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The Steward of Christendom-Winner of several BAM 1997 Spring Season by Sebastian Barry awards, including the Critics Circle award and 135th Anniversary Season for Best New Play and Best Actor, The Steward TIME WARNER are sponsored by Out of Joint, Royal Court Theatre of Christendom offers a stirring, impassioned PHILIP MORRIS COMPANIES INC. Directed by Max Stafford-Clark view of Ireland's struggle for independence. BAM and Theater supporters: The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation BAM Majestic Theater ':4 great play, like a great punch, is sometimes The Harold and Mimi Steinberg For Subscriptions & Information hard to see coming, butyou know when Feb 11- 15, 18- 22 at 8pm Charitable Trust call BAM at 718.636.4100 you've been hit." John Lahr, The New Yorker Feb 9, 16 & 23 at 3pm The Fan Fox and Leslie R. ;Samuels For Single Tickets F,qundation, .Inc. Tickets: $50, 35, 20 call Ticketmaster at 212:307;4100 The Norman and Rosita Winston Foundation , Inc. BAM Prefers j VISA j Francena T. Harrison Foundation Trust The Eleanor Naylor Dana Charitable Trust The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation When ordering your tickets, please use your VISA ®card .

photo: John Haynes r-1 ADVERT ISEMENT Amadigi-The Irish troupe Opera Theatre With Bach's St. Matthew Passion, one of the -William Christie ADVERTISEMENT Company of Dublin has won international acclaim most respected opera and theater directors of and Jean-Marie Villegier, the ground­ for its compelling productions of Handel. The our time turns his eye to one of the most dra­ breaking team who collaborated on the ar orr1 company makes its American debut with a matic narratives of all time. Jonathan Miller, now historic production of Lully's Atys in reviva l of Handel's Amadigi, proving that it is whose radical stagings of Rigoletto and Tasca 1987, have reunited to restore the dazzling th rough a production's subtlety, not its size, established him as a fearless operatic innova­ spectacle of Rameau's first tragedie, that a world of sorceresses and royal lovers tor, releases the searing drama from a work Hippolyte et Aricie. Based on the Euripidean becomes believable once aga in. that audiences know as a concert piece. The tale of Phaedra and her incestuous love result is theater that is unclassifiable, but for Hippolytus, Hippolyte et Aricie features Amadigi-Jonathan Peter Kenny riven with Miller's trademark depth of psycho­ Les Arts Florissants, which The New York Melissa-Majella Cullagh logical insight and imagination. Times states, "ranks among the finest early Oriana- Anne O'Byrne mus ic groups in the world ... " Dardano-Buddug Verona James Soloists: Marguerite Krull Rufus Muller Daniel Taylor Hippolyte- Mark Padmore/Paul Agnew Andrew Schroeder Richard Clement Phedre-Lorraine Hunt/ Isabelle Vernet Amy Burton Bradley Garvin Aricie- Annick Massis/ Anna Maria Panzarella Thesee-Laurent Naouri I Nathan Berg

Mark Morris Dance Group Balanchine had Stravinsky; Cunningha m, Cage. Mark Morris is sti ll too young to be tied down, but he has shown real com­ mitment to the music of Lou Harrison . The West Coaster's Asian tinged music has been described in a New Yorker profile as having "the audacity to be sensuous-at times, downright tuneful. " Morris' "In Honor of the Divin e Lou Harrison" celebrates the composer's 80th birthday. The second program reflects Morris' taste fo r voca l mu sic, with the songs and airs of Monteverdi, Purce ll, Henry Cowell and Vivald i inspiring a va ri ety of settings from the eerie world of the vampire in One Charming Night to the mysterious dance game of Mosaic and United.

White Oak Dance Project As Newsweek justly procla ims, "if dance rs could design heaven, it woul d look a lot like White Oak." Founded in 1989 by Mikhail Baryshnikov and Mark Morris, the White Oak Dance Project showcases the extraordinary ta lents of Baryshn ikov and his sma ll ensemble of hand-picked dancers, in a repository of the best of 20th-century dance , much of it co mm is­ sioned from today's leading modern choreographers. In only its second New Yo rk appeara nce, Wh ite Oak comes to BAM with pre­ mieres by Erick Hawkins , Dana Reitz and Meg Stuart plus the rev ival of a 1953 classic by Merce Cunningham .

Hippolyte et Aricie Leadership support for Hippolyte et Aricie: The Mark Morris Dance Group For Subscriptions & Information Johann Sebastian Bach Jean-Phlllipe Rameau Association Fran~aise d'Action Artistique Live music performed by the Live music performed by members of the is sponsored by: call BAM at 718.636.4100 Opera Theatre Company of Du blin f'.;.1;t.D White Oak Chamber Ensemble Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra For Single Tickets FORESTCrTYRATNER call Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100 Conducted by Seamus Crimmins BAM Ensemble & Chorus Featuring Les Arts Florissants The Florence Gould Foundation ~ • Directed by James Conway Conducted by Paul Goodwin Conducted by William Christie 1. Journey of a Poet by Erick Hawkins A: In Honor of the Divine Lou Harrison The John Nuveen Company Directed by Jonathan Miller Directed by Jean-Marie Villegier 2. Unspoken Territory by Dana Reitz Strict Songs; New Work*; Grand Duo BAM Majestic Theater Originally produced by Ron Gonsalves with Les Fragments Reunis Dance Ensemble Air -Official Airline 3. Septet (1953) by Merce Cunn ingham B: Gloria I Don't Want to Love* (Monteverdi ); BAM Dance is supported by: BAM Prefers j .¥!~ j The Harkness Foundations for Dance Mar 11, 12, 14 & 15 at 7:30pm @; France Telecom 4. New Work by Meg Stuart One Charming Night (Purcell); Tickets: $60, 40, 20 BAM Majestic Theater BAM Opera House Fondation Mosaic & United (Cowe ll ); Gloria (Viva ldi) The Howard Gi lman Fo undation When ordering your tickets, }tl)n4at[{ln4~1rrprtu Sung in English with English surtitles Mar 23 at 3pm (Palm Sunday) May 7 & 9 at 7:30pm BAM Opera House *New York Premieres please use your VISA '" card. Mar 26-29 at 7:30pm Weekday Tickets: $95, 65, 25 Program A: Works 1, 2 & 4 Live music support for The Mark Morris For Subscriptions & Information Tickets: $60, 40, 20 May 10 at 7 .30pm, May 11 at 3pm Ma r 25 at 7pm, Mar 27 & 29 at 8pm BAM Opera House Dance Group provided by Mary Flagler Cary Special support provided by: call BAM at 718.636.4100 Sung in English Weekend Tickets: $110, 75, 30 Program B: Works 1, 3 & 4 A: Apr 15 & 20 at ?pm, Apr 18 at 8pm Charitable Trust The British Council; Allied Irish Banks pic~ Sung in French with English surtitles For Single Tickets Mar 26 & 28 at 8pm B: Ap r 17 & 19 at 8pm, Apr 20 at 2pm Cultural Relations Committee, Department Major corporate sponsor: call Ticketmaster at 212.307.4100 Tickets: $60, 35, 20 Tickets: $45, 30, 15 Special support for Meg Stuart's new work for of Foreign Affairs, Ireland Co-produced by: Brooklyn Academy of Music; White Oak provided, in part, by the National NYNEX . Opera National de ; Op~ra de Nice; BAM Prefers ,I VISA j Dance Project photos: (top) Daniel Rest; (bottom! Steven Caras ® 1996 photo: Michel Szabo Opera de Montpellier; and Theatre de Caen ~fllllll""' 735 Yeelrs on the Edge

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