Commissioned by LCT3, IN THE GREEN tells the origin story of one of Medieval history's most powerful and creative women: Hildegard von Bingen. Before she became a healer, a composer, an exorcist, and finally a saint, she was a little girl locked in a cell with her mentor, Jutta.  This new musical...

Set in Uganda, THE ROLLING STONE is an intimate yet explosive family drama about two brothers at odds — one a gay man in a clandestine relationship, and the other a church pastor who fervently rails against the life his brother is forced to conceal. When THE ROLLING STONE premiered in London, Eve...

Opens June 21! With the peerless style and rich perspective on Black America she brought to such acclaimed novels as Beloved, The Bluest Eye, and Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison has earned a reputation as one of America's greatest living writers. Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am is an artful and...

New 4K restoration! An intimate and innovative film about English-born, often California-based artist David Hockney and his work, honoring its subject through creative risk-taking. Hazan creates an improvisatory narrative-nonfiction hybrid featuring Hockney, a wary participant, as well as his cir...

Opens July 12! In mid-'70s Argentina, at the height of that country’s infamous Dirty War, Claudio (Darío Grandinetti) is a well-heeled, cool-headed lawyer living with his wife and teenage daughter in a comfortable provincial suburb. When an innocuous dinner date ends in a startling altercation wi...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Conductor Andrew Manze, celebrated for his “unstoppable drive and energy” (Herald Scotland), and violinist Vilde Frang join the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra for an evening featuring two of Beethoven's crowning achievements. Frang lends her “startling emotional sincerity and inspired musical imag...

Cello sensation Kian Soltani leads a magical late-night concert high above New York City with Schumann's rhapsodic Fantasiestücke and the charming Chopin Polonaise, along with inspiration from his Persian heritage. Pianist Julio Elizalde brings his “highly detailed and musically intelligent” playing...

Ellis Haizlip was the visionary creator of the public television show SOUL!, a variety-talk show featuring African American artistry, community, and culture that was also a platform for political expression and the fight for social justice. In 1972, Haizlip, together with Lincoln Center, coproduced ...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Cry to the world/That all might understand:/I was once a black clown/But now—/I'm a man! Fusing vaudeville, gospel, opera, jazz, and spirituals, The Black Clown brings Langston Hughes’s famed 1931 poem to life in a stunning new music-theater piece. Powerful and prescient, the experience of a Black m...

Avery Fisher Career Grant recipient Michael Brown delves into Beethoven's herculean Eroica Variations, a precursor to the composer’s epic symphony of the same name—whose unsurpassed majesty will be performed by the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra on July 23–24—and the centerpiece of this intensely ...

JAZZ IN TIMES SQUARE Concert Series Curated by Jazz at Lincoln Center   Location: Broadway Plaza between 46th and 47th Streets   Give your Thursday night a new rhythm as you head to the train or wait for a colleague to join you for dinner. Jazz at Lincoln Center brings New York City's ho...

Free screening! Luchino Visconti reached new heights of epic grandeur with his sweeping, Palme d'Or–winning account of political upheaval and generational sea change in Risorgimento-era Italy. A bewhiskered Burt Lancaster is the leonine patriarch of a ruling-class Bourbon family in the last gasps o...

Named for the patron saint of music, effervescent Latin fusion band La Santa Cecilia is fronted by the charismatic Marisol Hernandez (a.k.a. La Marisoul), who “sings like the love child of Janis Joplin and Celia Cruz” (Los Angeles Times). She's joined by accordionist and requintero José “Pepe” Carlo...

Free and open to the public! Named for the patron saint of music, effervescent Latin fusion band La Santa Cecilia is fronted by the charismatic Marisol Hernandez (a.k.a. La Marisoul), who “sings like the love child of Janis Joplin and Celia Cruz” (Los Angeles Times). She's joined by accordionist ...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Immerse yourself in the sound worlds of pioneering composers Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Ashley Fure, and Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir at this free performance by the International Contemporary Ensemble. 

Free screening! In the transfiguring and transfixing third feature from Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders, NYFF52), we find ourselves amid a throng of tobacco farmers living in a state of extreme deprivation on an estate known as Inviolata, with wide-eyed teenager Lazzaro (nonprofessional discovery A...

Pekka Kuusisto, known for his improvisatory flair and “intensely intimate” playing (Guardian, U.K.), takes on one of the hallmarks of the violin repertoire, Vivaldi's Four Seasons, interspersed with folk music from Finland and Norway. Maestro Andrew Manze and the Festival Orchestra set a lively tone...

Wilco frontman Jeff Tweedy and his introspective lyrics have come to represent the simple truths of American life in all its soulful, insecure glory. A prolific songwriter, guitarist, and producer, Tweedy has enjoyed a storied career that earned him a Grammy for Wilco's A Ghost Is Born. The poetic r...

From obscure corners of Lincoln Center's plazas, luminous figures emerge and coalesce into a meandering procession. Created by Processional Arts Workshop, whose giant puppet works lead New York’s Village Halloween Parade, this site-specific, ambulatory performance evokes the simple but potent act of...

Vocalist Nora Fischer and guitarist Marnix Dorrestein shine new light on the music of Monteverdi, Scarlatti, Purcell, Ravel, and Mozart at this intrepid late-night concert. On their debut album HUSH, the duo redefines 17th-century songs and arias through a modern-day lens. Experience the music's she...

Through poetry, music, and stories, a powerful community of artist-activists give voice to the everyday heroes working to uphold and extend LGBTQ, women's, civil, immigrant, and human rights.

Enter the fantasy world of Mozart's sublime wind serenade with members of the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra—conducted by Louis Langrée—at this free performance in the historic St. Paul’s Chapel.

San Antonio comes to Out of Doors at this evening of Chicano soul. The brainchild of writer-producer-musician Adrian Quesada, Look at My Soul celebrates the musical contributions of Chicano soul singers and session musicians in the 1950s and ‘60s, including Tejano trailblazers Johnny Hernandez and R...

Maverick violinist Pekka Kuusisto and spirited bassist Knut Erik Sundquist perform an exhilarating after-hours recital, blending the beauty of Bach with Scandinavian folk music.

This summer's presentation of the stunning Chinese dance-theater work Under Siege (August 8–10) is based on historic events that form the backdrop of the acclaimed film Farewell, My Concubine. Winner of the 1993 Cannes Palme d’Or, the film depicts a love story that emerges in a Peking opera troupe a...

Building off of last year's Made in NYC Heritage Sunday program, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of the Center for Traditional Music and Dance (CTMD) with an all-star lineup of artists, Made in NYC 2.0 calls upon next-generation practitioners inheriting the city's soundscape with increasingly ...

Through poetry, music, and stories, a powerful community of artist-activists give voice to the everyday heroes working to uphold and extend LGBTQ, women's, civil, immigrant, and human rights.

Join the Caribbean Cultural Center as they celebrate the legacy of African influences on Puerto Rico's rich musical history. Featuring performances by Moncho Rivera, Cita Rodriguez y Su Banda, Carlito Padron y Su Banda, and the Bombazo Dance Company, this evening honors Puerto Rican musical icons Ti...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Cultivating a dialogue between two musical masterminds, maestro Louis Langrée and the Festival Orchestra explore Brahms's impassioned Third Symphony, while esteemed Mozart interpreter Martin Helmchen brings his “sterling technique” (Chicago Classical Review) to the most Romantic of Mozart’s piano co...

Susanna Phillips lends her velvety soprano to an intimate, late-night recital with frequent collaborator Myra Huang in a sparkling program featuring works by three trailblazing female composers: Clara Schumann, Alma Mahler, and Fanny Hensel.

Turning the Tables—the ongoing partnership between NPR Music and Lincoln Center that seeks to reframe the popular music canon to honor unacknowledged voices—returns to Out of Doors for a third season. This year, we explore the work of female artists who originated and shaped recorded music from its ...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Enjoy a complimentary glass of wine, gorgeous city views, and the “quicksilver touch” (Chicago Classical Review) of pianist Martin Helmchen at this spellbinding recital featuring works by Bach and Franck, as well as Liszt's poetic St. Francis’s Sermon to the Birds.

Free screening! Experience the mysteries and revelations of Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979 science-fiction masterpiece, which made box-office history at Film at Lincoln Center following its re-release in 2017. Decades ago, a falling object decimated a provincial Russian town, and those who later went ne...

Latin Grammy Award–winning singer-songwriter Tulipa Ruiz has been called one of the great highlights of a new generation of Brazilian singers, whose accolades include Apple Music's Best Pop-Rock album and #4 on Rolling Stone’s best Latin Albums of the year. Among many distinctions, Ruiz’s first albu...

Blending together elements of R&B, funk, and ‘80s pop, Blood Orange is the most recent project of British producer and singer Dev Hynes. With a distinctive sound that ranges from upbeat funk and electronica to languid jazz, paired with spoken-word poetry and vocal sampling, he earned the record ...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Blak Whyte Gray, the electrifying dance-theater work from Olivier Award–winning East London company Boy Blue, returns to New York after a sensational sold-out U.S. premiere at Lincoln Center's 2018 White Light Festival. With bold hip-hop choreography and a multilayered score that moves from driving ...

Free screening! Claire Denis's latest film is set aboard a spacecraft piloted by death-row prisoners on a decades-long suicide mission to enter and harness the power of a black hole. But as is always the case with this filmmaker, the actual structure seems to evolve organically through moods and ...

Liza Minnelli fans young and old are invited to gather under the stars in Damrosch Park for a rare screening of the Emmy- and Peabody Award–winning Liza with a “Z”. Capturing a one-woman, one-night-only production Minnelli gave at the Lyceum Theater in 1972, and along with it a momentous time in cul...

Gianandrea Noseda, a Mostly Mozart Festival favorite, and pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, deemed an "extraordinary visionary" by the Washington Post, bring their powerful musicianship to Beethoven's sublime concerto. Schubert's "Great" Symphony follows, with its wild rhythmic ride...

Bring the kids and get into the Out of Doors spirit during our annual day dedicated to dancing, singing, and fun around the fountain.   11:00 am Brown Rice Family  A fresh world roots band jamming towards global solidarity, Brown Rice Family provides the masses with distinctively organic glob...

Comedy comes to the Bandshell, headlined with the “charismatic crankiness” of Roy Wood Jr. (Entertainment Weekly). The Daily Show correspondent and host of Comedy Central's storytelling series “This is Not Happening” will be joined by comedy’s brightest—including Ronny Chieng (The Daily Show), Julio...

The International Contemporary Ensemble explores the expressive potential of traditional Persian, Hungarian, American, and Japanese instruments in a program of works influenced by ancient ritual, oceanic wonderment, Irish Bardic poetry, and beyond. This inventive evening culminates in the world prem...

In connection with this summer's presentation of the astonishing Under Siege from Chinese choreographer Yang Liping (August 8–10), the festival screens Ang Lee’s martial arts masterpiece, which won four Academy Awards, including Best Foreign Language Film. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is a drama o...

Hailed for its intrepid, revelatory performances, the Budapest Festival Orchestra and its charismatic leader Iván Fischer are joined by sterling soprano Jeanine De Bique in her festival debut. She lends her vocal elegance to a collection of Handel arias before the orchestra performs Mozart's beloved...

Growing up between cultures, first and second-generation immigrants of the Indian subcontinent have been creating a space for self-expression that acknowledges their hyphenated identities as Desis outside of South Asia. Join us for an exciting and growing lineup of genre-bending creatives defining m...

The intrepid International Contemporary Ensemble performs the music of Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh from the Iranian Female Composers Association. This concert will be preceded by a mini-documentary about the composers.

The “supreme artistry” of the Takács Quartet (Guardian, U.K.) is on full display in this exquisite concert featuring Mozart, Beethoven, and Hungarian composer Ernst von Dohnányi. The ensemble explores the varied colors of Mozart and Beethoven's sound worlds before emerging into the sunshine with Doh...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Violin superstar Joshua Bell joins forces with the Festival Orchestra in an exuberant program that traverses the musically diverse Austro-Hungarian empire. Following Mozart's rich “Prague” Symphony, the orchestra alights on Kodály’s highly virtuosic and animated Dances of Galánta, before concluding ...

Dutch brothers Lucas and Arthur Jussen have astonished audiences worldwide with their dazzling performances. They now light up the night with a buoyant program for piano four hands that reveals the "two souls, one mind" (De Telegraaf) of these rising stars.

There are no physical tickets for Dizzy's Club events, reservations are recommended. Doors open at 6:00pm for the 7:30pm set and 9:00pm for the 9:30pm set. The venue offers a full dinning experience inclusive of craft cocktails. The music cover charge will be added to the final food and beverage bil...

Aida by Giuseppe Verdi Superstar soprano Anna Netrebko thrills in the title role of Verdi's ancient Egyptian epic, going toe to toe with powerhouse mezzosoprano Anita Rachvelishvili as her royal rival. Original transmission: October 6, 2018 Approximate running time: 2 hours 45 minutes     ...

Carmen by Georges Bizet Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the most popular transmission in Live in HD history, which stars Elīna Garanča and Roberto Alagna as the embattled lovers Carmen and Don José. Original transmission: January 16, 2010 Approximate running time: 2 hours 30 minutes             ...

Das Rheingold by Richard Wagner Robert Lepage's innovative staging conjures a world of myth and majesty for the first installment of Wagner’s towering Ring cycle. Original transmission: October 9, 2010 Approximate running time: 2 hour 45 minutes             2019 Summer HD Festival Th...

Dialogues des Carmélites by Francis Poulenc Poulenc's harrowing modern masterpiece features a compelling ensemble, headlined by Isabel Leonard as Blanche and Karita Mattila as Madame de Croissy. Original transmission: May 11, 2019 Approximate running time: 2 hours 45 minutes     2019 Su...

Samson et Dalila by Camille Saint-Saëns Tony Award–winning director Darko Tresnjak's vivid staging features Roberto Alagna and Elīna Garanča in the title roles of Saint-Saëns’s sweeping biblical adaptation. Original transmission: October 20, 2018 Approximate running time: 2 hours 20 minutes ...

Cendrillon by Jules Massenet Massenet's effervescent take on the classic Cinderella story stars Joyce DiDonato as the title character, in a delightfully zany production by Laurent Pelly. Original transmission: April 28, 2018 Approximate running time: 2 hours 25 minutes     2019 Summer H...

La Fanciulla del West by Giacomo Puccini Eva-Maria Westbroek is the fearless heroine of Puccini's romance of the Wild West, opposite tenor Jonas Kaufmann as an outlaw hoping for redemption. Original transmission: October 27, 2018 Approximate running time: 2 hours 25 minutes     2019 Sum...

La Fille du Régiment by Gaetano Donizetti Bel canto specialists Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena serve up one show-stopping vocal display after another in Donizetti's exuberant romantic comedy. Original transmission: March 2, 2019  Approximate running time: 2 hours 20 minutes      2019 ...

Luisa Miller by Giuseppe Verdi Verdi's early drama of love and intrigue stars Sonya Yoncheva in the poignant title role, alongside the incomparable Plácido Domingo as her devoted father and Piotr Beczała as her lover, Rodolfo. Original transmission: April 14, 2018 Approximate running time: 2 h...

Adriana Lecouvreur by Francesco Cilea Cilea's melodrama of 18th-century France receives a sumptuous staging with Anna Netrebko in the title role of the legendary real-life diva, alongside Anita Rachvelishvili and Piotr Beczała. Original transmission: January 12, 2019 Approximate running time: ...

For the first time in series history, Live From Lincoln Center takes its show outside the U.S., presenting the extraordinary musicians of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center in a special broadcast across iconic settings like the Ancient Amphitheater of Larissa, the historic Church of the Tax...

The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis kicks off Opening Weekend in Rose Theater with a musical celebration of South African democracy, 25 years after apartheid's end. Top South African musicians will join the orchestra to perform essential South African music, with each song chos...

Orchestra Moderne NYC Amy Andersson, Conductor Masih Alinejad, Guest Speaker Guest Artists Sonita Alizadeh, Isolde Fair and Nathalie Bonin Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center 8:00pm   Women Warriors: The Voices of Change is a thrilling, live-action concert performed by Orchestra Moder...

The Ogresse is a new musical journey created by vocalist Cécile McLorin Salvant. With its dark and romantic “fairytale-like” story, The Ogresse is a delightfully audacious addition to Salvant's increasingly eclectic body of work. A generational talent adored by critics and all types of audiences, th...

Our Family Concerts are always a good time, and this fun afternoon show will entertain and inspire you—whether you're already a jazz lover, or perhaps simply wondering, “Who is Chick Corea?”   Pianist, composer, and living legend Chick Corea has found endless delight in uncovering new musical ...

Sesame Street comes to Jazz at Lincoln Center for a swinging celebration of the show's 50th anniversary. See some of your favorite feathered and furry friends like Big Bird and Elmo sing classic Sesame Street songs alongside the world-renowned Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis. ...

Paul Taylor American Modern Dance will return to the David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center from October 29 to November 17, with Paul Taylor: Celebrate the Dancemaker, featuring the Paul Taylor Dance Company in a tribute to its founder, who died in 2018. The engagement marks PTAMD's first Lincol...

Tonight we celebrate 50 years of the monumentally influential ECM Records, rightfully called “one of the defining sound-worlds of the past half-century of recorded music” by the New Yorker.   The show includes an outstanding lineup of performers, including Meredith Monk, Joe Lovano, Craig Tabo...

Wagner's Tristan und Isolde, a spellbinding meditation on love and death, has been described as “the love story that changed opera for good” (NPR). For this concert performance of Act II, Gianandrea Noseda makes his first Lincoln Center appearance as music director of the esteemed National Symphony ...

The Grammy Award–winning New Orleans Jazz Orchestra takes the sonic power and stylistic versatility of a big band, adds a New Orleans emphasis on groove and accessibility, and applies it to an unusually expansive repertoire of originals, jazz staples, New Orleans classics, and pop, rock, R&B, an...

If Johann Sebastian Bach had only left the world his six Brandenburg Concertos, he would still reside in the pantheon of the great composers. With their stunning variety of novel instrumentations, their unforgettable tunes, and their irresistible energy, the Brandenburgs easily serve as a definition...

Renowned blues-rock guitarist, multi-platinum-selling singer/songwriter, and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Steve Miller continues his exploration of the blues at Jazz at Lincoln Center.   Having learned his first chords at age five from his godfather Les Paul, how to play lead guitar fro...

It's the most wonderful time of year in the House of Swing! The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis and music director Marcus Printup continue a beloved New York tradition with Big Band Holidays. Featuring soulful, big band versions of classics like “Jingle Bells,” “Joy to the Worl...

Tonight the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will revisit two of its most acclaimed originals: Victor Goines' Untamed Elegance and Chris Crenshaw’s God’s Trombones. Each of these suites highlights the ensemble’s boundless creativity, commitment to artistic vision, and the peerle...

Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra saxophonist Ted Nash is a visionary composer at the top of his game. Nash's most recent creation for the JLCO, The Presidential Suite, earned him Grammy Awards for Best Large Ensemble Jazz Album and Best Instrumental Composition in 2017. Tonight’s concert is the worl...

NEA Jazz Master Dianne Reeves sets the mood for Valentine's Day weekend, continuing a popular tradition at Jazz at Lincoln Center (now in its ninth year!). A master vocalist and hypnotizing storyteller, Reeves has been hailed as “the most admired jazz diva since the heyday of Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fit...

There's just something about New Orleans drummers you don’t find anywhere else, and you’ll recognize that special feeling the moment you hear drummer extraordinaire Herlin Riley. One of the hardest-grooving, most infectiously energetic drummers alive, Riley breaks down every perceived line between a...

Our Family Concerts are always a good time, and this fun afternoon show with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra will entertain and inspire your family—whether you're already jazz lovers, or perhaps simply wondering, “Who is Dave Brubeck?”   This hour-long program will celebrate the tunes and...

“Ambrose Akinmusire may be the most distinctive, elusive, and ultimately satisfying trumpeter of his generation.” – The New York Times “Clearly something very special and personal is at work here, a vision of jazz that's bigger than camps, broader and more intellectually restless…” – The Los Ange...

Can a great composition be compared to the work of a great architect? The Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis invites you to experience the music of Jelly Roll Morton, Charles Mingus, Thelonious Monk, and George Russell from a new angle. With music direction by JLCO trombonist V...

Two extraordinary vocalists—each of them already a popular Jazz at Lincoln Center headliner—share The Appel Room stage in this Singers Over Manhattan season finale. Audiences will enjoy one of the most famous views in the city while Mary Stallings and Freddy Cole sing their hearts out alongside pian...

JLCO saxophonist Sherman Irby leads a gravity-defying exploration of the universe with the world premiere of his new commission. After kicking off the suite with the Big Bang, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis will travel through a series of distinctive movements, evoking awe...

Janáček's gripping domestic drama makes a rare appearance on the Met stage, its first since 2005. The soaring soprano Susanna Phillips sings the title role, a young woman forced by fate to choose between true love and family honor, with beloved mezzo-soprano Dolora Zajick as her unyielding mother-in...

Witness the world premiere of a new all-star trio assembled exclusively for this Jazz at Lincoln Center performance. The dream team comes in a classic organ trio format, with Joey DeFrancesco on the pedals and keys, tenor titan Chris Potter on saxophone, and Jeff “Tain” Watts holding it down on drum...