Mark Morris’s new staging of Handel’s “Acis and Galatea” will have its New York premiere this summer as part of the 48th Mostly Mozart Festival at Lincoln Center.
While it is true that “Acis and Galatea” is mostly Handel, it is partly Mozart. The version by Mr. Morris, which is being described as a “fully-staged opera ballet” that will have its premiere later this month at Cal Performances in Berkeley, Calif., uses Mozart’s arrangement.
The work, which will feature the Mark Morris Dance Group and the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra and Chorale, conducted by Nicholas McGegan, will be performed three times at the festival, from Aug. 7 through Aug. 9 at the David H. Koch Theater. Lincoln Center was one of the organizations that commissioned the production.
There will be unadulterated Mozart as well at the festival: a pair of concerts will feature Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 in A major, played by Richard Goode, along with the “Jupiter” Symphony.
The Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra will give 17 concerts at Avery Fisher Hall, with nine led by its music director, Louis Langrée — including, for the first time at the festival, a performance of Berlioz’s “Symphonie fantastique.” Artists appearing at the festival for the first time will include the pianist Yuja Wang, the violinist Patricia Kopatchinskaja, and the bass Ildar Abdrazakov.
The festival, which will run from July 25 through Aug. 23, will begin with two free outdoor concerts of a new work by John Luther Adams called “Sila: The Breath of the World.”