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...

Enter into the glorious company of Mozart and composer Arvo Pärt, whose timeless music, including Te Deum, Cantus in Memory of Benjamin Britten, and Mozart-Adagio, is intertwined with Mozart's eternal Requiem to evoke ritual, healing, and light. Director Elkhanah Pulitzer, “fearless in [her] dramati...

Embodying the engaging spirit of our Festival's namesake, a charming wind octet—known in Mozart’s time as a Harmonie—of Festival Orchestra members performs a delightful free concert of Harmoniemusik, including the Don Giovanni Overture and an absorbing C-minor Serenade, in the David Rubenstein Atriu...

The charismatic Andrew Manze returns to the Festival to illuminate Webern and explore Mozart's legacy with the resplendent “Linz” Symphony and his delightful Piano Concerto No. 22 featuring the “miraculous” Martin Helmchen (San Diego Union-Tribune).

Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven: the supreme triumvirate of Viennese composers is complemented by a New York premiere from Austrian composer HK Gruber, fittingly inspired by Manhattan. “Crisp and confident” American conductor Joshua Weilerstein (New York Times) makes his Festival debut as irresistible pian...

In anticipation of Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson's new opera Blue, the New York Festival of Song performs the music of the Tony Award–winning composer, whose 25-year Broadway career has included the hit shows Thoroughly Modern Millie, Shrek, Fun Home, and Caroline, or Change. Pianist and host...

Dynamite Venezuelan conductor Rafael Payare makes his New York debut with “flair and elegance” (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette) in a soaring program of Mozart and Mendelssohn. Inimitable pianist Emanuel Ax joins for the inventive “Jenamy” Concerto, and the Festival Orchestra conjures castles, fog-obscured ...

Move over, Mozart: The Festival Orchestra and guest conductor Richard Egarr present an all-Beethoven program for the composer's 250th birthday, featuring pianist Stephen Hough, who brings “freshness and fire” (New York Classical Review) to the magisterial “Emperor” Concerto. The jovial Eighth Sympho...

Shakespeare's roguish and loquacious knight, Sir John Falstaff, is the central figure of Verdi’s final opera. The 1893 comedy is the perfect vehicle for Iván Fischer to create one of his ingenious semi-staged spectacles, brilliantly blurring the line between concert and theater: Here, musicians doub...

Beethoven's unprecedented Triple Concerto, described as “three times the fun” (Guardian), becomes a triple threat with the all-star lineup of violinist Joshua Bell, pianist Jeremy Denk, and cellist Steven Isserlis. Louis Langrée and the Festival Orchestra heighten the stakes with Mozart’s dramatic S...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

This season's Winter Festival celebrates the prolific output and influence of Franz Schubert, one of music's truly timeless geniuses.

Like a shooting star, Franz Schubert blazed across music's sky for a brief 31 years, leaving behind over 1,000 works that transformed the Classical int...

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 ...