the festival began, in 2022, it has scaled back the classical music and opera programming that used to define summer events like the Lincoln Center Festival and the Mostly Mozart Festival. This edition is a restoration of some of those types of offerings…. The American Modern Opera Company will perform the New York premiere of ‘The Comet/Poppea,’ which pairs George Lewis’s adaptation of W.E.B. Du Bois’s story ‘The Comet’ and Monteverdi’s ‘L’Incoronazione di Poppea.’ Additional programming … includes a staging of Messiaen’s song cycle ‘Harawi,’ sung by the soprano Julia Bullock, and … Matthew Aucoin’s ‘Music for New Bodies’ … The Festival Orchestra of Lincoln Center, under the baton of its music and artistic director Jonathon Heyward, will perform a mix of new and old. Each of its programs will feature at least one living composer. But the ensemble will also perform Robert Schumann’s Fourth Symphony, Clara Schumann’s Konzertsatz in F minor, Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony and other classic works.”
