2015 Lincoln Center Fest Opens with Danny Elfman's "Music From the Films of Tim Burton"

The 2015 Lincoln Center Festival will kick off with a multimedia showcase of Danny Elfman’s “Music from the Films of Tim Burton.” Other performance include works by the Cleveland Orchestra and stage troupes, the Druid Theatre Company of Ireland and Cheek by Jowl.

Elfman’s production will combine film clips, sketches, drawings and storyboards edited by Burton with a live orchestra. John Mauceri will be conducting and Elfman plans to make an appearance.
Other performances include The National Ballet of China performing “The Peony Pavilion” and “The Red Detachment of Women” at the David H. Koch Theater, and Franz Welser-Möst will conduct the Cleveland Orchestra in concert performances of Richard Strauss’s opera “Daphne” at Avery Fisher Hall.

Druid, which has previously garnered notice in New York with a marathon of the work of J.M. Synge and a staging of “The Cripple of Inishmaan,” returns with “DruidShakespeare: The History Plays,” which strings together “Richard II,” the two parts of “Henry IV” and “Henry V,” all compressed into a single two-part marathon. Director Yukio Ninagawa will be presenting the American premiere of “Kafka on the Shore,” his staging based on the novel by Haruki Murakami.

“Ubu Roi,” by Alfred Jarry, will be performed in French with English supertitles in a Cheek by Jowl production by the director Declan Donnellan and designer Nick Ormerod.

The festival, which will be celebrating its 20th anniversary, will feature 58 performances from different groups around the nation. The festival begins on July 6 in Avery Fisher Hall. To learn more about the festival or to see a list of all the performances, click here.