NEW YORK - At the upcoming Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Mozart will share the spotlight with other old masters and living artists from Finland to the South Pacific.
Peter Sellars is to direct Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho's new work, "Passion de Simone." Soprano Dawn Upshaw has the title role as French philosopher Simone Weil, who died of tuberculosis in 1943 as a member of the anti-Nazi resistance.
The festival's 42nd season, running July 29 to Aug. 23, encompasses 60 events, including orchestral and chamber concerts, recitals, dance, film, lectures and video art installations.
The July 29 opening concert is to be conducted by the festival's music director, Louis Langree, featuring Mostly Mozart's first Mahler, "Das Lied von der Erde" ("The Song of the Earth") for two singers and orchestra, and Mozart's Symphony No. 40 in G minor.
Langree also will lead the Aug. 23 performance of Richard Strauss's "Metamorphosen" for 23 solo strings and Mozart's Mass in C minor.
Another Saariaho work, "Terra Memoria," is to be performed by the Grammy-winning Emerson String Quartet as part of the festival's Finnish focus, which also will feature music by Jan Sibelius and Fredrik Lithander played by Finnish musicians.
The South Pacific is represented by choreographer Lemi Ponifasio, a native of the island of Samoa who has reinterpreted Mozart's "Requiem" as a dance incorporating the ancient rituals of a Samoan tribal chief. The work is to receive its U.S. premiere at the festival Aug. 6.
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