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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

Acclaimed Scottish pianist Steven Osborne returns to the festival with a performance of Schubert's final piano sonata, a majestic piece of emotional turbulence and melancholy beauty completed during the last months of the composer's life. Complimentary wine and glittering views from the Stanley H. K...

Alberto “Beto” Jamaica is one of the leading vallenato and cumbia players in Colombia. Since winning the prestigious Professional Leyenda Vallenata Festival competition in 2006, he has become known as the king of Columbian Vallenato. Experience his vibrant, accordion-driven mix of cumbia, paseo, and...

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: ...

Performing mesmerizing Georgian choral music from every corner of this ancient, ethnically diverse region, the striking male voices of Ensemble Basiani embody otherworldly sound from the world's oldest polyphonic tradition. Following a celebrated 2012 White Light Festival appearance, Basiani returns...

The African American experience takes center stage in The Abyssinian Mass, a swinging celebration for big band and gospel choir from Grammy- and Pulitzer Prize–winning composer, bandleader, and trumpeter Wynton Marsalis. Created to mark the bicentennial of Harlem's Abyssinian Baptist Church in 2013,...

The “consistently glorious” Budapest Festival Orchestra (New York Times) and Iván Fischer are known for fresh, surprising performances of well-loved works. This all-Dvořák collection includes a concerto performed by daring violinist Renaud Capuçon and a radiant symphony in a thrilling, folk-inspired...

In this all-Mahler program, Iván Fischer and his boldly original Budapest Festival Orchestra are joined by German contralto Gerhild Romberger for the heart-rending Kindertotenlieder, poignant lamentations on the death of a child. The evening concludes with the arresting Symphony No. 5, an enduring m...