Nonprofit Organization U.S. Postage PAID Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts July 5–August 5, 2012 70 Lincoln Center Plaza New York, NY 10023-6583 July 5–August 5, 2012 Tickets On Sale Now! LincolnCenterFestival.org 212.721.6500 Mikhail Baryshnikov and Paris Opera Ballet—Giselle Alan Cumming—Macbeth Cate Blanchett and Anna Sinyakina—In Paris Richard Roxburgh—Uncle Vanya cover artwork by Luciano De Liberato, photo by Gino Di Paolo, RED, 2003, acrylic on canvas, 31.5 x 31.5 in. Lincoln Center Festival 2012 Sponsor Major Support The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation JULY 11–22 Supporters Nancy A. Marks “For those who live for ballet virtuosity, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust this is the company to see.” China International Culture Association The Skirball Foundation —New York Times The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc. The Shubert Foundation Jennie and Richard DeScherer The Grand Marnier Foundation The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies The Joelson Foundation The Harkness Foundation for Dance Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust Mitsui USA Foundation Great Performers Circle Chairman’s Council Producers Circle Friends of Lincoln Center Public support is provided by New York City Department of Cultural Affairs New York State Council on the Arts National Endowment for the Arts Endowment support is provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation Nancy Abeles Marks National Sponsor of Lincoln Center Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center Official Airline of Lincoln Center Official Broadcast Partner of Lincoln Center Official Wine of Lincoln Center Celebrate Summer at Lincoln Center Artist Catering Provider Orpheus and Eurydice 212.721.6500 1 Boléro Giselle Orpheus and Eurydice The legendary Paris Opera Ballet, the oldest national ballet company in the world and the one that literally invented the form, gives its first New York performances in more than 15 years. French Masters of the Giselle Orpheus and Eurydice 20th Century One of the great creations in the company’s history and A dance opera by Pina Bausch This program captures the excitement of French ballet in a jewel of the form, Giselle is the consummate Romantic ballet, a mysterious, gentle, and melancholy story of This “utterly mesmerizing…astounding work” the 20th century, including Suite en Blanc by Serge Lifar, a choreographer whose roots go back to the Ballets innocence, betrayal, and, ultimately, love. Giselle was (New York Times) marries Gluck’s famous opera choreographed nearly two centuries ago for the Paris with the legendary Pina Bausch’s fierce and riveting Russes; L’Arlésienne by Roland Petit, who defined the Opera Ballet by Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot, and this choreography in a stunning study of the fragility of the contemporary French style in the 1950s; and Boléro by Maurice Bejart, who brought the spirit of rebellion to company performs it unlike any other. human condition. First performed by the Paris Opera the explosive 1960s. Ballet in 2005, it weaves music and dance together New York City Opera Orchestra to tell a complex and ultimately tragic story. New York City Opera Orchestra Composer Adolphe Adam Balthasar-Neumann Ensemble und Chor Suite en Blanc Choreography Jean Coralli and Jules Perrot (1841) Restaged by (1887) Composer Composer Édouard Lalo Marius Petipa Christoph Willibald Gluck Adapted by and (1991) Choreography and staging Choreography Serge Lifar Patrice Bart Eugène Polyakov Pina Bausch L’Arlésienne Friday, July 13 at 8:00 Friday, July 20 and Saturday, July 21 at 8:00 Composer Georges Bizet Saturday, July 14 at 2:00 and 8:00 Sunday, July 22 at 3:00 Choreography Roland Petit Tuesday, July 17–Thursday, July 19 at 8:00 Tickets from $30 Tickets from $25 Boléro Sung in German Composer Maurice Ravel Choreography Maurice Béjart All performances at David H. Koch Theater For full cast, please visit LincolnCenterFestival.org Wednesday, July 11 and Thursday, July 12 at 8:00 Sunday, July 15 at 3:00 Tickets from $25 This presentation of The Paris Opera Ballet is made possible in part by generous support from The Grand Marnier Foundation, The Joelson Foundation, and Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust. The Paris Opera Ballet’s U.S. tour is underwritten by The Annenberg Foundation/GRoW, The Florence Gould Foundation, and Vacheron Constantin and sponsored by Safran and United Airlines in association with the American Friends of the Paris Opera & Ballet and l’AROP—The Friends of the Paris Opera. Additional generous support provided by Institut français, NYSE Euronext, Giselle The Pershing Square Foundation, and The Jerome Robbins Foundation. 2 LincolnCenterFestival.org 212.721.6500 3 DRUID THEATRE COMPANY Plays by Tom Murphy Crossing an ocean and spanning over a century, DruidMurphy Conversations on a Homecoming is the story of Irish emigration, of those who went and those Even the humblest of small-town pubs can be a magnet for who were left behind—a sweeping tale told through three great dreamers. In the 1970s, Michael, after a ten-year absence, plays by Tom Murphy: Conversations on a Homecoming, suddenly returns from New York to County Galway in the west A Whistle in the Dark, and Famine. of Ireland and visits his former haunt, the White House pub. Over pints, stories, and laughs, he and his old friends come to realize Tom Murphy’s cutting, darkly comic playwriting has made him that the years have brought none of them the lives they sought. perhaps his country’s most respected living dramatist—“the Thursday, July 5 at 7:30* nearest thing to a genius that Ireland can boast of,” says novel- Tuesday, July 10 at 7:30 ist Colm Tóibín—having profoundly influenced younger writers like Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, and Conor McPherson. A Whistle in the Dark This major project staged by one of Ireland’s most consistently It’s 1960, and the violent, hard-drinking Carney family has been daring theater companies is a rare look for New York audiences uprooted from County Mayo, in the west of Ireland, and finds at Murphy’s work and at the Irish people. itself struggling to adapt to life in Coventry, England. DruidMurphy, which can be seen across three separate evenings Friday, July 6 at 7:30* or in a single day of theater, is directed by Garry Hynes, “probably Wednesday, July 11 at 7:30 the foremost interpreter of Irish drama in the world today” (New York Times), who returns to Lincoln Center Festival for the Famine third time. In 2011, the Festival saw Hynes’s critically acclaimed This wrenching look at perhaps Ireland’s bleakest era opens in staging of O’Casey’s The Silver Tassie; and DruidSynge, which 1846 in the village of Glanconnor, County Mayo, where the the New York Times’s Charles Isherwood called “a highlight not second crop of potatoes has failed and the community faces the very real prospect of starvation. John Connor, head of the family, just of my theatergoing year, but of my theatergoing life,” was leader of the village, son of glorious forefathers, will do the right part of Lincoln Center Festival 2006. thing by his family, by God—and moreover by himself. Druid Theatre Company Saturday, July 7 at 7:30* Director Garry Hynes Thursday, July 12 at 7:30 With Niall Buggy, Edward Clayton, Beth Cooke, Gavin Drea, David Herlihy, Garrett Lombard, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen, Michael Glenn Murphy, Treasa Ní Mhollain, Rory Nolan, John Olohan, Frank O’Sullivan, Marty Rea, DruidMurphy Full Cycle Days Eileen Walsh, Joseph Ward Experience the full breadth of this project and see all three plays in one day. All performances at Gerald W. Lynch Theater “The best-kept secret of Irish theater: Tom Murphy.” at John Jay College Sunday, July 8 at 1:00† Individual tickets from $40 Saturday, July 14 at 1:00 —New York Times Full cycle tickets from $120 *Preview performance † Co-produced by Lincoln Center Festival, Quinnipiac University, NUI Galway, Opening performance and Galway Arts Festival “DruidMurphy is the story of a nation. Essential.” Tom Murphy —Irish Times 4 LincolnCenterFestival.org 212.721.6500 5 A 70th Birthday Tribute to Curtis Mayfield The product of a collaboration between Lincoln Center Festival and the Mayfield estate, this one-night-only event pays tribute to the late Curtis Mayfield, an iconic Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award winner and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame member whose music served as a soundtrack to the civil rights movement, introducing poetry and moral affirmation into pop, soul, funk, and R&B. A roster of special guest artists from across decades and styles joins The Impressions, the inimitable vocal soul group Mayfield led early in his career, along with a 14-piece house band under the musical directorship of guitarist Binky Griptite The Impressions Mavis Staples Aloe Blacc of the funk-infused Dap-Kings. Mayfield started his career in the 1960s as a self-taught guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter, penning such hits as “Gypsy Woman” and the now-classic “People Get Ready.” Following his departure from The Impressions, he found solo success in the 1970s, including 1972’s chart-topping album Super Fly, his adroitly crafted soundtrack to the blaxploitation film of the same name. In the decades that followed, Mayfield worked on his own label Curtom Records and produced for artists like Aretha Franklin and Gladys Knight. Mayfield died in 1999 at age 57, nine years after he was left paralyzed from the neck down by a tragic accident during a concert in Brooklyn. This concert also celebrates the launch of the Curtis Mayfield Foundation, created by the Mayfield family as a way to help “Curtis Mayfield is to soul music what Bach was disadvantaged youth realize their musical dreams. to the classics and Gershwin and Irving Berlin Friday, July 20 at 8:00 were to pop music.” Avery Fisher Hall —Aretha Franklin Tickets from $35 Curtis Mayfield 6 LincolnCenterFestival.org 212.721.6500 7 “Thanks to Saariaho’s silvery, shimmering instrumentation… even multilayered masses of chord stay transparent and diaphanous.” —Die Presse (Austria) Émilie is a modern one-singer, multimedia tour de force about an extraordinary woman: French Enlightenment thinker Émilie du Châtelet.