2018-2019 Season
Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Philadelphia Orchestra
Thursday, September 27, 2018
A Dramatic Reading of
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Alec Baldwin and U-M Theatre & Drama Department
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie
Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello
An Evening with Pat Metheny
Wednesday, October 10, 2018
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Friday, October 12, 2018
Secret Show
Thursday, October 18, 2018
Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion
M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet
A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, November 1, 2018
Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Wednesday, November 7, 2018
Danish String Quartet
Thursday, November 15, 2018
An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 1 - Sunday, December 2, 2018
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams
National Theatre, London Live in HD
The Madness of George III
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
Lagrime di San Pietro
(Tears of St. Peter)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, January 25, 2019
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet
Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday, February 9, 2019
National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Saturday, February 16, 2019
Las Cafeteras
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival
Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra
World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth
Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra
La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director
Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet
Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)
Paul Lewis, piano
Replacing Murray Perahia
Thursday, April 25, 2019
Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!
Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9
Summer Sings 2019:
Haydn Mass in C Major (“Paukenmesse”)
Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan
Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra
National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve
Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, October 11, 2019
National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy
Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute
Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope
Denis Matsuev, piano
Friday, October 18, 2019
Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Zauberland (Magic Land)
An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land
John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour
Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato
Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song
National Theatre Live in HD:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2019
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
Saturday, December 14 - Sunday, December 15, 2019
Martin Katz & Friends
What’s in a Song: Hugo Wolf’s Complete Mörike Songs
National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons
The Believers Are But Brothers
Wednesday, January 22 - Saturday, January 25, 2020
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Friday, January 24, 2020
Minnesota Orchestra
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle
White Feminist
Monday, February 3 - Sunday, February 9, 2020
Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Friday, February 14, 2020
Angélique Kidjo’s Remain in Light
Sunday, February 16, 2020
Budapest Festival Orchestra
Thursday, February 20, 2020
Dorrance Dance: Myelination
Friday, February 21 - Saturday, February 22, 2020
HD Broadcast:
Bolshoi Ballet
Giselle
West-Eastern Divan Ensemble
with Michael Barenboim, music director and violin
Emanuel Ax, piano
Leonidas Kavakos, violin
Yo-Yo Ma, cello
Tarek Yamani Trio
Friday, March 13, 2020
Hélène Grimaud, piano
Saturday, March 14, 2020
ANTHEM
A Dance for Four Women by Milka Djordjevich
National Theatre Live in HD:
Present Laughter
New York Philharmonic String Quartet with Anne-Marie McDermott, piano
Sunday, March 22, 2020
Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes
Benjamin Grosvenor, piano
Thursday, April 2, 2020
Apollo’s Fire and Chorus
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Thursday, April 9, 2020
American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake
Emerson String Quartet
Friday, April 17, 2020
Chineke! Orchestra
Thursday, April 23, 2020
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