2018-2019 Season

Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey

Philadelphia Orchestra

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

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Secret Show

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

Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas

National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear

Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele

Danish String Quartet

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

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

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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

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

Las Cafeteras

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

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

National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy

Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute

Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope

Denis Matsuev, piano

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

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John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour

Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company

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

Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello

Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce

National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag

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

As Far As My Fingertips Take Me

Minnesota Orchestra

Is This A Room: Reality Winner Verbatim Transcription
Half Straddle

White Feminist

Cécile McLorin Salvant and
Aaron Diehl, piano

Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán

Angélique Kidjo’s
Remain in Light

Budapest Festival Orchestra

Dorrance Dance: Myelination

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

HD Broadcast: The Stratford Festival
Shakespeare’s Coriolanus

Tarek Yamani Trio

Hélène Grimaud,
piano

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

Sir James Galway with
Lady Jeanne Galway, flutes

Benjamin Grosvenor, piano

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Apollo’s Fire and Chorus
J.S. Bach’s St. Matthew Passion

TRIVENI
Zakir Hussain, tabla
Kala Ramnath, violin
Dr. Jayanthi Kuaresh, veena

National Theatre Live in HD:
One Man, Two Guvnors

American Ballet Theatre
Swan Lake

Emerson String Quartet

Chineke! Orchestra