Mostly Mozart 2018

Mostly Mozart was designed to provide a more informal ambience for concert-going, offering relatively inexpensive ticket prices and attracting both those who might not go to a more formal classical music concert during the season as well as the sophisticated music lover. Meeting this objective with remarkable success, countless numbers of New Yorkers cite Mostly Mozart as their first classical music experience.

Building on the core artistry of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra under the leadership of Louis Langrée, we have expanded to embrace acclaimed international productions of dance, theater, and music, as well as an enhanced focus on the music of our own time. We have also diversified geographically to include presentations in Brooklyn and the iconic Central Park, demonstrating our commitment to a festival strongly rooted in and reflective of the unique community that is New York City.

The festival has always been a celebration of Mozart's creative legacy of beauty, openness, and innovation, so it is fitting that we open our season with the Lucinda Childs Dance Company's Available Light, a confluence of dance, architecture, and music co-created by choreographer Lucinda Childs, composer John Adams, and architect Frank Gehry. 

Several productions offer inventive interpretations of classic works. Haydn's Creation receives a vivid refacing from Catalan theater company La Fura dels Baus, brilliantly juxtaposed with a historically informed performance led by French maestra Laurence Equilbey. Shakespeare is transposed to feudal Japan in a stunning revival of Yukio Ninagawa's Macbeth. The Mark Morris Dance Group presents a world premiere set to Schubert's "Trout" Quintet, and rising bass-baritone Davóne Tines plays the Celebrant in a bold new staging of Bernstein's MASS.

Jane Moss
Ehrenkranz Artistic Director