"Summertime and the livin' is easy..."

Apr 30, 2008 14:41

Went to the MET Opera yesterday (highly recommend "La Fille du Régiment" with Juan Diego Flórez and Natalie Dessay) www.metopera.org, stopped by Lincoln Center and picked up summer festival brochure. This is what we have:

Beckett is in the house..
Three one-man Samuel Beckett dramas starring Ralph Fiennes, Barry McGovern, and Liam Neeson.
http://www.lincolncenter.org/search_results.asp?free_text=beckett

The Festival also features The Bacchae by Euripides (National Theater of Scotland), starring Alan Cumming .
Tickets $35-90. July 2nd through July 13th.
http://www.lincolncenter.org/show_events_list.asp?eventcode=17210

And Goran Bregovic and his Wedding & Funeral Band. July 8th and 9th. tickets are $30, i think. http://www.lincolncenter.org/search_results.asp?showcode=30807

Mid Summer Night Swing from July 8th through July 26th. www.lincolncenter.org

This year's SHAKESPEARE IN THE PARK:
Hamlet and Hair will be performed. Starting May 27th. This event is absolutely free and i recommend it.

http://www.publictheater.org/view.php?mode=eventdisplay&eventid=210

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival from June 10th through August 31st. www.hvshakespeare.org (I think, I am going to see Cymbeline on June 6th, Twelfth Night on July 20th and Abridged works of Shakespeare on August 10th) Tickets are $33 if you order before May 30th.

Sunday I am going to Philadelphia Museum of Art. Frida Kahlo exhibition ending on May 18th. http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/
stopping buy www.barnesfoundation.org

I know there are bunch of concerts comign up like, Billy's Band and Zveri, also Echo Festival on May 30th and KSP on June 12th. www.russianrock.net

Gogol Bordello will perform this summer in a park in Brooklyn (i forget the date)

Apocalyptica will perform at Irving Plaza on monday (may 5th). http://www.apocalyptica.com/
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