Past Performances
As Far As My Fingertips Take Me
Friday, January 24 - Sunday, February 9, 2020
The Believers Are But Brothers
Wednesday, January 22 - Sunday, January 26, 2020
National Theatre Live in HD:
All My Sons
Martin Katz & Friends
What’s in a Song: Hugo Wolf’s Complete Mörike Songs
National Theatre Live in HD:
Fleabag
Taylor Mac’s Holiday Sauce
Saturday, December 14 - Sunday, December 15, 2019
Sheku Kanneh-Mason, cello
Tuesday, December 10
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 7 - Sunday, December 8, 2019
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis
National Theatre Live in HD:
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Stew & The Negro Problem
Notes of a Native Song
Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal
with Yannick Nézet-Séguin and Joyce DiDonato
Vivaldi’s Four Seasons /
Max Richter’s Vivaldi Recomposed
Teac Damsa
Loch na hEala (Swan Lake)
Secret Show: Caleb Teicher & Company
Thursday, November 7
John Cameron Mitchell
The Origin of Love Tour
Sankai Juku
Meguri: Teeming Sea, Tranquil Land
Zauberland (Magic Land)
An Encounter with Schumann’s Dichterliebe
Chick Corea Trilogy
with Christian McBride and Brian Blade
Isango Ensemble
A Man of Good Hope
Denis Matsuev, piano
Friday, October 18
Isango Ensemble
The Magic Flute
National Theatre Live in HD:
The Lehman Trilogy
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, October 11
Grupo Corpo
Bach & Gira
National Theatre Live in HD:
All About Eve
Amadeus Live
Film with Live Orchestra
Snarky Puppy
with special guest Alina Engibaryan
Summer Sings 2019:
Mozart Requiem, K. 626
Summer Sings 2019:
Haydn Mass in C Major (“Paukenmesse”)
Summer Sings 2019:
Duruflé Requiem, Op. 9
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Allelujah!
Two Different Programs
Martha Graham Dance Company
Paul Lewis, piano
Replacing Murray Perahia
Thursday, April 25
Monterey Jazz Festival on Tour featuring
Cécile McLorin Salvant &
Christian Sands (Music Director)
Opera in Concert
Handel’s Semele
Takács Quartet
Anthony McGill, clarinet
William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar
Théâtre National de Bretagne
Arthur Nauzyciel, director
La Fresque (The Painting on the Wall)
Ballet Preljocaj
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Antony & Cleopatra
Duo Recital
Eric Owens, bass-baritone
Lawrence Brownlee, tenor
World Premiere & UMS Co-Commission
Triptych (Eyes of One on Another)
Feat. Bryce Dessner, composer — Kaneza Schaal, director — Roomful of Teeth
Two Different Programs
Philharmonia Orchestra
Special Talk with
Yo-Yo Ma: Culture, Understanding, and Survival
In Plain Air
International Contemporary Ensemble
Las Cafeteras
Wednesday, February 20
Benjamin Britten’s War Requiem
Saturday, February 16
Past Tense
Carrie Mae Weems, director, writer, video artist
National Theatre, Live in HD
The Tragedy of King Richard the Second
Israel Philharmonic Orchestra
Saturday, February 9
Echo in the Valley
Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Hamlet
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Camille A. Brown & Dancers
Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center
Friday, January 25
Lagrime di San Pietro
(Tears of St. Peter)
Los Angeles Master Chorale
The Great Tamer
Conceived – Visualized + Directed by Dimitris Papaioannou
National Theatre, Live in HD:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
The Bolshoi Theater, Moscow
Live in HD
The Nutcracker
Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, piano
National Theatre, London Live in HD
The Madness of George III
Charles Lloyd & The Marvels
with special guest Lucinda Williams
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 1 - Sunday, December 2, 2018
Big Band Holidays
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra
with Wynton Marsalis
An Evening with Audra McDonald
Songs from the American Musical Theater
Danish String Quartet
Thursday, November 15
Jake Shimabukuro, ukulele
Wednesday, November 7
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
King Lear
Totalmente Juan Gabriel
Aida Cuevas
Czech Philharmonic Orchestra
Thursday, November 1
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Frankenstein
A Letter to My Nephew
Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance Company
M-Prize 2018 Winner
Aizuri Quartet
Yuja Wang, piano
Martin Grubinger, percussion
Two Different Programs
Hubbard Street Dance Chicago
Secret Show
Thursday, October 18
Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique
Friday, October 12
An Evening with Pat Metheny
Wednesday, October 10
Jerusalem Quartet
Pinchas Zukerman, violin
Amanda Forsyth, cello
National Theatre, London
Live in HD
Julie
A Dramatic Reading of
Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman with Alec Baldwin and U-M Theatre & Drama Department
Philadelphia Orchestra
Thursday, September 27
Free Season Opening Event!
50th Anniversary Live Presentation of
Stanley Kubrick’s
2001: A Space Odyssey
Summer Sings
Bach Magnificat
Summer Sings
The Music of René Clausen
Summer Sings
Beethoven’s Mass in C
Ovation 2018:
Bet on a Fabulous Time
Emanuel Ax, piano
Sunday, April 22
Cold Blood
Thursday, April 19 - Saturday, April 21, 2018
Opera in Concert
Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo
Apollo’s Fire / The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Sorrow — A Reimagining of Górecki’s Third Symphony
Colin Stetson
A Tribute to The Jazz Epistles
Abdullah Ibrahim & Ekaya
featuring Freddie Hendrix, trumpet
Artemis Quartet
Sunday, April 8
The Music of Chick Corea
Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Chick Corea
Nederlands Dans Theater
Friday, March 23 - Saturday, March 24, 2018
Bubble Schmeisis
Thursday, March 22 - Sunday, March 25, 2018
Steve Lehman & Sélébéyone
Saturday, March 17
Piedmont Blues:
A Search for Salvation
Path of Miracles
Tenebrae
Elias Quartet
Sunday, March 11
Borderline
Company Wang Ramirez
Opera in Concert
The Gershwins’ Porgy and Bess
Emmanuel Pahud, flute
Alessio Bax, piano
National Theatre Live in HD:
Stephen Sondheim’s Follies
Joshua Bell, violin
Sam Haywood, piano
Romeo and Juliet
American Ballet Theatre
Schubert’s Winterreise
Ian Bostridge, tenor
Julius Drake, piano
Estonian National Symphony Orchestra
Saturday, February 3
8980: Book of Travelers
Gabriel Kahane, vocalist and composer
They, Themself, and Schmerm
Wednesday, January 31 - Saturday, February 3, 2018
Janai Brugger, soprano
Martin Katz, piano
Maxim Vengerov, violin
Roustem Saïtkoulov, piano
Sensory Friendly Open Rehearsal:
Russian Renaissance
M-Prize Winner!
Russian Renaissance
(I Could Go On Singing) Over the Rainbow
Friday, January 26 - Saturday, February 3, 2018
Us/Them
BRONKS and Richard Jordan Productions
Moscow’s Vakhtangov Theater
Live in HD:
Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya
Underground Railroad Game
Ars Nova
Haydn Mega-Concert
St. Lawrence String Quartet
Hair & Other Stories
Urban Bush Women
What’s in a Song
Martin Katz, piano and curator
J.S. Bach’s Christmas Oratorio
Bach Collegium Japan
Handel’s Messiah
Saturday, December 2 - Sunday, December 3, 2017
Bernstein and Bolcom: Celebrating the American Experience
U-M Symphony Band Concert
New York Philharmonic
Bernstein’s Philharmonic: A Centennial Festival
John McLaughlin Farewell US Tour
John McLaughlin & Jimmy Herring
Meeting of the Spirits: Music of Mahavishnu Orchestra
The Knights
Sunday, November 12
Chanticleer
Heart of a Soldier
China NCPA Orchestra
Tuesday, November 7
Bassem Youssef
The Joke Is Mightier than the Sword
Crosscurrents
Zakir Hussain & Dave Holland
20th Anniversary
Sphinx Virtuosi
Daniil Trifonov, piano
Wednesday, October 25
National Theatre Live in HD:
Simon Stone’s Yerma
Written in Water
Ragamala Dance Company
Amir ElSaffar’s
Rivers of Sound Orchestra
L’Etat de siège (State of Siege)
Théâtre de la Ville
Emerson String Quartet
Calidore String Quartet
National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part Two: “Perestroika”
National Theatre Live in HD:
Tony Kushner’s Angels in America:
Part One: “Millennium Approaches”
US Premiere Screening:
Einstein on the Beach
Every Brilliant Thing
Tuesday, September 12 - Sunday, September 17, 2017
Season Opening Event!
Butler, Bernstein & The Hot 9
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