Great Performances at Lincoln Center Series Line-Up Announced

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. today announced the 2008-2009 season of its Great Performers series featuring 76 live performances - concerts, recitals, dance, theater, and multimedia events - plus an 11-part film series and 23 lectures and panel discussions, running from October 3, 2008 through June 6, 2009:

Russian Dreams: The Music of Sergei Prokofiev - A major, nine-part survey of Prokofiev's music is season-long focus. Valery Gergiev conducts the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre and leads the London Symphony Orchestra for the first time in New York as Principal conductor. Mark Morris' Romeo and Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare will have first New York City performances.

New Visions: The Literary Muse offers full-evening works inspired by Cervantes, Kafka, Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, with U.S. and New York premieres. Featured artists include Mark Morris, Katie Mitchell, Jordi Savall, Peter Sellars, and Dawn Upshaw.

New Music for a New Hall features premieres, commissions, and innovative multimedia works from the London Philharmonic, Ensemble intercontemporain, and Klangforum Wien following reopening of Alice Tully Hall.

Symphonic Masters includes Vladimir Jurowski with the London Philharmonic and Fabio Luisi with Dresden Staatskapelle, in new posts as Principal Conductors.

The Joy of Music: Leonard Bernstein on Film - An 11-part series highlights city-wide Bernstein commemoration in fall 2008.

Bartok Chamber Music masterful interpretations of the complete piano concertos by pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard with the Bamberg Symphony led by Jonathan Nott; and of the complete string quartets by Takacs Quartet in three-concert series.

Subscriptions to the Great Performers 2008-09 season will be available beginning January 23, 2008, online at LincolnCenter.org, by phone via CenterCharge, 212-721-6500 and by mail to: Great Performers (4 Avery Fisher Hall Box Office, 10 Lincoln Center Plaza). For a season brochure, call 212-875-5766. Single tickets are on sale starting May 28, 2008