Great Performers series runs from October 3, 2008 through June 6, 2009.
Valery Gergiev to Conduct the Kirov Orchestra and Chorus of the Mariinsky Theatre and to Lead the London Symphony Orchestra for the First Time in New York as Principal Conductor
Mark Morris’ Romeo & Juliet, On Motifs of Shakespeare Will Have First New York City Performances
New Visions: The Literary Muse offers full-evening works inspired by Cervantes, Kafka, Shakespeare and Virginia Woolf, with U.S. and New York premieres; featured artists include Mark Morris, Katie Mitchell, Jordi Savall, Peter Sellars, Dawn Upshaw
New Music for a New Hall – four-event series of premieres, commissions and innovative, multimedia works from the London Philharmonic, Ensemble intercontemporain, and Klangforum Wien – follows re-opening of Alice Tully Hall
Symphonic Masters includes Vladimir Jurowski with London Philharmonic, Fabio Luisi with Dresden Staatskapelle, in new posts as Principal Conductors
The Joy of Music: Leonard Bernstein on Film—11-part film series highlights city-wide Bernstein commemoration in fall 2008
Waves, an award-winning multimedia theater production from London’s National Theatre, which will have its U.S. premiere as part of New Visions in November 2008, is based on Virginia Woolf’s groundbreaking 1931 novel The Waves
The musically omnivorous American string quartet ETHEL will give a free performance of the New York premiere of Space, a site-specific sound installation for amplified string quartet by composer Phil Kline and sound artist Jody Elff.
Lincoln Center’s American Songbook artist Stew, whose hit Broadway show Passing Strange recently won a Tony Award for Best Book in a Musical, has announced his program for the Opening Nights Festival.
Lincoln Center’s Night of World Music will present Grammy-nominated sitar virtuoso Ustad Shujaat Khan, who joins forces with multi-instrumentalist, producer, and composer Karsh Kale in a musical collaboration that blends classical Indian music, electronica, jazz and rock.
First Look – The Opening-Night concert of the Festival on February 22 will be a collaboration of three of the Lincoln Center resident organizations that have most frequently used Alice Tully Hall as a venue over the years: The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, and The Juilliard School.
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