“New York suddenly finds itself looking for not one, but two tastemakers,” writes Michael Cooper in Wednesday’s (6/28) New York Times. “Nigel Redden, the director of the annual Lincoln Center Festival, which imports both prestige and offbeat productions of theater, music, dance and spectacle from around the world, has announced that he will leave after this summer’s festival, his 20th. Last month, Joseph V. Melillo, who helped shape the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s aesthetic for more than three decades, said that he would be stepping down as its executive producer. … After he leaves Lincoln Center, he added, he plans to concentrate on his other job, leading the Spoleto Festival USA in Charleston, S.C. During his tenure, Mr. Redden has mounted ambitious productions at the Park Avenue Armory, including Bernd Alois Zimmermann’s opera Die Soldaten [with Germany’s Bochum Symphony] and performances by the Royal Shakespeare Company, on a model of its home stage…” Among the orchestras appearing at the Lincoln Center Festival were the Cleveland Orchestra, which paired work by Bruckner and John Adams; the Royal Danish Orchestra; and the Mariinsky Orchestra led by Valery Gergiev.
Posted June 29, 2017
