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Mostly Mozart Festival 2011 at Lincoln Center

34 concerts and events for music lovers

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The 45th annual Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center will run from August 2-27, 2011 and feature 44 different events -- including performances by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra conducted by Louis Langrée, a nine-part series devoted to the music of Igor Stravinsky, the return of the Mark Morris Dance Group, and performances by renowned conductors, soloists, and chamber ensembles.

In recent years, the Mostly Mozart Festival has expanded its focus well beyond the music of Mozart to also celebrate his predecessors, contemporaries, and successors. Highlights of the 2011 Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center will include:
  • The Mark Morris Dance Group will pay tribute to Stravinsky with the New York Premiere of Renard, performed with Socrates and Festival Dance August 18-20 at the Rose Theater.


  • Maestro Louis Langrée will conduct The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in eight concerts.


  • Iván Fischer will make his Mostly Mozart debut with the Budapest Festival Orchestra in a staged concert of Don Giovanni and lead the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra in an all-Mozart program.


  • The festival will include 25 Mostly Mozart debuts Including the US debuts of soprano Julia Lezhneva and pianist Bertrand Chamayou, and the New York debut of conductor Jérémie Rhorer
See the full schedule of all 2011 Mostly Mozart Festival events.

Ticket prices vary by event. Single tickets and special package offers are available.

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