Lincoln Center Announces Summer Mozart Festival Lineup

UPPER WEST SIDE, NY — For more than half a century, Lincoln Center has celebrate the music of legendary Austrian classical composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. And this year is no exception. The Upper West Side performing arts institution announced its lineup for this summer's annual Mozart festival Wednesday.

This year's festival will feature, "appearances by world-renowned musicians, exciting new voices, memorable performances by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, and innovative theatrical presentations," according to a Lincoln Center press release. The festival will start on July 25 and last until August 20, according to the press release.

That's a lot of Mozart.

“To return to Mozart and Lincoln Center each summer has been an intellectually inspiring and creatively fulfilling process,” Mostly Mozart music director Louis Langrée said in a statment. “This summer’s festival refreshes the way we hear Mozart through enlightening juxtapositions with music from the Baroque to a 21st-century piece by David Lang, and I’m delighted to continue our work together.”

Langrée recently signed a three-year extension to remain at Lincoln Center through 2020, according to a press release.

Members of Lincoln Center will have first dibs on tickets starting April 24. Tickets for the general public will go on sale starting May 3. Tickets can be purchased online, over the phone or in person at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall or Alice Tully Hall box offices.

“One of the great qualities of Mozart’s genius is his boundless ability to inspire and connect us to art spanning all eras and locations. This season provides us with a chance to rediscover favorite pieces, as well as unearth connections between his music and that of his predecessors, contemporaries, and those who followed,” Ehrenkranz Artistic Director Jane Moss said in a statement.

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