PERFORMING ARTS
Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Opening Night
To officially open the annual Mostly Mozart Festival, the festival’s orchestra fittingly performs an all-Mozart program that includes “Overture to La Clemenza di Tito” ; Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, K.466; “Misero! O Sogno”; Un' Aura Amorosa,“ from ”Così fan Tutte“; Symphony No. 38 (”Prague"). Louis Langrée will conduct, and pianist Nelson Freire and tenor Lawrence Brownlee are featured.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Aug. 1, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $35–$85
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Queens Symphony Orchestra: ‘La Traviata’
A semi-staged, full production of Verdi’s famous opera “La Traviata” is performed by the Queens Symphony Orchestra. The 1853 opera is the romantic tragedy of Violetta Valéry, a famed but also sickly French courtesan tortured by her love for the nobleman Alfredo.
George Seuffert Sr. Bandshell in Forest Park,
St. John’s University-Great Lawn, Jamaica, Queens
Wednesday Aug. 1, 7 p.m.
This event is free
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Chamber Orchestra of Europe
Part of the Mostly Mozart Festival, the Chamber Orchestra of Europe performs an all-Beethoven program including Violin Concerto and Symphony No. 3 (“Eroica”). Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts and young Georgian violinist Lisa Batiashvili is featured. BBC has called this ensemble “the finest chamber orchestra in the world.”
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Aug. 2 at 7:30 p.m., Aug. 5 at 3 p.m.
Tickets: $60–$75
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Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: Beethoven and Haydn
Soon-to-be director of the Philadelphia Orchestra Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a performance of Beethoven’s Symphony No. 2 and Haydn’s “Nelson Mass.” Featured artists include soprano Christiane Karg, mezzo-soprano Julie Boulianne, mezzo-soprano, tenor Toby Spence, and bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Aug. 3–4, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $35–$85
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‘Richard III’
The same theater that puts on Shakespeare in the Park brings its mobile production of Shakespeare’s “Richard III” to its home stage. The tragedy follows the miserable hunchbacked prince who begins the play with, “Now is the winter of our discontent.” Jealous and ruthless, Richard ascends to the thrown but must pay for his misdeeds.
The Public Theater, 425 Lafayette St.
Aug. 6–25
Tickets: $15
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Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra: ‘Emperor’ Concerto
Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki leads a performance of Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 5 (“Emperor”) with pianist Garrick Ohlsson. They will also perform “Rendering,” a piece that was written by contemporary composer Luciano Berio from fragments left by Schubert centuries ago.
Avery Fisher Hall, Lincoln Center
Aug. 7–8, 8 p.m.
Tickets: $35–$85
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‘Children of Hercules’
American Thymele Theatre present’s Euripides’s (480–406 B.C.) rarely staged “Children of Hercules.” Using ancient, traditional Hellenic music and dance, the fully staged production (“not an adaptation,” the company notes) follows the children of Hercules, who must face their father’s nemesis King Eurystheus.
The East River Park Bandshell (in East River Park), Manhattan
This event is free
Aug. 7–9, 6:30 p.m.
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Freiburg Baroque Orchestra
This esteemed German orchestra performs Schubert’s Symphony No. 3, Schumann’s Introduction and Allegro appassionato (“Concertstück”), and Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 4 (“Italian”). Pablo Heras-Casado conducts and Kristian Bezuidenhout is featured on fortepiano. Preconcert recital by Bezuidenhout at 6:30 p.m. features Vorísek’s Impromptu in C major and Schubert’s Impromptus Nos. 1 and 3, D.899.
Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center
Aug. 9, 7:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45–$75
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Ebène Quartet
Four French musicians noted for their class and creativity give an intimate hourlong performance with starry views of New York and a complimentary class of wine. The string quartet performs Mozart’s Divertimento in F major and Schubert’s String Quartet (“Rosamunde”). Part of the Mostly Mozart Festival.
Stanley H. Kaplan Penthouse, Lincoln Center
Aug. 11, 10:30 p.m.
Tickets: $45
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