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Lincoln Center Festival 2008 in association with the Park Avenue Armory present a landmark production of a widely acclaimed opera, Die Soldaten, this July.“A knuckle-whitening ride through a thrilling tale,” proclaimed the Financial Times (London) about Die Soldaten, the landmark opera production coming this July to Lincoln Center Festival 2008 in association with the Park Avenue armory. The Armory is a fitting setting for this not-to-be-missed site-specific work that raises important and timely questions about the casualties of war. Die Soldaten, the iconic 20th-century opera by German composer Bernd Alois Zimmermann, will be presented in a dramatic new production by Lincoln Center Festival in association with the Park Avenue Armory. The North American premiere of this critically-acclaimed production, the first to be mounted outside of an opera house, in a non-proscenium space, as the composer originally envisioned it, will take place in the Park Avenue Armory in July. This staging of Die Soldaten originated at the Ruhr Triennale in Germany in 2006 under Artistic Director Jurgen Flimm. In Germany, Die Soldaten was performed in a former gas power plant of a steelworks factory. The audience was seated on platforms placed on a system of railroad tracks, allowing them to move into and out of the stage action. Directed by David Pountney and conducted by Steven Sloane, leading the Bochumer Symphoniker (a 110-piece orchestra with a mammoth percussion complement), and a cast of 40 singers, actors and dancers, it will be re-created for the Lincoln Center Festival in the enormous, vaulted, former Drill Hall of the Park Avenue Armory—a space uniquely suited for the monumental production. DATE: July 5, 7, 9, 11 and 12, 2008 Exhibition: The Park Avenue Armory: A Century of Culture, Competition, and Ceremony
The Park Avenue Armory has been the setting for a wide variety of cultural, social, athletic, political and military events. Built between 1877 and 1881, the innovative Drill Hall and lavish reception and company rooms reflect the importance of the Armory as both a military facility and a gathering place for New York society. The artistic interiors by Louis C. Tiffany, Stanford White, Herter Brothers, and others are landmarks of design and artistic achievement. Equally remarkable, the vast 55,000 sq. ft. Drill Hall with its soaring 80 ft. vaulted ceiling, is reminiscent of the great train sheds of Europe. In its space, concerts and balls, matches and drills, and rallies and memorials took place, attended by queens and first ladies, maestros and champions, actors and activists, debutantes and soldiers. This exhibition looks back on a selection of the notable activities that have taken place here over the last 128 years. DATE: Wednesday October 3 - February 24, open during show hours |