Bolshoi to Visit Lincoln Center Festival - New York Times

New York ballet fans should get an unusual chance to see the growing globalization of dance careers this summer without leaving Lincoln Center: David Hallberg^[1] is scheduled to dance in June at the Metropolitan Opera House with American Ballet Theater, where he is a principal dancer, and in July at the David H. Koch Theater with the Bolshoi Ballet, which he joined^[2] in 2011.

The Bolshoi — which is recovering from the scandal surrounding last year’s acid attack^[3] on its artistic director, Sergei Filin, and the tumult that followed — will come to New York for a long-rumored tour^[4] and will give 13 performances of “Swan Lake,” “Don Quixote” and “Spartacus.” Those will be part of the 2014 Lincoln Center Festival, which will also offer Kabuki drama, dance, opera and theater.

The Bolshoi Opera, along with the Bolshoi’s orchestra and chorus, will give a pair of concert performances of “The Tsar’s Bride,” a Rimsky-Korsakov opera rarely performed^[5] in the West, at Avery Fisher Hall. Nigel Redden, the festival’s director, said that it would be the first combined visit of the Bolshoi Ballet and Bolshoi Opera to New York.

The potent duo of Cate Blanchett and Isabelle Huppert will appear in Jean Genet’s “The Maids” at City Center, in a production imported from the Sydney Theater Company. There will be a dozen performances of the 1947 psychodrama, which is about two servants with designs on their employer, and which was inspired by a notorious French murder case.

Heisei Nakamura-za, the Japanese Kabuki company, will return for its third appearance at the festival. The Belgian dance company Rosas will present four seminal works by its founding choreographer, Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker, and she will dance in three of them.

And, as previously announced^[6] , the festival will feature the New York premiere of “The Passenger,” Mieczyslaw Weinberg’s 1968 opera about the Holocaust, which was not performed during his lifetime. The work will be staged at the Park Avenue Armory. Each of its three performances will be preceded by brief concerts of Weinberg’s chamber music.

References

1. ^{^} Bio page. (abt.org)


2. ^{^} Article about his joining the company. (www.nytimes.com)


3. ^{^} Article on the attack. (www.nytimes.com)


4. ^{^} STory on the rumors. (www.nytimes.com)


5. ^{^} Anthony Tommasini review of a past performance. (www.nytimes.com)


6. ^{^} Article about "The Passenger." (artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com)