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Schools may be closed but Lincoln Center Pop-Up Classroom is open. Tune in to @LincolnCenterNYC on Facebook Live every weekday at 10:00 am ET for your daily dose of creativity. Led by some of world's best artists and educators, each creative learning activity utilizes simple materials found at home ...

Every day at 12:30 pm ET, take a break from your day and enjoy some chamber music! We'll be releasing daily chamber music performances and events, highlighting some of the 1,000+ works in our archive, including performances, lectures, and family programs.

Las Cafeteras seamlessly fuse traditional Afro-Mexican music from Veracruz, modern rhythms, and lyrically rich storytelling to create a fresh Urban Folk sound from the streets of East Los Angeles. Playing a remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, they add Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry i...

As he proved in his previous works, including Coast of Death and Night Without Distance, films that take place on borders between countries, or between life and death, Spanish filmmaker Lois Patiño is singularly brilliant at creating transfixing, ghostly images of enormous power. With Red Moon Tide,...

South Africa-raised filmmaker Teboho Edkins's remarkable documentary begins in the Chinese port city of Guangzhou, following the daily movements of a young African man trying to make a living working in a hotel; soon the film moves to Lesotho, a mountainous, landlocked region in the middle of South ...

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Sonia K. Hadad, Iran, 2019, 15m
Persian with English subtitles
New York Premiere
This precisely calibrated nail-biter from Iranian filmmaker Sonia Hadad follows a teenage girl who reluctantly transports her father's cocaine on a school day. Enlivened by a gripping p...

Each year on Memorial Day weekend, The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center takes up residency in one of the country's most beautiful historic sites: Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill in Kentucky, where a vibrant Shaker community once flourished. Live From Lincoln Center went on the road with the e...

Actress Deragh Campbell has been building a repertoire of idiosyncratic, lived-in performances (including last year's ND/NF selection MS Slavic 7), but her rattling, interiorized portrait of a young woman in free-fall in Anne at 13,000 Feet sets new heights for her—as well as for its director, Kazik...

Robert Lepage's landmark staging of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen, unveiled over the course of the 2010–11 and 2011–12 seasons, was the first new Met production of the complete cycle in more than 20 years. Combining state-of-the-art technology with traditional storytelling, it brings Wagner’s vis...

In a poignant and tersely funny domestic drama that moves to its own special rhythms, first-time feature filmmaker Shannon Murphy achieves an impressive tonal balancing act, distinctively capturing the wild ups and intense downs in the life of a teenage girl who knows she doesn't have long to live. ...

In her fiction debut, which she also wrote and co-stars in, French documentary filmmaker Nadège Trebal masters a series of radical tonal shifts for a wildly entertaining, sexually unapologetic portrait of a couple contending with economic instability and the fight to maintain equality in their relat...

Taking its title from a renowned 14th Chinese scroll painting by Huang Gongwang, this debut feature from Gu Xiaogang is a panoramic evocation of one year in the life of a provincial family. In tribute to its artistic inspiration, the film often presents its action from a quiet distance, the camera l...

A finely observed burgeoning romance is set against a rapidly changing landscape in Anna Sofie Hartmann's spare and humane portrait of the dissolving boundaries of our ever more globalized world. Giraffe follows an ethnologist in her late thirties (Lisa Loven Kongsli) who has come to the remote isla...

Joan Soriano infuses steel string bachata with equal parts romance and grit in his performance at the David Rubenstein Atrium at Lincoln Center on October 5, 2017.

In her spellbinding first feature, Brazilian director Maya Da-Rin takes a delicate, metaphorical look at the fragile political state of her country from a perspective most moviegoers haven't seen. Da-Rin centers on the working and home lives of a father and daughter of indigenous Desana descent—midd...

A former criminal and cult member living under cloak of night in the crevices and corners of the Colombian city of Medellín makes his way back into civilization, yet is gripped by a shadowy past, in this fragmented first feature from Camilo Restrepo. After his memorable shorts Cilaos and La bouche, ...

James Levine leads a stirring performance of Wagner's epic comedy, seen in Otto Schenk’s classic production. Baritone Michael Volle stars as Hans Sachs, the cobbler-poet at the heart of this story of love, art, and youth vs. age. Leading Wagnerian tenor Johan Botha is Walther von Stolzing, the young...

After a startling opening image of extreme tension, first-time solo director Robert Machoian's stark, slow-burn drama never quite goes where you expect. An evocative and atmospheric transmission from wintry Utah, The Killing of Two Lovers is a compact, economical portrait of a husband and father try...

Appropriately for a film about the unspoken connection between humans and animals, Kala azar seems to invent a new cinematic language. Set in a desolate, perhaps post-apocalyptic landscape in which people and their dogs, cats, and fish live together in a kind of liminal state, Greek director Janis R...

Enter a world of the unexpected in this exceptional surrealist debut from Uruguayan poet and filmmaker Alex Piperno in which doors never lead to where they're supposed to and the world is a lot smaller than it appears. Melding together two inexplicably interconnected stories from wildly different se...

Met Music Director James Levine leads this Live in HD presentation of Wagner's early Romantic opera, starring Johan Botha in the title role of the minnesinger torn between earthly passion and true love. Eva-Maria Westbroek is Elisabeth, whose unswerving devotion redeems Tannhäuser’s soul, and Peter ...

Winner of the top prize at this year's International Film Festival Rotterdam, this mesmerizing debut feature from Chinese filmmaker Zheng Lu Xinyuan is an autobiographically tinged portrait of 22-year-old Muzi (Jin Jing), a young woman drifting through her days and nights after returning to her home...

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Agustina Comedi, Argentina, 2019, 14m
Spanish with English subtitles
North American Premiere
This fiction-documentary hybrid is a tenderly crafted love letter to a group of Argentine drag queens and trans women as they lose their community to AIDS against the ba...

This eerily placid work of science fiction begins as though a summer idyll in an isolated house in the forest between a middle-aged man (Dominik Warta) and what appears to be his adolescent daughter (Lena Watson). As the languorous days wear on, instances of a stranger, more intimate relationship be...

A visually entrancing fable with a core of steel, Pushpendra Singh's The Shepherdess and the Seven Songs centers on the unforgettable Laila, a ferociously independent young Bakarwal woman from the politically fraught Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir. She movies with her new husband, the shepherd Ta...

The “indispensable” Emerson String Quartet (Newsday) embarks on an intrepid three-concert series pairing Beethoven's “Razumovsky” Quartets with the complete Bartók cycle. This first program opens with Bartók’s Third Quartet, an audacious example of tightly constructed modernism. The brave new world ...

Middle-aged Magdalena (Mercedes Hernandez) has lost contact with her son after he took off with a friend from their town of Guanajuato to cross the border into the U.S., hopeful to find work. Desperate to find out what happened to him—and to know whether or not he's even alive—she embarks on an ever...

Presented as part of the ReelAbilities Film Festival, the largest festival in the U.S. dedicated to promoting awareness and appreciation of the lives, stories, and artistic expressions of people with disabilities.   Accessibility at Lincoln Center presents a screening of Our Time Machine, produc...

A debut of remarkable formal precision, Valentyn Vasyanovych's Atlantis is an urgent yet highly controlled dispatch from the wartorn Donbass in Eastern Ukraine. Set five years into the future, this all-too-real dystopia uses a series of distanced, compositionally rigorous frames to follow Sergey, a ...

A day-in-the-life portrait expands into something else entirely in this patient yet ultimately startling sophomore breakthrough from Tamil filmmaker Arun Karthick. Based on a short story by Dilip Kumar, Nasir takes place in Coimbatore, a town in Tamil Nadu, where a small Muslim community lives along...

Rockwood Music Hall returns to Lincoln Center to present its 7th chapter of Downtown Comes Uptown!
  For one night only, Rockwood Music Hall, Lincoln Center and WFUV Public Radio will partner to feature multiple talented artists, channeling Rockwood Music Hall's mission to spotlight emergi...

A personal conflict between brothers escalates into a political, religious, and moral crisis in the gripping debut from Senegalese filmmaker Mamadou Dia, winner of the Best First Feature award at the Locarno Film Festival. When Tierno (Alassane Sy), the acting imam of a small town, discovers that hi...

Slovak filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský turns a politically fraught moment in his nation's history into a spare, tense morality tale that moves like a thriller. Set in totalitarian Czechoslovakia in 1980, Servants takes place at a Catholic seminary that is being put under increasing pressure by the rulin...

What begins as a seeming exposé into a tragic accident gradually turns into something deeper and more shocking in this heartrending and revelatory documentary about state neglect and corruption. In October 2015, a devastating fire broke out at the Bucharest nightclub Colectiv, killing 27 people that...

In his intensely moving middle-aged queer romance, first-time feature filmmaker Filippo Meneghetti casts Martine Chevallier and the legendary Barbara Sukowa as Madeleine and Nina, two women who live in the same apartment building and have been carrying on a love affair in secret for decades. Now tha...

Ben Whishaw commands the center of every frame in the propulsive feature debut of British filmmaker Aneil Karia, a drama about a young man's mental breakdown that takes off as if from a slingshot and never lets up. Joseph is an airport security worker who’s increasingly affected by the daily pressur...

Las Cafeteras seamlessly fuse traditional Afro-Mexican music from Veracruz, modern rhythms, and lyrically rich storytelling to create a fresh Urban Folk sound from the streets of East Los Angeles. A remix of traditional Son Jarocho sounds, they add Afro-Caribbean marimbol and cajón, poetry in Englis...

A highly unorthodox documentary that has the feel of a precious heirloom, this impressionistic yet emotionally rich film finds Portuguese filmmaker Catarina Vasconcelos sifting through the memories and dreams of her ancestors. In prismatic images, richly shot on 16mm film, we get the sense of a fami...

The terrors of the past haunt the present in the astonishing debut feature from Mexican filmmaker Carlos Lenin, in which trauma lurks beneath every meticulously composed shot. Factory workers Paloma (Paloma Petra) and Lobo (Armando Hernandez) share a tender, loving relationship, though as their stor...

The terrors of the past haunt the present in the astonishing debut feature from Mexican filmmaker Carlos Lenin, in which trauma lurks beneath every meticulously composed shot. Factory workers Paloma (Paloma Petra) and Lobo (Armando Hernandez) share a tender, loving relationship, though as their stor...

American Ballet Theatre Studio Company will perform excerpts from ABT repertoire, including masterworks of classical and neoclassical canons and original new works developed through choreographer commissions. Studio Company members and artistic staff will share how the Studio Company acts as a cruci...

In his last three piano sonatas, Beethoven penned a sublime musical self-portrait riddled with otherworldly insight. “Phenomenally good” pianist Steven Osborne (Arts Desk) interprets these intimate solo works anew, unpacking the composer's genius through a revelatory performance channeling tendernes...

Formed by the acclaimed Korean composer and pianist Daeuk Heo, HEO Trio is a France-based jazz ensemble that maintains a delicate balance between Eastern and Western influences. One of the leading jazz musicians in Korea, Heo is joined by two accomplished French musicians, Frédéric Chiffoleau (doubl...

Dedicated to the art of live storytelling, The Moth returns to Lincoln Center to present another enlightening edition of its popular Mainstage show at Alice Tully Hall. Atlanta-based poet, author and playwright Jon Goode (CNN's Black in America) hosts this inspiring evening featuring a diverse group...

Soprano Anna Netrebko, whom the New York Times hailed as “magnificent” when she made her role debut as Tosca in 2018, returns as Puccini's explosive diva, back by popular demand. Tenors Najmiddin Mavlyanov and Brian Jagde alternate as the idealistic painter Cavaradossi, and baritones George Gagnidze...

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...

Join us as we honor the career of the Academy Award-winning director. “We are delighted to honor Spike Lee, an original and iconic New York filmmaker,” said Ann Tenenbaum, Film at Lincoln Center's Board Chairwoman. “It is thrilling to welcome his bold voice into the pantheon of artists who have r...

Note, this set takes place at 10pm. Rising star trombonist Mariel Bildsten makes her Jazz at Lincoln Center debut as a regular set headliner, following several hit performances during our Late Night Sessions. Over the past several years Bildsten has been featured on our larger stages with renowne...

“Recognized as one of jazz's pre-eminent vocalists, young Sofija Knezevic is making her name as one of the most significant singers in jazz today. While her singing is steeped in tradition, her improvisational virtuosity and creativity are breathtaking.” – The New York Times Vocalist Sofija Kneze...

The Choral Society of Grace Church Ralph Vaughan Williams: A Sea Symphony Saturday, May 2, 2020 at 3:00 pm Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center   John Maclay, conductor Tami Petty, soprano Hadleigh Adams, baritone   Approximately 75 minutes, with no intermission   Glorio...

Damien Sneed presents an electrifying concert of gospel music covering gospel's history from traditional to contemporary. Be encouraged, uplifted and empowered as he takes the audience on a journey of songs of hope and faith.   Presented in collaboration with Jazz at Lincoln Center   Thi...

Join the Mark Morris Dance Group for a special performance of Mark Morris' Words with live musical accompaniment. Set to Felix Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, the work demonstrates what Morris “can do with a simple dance vocabulary and a phenomenally diverse grasp of dance musicality.” (The New Y...

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...

Teaching Artists of CMS use chamber music repertoire favorites to explain how a composer can help us remember a tune long after we have heard it and why we are emotionally moved when we hear a great melody.   Workshop is followed by a reception to celebrate the season.   Presented in col...

Monday, June 15, 2020 at 7:00 PM David Geffen Hall, Lincoln Center   Mozart's Requiem DCINY highlights the fascinating power of music by presenting works that evoke charm and allure. Conductor Laureate Doreen Rao leads the choir and orchestra in Mozart’s Requiem. Conductor/composer Rollo...

Eifman Ballet of St. Petersburg will return to David H. Koch Theater at Lincoln Center with four performances only of Boris Eifman's two act ballet Russian Hamlet, set to music of Ludwig van Beethoven and Gustav Mahler, accompanied by St. Petersburg Symphony Orchestra.

New York City Gay Men's Chorus (NYCGMC) is a pioneering voice for LGBTQ communities in NYC, the US and internationally; through music, we are fearless champions for LGBTQ rights and social justice. Founded in 1979, NYCGMC is comprised of more than 275 talented singers of various ages, backgrounds, a...

Mark Morris, the “Mozart of modern dance” (The Washington Post), returns to Lincoln Center with his beloved masterpiece L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato. A marriage of soaring Handel music and life-affirming dance, the work refers to ways of living and dancing at once: mirthful, melancholy, an...

People gather after the disappearance of Spring. There are questions, accusations, and recriminations, leading to a collective outpouring of loss—the only thing on which the crowd agrees. Finally, a new voice is heard. English composer Jonathan Dove (Flight) and librettist Alasdair Middleton collabo...

Lincoln Center favorites William Christie and Les Arts Florissants return with an elegant pairing of Haydn and Mozart. “Prince of the fortepiano” (Times, UK) Kristian Bezuidenhout adds his revelatory magic to the exquisite Mozart Piano Concerto No. 18, bookended by two of Haydn's Paris Symphonies....

Timeless music, dazzling costumes, breathtaking dance, stunning floral designs. Salute to Vienna New Year's Concert returns to Lincoln Center for an unforgettable New Year’s celebration that will enchant and delight audiences of all ages in New York City.   Freshly updated each year with a new...

A Lincoln Center audience favorite for its inventive performances and unmatched musicality, Iván Fischer and the Budapest Festival Orchestra return with Bruckner's remarkable, unfinished Ninth Symphony and Schumann’s exultant Piano Concerto. The program will feature adventurous Russian pianist Anna ...