Lincoln Center Festival Hosts Festival Day; Features Special Offers

In anticipation of the upcoming Lincoln Center Festival, Lincoln Center is planning its first Festival Day, a full day of one-day-only ticket offers, information, great food, and free talks and events in the David Rubenstein Atrium, culminating in the first public screening of the new DVD of Bruckner's Eighth Symphony, performed by The Cleveland Orchestra led by Franz Welser-Möst at 7 p.m., projected onto the Atrium's 42 foot-wide media wall. WQXR's Elliott Forrest and Paul Hawkshaw, Yale School of Music professor and director of the Norfolk Chamber Festival, will introduce the screening with a brief discussion about the composer at 6 p.m.

The Cleveland Orchestra, along with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet are three world-celebrated companies that are part of Lincoln Center Festival 2011. The Festival features an extraordinary line-up of 116 performances which include six world, North American, and U.S. premieres, featuring ensembles and artists from some 20 countries, in seven venues on and off the Lincoln Center campus. Other highlights include the Druid Theatre Company, a day-long tribute to Merce Cunningham, and the Royal Danish Opera.

The David Rubenstein Atrium, Lincoln Center's new visitor and community space, is located between 62nd and 63rd Streets and Broadway and Columbus Avenues, with entrances on Broadway, Columbus and West 62nd Street.
Festival Day Ticket Offers

The special ticket offers listed below will only be available on June 11 and only in person at the Zucker Box Office in the David Rubenstein Atrium. The box office opens at 12 Noon.

§ 20% Off All Performances - Buy tickets to any two or more Festival events, subject to availability, and save 20% off the listed price. Patrons should arrive early for the best seat selection.

§ Other great package offers available

Lincoln Center Festival is sponsored by American Express.
Free Festival Day Activities and Discounts

3 p.m.: Andrew Shuttleworth of the Facebook page Shuttleworth on Shakespeare will be onsite to share his love of the famous playwright and answer questions about the Royal Shakespeare Company engagement.

6 p.m.: WQXR's Elliott Forrest and Paul Hawkshaw, of Yale School of Music, and Director of the Norfolk Chamber Festival, will introduce the premiere screening of Cleveland Orchestra's film of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 with a brief discussion about the composer.

7 p.m.: Free screening on the Atrium's 42-foot-wide media wall
Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra in Anton Bruckner's Symphony No. 8, a composer with whom he has a long and critically-acclaimed association. The Orchestra's July series of Festival concerts marks the first concentrated Bruckner festival in America in 46 years. This DVD of the 1887 revised version of Bruckner's Symphony No. 8 edited by Leopold Nowak was taped at the Orchestra's home, Severance Hall in Cleveland, during a concert performance and is the latest release in the Orchestra's highly praised series of Bruckner Symphony recordings.

10% off food at 'wichcraft in the Atrium. Show your Festival Day ticket purchase, and get 10% off any purchase at 'wichcraft in the Atrium, all day, June 11. To further sweeten the deal, 'wichcraft will offer a complimentary signature creamwich with any 'wichcraft purchase.

$2 off a guided tour of Lincoln Center's iconic halls with a Festival Day ticket purchase.

Atrium docents and special Lincoln Center volunteers will be on hand all day to discuss and answer questions about festival events, as well as offer general information about the world's leading performing arts center.

Lincoln Center Festival 2011 PERFORMANCE HIGHLIGHTS

U.S. premiere of A Magic Flute, director Peter Brook's adaptation of Mozart's opera (July 5-17)

David Michalek's large-scale, outdoor video installation, Portraits in Dramatic Time, show for free showings each evening from 8:45 p.m.-11:45 p.m. on Josie Robertson Plaza. (July 5-31)

Merce Fair, a day-long immersion in performances, workshops, video and art installations, celebrates the artistry of choreographer Merce Cunningham (July 16).

Lincoln Center Festival, in a co-presentation with Park Avenue Armory and in association with The Ohio State University, presents the Royal Shakespeare Company performing five Shakespeare plays-As You Like It, Julius Caesar, King Lear, Romeo and Juliet and The Winter's Tale-in a six-week residency at Park Avenue Armory (July 6-August 14)

In a co-presentation with the Metropolitan Opera, the Mariinsky (Kirov) Ballet dances eight performances of three programs at the Metropolitan Opera House: the U.S. premieres of Anna Karenina and The Little Humpbacked Horse choreographed by Alexei Ratmansky to music by Rodion Shchedrin; and a double-bill of Alberto Alonso's Carmen Suite, to Shchedrin's arrangement of Bizet's score, and George Balanchine's Symphony in C. Featuring the Mariinsky Orchestra (July 11-16).

The Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst make their first appearance at the Festival with a focus on the music of Anton Bruckner. Bruckner: (R)evolution presents Symphonies Nos. 5, 7, 8 (the original 1887 version), and 9, juxtaposed with works by John Adams, including his Violin Concerto played by Leila Josefowicz, (July 13, 14, 16, 17).

Influential Brazilian singer-songwriter Tom Zé makes a rare U.S. concert appearance (July 19).

Amon Miyamoto directs the U.S. Premiere of The Temple of the Golden Pavilion based on Yukio Mishima's novel of the same name (July 21-24).

Tickets for all Festival performances are on sale online at www.LCFestival.org, by calling CenterCharge, 212-721-6500, and at the Avery Fisher Hall and Alice Tully Hall Box Offices. Tickets for the Mariinsky Ballet may also be purchased at the Metropolitan Opera Box Office, 64th Street and Broadway, on the Metropolitan Opera website (www.metoperafamily.org) or by calling 212-362-6000. For more detailed program information visit: www.LCFestival.org

The David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center, the new community, visitors and ticketing facility, is home to an array of programs, services and amenities designed for area residents, out-of-towners and visitors to Lincoln Center. This new public space is named in honor of the philanthropist, financier and Vice Chairman of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, in recognition of his $10 million gift to the Bravo Campaign. Serving as a gateway to Lincoln Center and the entire Upper West Side community, the Atrium offers-for the first time in Lincoln Center history-day-of discount tickets to available performances across the campus in addition to access to full-price tickets via onsite kiosks and telephone services. Along with free performances, including Target® Free Thursdays every Thursday night of the year, and Meet the Artist Saturdays-free, family-friendly participatory programs at 11 a.m. on the first Saturday of every month-other attractions and amenities in the Atrium include: a 'wichcraft café, a departure point for expanded Lincoln Center tours, a staffed Information Desk, free Wi-Fi, and restrooms. For more information visit:
LincolnCenter.org/Atrium

Lincoln Center Festival 2011 is sponsored by American Express.

Lincoln Center Festival 2011 is also made possible by Suzie and Bruce Kovner, Daniel and Estrellita Brodsky, Culture Ireland, Nancy A. Marks, LuEsther T. Mertz Charitable Trust, Isilon Systems LLC, a division of EMC, The Skirball Foundation, The Harold & Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust, F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., The Katzenberger Foundation, Inc., The Shubert Foundation, Jennie and Richard DeScherer, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Grand Marnier Foundation, The Pershing Square Foundation, The Andrea and Charles Bronfman Philanthropies, Barry Friedberg and Charlotte Moss, The Mitsui USA Foundation, Brother International Corporation, J.C.C. Fund of the Japanese Chamber of Commerce and Industry of New York, The Joelson Foundation, Georges Lurcy Charitable and Educational Trust, Mitsubishi International Corporation, The Harkness Foundation for Dance, Zabar's and Zabars.com, Great Performers Circle, Chairman's Council, and Friends of Lincoln Center.

Public support for Festival 2011 is provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the New York State Council on the Arts, and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Endowment support for Festival 2011 is provided by Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and Nancy Abeles Marks.

Movado is an Official Sponsor of Lincoln Center, Inc.

United Airlines is the Official Airline of Lincoln Center, Inc.

First Republic Bank is the Official Sponsor of the Fashion Lincoln Center Online Experience.

MetLife is the National Sponsor of Lincoln Center, Inc.

"Summer at Lincoln Center" is sponsored by Diet Pepsi and The Wall Street Journal.

Lincoln Center Festival is a presentation of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA), which serves three primary roles: presenter of superb artistic programming, national leader in arts and education and community relations, and manager of the Lincoln Center campus. As a presenter of over 400 events annually, LCPA's programs include American Songbook, Great Performers, Lincoln Center Out of Doors, Midsummer Night Swing, the Mostly Mozart Festival, Tully Scope Festival, White Light Festival, and Live From Lincoln Center. In addition, LCPA is leading a series of major capital projects on behalf of the resident organizations across the campus.

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