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American Ballet Theatre

Recognized as a living national treasure, American Ballet Theatre regularly tours the United States and abroad, re-affirming its role as America’s National Ballet Company.® ABT boasts an international roster of the finest dancers, who provide an unusu-ally broad knowledge of styles and athletic prowess, enabling them to perform the Company’s famously wide-ranging reper-toire. Enjoy ABT in New York City during its fall performances at New York City Center, the holiday season with The Nutcracker at the BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, or the upcoming 2012 Spring Season at the Metropolitan Opera House.

2011 fall seasonNew York City Center

november 8 -13

New York City CenterAmerican Ballet Theatre continues a tradition of bringing repertory of unparalleled scope center stage. From classic ballets to innovative premieres, ABT’s world-class dancers bring their dramatic artistry and thrilling bravura to take dance to new heights this fall. Enjoy mixed repertory programs featuring ballets by an impressive roster of choreographers, including Twyla Tharp, Merce Cunningham, Martha Clarke, Paul Taylor, ABT’s Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky, and a premiere by Demis Volpi— the recent winner of

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november 8, 2011, 7:00 pmThe Garden of VillandrySinatra SuiteDemis Volpi PremiereIn the Upper Room

november 9, 2011, 7:30 pmDuetsKnown By Heart Pas de DeuxSeven SonatasBlack Tuesday

november 10, 2011, 2:00 pmThe Garden of VillandrySinatra SuiteSeven SonatasCompany B

november 10, 2011, 7:30 pmDemis Volpi PremiereDuetsThe Garden of VillandryKnown By Heart Pas de DeuxCompany B

november 11, 2011, 7:30 pmBlack TuesdayDemis Volpi PremiereIn the Upper Room

november 12, 2011, 2:00 pmDuetsKnown by Heart Pas de DeuxDemis Volpi PremiereCompany B




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The Nutcracker BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Brooklyn

december 14–31, 2011As the lights dim and Tchaikovsky’s beautiful score fills the air, your entire family will join young Clara for a dreamlike journey amid larger-than-life scenery, magical toy soldiers, mischievous mice, sparkling snowflakes, and a glittering Christmas tree! Featuring an impressive cast of over 100 performers, sets and costumes by Richard Hudson (Tony Award®-winner for The Lion King) and choreography by ABT’s Artist-in-Residence Alexei Ratmansky, The Nutcracker is bound to be a treasured memory for years to come. It is no wonder The New York Times praised, “American Ballet Theatre has a production like no other, made with complete theatrical authority from first to last. The poetry of Alexei Ratmansky’s vision is very striking. I’m impatient to see it again.”

december 14–16, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 17, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 17, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 18, 2011, 1:00 pmdecember 18, 2011, 6:00 pmdecember 20, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 21, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 21 and 22, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 23, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 23, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 24, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 26 and 27, 2011, 7:00 pm




december 28, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 28 and 29, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 30, 2011, 2:00 pmdecember 30, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 31, 2011, 2:00 pm

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Enjoy the power, drama and athleticism of the world’s greatest dancers when American Ballet Theatre returns to the glamor-ous Metropolitan Opera House stage in May 2012 for its annual 8-week season. See exquisitely striking costumes, awe-inspiring sets, timeless tales, such as Swan Lake, and much more.

may 14, 2012, 6:30 pm Opening Night may 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 16, 2012, 2:00 pm Giselle may 16, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 18, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 19, 2012, 11:30 am ABTKids may 19, 2012, 2:00 pm Giselle may 19, 2012, 8:00 pm Giselle may 21, 2012, 7:30 pm Giselle may 22, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 23, 2012, 2:00 pm La Bayadère may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 24, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 25, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 26, 2012, 2:00 pm La Bayadère may 26, 2012, 8:00 pm La Bayadère may 28, 2012, 7:30 pm La Bayadère may 29, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream may 30, 2012, 2:00 pm The Bright Stream may 30, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream may 31, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream



june 1, 2012, 7:30 pm The Bright Stream june 2, 2012, 2:00 pm The Bright Stream june 2, 2012, 8:00 pm The Bright Stream june 4, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 5, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 6, 2012, 2:00 pm Onegin june 6, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 7, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 8, 2012, 7:30 pm Onegin june 9, 2012, 2:00 pm Onegin june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm Onegin june 11, 2012, 7:30 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 12, 2012, 7:30 pm 20th Anniversary Salute: Artistic Director Kevin McKenzie Thirteen Diversions, The Firebird and more!june 13, 2012, 2:00 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 13, 2012, 7:30 pm Thirteen Diversions, Apollo, The Firebird june 14, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 15, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 16, 2012, 2:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 16, 2012, 8:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 18, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 19, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 20, 2012, 2:00 pm Romeo and Juliet june 20, 2012, 7:30 pm Romeo and Juliet june 21, 2012, 7:30 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 22, 2012, 7:30 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 23, 2012, 2:00 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 23, 2012, 8:00 pm The Dream / The Firebird june 25, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 26, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 27, 2012, 2:00 pm Swan Lake june 27, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 28, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake june 29, 2012, 7:30 pm Swan Lake




june 30, 2012, 2:00 pm Swan Lake june 30, 2012, 8:00 pm Swan Lake july 2, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 3, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 4, 2012, 2:00 pm Le Corsaire july 5, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 6, 2012, 7:30 pm Le Corsaire july 7, 2012, 2:00 pm Le Corsaire july 7, 2012, 8:00 pm Le Corsaire

ContactAmerican Ballet Theatre890 BroadwayNew York, NY 10003www.abt.org

TicketsCity Center: (212) 581-1212BAM: (718) 636-4100Metropolitan Opera House: (212) 362-6000




Atlantic Theater Company

Atlantic Theater Company is the award-winning Off-Broadway theater that produces great plays simply and truthfully utilizing an artistic ensemble. Founded in 1985 by David Mamet and William H. Macy, Atlantic believes that the story of a play and the intent of its playwright are at the core of the creative process. The plays in the Atlantic repertory, from both new and established play-wrights, are boldly interpreted by today’s finest theater artists and resonate with contemporary audiences.

Happy HourWorld PremiereSignature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Spaceby Ethan Coendirected by Neil Pepenovember 16, 2011 – january 1, 2012

Ethan Coen returns to Atlantic with this world premiere, follow-ing the success of his hit comedies Almost an Evening and Offices. An embittered barfly has a theory—or two—about what the world has become. A lonely young man and lonely young woman can’t see how right they are for each other. His motel room is so ugly a business traveler wants to end it all. Your life could be worse—and these three one-act comedies show you how.

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CQ/CXWorld PremiereSignature Theatre Company’s Peter Norton Spaceby Gabe McKinleyjanuary 25–march 11, 2012

Jay, an up and coming black reporter at the New York Times, finds his dreams of becoming a famous journalist come crashing down as he becomes the center of a plagiarism scandal. Drawing on his own experience as a newsman, McKinley weaves a reveal-ing and complex story about the collateral damage of unchecked ambition and compounded lies. In this new play inspired by real events, truth becomes slippery and racial tensions reach a boiling point. CQ/CX raises difficult questions about the state of our media culture, and the meaning and price of journalistic integrity. Chimichangas And ZoloftWorld Premiere Atlantic Stage 2by Fernanda Coppeldirected by Jaime Castañedaspring 2012

Suffering from a profound sense of disappointment after her 40th birthday, Sonia flees her family and goes on a binge of prescription Zoloft and greasy chimichangas. Sonia’s rebellious daughter Jackie and her best friend Penelope hatch a plan to lure Sonia back home, while their fathers struggle with a secret as-sociation of their own. This irreverent story examines the search for happiness and the mysteries of sexuality through the eyes of two brazen teenagers.

Sleeping DemonWorld Premiere The Linda Gross Theaterby John Patrick Shanleyspring 2012

Sleeping Demon is the final installment of the trilogy called Church And State, which began with Doubt. The story concerns a Bronx Borough President who is forced, by the mortgage crisis, into a




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Carnegie Hall

For over a century, Carnegie Hall has been the place where distinctive artists of all stripes have come to make their names in New York City. This tradition of excellence has made Carnegie Hall an essential part of the city’s cultural fabric and the world’s most famous concert hall.

Featured Series

International Festival of Orchestras IThis Series includes four events. No series exemplifies Carnegie Hall’s 120th anniversary celebration like this one: the most fa-mous works from that golden age of music into which Carnegie Hall was born—including Tchaikovsky’s “Pathétique” Symphony and Mahler’s “Resurrection”—performed by illustrious orches-tras and top conductors from around the world.

Mariinsky OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 6, 2011, 8:00 pmValery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 1, “Winter Daydreams”pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, “Pathétique”

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et RomantiqueStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagenovember 16, 2011, 8:00 pmSir John Eliot Gardiner, Artistic Director and Conductor

ludwig van beethoven Egmont Overtureludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 7ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 5

Berliner PhilharmonikerStern Auditorium / Perelman Stage

february 25, 2012, 8:00 pmSir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor Camilla Tilling, Soprano Bernarda Fink, Mezzo-Soprano Westminster Symphonic ChoirJoe Miller, Conductor

hugo wolf “Elfenlied”hugo wolf “Der Feuerreiter”hugo wolf “Frühlingschor” from Manuel Venegasgustav mahler Symphony No. 2, “Resurrection”

Vienna Philharmonic OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemarch 2, 2012, 8:00 pmLorin Maazel, Conductor

jean sibelius Symphony No. 7jean sibelius Symphony No. 5jean sibelius Symphony No. 1

International Festival of Orchestras IIThis Series includes four events. Take a musical grand tour with orchestras from four European cultural capitals. Tchaikovsky’s third and fourth symphonies, Bartók’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s “Great” Symphony, and Bruckner’s Ninth are all part of this series.


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Mariinsky OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stage october 10, 2011, 8:00 pmValery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 3, “Polish”pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

Budapest Festival OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 29, 2011, 8:00 pmIván Fischer, Music Director and Conductor András Schiff, Piano

bartók hungarian Peasant Songsbartók piano Concerto No. 2franz schubert Symphony No. 9, “Great”

Berliner PhilharmonikerStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagefebruary 24, 2012, 8:00 pmSir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor

anton bruckner Symphony No. 9 (completion by Benjamin-Gunnar Cohrs)


richard strauss Der Bürger Als Edelmann Suite, Op. 60j. strauss and j. strauss ii Works to be announced

International Festival of Orchestras IIIThis Series includes three events. This is the series for orches-tra lovers that seek a little adventure. This series has music by Debussy and Schoenberg that remains as fresh and revelatory today as it did when it was premiered at the fin-de-siècle, and Lorin Maazel’s Ring Without Words, encapsulating the themes of the groundbreaking opera cycle by Wagner.


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Mariinsky OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 9, 2011, 2:00 pmValery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor

pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 2, “Little Russian”pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Berliner PhilharmonikerStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagefebruary 23, 2012, 8:00 pmSir Simon Rattle, Music Director and Conductor

claude debussy Prélude à l’après-midi d ’un faunedvorák The Golden Spinning-Wheel, Op. 109arnold schoenberg Verklärte Nachtedward elgar Enigma Variations, Op. 36


wolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 40wagner/lorin maazel The Ring Without Words, for Orchestra

Concertos PlusThis Series includes three events. A double shot of Bartók by Perspectives artist András Schiff with the Budapest Festival Or-chestra and its charismatic conductor Iván Fischer leads off this series, followed by two other Carnegie Hall favorites—Emanuel Ax performing Beethoven’s “Emperor” concerto and Itzhak Perlman, Mozart.

Budapest Festival OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 28, 2011, 7:30 pmIván Fischer, Music Director and Conductor András Schiff, Piano


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franz schubert Overture to Die Zauberharfebartók Piano Concerto No. 1bartók Piano Concerto No. 3franz schubert Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major

London Philharmonic OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagedecember 8, 2011, 8:00 pmVladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor Emanuel Ax, Piano

ludwig van beethoven Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat Major, “Emperor”pyotr ilyich tchaikovsky Manfred Symphony, Op. 58

European Union Youth OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageapril 18, 2012, 8:00 pmVladimir Ashkenazy, Music Director and Conductor Itzhak Perlman, Violin

Aaron Copland An Outdoor Overturewolfgang amadeus mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 in G Major, K. 216

Richard Strauss Eine Alpensinfonie

Carnegie Hall ClassicsThis Series includes four events. It’s the perfect series for discovering all that makes Carnegie Hall the perfect place for or-chestral music. Mozart, Beethoven, and Brahms are all a part of Carnegie Hall Classics. So is Stravinsky’s magical Firebird, always an audience favorite, and a shimmering, atmospheric work by Carnegie Hall’s composer-in-residence Kaija Saariaho.

Mariinsky OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 11, 2011, 8:00 pm


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Valery Gergiev, Music Director and Conductor Prizewinner from the XIV International Tchaikovsky Competition

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Orchestre Révolutionnaire Et RomantiqueStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagenovember 17, 2011, 8:00 pmSir John Eliot Gardiner, Artistic Director and Conductor

ludwig van beethoven Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheusludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 4ludwig van beethoven Symphony No. 3, “Eroica”

London Philharmonic OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagedecember 7, 2011, 8:00 pmVladimir Jurowski, Principal Conductor Janine Jansen, Violin

matthias pintscher Towards Osiriswolfgang amadeus mozart Violin Concerto No. 5 in A Major, K. 219, “Turkish”johannes brahms Symphony No. 4

St. Louis SymphonyStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemarch 10, 2012, 8:00 pmDavid Robertson, Music Director and Conductor Karita Mattila, Soprano

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Choral ClassicsThis Series includes three events. When orchestras and choruses


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Baltimore Symphony OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagenovember 19, 2011, 8:00 pmMarin Alsop, Music Director and Conductor Additional artists to be announced

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Boston Symphony OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemarch 6, 2012, 8:00 pmJames Levine, Music Director and Conductor Christine Brewer, Soprano Michelle DeYoung, Mezzo-Soprano Simon O’Neill, Tenor Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone Tanglewood Festival ChorusJohn Oliver, Conductor

ludwig van beethoven Missa solemnis, Op. 123

Les Violons Du RoyStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemarch 25, 2012, 2:00 pmLa Chapelle de QuébecBernard Labadie, Music Director and Conductor Ian Bostridge, Tenor Neal Davies, Bass-Baritone Karina Gauvin, Soprano Damien Guillon, Countertenor Nicholas Phan, Tenor Hanno Müller-Brachmann, Bass-Baritone

johann sebastian bach St. John Passion


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Great American Orchestras IThis Series includes four events. Each orchestra on this series has its own deep, rich history of remarkable performances here at Carnegie Hall. And each is sure to add to its legacy this season with performances of Salome (The Cleveland Orchestra), Scri-abin’s Poem of Ecstasy (Atlanta Symphony Orchestra), Schubert’s “Great” Symphony (Boston Symphony Orchestra), and Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra (The Philadelphia Orchestra).

Atlanta Symphony OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagenovember 5, 2011, 7:30 pmRobert Spano, Music Director and Conductor Garrick Ohlsson, Piano

esa-pekka salonen Nyx (NY Premiere, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Radio France, Barbi-can Centre and Finnish Radio Symphony Orchestra)alexander scriabin The Poem of Ecstasysergei rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3

The Philadelphia OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagefebruary 14, 2012, 8:00 pmCharles Dutoit, Chief Conductor James Ehnes, Violin

richard martin Concerto for Seven Wind Instrumentsfelix mendelssohn Violin Concertobartók Concerto for Orchestra

Boston Symphony OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemarch 7, 2012, 8:00 pmJames Levine, Music Director and Conductor Peter Serkin, Piano

richard wagner A Faust Overturecharles wuorinen Time Regained, a Fantasy for Piano and Orchestrafranz schubert Symphony No. 9, “Great”


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The Cleveland OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemay 24, 2012, 8:00 pmFranz Welser-Möst, Music Director and Conductor Nina Stemme, Soprano Jane Henschel, Mezzo-Soprano Rudolf Schasching, Tenor Eric Owens, Bass-Baritone Additional artists to be announced

richard strauss Salome, Op. 54 (concert performance)

The Philadelphia OrchestraThis Series includes three events. Together, The Philadelphia Orchestra and Dutoit make a “colorful, high-energy” pair (New York Times)—perfect partners for the always intriguing Lang Lang, who joins them for Beethoven’s Second Concerto. It’s a series filled with Romanticism: from Schumann’s “Rhenish” to Chopin’s First Piano Concerto with Maurizio Pollini.

The Philadelphia OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 25, 2011, 8:00 pmCharles Dutoit, Chief Conductor Lang Lang, Piano

fauré Pavane in F-sharp Minorludwig van beethoven Piano Concerto No. 2 in B-flat Majordmitri shostakovich Symphony No. 10

The Philadelphia OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageapril 27, 2012, 8:00 pmSir Simon Rattle, Conductor

johannes brahms Symphony No. 3anton webern Six Pieces, Op. 6robert schumann Symphony No. 3, “Rhenish”


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The Philadelphia OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemay 18, 2012, 8:00 pmCharles Dutoit, Chief Conductor Maurizio Pollini, Piano

ludwig van beethoven Overture to Die Geschöpfe des Prometheus, Op. 43frédéric chopin Piano Concerto No. 1 in E Minormaurice ravel Daphnis et Chloé (complete)

The MET OrchestraThis Series includes three events. Always adventurous, Levine and The MET Orchestra returns to Carnegie Hall this season with a wide range of music—and some very special guests. Among them are the People’s Diva Renée Fleming, performing Mahler’s Rückert Lieder, and a double shot of Christian Tetzlaff, who give us Mendelssohn and Schoenberg on the same concert.

The MET OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageoctober 16, 2011, 3:00 pmJames Levine, Music Director and Conductor Richard Goode, Piano Christine Rice, Mezzo-Soprano

wolfgang amadeus mozart Piano Concerto No. 25 in C Major, K. 503john harbison / alice munro Closer To My Own Life (World Premiere)George Gershwin An American in Paris

The MET OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagejanuary 15, 2012, 3:00 pmJames Levine, Music Director and Conductor Anthony McGill, Clarinet Stephen Williamson, Clarinet Renée Fleming, Soprano


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aaron copland Clarinet Concertojohn corigliano Clarinet Concertogustav mahler “Ich atmet’ einen linden Duft”gustav mahler “Liebst du um Schönheit”gustav mahler “Um Mitternacht”gustav mahler “Blicke mir nicht in die Lieder”gustav mahler “Ich bin der Welt abhanden gekommen”robert schumann Konzertstück for Four Horns and Orchestra, Op. 86

The MET OrchestraStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagemay 20, 2012, 3:00 pmJames Levine, Music Director and Conductor Christian Tetzlaff, Violin

wolfgang amadeus mozart Adagio in E Major, K. 261felix mendelssohn Violin Concertoarnold schoenberg Violin Concerto, Op. 36

Orchestra of St. Luke’sThis Series includes three events. New York City’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s puts its focus on Mozart and the Classical period in 2011–2012. Roger Norrington leads the group in a concert that includes Beethoven’s First Piano Concerto with Jeremy Denk and Mozart’s Symphony No. 39. All of this is a prelude to a series finale with Iván Fischer that is truly grand—Mozart’s Requiem.

Orchestra of St. Luke’sStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagedecember 15, 2011, 8:00 pmRobert Spano, Conductor Susanna Phillips, Soprano Sasha Cooke, Mezzo-Soprano Nicholas Phan, Tenor Joshua Hopkins, Baritone Atlanta Symphony Orchestra Chamber ChorusNorman Mackenzie, Director


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olivier messiaen Trois petites liturgies de la Présence Divinejohann sebastian bach Magnificat, BWV 243

Orchestra of St. Luke’sStern Auditorium / Perelman Stagefebruary 16, 2012, 8:00 pmSir Roger Norrington, Conductor Jeremy Denk, Piano

joseph haydn Symphony No. 39 in G Minorludwig van beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Majorwolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 39

Orchestra of St. Luke’sStern Auditorium / Perelman Stageapril 12, 2012, 8:00 pmIván Fischer, Conductor Dominique Labelle, Soprano Kelley O’Connor, Mezzo-Soprano Remaining soloists to be announced Musica SacraKent Tritle, Music Director

wolfgang amadeus mozart Symphony No. 34 in C Major, K. 338wolfgang amadeus mozart Requiem, K. 626

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Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum

The museum’s main facility, housed in the Carnegie Mansion, will undergo renovation, beginning in fall 2011, as part of a $64 million capital campaign that includes enlarged and enhanced facilities for exhibitions, collections display, education programming and the National Design Library, and an increased endowment. During this time, we will program our exhibitions off-site. Our first off-site exhibition during the renovation will be “Design with the Other 90%: Cities” at the United Nations.

“Design with the Other 90%: Cities,” the second in a series of themed exhibitions by Cooper-Hewitt that demonstrate how design can address the world’s most critical issues, opens Oct. 15, 2011 at the United Nations and runs through January 9, 2012. Organized by Cynthia E. Smith, the museum’s curator of socially responsible design, the exhibition will feature more than 60 projects from 22 countries around the globe.

ContactCooper-Hewitt National Design Museum2 East 91st Street, New York, NY 10128-0606www.cooperhewitt.org

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The Frick Collection

The Frick Collection is one of New York City’s most beloved cultural treasures. Remarkable paintings, sculptures, and decor-rative art objects are presented in the family’s former Fifth Avenue mansion. A visit to The Frick Collection evokes the splendor and tranquility of a time gone by.

Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Traditionoctober 4, 2011, through january 8, 2012Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) is generally acknowledged to be the greatest draftsman of the 20th century. The Frick Collection, New York, and the National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., have co-organized an exhibition for 2011–12 that will look at the dazzling development of Picasso’s drawings, from the precocious academic exercises of his youth in the 1890s to the virtuoso classical works of the early 1920s. Through a selection of more than 50 works at each venue, the presentation will examine the artist’s stylistic experiments and techniques in this roughly 33-year period, which begins and ends in a classical mode and encompasses the radical innovations of Cubism and collage. The show (which opens at the Frick in the fall of 2011 and moves on to the National Gallery of Art in February of 2012) will dem-onstrate how drawing served as an essential means of invention and discovery in Picasso’s multifaceted art, while its centrality in

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his vast oeuvre connects him deeply with the grand tradition of European masters. Indeed, the exhibition will bring to the fore his complex engagement with artists of the near and distant past and will explore the diverse ways he competed with the virtuoso techniques of his predecessors and perpetuated them in revital-ized form. Picasso’s Drawings, 1890–1921: Reinventing Tradition will feature loans from important public and private collections in Europe and the United States and will be accompanied by a full-length catalogue of the same name. It is being organized by Susan Grace Galassi, Senior Curator, The Frick Collection, and Marilyn McCully, Picasso expert, in conjunction with Andrew Robison, Mellon Senior Curator of Prints and Drawings at the National Gallery.

Comments Galassi, “Over the past decade several exhibitions organized both in the United States and abroad have explored Picasso’s art in relation to Western and non-Western traditions. The show focuses on this fundamental aspect of his work, specifically in relation to his drawings, where his interaction with artists of the past often first emerged. Our project aims to take a fresh look at Picasso’s drawing practice from his early training to maturity.”

Major funding for the exhibition in New York is provided by Bill and Donna Acquavella, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation, and Melvin R. Seiden. Additional support is provided by Walter and Vera Eberstadt, Agnes Gund, the Pierre and Tana Matisse Foundation, and the Thaw Charitable Trust. The project is also supported, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.

ContactThe Frick Collection1 East 70th StreetNew York, NY 10021www.frick.org

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Guggenheim Museum

An internationally renowned art museum and one of the most significant architectural icons of the 20th century, the Guggen-heim Museum is at once a vital cultural center, an educational institution, and the heart of an international network of muse-ums. Visitors can experience special exhibitions of modern and contemporary art, lectures by artists and critics, performances and film screenings, classes for teens and adults, and daily tours of the galleries led by experienced docents. Founded on a collec-tion of early modern masterpieces, the Guggenheim Museum today is an ever-growing institution devoted to the art of the 20th century and beyond.

Kandinsky’s Painting with White Borderoctober 21, 2011 – january 15, 2012Vasily Kandinsky’s canvas Painting with White Border (Bild mit weissem Rand) was inspired by a trip to Moscow in fall 1912. Upon his return to Munich in December, Kandinsky searched for a way to visually record the “extremely powerful impressions” of his native homeland that lingered in his memory. Over a period of five months, he explored various motifs and compositions in study after study, moving freely between pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, and oil. After he produced at least 16 studies, Kandinsky finally arrived at the pictorial solution to the paint-ing: the white border. This focused exhibition, co-organized

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with the Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C., will bring the Guggenheim’s final version of the painting together with more than 12 preparatory drawings and watercolors and one major oil sketch, and will feature the results of an extensive conservation study of the Phillips and Guggenheim paintings. A rare glimpse into Kandinsky’s creative process, this presentation reveals the gradual and deliberate way the artist sought to translate his ideas into a bold new language of abstraction.

Intervals: Nicola Lópezfall 2011As part of the Guggenheim’s ongoing Intervals series, New York-based artist Nicola López will create the site-specific work Land-scape X, a sculptural collage environment in the rotunda. Intervals is designed to reflect the spirit of today’s most innovative prac-tices. Conceived to take place in the interstices of the museum’s exhibition spaces, in individual galleries, or beyond the physical confines of the building, the program invites a diverse range of practitioners to create new work. López will utilize three levels of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda between the exhibitions Lee Ufan: Marking Infinity and Maurizio Cattelan: All. Taking the construction site as a point of departure, López appropriates elements of urban infrastructure from chain-link fencing to orange mesh barriers to lane markers for her graphic intervention in the space. In Landscape X, the exterior floods the interior, the grid invades the spiral, and order is distorted. Using various printing, painting, and collage methods, the vocabulary of forms will periodically appear on available surfaces along the scrim, floor, wall, and ceiling. The work heightens the viewer’s awareness of the existing architecture and the sense of imminent activity on the other side of scrim.

Maurizio Cattelan: All november 4, 2011 –january 22, 2012This retrospective survey will provide an overview of the Italian-born artist’s career, now nearly 20 years long but still vital and productive. Hailed simultaneously as a provocateur, prankster, and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan has created some of the most unforgettable images in recent contemporary art. His source materials range widely, from popular culture,



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history, and organized religion to a meditation on the self that is at once humorous and profound. Working in a vein that can be described as hyperrealist, Cattelan creates unsettlingly veristic sculptures and installations that reveal contradictions at the core of modern-day society. While bold and irreverent, the work is also deadly serious in its scathing cultural critique.

This presentation marks the first time that the entirety of Cattelan’s oeuvre will be assembled into a coherent exhibition narrative, with more than 130 works on view, borrowed from pri-vate and public collections around the world and ranging from the late 1980s to the present. Long interested in the display of his work as part of his overall conceptual practice, Cattelan has a history of responding to the various contexts in which his art is encountered. His survey exhibition at the Guggenheim will fol-low suit by providing a platform for him to create a site-specific installation designed to encapsulate his complete production to date. The exhibition will fill the Guggenheim’s Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda in an unorthodox and dramatic instal-lation designed by the artist.

John Chamberlain: Choicesfebruary 24 – may 13, 2012While John Chamberlain has been associated with Minimalist and Pop art movements alike, attempts to place him in such various, conflicting categories acknowledge the artist’s singular-ity. Chamberlain’s tireless pursuit of discovery and his intuitive, curious process distinguish him as one of the most important American sculptors of our time. This exhibition comprises ap-proximately 110 works, from his earliest linear, monochromatic iron sculptures to the large-scale foil creations he is working on today, encompassing shifts in scale, materials, methods, and type, informed by the assemblage process that has been central to Chamberlain’s working method.

Chamberlain rose to prominence in the late 1950s with ener-getic, vibrant sculptures hewn from disused car parts, achiev-ing a three-dimensional form of Abstract Expressionism that astounded critics and captured the imagination of fellow artists. For a period in the 1960s, he turned to painting, using an enamel automobile finish to produce highly glossed, small-format square pictures; fueled by his interest in science, he produced sculp-tures in unusual materials, such as urethane foam, aluminum



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foil, paper bags, and mineral-coated Plexiglas. Since returning in the mid-1970s to metal as his primary material, Chamberlain limited himself to specific parts of the automobile, adding color to found car parts, dripping, spraying, and patterning on top of existing hues to an often wild effect. In recent years, the artist has embarked on the production of a new body of work that demonstrates a decided return to earlier themes.

Being Singular Pluralmarch 2 – june 6, 2012Being Singular Plural presents audiences with a unique oppor-tunity to encounter the film, video, and sound-based work of seven contemporary artists, filmmakers, and media practitioners living and working in India today. The exhibition will consist of several newly conceived and specially co-produced projects that celebrate and explore the unobtrusive, the unseen, and the individual nature of life and the moving image. The theories of philosopher Jean-Luc Nancy, whose ideas include “being singular plural” and “the evidence of film,” serve as the intel-lectual framework for the exhibition. Desire Machine Collective (Sonal Jain and Mriganka Madhukaillya), whose name derives from the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, seeks to redirect attention toward careful looking, watching, and listening. The duo will install a site-specific sound installation Trespassers Will Be Prosecuted (2008/12) as a public art piece outside the museum, and will exhibit two new moving-image projects: Residue (2009–12), a 35 mm film installation, and Nishan (2007–), a meditative video installation on the contested region of Kashmir in India. Shumona Goel’s films investigate the stories of people who are often unheard or events that go un-witnessed. For Being Singular Plural, she and codirector Shai Heredia present I am micro (2009–), a 16 mm black-and-white film that mixes documentary, fictional, and philosophical commentary. Amar Kanwar’s complex videos and installations are fragmented nar-ratives of violence, displacement, and resistance told through lyrical images and texts. His The Torn First Pages (2004–08) indi-rectly portrays (among other stories) the unbelievable horrors perpetrated by the Burmese junta upon its people, as well as the lives of Burmese exiles living in Norway and the United States. Kabir Mohanty also encourages alternative types of visual and



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auditory experience. Some of his videos can be held in monitors that fit in the palm of one’s hand, while others test the limits of extended screenings. For Being Singular Plural, he offers his ex-tended project Song for an ancient land (2003–), which, through its combination of new and archival material and complex camerawork, demands a new kind of viewership. Together with sound engineer Vikram Joglekar, Mohanty has also redesigned his multimedia sound installation In Memory (2009) to specifi-cally respond to the museum galleries.

Francesca Woodmanmarch 16 – june 13, 2012Francesca Woodman will be the first major American exhibition of this artist’s work in more than two decades, and the first comprehensive survey of her brief but extraordinary career to be seen in the United States. The retrospective will include more than 150 vintage photographs, many of which have never been exhibited, and includes several of the large-scale blueprints she created at the end of career, as well as the intimate black-and-white photographs for which she is best known. Now nearly 30 years since her death, the moment is ripe for a historical reconsideration of her work and its reception. Born in 1958, Woodman’s oeuvre represents a remarkably rich and singular exploration of the human body in space, and of the genre of self-portraiture in particular. Her deep and personal interest in serial imagery, Surrealism, Conceptualist practice, and photog-raphy’s relationship to both literature and performance are also the hallmarks of the heady moment in American photography during which she came of age. This retrospective offers an occa-sion to examine more closely the maturation and expression of a highly subjective and coherent artistic vision. It also presents an important and timely opportunity to reassess a critical juncture in American photographic history.

International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949–1960 (working title)june – september 2012This exhibition explores international contemporary trends in abstraction in the decade before the Guggenheim’s iconic Frank Lloyd Wright-designed building opened in 1959. Alternately embracing artistic freedom and gesture-based styles, nontradi-



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tional materials and counter-cultural references, American and European artists in the post-World War II era pioneered such influential developments as Abstract Expressionism, CoBrA, Taschism, and Art Informel. International Abstraction and the Guggenheim especially highlights paintings and sculptures that entered the Guggenheim collection during the tenure of the museum’s second director, James Johnson Sweeney, from 1952 to 1960. Following Solomon R. Guggenheim’s death in 1949, and the end of founding director and curator Hilla Rebay’s tenure, Sweeney championed emerging and younger artists and augmented the museum’s existing modern holdings with what he called the “tastebreakers” of his day. Through collection works by Karel Appel, Alberto Burri, Eduardo Chillida, Willem de Kooning, Jackson Pollock, Pierre Soulages, Kumi Sugaï, Antoni Tàpies, Takeo Yamaguchi, and others, this exhibition reveals the striking affinities between artists working continents apart in a period of great transition and rapid creative development. Rineke Dijkstrajune 29 – october 3, 2012Rineke Dijkstra is the first U.S. mid-career survey of this impor-tant Dutch artist’s work in photography and video. Dijkstra came to prominence in the 1990s with her celebrated Beach Portraits, large-scale color photographs of children on the verge of adolescence posed on beaches around the world, from South Carolina to the Ukraine. From that point on, her sensitive and visually riveting portraits have documented individuals caught in transitional states, sometimes due to physical exertion, for ex-ample after giving birth or dancing, or charted over time through series. Along with other Western European photographers such as Thomas Struth and Thomas Ruff, Dijkstra has been a leading innovator in the production of large-scale color images, which came to define contemporary photography in the 1990s and have transformed it ever since. This comprehensive retrospec-tive will feature the Beach Portraits and other early works such as the photographs of new mothers and bullfighters, together with selections from Dijkstra’s later work. It also includes series that she has been working on continuously for years, such as Almerisa (1994–2008), which documents a young immigrant girl as she grows up and adapts to her new environment. Dijkstra’s work in video will be fully integrated in the exhibition.



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Picasso Black and Whiteoctober 5, 2012 – january 23, 2013Few artists have exerted as considerable an influence over subse-quent generations as Pablo Picasso, who is renowned for a great variety of styles, techniques, and ideas. Picasso Black and White is the first exhibition in a major museum setting to explore Picasso’s use of the recurrent motif of black and white across his oeuvre. Covering the whole of Picasso’s lengthy career, it considers all his major subjects through this particularly striking feature, as it pervades his rose and blue periods, investigations into Cubism, neo-classical and Surrealist-inspired figure paint-ings, homage to old masters canvases, and novel interpretations of historical subjects, as well as the highly charged works of his twilight years. His deceptively simple palette of isolated black, white, and gray hues and tones belies the extraordinary complex-ity and power of his most expressive and spontaneous works by purging color in order to highlight their inherent structure.

This comprehensive chronological show will explore the consistency of Picasso’s career articulated through this striking formal study in an unprecedented fashion. It will comprise ap-proximately one hundred paintings and sculptures and a small selection of works on paper drawn from museums across Europe and the United States, as well as significant loans from private collections, including those of the Picasso family.

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Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Lincoln Center is the world’s lead-ing performing arts center. Located on 16.3 acres in New York City, the Lincoln Center complex comprises 12 Resident Organizations, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. is one of those 12. Since Lincoln Center first opened its doors, it has been a major contributor to New York City’s cultural and intellectual life, with an internationally recognized dedication to artistic excellence. Perhaps less apparent is the extent to which Lincoln Center serves as a dynamic economic engine for the region, hosting some five million visitors annually and transforming the Upper West Side into an exciting neighborhood that is now one of New York’s most desirable places in which to live and work.

Vienna SymphonyAvery Fisher Hallnovember 13, 2011, 3:00 pmFabio Luisi, conductor Lise de la Salle, piano

rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2schmidt Symphony No. 4

Vienna SymphonyAvery Fisher Hall

London Symphony OrchestraSir Colin Davis, conductor Photo: Stephanie Berger

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november 14, 2011, 8:00 pmFabio Luisi, conductor

beethoven Triple Concerto, Eroica Trio brahms Symphony No. 2

Pittsburgh Symphony OrchestraAvery Fisher Hallfebruary 26, 2012, 3:00 pmManfred Honeck, conductor Hilary Hahn, violin

prokofiev Violin Concerto No. 1 in D major

Dresden PhilharmonicAvery Fisher Hallmarch 11, 2012, 3:00 pmRafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Gautier Capuçon, cello

Weber Overture to Der Freischütz Dvorák Cello ConcertoBeethoven Symphony No. 5

Academy of St. Martin in the FieldsAvery Fisher Hallapril 11, 2012, 8:00 pmJoshua Bell, director and violin

All BeethovenOverture to CoriolanSymphony No. 4Violin Concerto

Bamberg SymphonyAvery Fisher Hallmay 20, 2012, 3:00 pmJonathan Nott, conductor Christian Zacharias, piano

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webern Five Pieces, Op. 10schubert Symphony No. 4 (“Tragic”) brahms Piano Concerto No. 2

Bamberg SymphonyAvery Fisher Hallmay 21, 2012, 8:00 pmJonathan Nott, conductor Christian Zacharias, piano

beethoven Piano Concerto No. 4ives The Unanswered Questionschubert Symphony No. 8 (“Unfinished”)

Chamber Orchestras

Britten Sinfonia (New York Debut) Alice Tully Hallfebruary 22, 2012, 7:30 pmThomas Adès, conductor and piano Pekka Kuusisto, violin

couperin Les baricades mistérieusescouperin (arr. Adès) Les baricades mistérieusesadès Three Studies After Couperinravel Le tombeau de Couperinstravinsky Chants du rossignol, Marche chinoise, Suites Nos. 1 and 2adès Concerto for Violin, Concentric Paths

Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra and Choir Alice Tully Hallmarch 15, 2012, 7:30 pmTon Koopman, conductor

All BachCantata Du Hirte Israel, höreMagnificat Cantata Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben




Collegium Vocale Gent Choir and OrchestraAlice Tully Hall march 31, 2012, 8:00 pmPhilippe Herreweghe, conductor

Bach St. Matthew Passion

Freiburg Baroque OrchestraAlice Tully Hall may 1, 2010, 3:00 pmGottfried von der Goltz, violin and director

All BachComplete Orchestral Suites Nos. 1–4

Virtuoso RecitalsMurray Perahia, pianoAlice Tully Hallmarch 25, 2012, 3:00 pm

program to be announced

Pierre-Laurent Aimard, pianoAlice Tully Hallapril 21, 2012, 7:30 pm

works of liszt, bartók, ravel, messiaen, and marco stroppa

Sergey Khachatryan, violinLusine Khachatryan, pianoAlice Tully Hallmay 23, 2012, 7:30 pm

works of beethoven and bach

Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hallmarch 21, 2012, 7:30 pm

mozart and beethoven: the late quartets mozart Quartet in D major (“Prussian”)

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beethoven Quartet in E-flat major, Op. 127beethoven Quartet in A minor, Op. 132

Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hall april 4, 2012, 7:30 pm

mozart Adagio and Fugue in C minormozart Quartet in B-flat major (“Prussian”)beethoven Alternate Finale to Op. 130beethoven Quartet in B-flat major, Op. 130, with Grosse Fugue, Op. 133

Emerson String Quartet Alice Tully Hall april 29, 2012, 5:00 pm

mozart Quartet in F major (“Prussian”)beethoven Quartet in F major, Op. 135beethoven Quartet in C-sharp minor, Op. 131

Art of the SongGerald Finley, bass-baritone Julius Drake, piano Alice Tully Hallfebruary 27, 2012, 7:30 pm

works of schumann and britten

Michael Schade, tenorThomas Quasthoff, baritoneJustus Zeyen, piano Alice Tully Hallmarch 25, 2012, 5:00 pm

works of mendelssohn, mozart, schubert, schumann, and brahms

Anna Caterina Antonacci, soprano (New York Debut)Donald Sulzen, piano Alice Tully Hallapril 8, 2012, 5:00 pm




works of fauré, hahn, bachelet, tosti, tirindelli, cimara, toscanini, respighi, and zandonai

Christine Brewer, sopranoCraig Rutenberg, pianoAlice Tully Hallmay 13, 2012, 5:00 pm

works of r. strauss, marx, and american composers

Callas on Film

Callas on FilmWalter Reade Theatermarch 17, 2012, 1:30 pm

Program 1 Vissi d ’ Arte


Program 2 The Hamburg Concert: 1959


Program 3 Callas in Conversation and On Stage

Sunday Morning Coffee Concerts

Sunday Morning Coffee ConcertWalter Reade Theaterfebruary 26, 2012, 11:00 amMa’alot Quintett

Sunday Morning Coffee ConcertWalter Reade Theatermarch 18, 2012, 11:00 am Parisii Quartet

Sunday Morning Coffee ConcertWalter Reade Theaterapril 1, 2012, 11:00 am




Andreas Brantelid, celloShai Wosner, piano

Sunday Morning Coffee ConcertWalter Reade Theaterapril 29, 2012, 11:00 amClaire Chase, fluteJacob Greenberg, piano

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theaterdecember 12, 2011, 7:30 pmManhattan School of Music Chamber SinfoniaTodd Palmer, clarinet

beethoven Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13 (“Pathétique”)

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theater

february 27, 2012, 7:30 pm Inon Barnatan, piano

What Makes it Great? with Rob Kapilow Walter Reade Theaterapril 23, 2012, 7:30 pmSally Wilfert, sopranoMichael Winther, tenor

Cole Porter Songs

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Metropolian Museum of Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world’s largest and finest art museums. Its collections include more than two million works of art spanning five thousand years of world culture, from prehistory to the present and from every part of the globe. Nearly five million people visit the Museum each year. The mission of The Metropolitan Museum of Art is to collect, preserve, study, exhibit, and stimulate appreciation for and ad-vance knowledge of works of art that collectively represent the broadest spectrum of human achievement at the highest level of quality, all in the service of the public and in accordance with the highest professional standards.

Historic Images of the Greek Bronze Age: The Reproductions of E. Gilliéron & Sonmay 17 – november 13, 2011This exhibition features a selection of early 20th century repro-ductions of now-famous works of art from Sir Arthur Evans’s historic excavations of Minoan Crete and Heinrich Schliemann’s Mycenaean Greece. Emile Gilliéron and later his son were the senior draftsmen for Evans, responsible for reconstructing the fresco paintings in the palace at Knossos. The Gilliérons formed a thriving business selling original watercolors after the frescoes and other reproductions of three dimensional artworks, which they made directly from the originals. Their work influenced the

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study of Aegean art and was integral to its widespread introduc-tion throughout Europe and America. The installation draws from the Metropolitan Museum’s own collection of Gilliéron reproductions, which is the largest in existence.

Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museumjuly 26 – october 10, 2011The Metropolitan Museum of Art holds the most important collection of paintings in America by the celebrated Dutch artist Frans Hals (1582/83–1666), whose portraits and genre scenes were famous in his lifetime for their immediacy and dazzling brushwork. Frans Hals in the Metropolitan Museum will present 13 paintings by Hals, including two lent from private collections, and several works by other Netherlandish masters. Several of the Museum’s paintings by Hals are famous, especially the early Merrymakers at Shrovetide (ca. 1616) and the so-called Jonker Ramp and His Sweetheart (1623), both bequeathed to the Museum by Benjamin Altman in 1913. Also included in the exhibition will be two loans from private collections in New York—the small, exquisite Portrait of Samuel Ampzing (1630), on copper, and the well-known Fisher Girl (1630–32). A selection of other Dutch paintings from the Museum’s collection and a few engravings will set Hals’ work in the context of his native Haarlem and will help clarify how exceptional his animated poses and virtuoso brushwork were at the time. A portrait by Manet, inspired by Hals, will also demonstrate how strongly Hals anticipated impressionist effects.

9/11 Peace Story Quiltaugust 30, 2011 – january 22, 2012The 9/11 Peace Story Quilt was designed by Faith Ringgold and constructed in collaboration with New York City students aged 8–19. The quilt poignantly conveys the importance of communi-cation across cultures and religions to achieve the goal of peace. Comprised of three panels, each with 12 squares on the theme of peace, the quilt will be displayed in the Ruth and Harold D. Uris Center for Education alongside several original works of art that inspired the quilt’s content.




Infinite Jest: Caricature and Satire from Leonardo to Levineseptember 13, 2011 – january 8, 2012The exhibition explores caricature and satire in its many forms from the Italian Renaissance to the present, drawn primarily from the rich collection of this material in the Department of Drawings and Prints in the Metropolitan Museum. The show includes drawings and prints by Leonardo da Vinci, Eugène Delacroix, Francisco de Goya, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and Enrique Chagoya alongside works by artists more often associated with the genre—James Gillray, Thomas Rowlandson, Honoré Daumier, and Al Hirschfeld.

Heroic Africans: Legendary Leaders, Iconic Sculpturesseptember 20, 2011 – january 29, 2012

Over the centuries across sub-Saharan Africa, artists have drawn upon various media to memorialize for posterity eminent individuals of their societies. They have achieved this in an astonishingly diverse repertory of regional sculptural idioms, both natu-ralistic and abstract, that idealize their subjects through complex aesthetic formulations. The original patrons of such depictions intended for them to commemorate specific elite members

of a given community. For over a century, however, isolation of those creations from the sites, oral traditions, and sociocultural contexts in which they were conceived, has led them to be seen as timeless abstractions of generic archetypes.

This exhibition will consider eight landmark sculptural tradi-tions from West and Central Africa created between the 13th and early 20th centuries in terms of the individuals who inspired their creation. It will highlight the standardized aesthetic conventions apparent across a selection of 120 masterpieces that define particular regional genres, and will consider the cultural values that inform them. Selected for their artistic importance that has generated a critical mass of scholarship are the Akan




of Ghana, ancient Ife civilization and the Kingdom of Benin of Nigeria, Bangwa and related chiefdoms of the Cameroon Grassfields, the Chokwe of Angola and Zambia, and the Luluwa, Hemba, and Kuba of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This examination of major African forms of expression reveals the hidden meaning and inspiration of these great artisticachievements.

“Wonder of the Age:” Master Painters of India, 1100–1900september 28, 2011 – january 8, 2012An exhibition devoted to the connoisseurship of Indian paint-ing, with works selected according to identifiable hands and named artists, dispelling the notion of the anonymity in Indian art. New scholarship has begun to securely link innovations in style with specific artists and their lineages. The identities of individual artists and their oeuvre are defined through signed and attributed works, presented through the greatest works of Indian painting known. The high points of artistic innovation in Indian painting will be demonstrated through the works of the 40 greatest painters in the history of Indian art. Drawn from collections in India, Europe, and the United States, it will in-clude some 220 works, each artist represented by seminal works.

The Alfred Stieglitz Collectionoctober 13, 2011 – january 2, 2012This exhibition is the first large-scale presentation of paint-ings, sculptures, drawings, and prints from Alfred Stieglitz’s collection, acquired by the Metropolitan in 1949. In addition to being a master photographer, Stieglitz (1864–1946) was a visionary promoter of modern American and European art, and he assembled a vast art collection of exceptional breadth and depth. Through a succession of influential galleries that he ran in New York City between 1905 and 1946, Stieglitz exhibited many of the most important artists of the era, and he collected works by Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, Constantin Brancusi, Gino Severini, Wassily Kandinsky, Georgia O’Keeffe, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Charles Demuth, and Arthur Dove. For more than 60 years, The Alfred Stieglitz Collection has been the cornerstone of the Museum’s holdings of modern American art.




The exhibition features some 300 major works by American and European modernists, supplemented by photographs by the Photo-Secessionists and publications by Stieglitz—all from the Metropolitan’s holdings. Highlights include Picasso’s Woman Ironing and Standing Female Nude, Kandinsky’s Garden of Love, Brancusi’s Sleeping Muse, O’Keeffe’s Black Iris and Cow’s Skull: Red, White, and Blue, Demuth’s I Saw the Figure 5 in Gold, and Hartley’s Portrait of a German Officer.

The Game of Kings: Medieval Ivory Chessmen from the Isle of Lewisnovember 15, 2011 – april 22, 2012More than 30 of the world’s most famous chess pieces—all part of a hoard unearthed in 1843 on the isle of Lewis, off the west

coast of Scotland—will be shown at The Cloisters, the branch of the Metropolitan Museum dedicated to the art and architecture of the Middle Ages. Created in the mid-12th century, probably in Scandinavia, each piece is a precious miniature sculpture in walrus ivory. The game of chess as we know it today is one of the great lega-cies of the Middle Ages, and the Lewis chess pieces are among the earliest that include the full cast of characters

found on modern boards. Reflecting medieval society in Europe, there are bishops (replacing the elephants of Indian and Persian chess traditions) and queens (supplanting the viziers who stand at the king’s side in Islamic tradition). All of the chessmen in the exhibition are on loan from the British Museum.

Story-Telling in Japanese Paintingnovember 19, 2011 – may 6, 2012Japan has enjoyed a long tradition of narrative painting, one that continues even today with the popular contemporary Japanese cartoon (manga) and animation. Historically, the subjects of narrative painting have varied: romances of court ladies, aristo-crats, and monks; heroic warriors’ tales of courage in the face of overwhelming odds; stories of miracles, celebratory events, and personal accomplishments; and tales of animals and ghosts.




Illustrated tales appear in various formats: handscrolls (emaki), albums, books, hanging scrolls, and screens. This exhibition will show a wide variety of illustrated Japanese tales from the 13th to the 19th century that reflect the cultural and social landscape of the time. The exhibition will feature approximately 60 works, including a group of 30 illustrated handscrolls, the ideal format for continuous sequential illustration, and 20 scrolls, books, and screens from the Metropolitan’s collection. The exhibitionwill also include works from local New York collections.

Annual Christmas Tree and Neapolitan Baroque Crèchenovember 22, 2011 –january 6, 2012The Museum will continue a long-standing holiday tradition with the presentation of its Christmas tree, a favorite of New Yorkers and visitors from around the world. A vivid 18th century Neapolitan Nativity scene—embellished with a profuse array of diminutive, lifelike attendant figures and silk-robed angels hov-ering above—will adorn the candlelit spruce. Recorded music and lighting ceremonies will add to the enjoyment of the holiday display. The exhibit of the crèche is made possible by gifts to The Christmas Tree Fund and the Loretta Hines Howard Fund.

Duncan Phyfe: Master Cabinetmaker in New Yorkdecember 20, 2011 – may 6, 2012Referred to during his lifetime as the “United States Rage,” Dun-can Phyfe (1768–1854) remains to this day America’s best-known cabinetmaker. This will be the first major retrospective on Phyfe since 1922, when the Metropolitan mounted a monographic show on the cabinetmaker and his work. The exhibition will cov-er the full chronological sweep of Phyfe’s distinguished career and include his earliest and best known furniture based on the published designs of Thomas Sheraton, as well as work from the middle and later stages of his career when he adopted the richer “archaeological” antique style of the 1820s, and a refined plain Grecian style based on French Restauration prototypes. The exhibition is made possible in part by The Henry Luce Founda-tion, the Americana Foundation, Dr. and Mrs. Paul Cushman, and Mr. Robert L. Froelich.




The Renaissance Portrait: From Donatello to Bellinidecember 21, 2011 – march 18, 2012It has been said that the Renaissance witnessed the rediscovery of the individual. Certainly portraiture assumed a new impor-tance, whether it was to record the features of a family member for future generations, celebrate a prince or warrior, extol the beauty of a woman, or make possible the exchange of a likeness among friends. This exhibition will bring together paintings, medals, drawings, and sculpture that testify to the new vogue for and uses of portraiture in 15th century Italy.

New Galleries for the Arts of the Arab Lands, Turkey, Iran, Central Asia, and Later South Asiaopening november 1, 2011More than 1,000 works from the preeminent collection of the Museum’s Department of Islamic Art—one of the most comprehensive gatherings of this material in the world—will return to view this fall in a completely renovated, expanded, and reinstalled suite of 15 galleries. The organization of the galleries by geographical area will emphasize the rich diversity of the Is-lamic world, over a span of 1300 years, by underscoring the many distinct cultures within its fold.

New American Wing Galleries for Paintings, Sculpture, and 18th Century Decorative Artsopening january 16, 2012This third and final phase of the overall American Wing renova-tion project comprises 24 entirely new galleries on the wing’s second floor. Twenty-one of the galleries are for the display of the permanent collection of American paintings—including the rich holdings of such masters as Gilbert Stuart, Frederic Edwin Church, Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer Sargent. Centered in the Grand Gallery will be Emanuel Leutze’s monumental and iconic Washington Crossing the Delaware. Interspersed among the pictures will be American sculptures, notably the work of Augustus Saint-Gaudens. Three other galler-ies, together with a grand pre-revolutionary New York interior, will display 18th century American decorative arts, principally treasures of colonial furniture and silver. In the Henry R. Luce




Center for the Study of American Art, on the mezzanine level, a concurrent renovation includes additional casework, touch-screen case labels, and upgraded computer access. Part 1 of the American Wing renovation project opened in January 2007 with galleries dedicated to the classical arts of America, 1810–1845. Part 2, inaugurated in May 2009, included the renovated Charles Engelhard Court and the Period Rooms. After Part 3 is completed, nearly all of the American Wing’s 17,000 works will be on view, constituting an encyclopedic survey of fine art in the United States.

The André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instrumentsopened march 2, 2010The gallery devoted to Western musical instruments reopened in March 2010, showcasing more than 230 works drawn pri-marily from the Metropolitan’s extensive holdings of musical instruments, among the most important in the world. The new installation focuses attention on individual masterworks by exploring each within its musical and cultural context, by offering exciting comparisons of how individual makers realized the same concept, and by introducing examples of the various instruments’ developments. Among the wide range of objects on view—keyboard, string, percussion, woodwind, and brass instruments—a highlight is the famed “Batta” cello made in Cremona, Italy, by Antonio Stradivari (1644–1737), on loan from a private collection. The reinstallation also includes new acquisi-tions and objects from the permanent collection that have rarely been seen by the public.

Renovation of the Late Gothic Hall, The Cloistersopened december 8, 2009The Late Gothic Hall at The Cloisters museum and gardens reopened following an extensive renovation. The four large, 15th century, French limestone windows from the Dominican monas-tery in Sens, Burgundy, were conserved, and new leaded glass was installed on the interior with protective glazing on the exterior. The new installation features a monumental tapestry from Burgos Cathedral representing the Salvation of Man, which




returned to public view for the first time in a generation follow-ing a thorough campaign of conservation. The Late Gothic Hall, distinguished by its high timber ceiling, also exhibits many of the finest 15th century works in The Cloisters’ collection, includ-ing sculptures by Tilman Riemenschneider and richly painted and gilded altarpieces from Spain. The renovation was funded by The Alice Tully Foundation.

The Andean Tunic, 400 B.C.E. –1800 C.E.march 8 – september 18, 2011Thirty Andean tunics drawn from Metropolitan holdings, the collections of the Textile Museum in Washington, DC, and the Cleveland Museum of Art, will examine, together with loans from a private collection, the form of the tunic—essentially a type of man’s shirt that held an important cultural place in Andean South America for centuries. The tunics of the Andean regions of Peru, northern Bolivia and Chile will be featured with examples that date from the late centuries before the Common Era until well after the arrival of European colonists in the 16th century. Textiles themselves, an extraordinarily well developed art form in ancient times, were valued as wealth, and tunics were among the most treasured of them. The exhibition is made possible through the generosity of the Friends of the Department of the Arts of Africa, Oceania, and the Americas.

After The Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collectionmarch 22, 2011 – january 2, 2012

This installation in the Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for Modern Photography juxtaposes recently made photographs by An-My Lê, James Casebere, and Wolfgang Tillmans with prescient works by art-ists such as Hans Haacke and Adrian Piper that are equally relevant today.

Night Vision: Photography After Darkapril 26 – september 5, 2011Photographers have always been fascinated by the technical and pictorial challenges of capturing images after dark, but it was not




until the first decade of the 20th century that night photography came into its own as a distinct artistic genre. This installation surveys the ways in which modern photographers have used the camera to explore the visual and symbolic potential of the nocturnal image. Among the featured works will be moody Pictorialist nocturnes by Edward Steichen and Alvin Langdon Coburn; shadowy street scenes by Brassaï, Bill Brandt, and Rob-ert Frank; electric light abstractions by Italian Futurist Giuseppe Albergamo; and aerial views of suburban Los Angeles at night by contemporary photographer David Deutsch. Drawn entirely from the Metropolitan’s collection, the installation will include approximately 40 photographs, ranging from the late 1890s to the present.

Highlights from the Modern Design Collection, 1900 to the Present, Part IIopened may 17, 2011This installation of modern and contemporary design objects features new acquisitions and other important works from the past century to the present. Highlights include René Lalique’s “Swan” necklace of opals and amethysts, a newly acquired chair by Henry Van de Velde, a playfully brilliant room divider by Ettore Sottsass, and a chandelier by the Dutch designer Joris Laarman. Also presented are glass, ceramics, metalwork, drawings, and posters.

Mother India: The Goddess in Indian Paintingjune 29 – november 27, 2011In India the Goddess (Devi) is the omnipresent embodiment of power and wisdom. Devi in her myriad forms, benign, mater-nal, empowering, and fearsome, expresses the range of human emotion and is perhaps the most widely worshipped deity in all India, standing alongside Shiva and Vishnu in the first rank of the Hindu, Buddhist, and Jain pantheons. In addition to selected paintings from the collection, highlights will include rare early molded clay images of the goddess from the early centuries B.C., whose meaning is lost to us, such as Goddess with Attendants, from Chanduketugarh, in Bengal, dated to the Shunga Period, ca. first century B.C. A beautiful bronze of Yasoda nursing the infant Krishna from 12th century Tamil Nadu is an enduring




image of maternal love, and very likely a royal commission for use in a private chapel. Later Indian paintings, such as a Devi from Bikaner, Rajasthan, shows her assuming the form of a benign Durga, displaying the cosmic weapons lent to her by the male gods but standing on lotus flowers.

Tibetan Arms and Armor from the Permanent Collectionthrough spring 2012This installation presents approximately 35 highlights from the Museum’s extensive collection of rare and exquisitely decorated armor, weapons, and equestrian equipment from Tibet and re-lated areas of Mongolia and China, dating from the eighth to the 20th century. Included are several recent acquisitions that have never before been exhibited or published.

American Landscapesopened may 20, 2008The first floor of the recently renovated Robert Lehman Wing displays nine large and superb American landscape paintings from the Metropolitan Museum’s collection, enabling visitors to view selected highlights of American art during the major reor-dering and upgrading of the American Wing galleries and period rooms, scheduled for completion in January 2012.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera, now in its 127th season, is a vibrant home for the most cre-ative and talented artists, including singers, conductors, composers, orchestra musicians, stage directors, designers, visual artists, chore-ographers, and dancers from around the world. Known as the venue for the world’s greatest voices, the Met has been under the musical direction of James Levine since 1976. Maestro Levine is credited with having created one of opera’s finest orchestras and choruses.

world premiereThe Enchanted Island Composer George Frideric Handel, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Antonio Vivaldi and otherslibretto Jeremy Samsconductor William Christie

december 31, 2011, 6:30 pmjanuary 4, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 7, 2012, 8:00 pmjanuary 12, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 14 and 17, 2012, 8:00 pmjanuary 21, 2012, 1:00 pmjanuary 25, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 28, 2012, 8:00 pmjanuary 30, 2012, 7:30 pm

world premier The Enchanted Island

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Anna Bolena composer Gaetano Donizettilibretto Felice Romaniconductor Marco Armiliato

february 4, 2012, 12:00 pmProduction a gift of Mercedes and Sid R. Bass

New Productions

Don Giovanni composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozartlibretto Lorenzo da Ponteconductor James Levine /Andrew Davis

february 21 and 24, 2012, 8:00 pmfebruary 29, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 3, 2012, 8:00 pmmarch 7, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 10, 2012, 12:00 pmmarch 14, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 17, 2012, 8:00 pmProduction a gift of the Richard and Susan Braddock Family FoundationAdditional funding from Jane and Jerry del Missier and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra K. Zilkha

Siegfried In collaboration with Ex Machinacomposer Richard Wagnerlibretto Richard Wagnerconductor James Levine

november 5, 2011, 12:00 pmProduction a gift of Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff

FaustCo-production of the Metropolitan Opera and English National Operacomposer Charles Gounodlibretto Jules Barbier and Michel Carréconductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin /Alain Altinoglu

november 29, 2011, 7:30 pm



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december 3, 2011, 8:00 pmdecember 6, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 10, 2011, 1:00 pmdecember 13, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 17, 2011, 8:00 pmdecember 20, 23, and 28, 2011, 7:30 pmjanuary 5, 9, 13, 16, and 19, 2012, 7:30 pmProduction a gift of the Betsy and Edward Cohen/Areté Foundation Fund for new productions and revivals

Götterdämmerung In collaboration with Ex Machinacomposer Richard Wagnerlibretto Richard Wagnerconductor James Levine

january 27 and 31, february 3 and 7, 2012, 6:00 pmfebruary 11, 2012, 12:00 pmProduction a gift of Ann Ziff and the Ziff family, in memory of William Ziff

Manon Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, New York; the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London; Teatro alla Scala, Milan; and Théâtre du Capitole de Toulouse.composer Jules Massenetlibretto Henri Meilhac and Philippe Gilleconductor Fabio Luisi



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march 26, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 31, 2012, 8:00 pmapril 3, 2012, 7:30 pmapril 7, 2012, 12:00 pmapril 11 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pmapril 17, 20, and 23, 2012, 7:30 pmProduction underwritten by The Sybil B. Harrington Endowment Fund

Repertory

Aidacomposer Giuseppe Verdilibretto Antonio Ghislanzoniconductor Marco Armiliato

february 9, 13, 16, 20, 23, and 28, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 3, 2012, 1:00 pm

Il Barbiere Di Siviglia composer Gioachino Rossinilibretto Cesare Sterbiniconductor Maurizio Benini

february 4, 2012, 8:00 pmfebruary 8, 2012, 7:30 pmfebruary 11, 2012, 9:00 pmfebruary 15, 2012, 7:30 pmfebruary 18, 2012, 1:00 pm

Billy Buddcomposer Benjamin Brittenlibretto E.M. Forster and Eric Crozierconductor David Robertson

may 4 and 10, 2012, 7:30 pmmay 12, 2012, 9:00 pm

La Bohèmecomposer Giacomo Puccinilibretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illicaconductor Louis Langrée

november 18, 22, 25, and 28, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 2, 2011, 8:00 pmdecember 8, 2011, 7:30 pm



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L’elisir D’amore composer Gaetano Donizettilibretto Felice Romaniconductor Donato Renzetti

march 5, 9, 12, 16, and 21, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 24, 2012, 8:30 pmmarch 27, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 31, 2012, 1:00 pm

Ernanicomposer Giuseppe Verdilibretto Francesco Maria Piaveconductor Marco Armiliato

february 2, 6, 10, and 14, 2012, 7:30 pmfebruary 18, 2012, 8:00 pmfebruary 25, 2012, 1:00 pm

La Fille Du Régiment Co-production of the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London and the Wiener Staatsoper, Viennacomposer Gaetano Donizettilibretto Jules-Henri Vernoy de Saint-Georges and Jean-François-Alfred Bayardconductor Yves Abeldecember 24, 2011, 12:00 pmdecember 29, 2011, 7:30 pmjanuary 2 and 6, 2012, 7:30 pm

Hansel And Gretel Originally created for Welsh National Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicagocomposer Engelbert Humperdincklibretto Adelheid Wettetranslation David Pountneyconductor Robin Ticciati

december 16 and 21, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 24, 2011, 6:30 pmdecember 26, 2011, 7:00 pmdecember 29 and 30, 2011, 11:00 am



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january 3, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 7, 2012, 1:00 pm

Khovanshchina composer Modest Mussorgskylibretto Modest Mussorgskyconductor Kirill Petrenko

february 27, march 1 and 6, 2012, 7:00 pmmarch 10, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 13, 2012, 7:00 pmmarch 17, 2012, 12:00 pm

Macbeth composer Giuseppe Verdilibretto Francesco Maria Piaveconductor Gianandrea Noseda

march 15 and 20, 2012, 7:30 pmmarch 24, 2012, 1:00 pmmarch 29, april 2, 2012, 7:30 pmapril 5, 2012, 8:00 pmapril 9, 2012, 8:30 pm

Madama Butterfly Co-production with English National Opera and the Lithuanian National Operacomposer Giacomo Puccinilibretto Giuseppe Giacosa and Luigi Illicaconductor Plácido Domingo/Yves Abel/Marco Armiliato



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december 5, 9, and 14, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 17, 2011, 1:00 pmdecember 22, 27, and 30, 2011, 7:30 pmfebruary 17 and 22, 2012, 7:30 pmfebruary 25, 2012, 8:30 pmmarch 2 and 8, 2012, 7:30 pm

The Makropulos Case composer Leoš Janáceklibretto Leoš Janácekconductor Jirí Belohlávek

april 27, may 1, 2012, 8:30 pmmay 5, 2012, 12:30 pmmay 8 and 11, 2012, 8:30 pm

Nabuccocomposer Giuseppe Verdilibretto Temistocle Soleraconductor Paolo Carignani

november 2, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 5, 2011, 9:00 pmnovember 9, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 12, 2011, 1:00 pmnovember 17, 2011, 7:30 pm

Das RheingoldIn collaboration with Ex Machinacomposer Richard Wagnerlibretto Richard Wagnerconductor James Levine

april 4, 2012, 8:00 pm

Rodelindacomposer George Frideric Handellibretto Nicola Haymconductor Harry Bicket

november 14, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 19, 2011, 8:00 pm



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november 23, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 26, 2011, 8:00 pmnovember 30, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 3, 2011, 12:30 pmdecember 7, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 10, 2011, 8:00 pm

SatyagrahaCo-production with English National Opera, in collaboration with Improbablecomposer Philip Glasslibretto Constance DeJongconductor Dante Anzolini

november 4 and 8, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 12, 2011, 8:00 pmnovember 15, 2011, 7:30 pmnovember 19 and 26, 2011, 1:00 pmnovember 1, 2011, 7:30 pm

ToscaCo-production of the Metropolitan Opera, Teatro alla Scala, Milan, and the Bayerische Staatsoper, Munich composer Giacomo Puccinilibretto Luigi Illica and Giuseppe Giacosa conductor Mikko Franck

january 10, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 14, 2012, 1:00 pmjanuary 18 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pmjanuary 24, 2012, 7:30 pmjanuary 28, 2012, 1:00 pm

La TraviataOriginal production of the Salzburger Festspiele; with thanks to De Nederlandse Operacomposer Giuseppe Verdilibretto Francesco Maria Piaveconductor Fabio Luisi



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april 6 and 10, 2012, 8:30 pmapril 14, 2012, 1:00 pmapril 18, 2012, 7:30 pmapril 21, 2012, 8:30 pmapril 25, 2012, 7:30 pmapril 28, 2012, 8:30 pmmay 2, 2012, 7:30 pm

Die WalküreIn collaboration with Ex Machinacomposer Richard Wagnerlibretto Richard Wagnerconductor James Levine

april 13, 2012, time tbaapril 28, 2012 time tbamay 7, 2012, time tba

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The Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is a place that fuels creativity, ignites minds, and provides inspiration. With extraordinary exhibitions and the world’s finest collection of modern and contemporary art, MoMA is dedicated to the conversation between the past and the present, the established and the experimental. Our mission is helping you understand and enjoy the art of our time.

Collection Rotation 8may 13, 2011 – february 12, 2012The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, third floor

This survey of the history of photography, drawn from the Museum’s collection, will feature many recent acquisitions on view for the first time, including works by Henry Callahan, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Joseph Cornell, Geraldo de Barros, Lewis W. Hine, Jules Janssen, Stephen Shore, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Carleton E. Watkins.

Talk to Mejuly 24 – november 7, 2011Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor

Talk to Me is an exhibition investigating the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. In some cases, objects like cell phones and computers exist to provide

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people with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtler, more subliminal ways, things talk to people—and design-ers help to develop and improvise the dialogue. Talk to Me focuses on objects that involve a direct interaction, such as interfaces, information systems, visualization designs, and communication devices, and on projects that establish an emotional, sensual, or intellectual connection with their users. Examples range from the late 1960s, represented by a few iconic products, all the way to projects in current development, which form the bulk of the exhibition. Featured designs include computer and machine interfaces, websites, videogames, devices and tools, furniture and physical products, and even installations and whole environments.

Carlito Carvalhosa: Sum of Daysaugust 24 – november 14, 2011The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

Brazilian artist Carlito Carvalhosa (b. 1961) conceived Sum of Days as an environmental and participatory sound installation—a monumental, voluminous construction made of soft, white, translucent material that hangs from the ceiling to the floor and takes the shape of an elliptical labyrinth. This structure hides, or interrupts, the defined limits of its surrounding architectural space, allowing an experience of total immersion while sus-pending the usual parameters of spatial reference known to the beholders. A system of microphones hangs from various heights and records the ambient noise on a daily basis, which is played back the next day through several speakers. Each day a new re-cording superimposes the one from the previous day, slowly eras-ing the oldest sound into a layer of whispers and putting forth newly recorded sonic vibrations. Adding another layer of sound will be the music of American composer Philip Glass.

The accumulation of these recordings will constitute as an immaterial layering of time, as a memory of an experience, or a sculptural auditory experience, where all the sounds that are produced are constantly layered. Carvalhosa’s Sum of Days is therefore a sculptural work through the use of sound as a mne-monic material—a sculpture of music that is constantly being erased by the accidental noise of every day experiences. This marks the artist’s first exhibition in the United States.




De Kooning: A Retrospectiveseptember 18, 2011 – january 9, 2012The Rene d’Harnoncourt Exhibition Galleries, sixth floor

De Kooning: A Retrospective is the first major museum exhibition devoted to the full scope of the career of Willem de Kooning, widely considered to be among the most important and prolific artists of the 20th century. The exhibition, which will only be seen at MoMA, presents an unparalleled opportunity to study the artist’s development over nearly seven decades, beginning with his early academic works, made in Holland before he moved to the United States in 1926, and concluding with his final, sparely abstract paintings of the late 1980s. Bringing together more than 200 works from public and private collections, the exhibition is the first to occupy the Museum’s entire sixth-floor gallery space, totaling approximately 17,000 square feet. Representing nearly every type of work de Kooning made, in both technique and subject matter, this retrospective includes paintings, sculptures drawings, and prints. Among these are the artist’s most famous, landmark paintings—among them Pink Angels (1945), Excavation (1950), and the celebrated third Woman series (1950–53)—plus in-depth presentations of all his most important series, ranging from his figurative paintings of the early 1940s to the breakthrough black-and-white compositions of 1948–49, and from the urban abstractions of the mid 1950s to the artist’s return to figuration in the 1960s, and the large gestural abstractions of the following decade. Also included is de Kooning’s famous yet largely unseen theatrical backdrop, the 17-foot-square Labyrinth (1946).

Diego Rivera: Murals for The Museum of Modern Art november 13, 2011 – february 27, 2012The Michael H. Dunn Gallery, second floor

Diego Rivera was the subject of MoMA’s second monographic exhibition (the first was Henri Matisse), which set new atten-dance records in its five-week run from December 22, 1931, to January 27, 1932. MoMA brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the exhibition’s opening and gave him studio space within the Museum, a strategy intended to solve the problem of how to present the work of this famous muralist when murals were by definition made and fixed on site. Working around the clock




with two assistants, Rivera produced five “portable murals”—large blocks of frescoed plaster, slaked lime, and wood that feature bold images drawn from Mexican subject matter and ad-dress themes of revolution and class inequity. After the opening, to great publicity, Rivera added three more murals, now taking on New York subjects through monumental images of the urban working class and the social stratification of the city during the Great Depression. All eight were on display for the rest of the show’s run. The first of these panels, Agrarian Leader Zapata, is an icon in the Museum’s collection.

This exhibition will bring together key works made for Rivera’s 1931 exhibition, presenting them at MoMA for the first time in nearly 80 years. Along with mural panels, the show will include full-scale drawings, smaller working drawings, archival materials related to the commission and production of these works, and designs for Rivera’s famous Rockefeller Center mural, which he also produced while he was working at the Mu-seum. Focused specifically on works created during the artist’s stay in New York, this exhibition will draw a succinct portrait of Rivera as a highly cosmopolitan figure who moved between Russia, Mexico, and the United States and will offer a fresh look at the intersection of artmaking and radical politics in the 1930s. MoMA will be the exhibition’s sole venue.

Projects 96: Haris Epaminondanovember 23, 2011 – february 20, 2012Projects Gallery, second floor

Berlin-based artist Haris Epaminonda (b. 1980, Nicosia, Cyprus) is internationally known for her photo-collages and assemblages constructed from books and magazines of the 1950s and 1960s, as well as for her video installations, in which film and television footage sourced from Greek soap operas from the artist’s child-hood are re-shot or re-edited in new sequences. This exhibition presents Epaminonda´s three-channel video installation Tarahi III, V, VI (2007), part of an ongoing series of short films that enlist the use of montage, cuts, and repetition to address the permeability of memory. Favoring a slowed-down filmic flow and the lush colors one associates with the saturated hues of Douglas Sirk melodramas, these enigmatic videos are presented in a new installation specifically conceived for the Museum.




Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violencedecember 18, 2011 – march 26, 2012 Special Exhibitions Gallery, third floor and The Donald B. and Catherine C. Marron Atrium, second floor

The first museum exhibition in the United States of the work of Sanja Ivekovic (b. 1949, Zagreb) covers four decades of the artist´s remarkable practice. A feminist, activist, and video pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream institutional settings, laying the ground for a form of praxis antipodal to official art. Part of the generation known as the Nova Umjetnicka Praska (New Art Practice), Ivekovic produced works of cross-cultural resonance that range from conceptual photomon-tages to video and performance. This exhibition brings together a historic group of single-channel videos and media installations, including Sweet Violence (1974), Personal Cuts (1982), Practice Makes a Master (1982/2009), General Alert (Soap Opera) (1995), and Rohrbach Living Memorial (2005). Among the 100 photomontages featured in the exhibition is Ivekovic´s celebrated series Double Life (1975–76), for which the artist juxtaposed pictures of herself culled from her private albums with commercial ads clipped from the pages of women’s magazines such as Elle, Grazia, Brigitte, and Svijet.

While in the 1970s Ivekovic probed the persuasive qualities of mass media and its identity-forging potential, after 1990—follow-ing the fall of the Berlin Wall, the disintegration of Yugoslavia, and the birth of a new nation—she focused on the transformation of reality from socialist to post-socialist political systems. Ivekovic offers a fascinating view into the official politics of power, gender roles, and the paradoxes inherent in society’s collective memory.

Print/Out: Multiplied Art in the Information Era, 1990–2010 february 19 – may 14, 2012The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Gallery, sixth floor

This upcoming survey of prints, books, multiples, and ephemera will span roughly the last two decades and examine the evolu-tion of artistic practices related to the print medium. From 1990 through today, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant




cross-pollination between vernacular modes and post-concep-tual strategies. From the resurgence of ancient printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the worldwide proliferation of self-published artists’ books and ephemera, prints, both in innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. The ex-hibition brings together around 200 works drawn substantially from MoMA’s extensive collection of prints and books, with the addition of several important loans.

Cindy Shermanfebruary 26 – june 11, 2012The Joan and Preston Robert Tisch Gallery, sixth floor

Cindy Sherman (American, b. 1954) is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential contemporary artists of the last 40 years. Throughout her career, Sherman has presented a sustained, eloquent, and provocative exploration of the con-struction of contemporary identity and the nature of represen-tation, drawn from the unlimited supply of images from movies, TV, magazines, the Internet, and art history. This retrospective survey traces the artist’s career from the mid 1970s to the pres-ent, bringing together more than 170 key photographs from a variety of the artist’s acclaimed series, for which she created myriad constructed characters and tableaus. The first compre-hensive museum survey of Sherman’s career in the United States since 1997, the exhibition will draw widely from public and private collections, including MoMA’s collection.

From Line to Planejune 8, 2010 – ongoingThe Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden

This summer´s Sculpture Garden installation features a selec-tion of abstract geometric works dating from the early 1960s to the late 1980s. Highlights include Tony Smith’s minimal-ist sculptures Free Ride and Die (both 1962), George Rickey’s thirty-five-foot, kinetic stainless steel work Two Lines—Temporal I (1964), Mark di Suvero’s recently restored For Roebling (1971), and Ellsworth Kelly’s monochrome steel sculpture Curve II (1973). In addition to these newly installed works, perennial Sculpture Garden favorites like Barnett Newman’s Broken Obelisk (1963–




69), Aristide Maillol’s The River (1938–39), and Hector Guimard’s Entrance Gate to Paris Subway (Métropolitain) Station (c. 1900), remain on view.

Plywood: Material, Process, Formfebruary 2, 2011 – february 27, 2012The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

“Plywood,” explained Popular Science in 1948, “is a layer cake of lumber and glue.” In the history of design, plywood is also an important modern material that has given 20th century designers of everyday objects, furniture, and even architecture greater flexibility in shaping modern forms at an industrial scale. Plywood: Material, Process, Form, and installation in MoMA’s Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, features examples from MoMA’s collection of modern designs that take advantage of the formal and aesthetic possibilities offered by plywood, from around 1930 through the 1950s. Archival photographs illuminate the process of design and manufacture in plywood. Iconic furniture by Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Arne Jacobsen appear alongside organic platters by Tapio Wirkkala (1951), Sori Yanagi’s Butterfly Stool (1956), an architectural model for a prefabricated house by Marcel Breuer (1943), and experimental designs for plywood in the aeronautics industry.

Standard Deviations: Types and Families in Contemporary Designmarch 2, 2011 – january 31, 2012The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries, third floor

Since the late 19th century and throughout much of the 20th, designers have celebrated the socially uplifting promise of industrial production, believing the true path to modernity lay in standardization. A designer’s job was to conceive a model that could be converted into a working prototype—a blueprint for a series of objects, each identical and manufactured according to exacting rules. Yet it is human nature to crave individuality, and since the 1980s designers have sought to inject “chromosomes” of unique identity into objects produced on an industrial scale.




Digital technology has made the dream of creating families of objects with common traits and distinct behaviors a reality; today, the model is the working prototype is the series. Standard Deviations showcases objects and designs in the Museum’s collection that belong to “families,” including an important re-cent acquisition of 23 digital typefaces, on view here for the first time. All digital or designed with a foresight of the scope of the digital revolution, these typefaces significantly respond to the technological and cultural advancements occurring at the end of the 20th century and in the opening years of the 21st. Each one of them is a milestone in the history of digital typography.

Film ExhibitionsFilm programs are shown in The Roy and Niuta Titus Theaters and The Celeste Bartos Theater. An Auteurist History of Film september 9, 2009 – ongoing This two-year screening cycle is intended to serve as both an exploration of the richness of the Museum’s film collection and a basic introduction to the emergence of cinema as the predomi-nant art form of the twentieth century. The auteurist approach to film—articulated by the critics of Cahiers du Cinema in the 1950s and brought to America by Andrew Sarris—contends that, despite the collaborative nature of the medium, the director is the primary force behind the creation of a film. The exhibition takes this theory as its point of departure, charting the careers of several key figures not in order to establish a formal canon, but to develop one picture of cinematic history.

To Save and Project: The Ninth MoMA International Festival of Film Preservationoctober 14 – november 17, 2011 To Save and Project, MoMA’s annual international film preserva-tion festival, celebrates its ninth year with gloriously preserved masterworks and rediscoveries of world cinema. Virtually all of the preserved prints in To Save and Project have their New York premieres, and some are shown in versions never before seen in the United States.




Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near Younovember 2011 For the sixth year running, MoMA’s Department of Film, in association with IFP and its quarterly publication Filmmaker, screens the five nominees for the Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You award. The nominees were selected by senior members of the Filmmaker editorial staff, and Joshua Siegel, associate curator in MoMA’s Department of Film. The five nominees represent this year’s best American independent films on the festival circuit that have yet to be picked up for theatrical distribution.

Carte Blanche: James Curtis on Spencer Tracy november 5–6, 2011 An exploration of Spencer Tracy’s early films presented by his biographer.

In Focus: Fortissimo Filmsnovember 10–21, 2011 Fortissimo Film is a key component in the international expan-sion of Asian cinema, ushering into the arena a multitude of supremely talented artists. The company’s ability to confront tough issues, politically, thematically, and formally in the films they have championed are evident in the titles in this selection which stretch across many Asian territories to represent two decades of production, sales, and distribution, and look at the directors with whom the multi-national company is the most as-sociated. Avid supporters of Hong Kong and Chinese cinema—from Wong Kar-wai’s titles In The Mood for Love and Happy Together to Tian Zhuangzhuang’s Springtime in A Small Town and Zhang Yuan’s Beijing Bastards—the company’s principals early on set about exploring the region, helping to develop titles from Taiwan, Korea, the Philippines and, in particular, Thailand, sup-porting filmmakers such as Wisit Sasanatieng, Pen-Ek Ratanaru-ang, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul (all in the program).

Henri-Georges Clouzotdecember 2011 This comprehensive retrospective of the French director, screenwriter, and producer Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977),




features masterworks including Le Corbeau (The Raven) (1943), Quai des Orfèvres (1947), Le Salaire de la peur (Wages of Fear) (1953), Diabolique (1955), and Le Mystère Picasso (The Mystery of Picasso) (1956), and such rediscoveries as L’Assassin habite…au 21 (1942), Manon (1949), and Les Espions (1947). Serge Bromberg’s recent award-winning documentary Henri-Georges Clouzot’s Inferno (2009), about Clouzot’s unfinished film L’Enfer, is also presented.

Iberoamérican Imagesdecember 8–18, 2011 Ibermedia has for close to 15 years been influential in the continued ascent in production and quality of contemporary Latin American, Spanish, and Portuguese films. This intergov-ernmental organization facilitates and finances coproductions of documentaries and fiction films between two or more of Iberoamérica’s Spanish—and Portuguese—language member countries, and grants money for international distribution and promotion once the films are finished. No strings are attached to the joint financing, which protects the filmmakers’ personal vision and allows the project to retain the rooted particularity of a national and/or personal-historical tradition.

Italian Treasuresdecember 22, 2011 – january 10, 2012 Ten rare and exceptional films from the 1950s and 1960s golden age by both well-known and obscure Italian filmmakers pre-sented in new prints made possible by MoMA’s collaboration with Cinecitta Luce.

ContactThe Museum of Modern Art11 West 53 StreetNew York, NY 10019www.moma.org

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New York City Ballet

The longest home season of any dance company in the world, over the course of 21 weeks NYCB’s 91 dancers and 62-piece orchestra will present a total of 159 performances, featuring 55 different ballets from its unparalleled repertory, including 29 works by George Balanchine and 10 works by Jerome Robbins. The season will also feature five full-length favorites, includ-ing George Balanchine’s Jewels and A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Peter Martins’ Swan Lake and Romeo + Juliet, and Susan Stroman’s Double Feature. All performances will take place at the David H. Koch Theater, which is located on the Lincoln Center Plaza at Columbus Avenue and 63rd Street.

This year New York City Ballet will present 47 performances of the holiday classic George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker. Balanchine’s beloved production, which premiered on February 2, 1954, at the City Center of Music and Drama in New York, helped to establish The Nutcracker and its score as perennial favorites in the United States, evident by the now countless versions of the ballet performed all over the country. NYCB’s acclaimed production is seen by more than 100,000 people an-nually and has been performed more than 2,000 times.

New York City Ballet will present six weeks of winter perfor-mances with an all Balanchine program consisting of The Stead-fast Tin Soldier, Le Tombeau de Couperin, Tschaikovsky Pas de Deux, and Who Cares? The highlight of the winter season will be NYCB’s

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first-ever all Christopher Wheeldon program, consisting of three works by the British-born choreographer and former NYCB Soloist and Resident Choreographer. The program will consist of a World Premiere ballet, the NYCB premiere of DGV: Danse À Grande Vitesse, and Polyphonia.

The all Wheeldon program will debut at NYCB’s annual New Combinations Evening. Created to honor of George Balanchine’s legacy of new choreography, each year since 1992 NYCB has presented a world premiere ballet as part of the New Combinations Evening.

Other highlights of the winter season include the return of Lynne Taylor-Corbett’s The Seven Deadly Sins, Peter Martins’ full-length production of Romeo + Juliet, and Balanchine’s Tschaikovsky’s Suite No. 3, last performed by NYCB in 2009. The season will also fea-ture five all Balanchine programs, including a special performance consisting of Who Cares? and Union Jack.

january 17, 2012, 7:30 pmAll BalanchineThe Steadfast Tin SoldierLe Tombeau de CouperinTschaikovsky Pas de DeuxWho Cares?

january 18, 2012, 7:30 pmAll BalanchineThe Steadfast Tin SoldierLe Tombeau de CouperinTschaikovsky Pas de DeuxUnion Jack

january 19, 2012, 7:30 pmLe Tombeau de CouperinOcean’s Kingdom (New Martins)Who Cares?

january 20, 2012, 8:00 pmAll RobbinsIn G MajorIn Memory of...The Concert




january 21, 2012, 2:00 pmFounding ChoreographersThe Steadfast Tin SoldierLe Tombeau de CouperinTschaikovsky Pas de DeuxThe Concert

january 21, 2012, 8:00 pmOcean’s Kingdom (New Martins)Union Jack

january 22, 2012, 3:00 pmAll BalanchineWho Cares?Union Jack

january 24, 2012, 7:30 pmSee The Music...Ocean’s Kingdom (New Martins)Union Jack

january 25, 2012, 7:30 pmAll RobbinsIn G MajorIn Memory of...The Concert

january 26, 2012, 7:30 pmFounding ChoreographersDonizetti VariationsIn Memory of...Firebird

january 27, 2012, 8:00 pmLe Tombeau de CouperinOcean’s Kingdom (New Martins)In G Major

january 28, 2012, 2:00 pmAll BalanchineFirebirdThe Steadfast Tin Soldier




Tschaikovsky Pas de DeuxWho Cares?

january 28, 2012, 8:00 pmNew Combinations EveningAll WheeldonPolyphoniaNew Wheeldon (World Premiere)DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse (NYCB Premiere)

january 29, 2012, 3:00 pmDonizetti VariationsPolyphoniaOcean’s Kingdom (New Martins)

january 31, 2012, 7:30 pmFounding ChoreographersConcerto BaroccoTarantellaIn G MajorFirebird

february 1, 2012, 7:30 pmInterplayTarantellaIn Memory of...DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse

february 2, 2012, 7:30 pmConcerto BaroccoNew WheeldonThe Concert

february 3, 2012, 8:00 pmÀ La RusseAllegro BrillanteRussian SeasonsZakouskiStravinsky Violin Concerto

february 4, 2012, 2:00 pmAll Wheeldon




PolyphoniaNew WheeldonDGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse

february 4, 2012, 8:00 pmStravinsky Violin ConcertoNew WheeldonFirebird

february 5, 2012, 3:00 pmDonizetti VariationsDGV: Danse à Grand VitesseFirebird

february 7, 2012, 7:30 pmÀ La RusseAllegro BrillanteRussian SeasonsZakouskiStravinsky Violin Concerto

february 8, 2012, 7:30 pmConcerto BaroccoTarantellaThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes

february 9, 2012, 7:30 pmAllegro BrillanteThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes

february 10, 2012, 8:00 pmInterplayThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes

february 11, 2012, 2:00 pmConcerto BaroccoTarantellaThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes




february 11, 2012, 8:00 pmStravinsky Violin ConcertoThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes

february 12, 2012, 3:00 pmInterplayZakouskiThe Seven Deadly SinsVienna Waltzes

february14, 2012, 7:30 pmRomeo + Juliet

february 15, 2012, 7:30 pmAllegro BrillanteRussian SeasonsFancy Free

february 16, 2012, 7:30 pmRomeo + Juliet

february 17, 2012, 8:00 pmFounding ChoreographersAgonFancy FreeTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

february 18, 2012, 2:00 pmRomeo + Juliet

february 18, 2012, 8:00 pm See The Music…Founding ChoreographersInterplayAgonTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

february 19, 2012, 3:00 pm†Romeo + Juliet

february 21 and 22, 2012, 7:30 pmRomeo + Juliet




february 23, 2012, 7:30 pmStravinsky Violin ConcertoRussian SeasonsFancy Free

february 24, 2012, 8:00 pmDonizetti VariationsRussian SeasonsTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

february 25, 2012, 2:00 pmAllegro BrillanteZakouskiFancy FreeTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

february 25, 2012, 8:00 pmFounding ChoreographersDonizetti VariationsAgonFancy Free

february 26, 2012, 3:00 pmAll BalanchineAgonStravinsky Violin ConcertoTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

New York City Ballet will begin six weeks of spring performanc-es with an all Balanchine program consisting of Serenade, Kammermusik No. 2, last performed in 2004, and Brahms- Schoenberg Quartet. Highlighting the season will be a Spring Gala celebration on Thursday, May 10, featuring world premiere ballets by NYCB’s Ballet Master in Chief Peter Martins and Principal Dancer Benjamin Millepied, as well as a major revival of George Balanchine’s Symphony in C, featuring new costumes designed by Marc Happel, NYCB’s Director of Costumes.

The season will also include three all Robbins programs featur-ing In the Night, The Cage, Andantino, and In G Major; as well as the return of Alexei Ratmansky’s Russian Seasons, the choreographer’s first work for NYCB, which was created in 2006. Susan Stroman’s




full-length Double Feature will also return to the NYCB repertory for five performances from May 24 through 27. Created for NYCB in 2004, Double Feature is Stroman’s homage to the silent film era, and consists of The Blue Necklace, a classic melodrama set to the music of Irving Berlin; and Makin’ Whoopee, a slapstick comedy set to songs by Walter Donaldson.

may 1, 2012, 7:30 pmAll BalanchineSerenadeKammermusik No. 2Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet

may 2, 2012, 7:30 pmSee The Music...All BalanchineSerenadeKammermusik No. 2Tschaikovsky Pas de DeuxFirebird

may 3, 2012, 7:30 pmKammermusik No. 2TarantellaDGV: Danse à Grande VitesseBrahms-Schoenberg Quartet

may 4, 2012, 8:00 pmSerenadeDGV: Danse à Grande VitesseFirebird

may 5, 2012, 2:00 pmAll RobbinsIn the NightThe CageAndantino In G Major

may 5, 2012, 8:00 pmAll BalanchineConcerto Barocco




Tschaikovsky Pas de DeuxKammermusik No. 2Firebird



may 9, 2012, 7:30 pmAll BalanchineSerenadeFirebirdBrahms-Schoenberg Quartet

may 10, 2012, 7:00 pmNew Martins (World Premiere)New Millepied (World Premiere)Symphony in C

may 11, 2012, 8:00 pmConcerto BaroccoDGV: Danse à Grande VitesseSymphony in C

may 12, 2012, 2:00 pmKammermusik No. 2TarantellaNew Wheeldon (Winter 2012)In G Major

may 12, 2012, 8:00 pm21st Century




Russian SeasonsNew Millepied DGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse

may 13, 2012, 3:00 pmAll BalanchineSerenadeFirebirdSymphony in C

may 15, 2012, 7:30 pmNew MartinsNew MillepiedFancy Free

may 16, 2012, 7:30 pm21st CenturyRussian SeasonsNew MillepiedDGV: Danse à Grande Vitesse

may 17, 2012, 7:30 pmConcerto BaroccoTschaikovsky Pas de DeuxThe CageAndantinoNew Wheeldon (Winter 2012)

may 18, 2012, 8:00 pmBalanchine & BrahmsLiebeslieder WalzerBrahms-Schoenberg Quartet

may 19, 2012, 2:00 pmConcerto BaroccoTarantellaRussian SeasonsFancy Free

may 19, 2012, 8:00 pmNew MartinsLiebeslieder Walzer




may 20, 2012, 3:00 pmIn G MajorLiebeslieder WalzerNew Wheeldon (Winter 2012)

may 22, 2012, 7:30 pmBalanchine & BrahmsLiebeslieder WalzerBrahms-Schoenberg Quartet

may 23, 2012, 7:30 pmSee The Music...New MartinsIn the NightNew Wheeldon (Winter 2012)

may 24, 2012, 7:30 pmDouble Feature





may 29, 2012, 7:30 pmRussian SeasonsMovesJeu de Cartes

may 30, 2012, 7:30 pmNew Wheeldon (Winter 2012)MovesTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

may 31, 2012, 7:30 pmJeu de CartesNew Millepied




june 1, 2012, 8:00 pmFounding ChoreographersConcerto BaroccoTschaikovsky Pas de DeuxFancy FreeSymphony in C

june 2, 2012, 2:00 pmJeu de CartesMovesSymphony in C

june 2, 2012, 8:00 pmRussian SeasonsMovesTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

june 3, 2012, 3:00 pmJeu de CartesFancy FreeTschaikovsky Suite No. 3

june 5–7, 2012, 7:30 pmA Midsummer Night’s Dream

june 8, 2012, 8:00 pmA Midsummer Night’s Dream

june 9, 2012, 2:00 pm and 8:00 pmA Midsummer Night’s Dream

june 10, 2012, 3:00 pmA Midsummer Night’s Dream

ContactNew York City BalletDavid H. Koch Theater20 Lincoln CenterNew York, NY 10023www.nycballet.com

Tickets212-870-5570


New York Philharmonic

Founded in 1842 by a group of local musicians led by American-born Ureli Corelli Hill, the New York Philharmonic is by the far the oldest sym-phony orchestra in the United States, and one of the oldest in the world. It currently plays some 180 concerts a year. Since its inception the orchestra has championed the new music of its time, commissioning or premiering many important works.

Archival ExhibitWho’s Listening? A Look at the Philharmonic Subscribers Since 1842Bruno Walter Gallerynovember 2–december 31, 2011

Music With Film: Philip Glass And Godfrey Reggio’s Koyaanisqatsi Live Avery Fisher Hall november 2 and 3, 2011, 7:30 pm Michael Riesman, conductor* Philip Glass* and the Philip Glass Ensemble*

philip glass Koyaanisqatsi *denotes New York Philharmonic debut


Alan Gilbert conducts the New York Philharmonic with Lisa Batiashvili as soloist. Photo: Chris Lee

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Bernard Haitink Conducts R. Strauss And Beethoven Avery Fisher Hall november 10, 2011, 7:30 pm november 11 and 12, 2011, 8:00 pm november 15, 2011, 7:30 pm Bernard Haitink, conductor Cynthia Phelps, viola Carter Brey, cello r. strauss Don Quixote beethoven Symphony No. 6, Pastoral

Young People’s Concert Avery Fisher Hall november 12, 2011, 2:00 pm four greats: leonard bernstein Case Scaglione, conductor*Theodore Wiprud, hostProgram tba * denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Chamber Music College of Staten Island City University of New York november 14, 2011 musicians of the philharmonic

Bernard Haitink Conducts Haydn And Bruckner Avery Fisher Hall november 17, 2011, 7:30 pm november 18 and 19, 2011, 8:00 pm Bernard Haitink, conductor haydn Symphony No. 96, Miracle bruckner Symphony No. 7


Japanese screensLacquers Contemporary art

Bird and Plum Tree in WinterDetail from a two-panel folding screenPainting in ink and mineral colors on gold leafJapan, Edo Period, 18th century · H 72" × W 65 ¾"

Erik Thomsen Asian Art


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New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street november 20, 2011, 3:00 pm Eric Bartlett, celloSumire Kudo, celloRu-Pei Yeh, celloWei Yu, cello

jonathan pieslak Gray FracturesSandra Church, fluteSherry Sylar, oboePascual Martinez Forteza, clarinetAmy Zoloto, bass clarinet*Kim Laskowski, bassoonR. Allen Spanjer, horn

janácek Mládí (Youth)Lisa Kim, violinRebecca Young, violaMaria Kitsopoulos, celloWilliam Woilfram, piano*

brahms Piano Quartet No. 2* denotes guest artist

Jeffrey Kahane Conducts From The Piano Avery Fisher Hall november 22, 2011, 7:30 pm november 25 and 26, 2011, 8:00 pm november 29, 2011, 7:30 pm Jeffrey Kahane, conductor, harpsichord, and piano Sheryl Staples, violin Liang Wang, oboe j.s. bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe mozart Symphony No. 33 beethoven Piano Concerto No. 1



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Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall november 26, 2011, 2:00 pm Jeffrey Kahane, conductor, harpsichord, and piano Glenn Dicterow, violin Sheryl Staples, violin Carter Brey, cello Liang Wang, oboe schubert Piano Trio in B-flat major (Glenn Dicterow, Carter Brey, Jeffrey Kahane) j.s. bach Concerto for Violin and Oboe (Sheryl Staples, Liang Wang) mozart Symphony No. 33

Daniel Harding Conducts Mahler Avery Fisher Hall december 1, 2011, 7:30 pm december 2, 2011, 11:00 pm december 3, 2011, 8:00 pmDaniel Harding, conductor mahler Symphony No. 10 (Completed by Deryck Cooke)

New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street december4, 2011, 3:00 pm Na Sum, violinQiang Tu, cello

beethoven Duo No. 1 in C Major, WoO 27Fiona Simon, violinSharon Yamada, violinRobert Rinehart, violaElizabeth Dyson, cello

britten String Quartet No. 2Vladimir Tsypin, violinWilliam Blossom, bassAdonis Gonzales, piano*




douglas vistel Three Pieces for Violin, Double Bass, and PianoAnna Rabinova, violinJoo Young Oh, violinIrene Breslaw, violaQiang Tu, cellobeethoven String Quartet in D Major, Op. 18, No. 3* denotes guest artist

Daniel Harding And Joshua Bell Avery Fisher Hall december 7 and 8, 2011, 7:30 pmdecember 9 and 10, 2011, 8:00 pm Daniel Harding, conductor Joshua Bell, violin oliver knussen Flourish with Fireworkstchaikovsky Violin Concerto stravinsky The Rite of Spring

Holiday Brass Avery Fisher Hall december 11, 2011, 3:00 pm Peter Schreier Conducts Messiah Avery Fisher Hall december 13 and 14, 2011, 7:30 pm december 15, 2011, 7:30 pm december 16, 2011, 2:00 pm december 17, 2011, 7:30 pm Peter Schreier, conductor* Ute Selbig, soprano Nathalie Stutzmann, contralto* Steve Davislim, tenor* Peter Rose, bass* Westminster Symphonic ChoirJoe Miller, director handel Messiah *denotes New York Philharmonic debut




Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue december 16, 2011, 7:00 pm

Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street december 17, 2011, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor HK Gruber, chansonnier*

alexandre lunsqui Fibers, Yarn, and Wire (World Pre-miere—New York Philharmonic Commission) magnus Lindberg Gran Duo hk gruber Frankenstein!! * denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Anne Sofie Von Otter Avery Fisher Hall december 28 and 29, 2011, 7:30 pm december 30, 2011, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Anne Sofie von Otter, mezzo-soprano haydn Symphony No. 88 schubert Selected Songs for Mezzo-Soprano and Orchestra ravel Mother Goose (complete ballet) ravel La Valse

Alan Gilbert Conducts: A New Yorker’s New Year’s Eve With Jean-Yves Thibaudet Avery Fisher Hall december 31, 2011, 8:00 pm Live From Lincoln Center Alan Gilbert, conductor Jean-Yves Thibaudet, piano bernstein Overture to Candide gershwin Concerto in F




bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story gershwin Rhapsody in Blue

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Bernstein And Ravel At Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall january 4, 2012, 6:45 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor bernstein Symphonic Dances from West Side Story ravel Mother Goose (complete ballet) ravel La Valse

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An Extraordinary Musician: Remembering Bruno WalterBruno Walter Galleryjanuary 5 – february 25, 2012

alan Gilbert Conducts: New York Premiere Of Thomas Adès’s Polaris And Mahler’s Ninth Avery Fisher Hall january 5, 2012, 7:30 pm january 7, 2012, 8:00 pm january 10, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor thomas adès Polaris (New York Premiere—New York Phil-harmonic Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, London’s Barbican Centre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony) mahler Symphony No. 9

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mahler At The Tilles Center For The Performing Arts Tilles Center for the Performing Arts C.W. Post Campus Long Island University Brookville, New York january 6, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor




thomas adès Polaris (New York Premiere—New York Phil-harmonic Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Orchestra, London’s Barbican Centre, Los Angeles Philharmonic, and San Francisco Symphony) mahler Symphony No. 9

Zubin Mehta Conducts Bruckner Avery Fisher Hall january 12, 2012, 7:30 pm january 13 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pmZubin Mehta, conductor bruckner Symphony No. 8

New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street january 15, 2012, 3:00 pmPascual Martinez Forteza, clarinetJudith Nelson, violaGema Nieto-Forteza, piano*

mozart Trio in E-flat Major, K. 498Charles Rex, violinVivek Kamath, violaEileen Moon, celloJune Choi Oh, piano*

foote Piano QuartetThomas Smith, trumpetHoward Wall, hornJames Markey, bass trombone

daniel schnyder Trio for Trumpet, Horn, and Bass TromboneKuan-Cheng Yu, violinSumire Kudo, celloRavel Sonata for Violin and Cello* denotes guest artist




Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Lang Lang, And Magnus Lindberg’s Feria Avery Fisher Hall january 18 and 19, 2012, 7:30 pm january 20 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lang Lang, piano magnus lindberg Feria bartók Piano Concerto No. 2 prokofiev Symphony No. 5

Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann All-Brahms Chamber Concert Avery Fisher Hall january 22, 2012, 3:00 pm Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin Enrico Pace, piano* Philip Myers, horn Sheryl Staples, violin Cynthia Phelps, viola Alan Gilbert, violaCarter Brey, cello Eileen Moon, cello brahms Scherzo for Violin and Piano (from the FAE Sonata) brahms Trio for Violin, Horn, and Piano brahms String Sextet No.1 * denotes guest artist

Chinese New Year january 24, 2012, 7:30 pmLong Yu, conductor*Lang Lang, pianoLian Wang, oboeTang Jun Qiao, bamboo flute*Quintessenso Children’s Chorus*traditional Spring Festival Overturebao yuankai China Air Suitetraditional Mongolian Folk Song Suitetraditional Works for Bamboo Flute and Orchestra




liszt Piano Concerto No. 1* denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann Alan Gilbert Conducts: Beethoven Violin Concerto Avery Fisher Hall january 26, 2012, 7:30 pm january 27 and 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violinbeethoven Violin Concerto stravinsky Symphony in Three Movements ravel Daphnis and Chloé, Suite No. 2

Europe/Winter 2012In February 2012 Alan Gilbert will lead the Orchestra in per-formances throughout European music capitals on the Europe/Winter 2012 tour. The London stay represents the Philharmonic’s inaugural residency as an International Associate of the Barbican Centre, part of a long-term agreement between the two institu-tions, and will include a performance of Thomas Adès’s Polaris, a Co-Commission with Miami’s New World Symphony, Amster-dam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Lisbon’s Gulbenkian Or-chestra, London’s Barbican Centre, the Los Angeles Philharmon-ic, and the San Francisco Symphony. Traveling with the Orchestra in Europe will be Frank Peter Zimmermann, The Mary and James G. Wallach Artist-in-Residence. Details to be announced.

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Joyce Didonato Avery Fisher Hall february 23, 2012, 7:30 pm february 25, 2012, 8:00 pm february 28, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano steven stucky Son et lumière berlioz Les Nuits d ’été musorgsky/ravel Pictures at an Exhibition




Alan Gilbert And Joyce Didonato At The Kimmel Center The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts Philadelphia, Pennsylvania february 24, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Joyce DiDonato, mezzo-soprano steven stucky Son et lumière berlioz Les Nuits d ’été musorgsky/ravel Pictures at an Exhibition

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Beethoven in 19th-Century America: Why Did He Take So Long to Be Heard Here?Bruno Walter Gallerymarch 1 – june 23, 2012

The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program I Avery Fisher Hall march 1, 2012, 7:30 pm march 2, 2012, 2:00 pm march 3, 2012, 8:00 pm march 6, 2012, 7:30 pm David Zinman, conductor Peter Serkin, piano

beethoven Symphony No. 2 stravinsky Capriccio for Piano and Orchestra beethoven Symphony No. 7

The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program II Avery Fisher Hall march 8, 2012, 7:30 pm march 10, 2012, 8:00 pm march 13, 2012, 7:30 pm




David Zinman, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello beethoven Symphony No. 8 barber Cello Concerto beethoven Symphony No. 4

David Zinman And The Philharmonic At NJPAC New Jersey Performing Arts Center Newark, New Jersey march 9, 2012, 8:00 pmDavid Zinman, conductor Alisa Weilerstein, cello beethoven Symphony No. 8 barber Cello Concerto beethoven Symphony No. 4

The Modern Beethoven: A Philharmonic Festival Conducted By David Zinman Program III Avery Fisher Hall march 15, 2012, 7:30 pm march 16, 2012, 11:00 pm march 17, 2012, 8:00 pmmarch 20, 2012, 7:30 pm David Zinman, conductor Gil Shaham, violin beethoven Symphony No. 1 hartmann Concerto funèbre for Solo Violin and String Orchestra beethoven Symphony No. 3, Eroica

David Zinman Conducts A Young People’s Concert Avery Fisher Hall march 17, 2012, 2:00 pmDavid Zinman, conductor

Christoph Von Dohnányi Conducts Henze And Schubert Avery Fisher Hall march 22, 2012, 7:30 pm




march 23, 2012, 2:00 pm march 24, 2012, 8:00 pm Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor henze Adagio, Fugue, and Maenads’ Dance from The Bassarids schubert Symphony No. 9, Great

Rush Hour Concert: Christoph Von Dohnányi Conducts Schnittke And Tchaikovsky Avery Fisher Hall march 28, 2012, 6:45 pm Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Artist-In-Residence Frank Peter Zimmermann Dvorák With Christoph Von Dohnányi Avery Fisher Hall march 29, 2012, 7:30 pm march 30 and 31, 2012, 8:00 pm

Christoph von Dohnányi, conductor Frank Peter Zimmermann, violin schnittke (K)ein Sommernachtstraum dvorák Violin Concerto tchaikovsky Symphony No. 6, Pathétique

Jaap Van Zweden Conducts Avery Fisher Hall april 12, 2012, 7:30 pm april 13 and 14, 2012, 8:00 pm april 17, 2012, 7:30 pm Jaap van Zweden, conductor* Yuja Wang, piano prokofiev Piano Concerto No. 3 mahler Symphony No. 1 *denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Young People’s Concert Avery Fisher Hall april 14, 2012, 2:00 pm




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Herbert Blomstedt Conducts Avery Fisher Hall april 19, 2012, 7:30 pm april 20 and 21, 2012, 8:00 pm Herbert Blomstedt, conductor Garrick Ohlsson, piano mozart Piano Concerto No. 9, Jeunehomme tchaikovsky Symphony No. 5

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Lisa Batiashvili At Rush Hour Avery Fisher Hall april 25, 2012, 6:45 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin berlioz Le Corsaire Overture mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish debussy La Mer

Alan Gilbert Conducts: World Premiere Of Marc Neikrug’s Concerto For Orchestra Avery Fisher Hall april 26, 2012, 7:30 pm april 27, 2012, 2:00 pm april 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Lisa Batiashvili, violin berlioz Le Corsaire Overture marc neikrug Concerto for Orchestra (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Commission) mozart Violin Concerto No. 5, Turkish debussy La Mer

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mahler’s Symphony No. 6 At Carnegie Hall Carnegie Hall




may 2, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor mahler Symphony No. 6

Alan Gilbert Conducts: World Premiere Of Magnus Lindberg’s Piano Concerto No. 2 Avery Fisher Hall may 3, 2012, 7:30 pm may 4, 2012, 11:00 am may 5, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Yefim Bronfman, piano

Dvorák Carnival Overture magnus lindberg Piano Concerto No. 2 (World Premiere—New York Philharmonic Co-Commission with Amsterdam’s Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and the Gothenburg Symphony) tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4

West Coast TourIn May 2012 Alan Gilbert will lead the Philharmonic on a tour of the West Coast, including an appearance as part of the San Francisco Symphony’s Centennial Celebration and the Or-chestra’s debut at Los Angeles’s Walt Disney Concert Hall; the tour repertoire will include the Piano Concerto No. 2 by Magnus Lindberg, The Marie-Josée Composer in Residence. Details to be announced.

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Glenn Dicterow In Bartók Avery Fisher Hall may 19, 2012, 8:00 pm may 22, 2012, 7:30 pm may 26, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Glenn Dicterow, violin dvorák Carnival Overture bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 tchaikovsky Symphony No. 4




Saturday Matinee Concert Avery Fisher Hall may 19, 2012, 2:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Glenn Dicterow, violin Judith LeClair, bassoon Philip Myers, horn Sheryl Staples, violin Michelle Kim, violin Rebecca Young, viola Eileen Moon, cello Satoshi Okamoto, bass schubert Octet bartók Violin Concerto No. 1 dvorák Carnival Overture

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Evgeny Kissin Avery Fisher Hall may 23, 2012, 7:30 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Evgeny Kissin, piano program to include: Grieg Piano Concerto

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Free Annual Memorial Day Concert The Cathedral Church of Saint John the Divine 112th Street and Amsterdam Avenue may 28, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor mahler Symphony No. 9

Rafael Frühbeck De Burgos Conducts Carmina Burana Avery Fisher Hall may 31, 2012, 7:30 pm june 1 and 2, 2012, 8:00 pm Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, conductor Erin Morley, soprano




Nicholas Phan, tenor* Jacques Imbrailo, baritone* Orfeón Pomplona, chorus* Igor Ijurra Fernández, directorfalla Selections from Atlántida orff Carmina burana *denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Pinchas Zukerman Performs And Conducts Avery Fisher Hall june 6 and 7, 2012, 7:30 pm june 8, 2012, 2:00 pm june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm Pinchas Zukerman, conductor and violin j.s. bach Violin Concerto in A minor, BWV 1041 mozart Violin Concerto No. 3 stravinsky Concerto in D major for String Orchestra (1961 revision) mozart Symphony No. 39

Contact!, The New York Philharmonic New-Music Series Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium The Metropolitan Museum of Art 1000 Fifth Avenue june 8, 2012, 7:00 pm

Peter Norton Symphony Space 2537 Broadway, at 95th Street june 9, 2012, 8:00 pm David Robertson, conductor yann robin Backdraft (World Premiere—New York Philhar-monic Co-Commission with Casa da Música, Porto) michael jarrell New Work (U.S. Premiere—New York Phil-harmonic Co-Commission with Ensemble Contrechamps) pierre boulez ... explosante-fixe ...

Alan Gilbert Conducts: With Leonidas Kavakos Avery Fisher Hall june 14, 2012, 7:30 pm




june 15, 2012, 11:00 am june 16, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Leonidas Kavakos, violin Joshua Hopkins, baritone*beethoven Coriolan Overture korngold Violin Concerto nielsen Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva* denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Saturday Matinee ConcertAvery Fisher Halljune 16, 2012, 2:00 pmAlan Gilbert, conductor and violinLeonidas Kavakos, violinCynthia Phelps, violaCarter Brey, celloMaria Kitsopoulos, celloJoshua Hopkins, baritone*schubert String Quintet in C Majornielsen Symphony No. 3, Sinfonia espansiva* denotes guest artist

New York Philharmonic Ensembles At Merkin Concert Hall Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center 129 West 67 Street june 17, 2012, 3:00 pm Anna Rabinova, violinRobert Rinehart, violaSatoshi Okamoto, bassLionel Party, harpsichord

handel Trio Sonata in G Major, op. 5, No. 4Duoming Ba, violinDavid J. Grossman, bass

elliott schwartz sonata for violin and double BassMindy Kaufman, flute




Sharon Yamada, violinCynthia Phelps, violaRu-Pei Yeh, celloNancy Allen, harp

cras quintetteRobert Langevin, fluteSandra Church, fluteBarbara McKenzie, piano*

gaubert divertissement grecHae-Young Ham, violinWei Yu, celloCecile Licad, piano*ravel piano trio* denotes guest artist

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Mozart’s Mass In C Minor, GreatAvery Fisher Hall june 20 and 21, 2012, 7:30 pm june 22 and 23, 2012, 8:00 pm Alan Gilbert, conductor Emanuel Ax, piano Jennifer Zetlan, soprano Jennifer Johnson, mezzo-sopranoPaul Appleby, tenor* Joshua Hopkins, baritoneNew York Choral ArtistsJoseph Flummerfelt, director mozart Piano Concerto No. 22 mozart Mass in C minor, Great *denotes New York Philharmonic debut

Alan Gilbert Conducts: Stockhausen’s Gruppen In Co-Production With Park Avenue Armory Wade Thompson Drill Hall Park Avenue Armory 643 Park Avenue (between 66th and 67th Streets) june 29 and 30, 2012, 8:00 pm




Alan Gilbert, conductor Magnus Lindberg, conductor (Stockhausen) Matthias Pintscher, conductor* (Stockhausen) pierre boulez Rituel in memoriam Bruno Maderna mozart Act I Finale from Don Giovanni stockhausen Gruppen ives The Unanswered Question *denotes New York Philharmonic debut

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The Public Theater

As the nation’s foremost theatrical producer of Shakespeare and new work, The Public Theater is dedicated to achieving artistic excellence while developing an American theater that is accessible and relevant to all people, through productions of challenging new plays, musicals, and innovative stagings of the classics. Founded by Joseph Papp as the Shakespeare Workshop and now one of the nation’s preeminent cultural institutions, The Public is an American theater in which all the country’s voices, rhythms, and cultures converge. Under the leadership of Artistic Director Oskar Eustis and Interim Executive Director Joey Parnes, The Public is dedicated to embracing the complexi-ties of contemporary society and nurturing both artists and audiences, as it continues Joseph Papp’s legacy of creating a place of inclusion and a forum for ideas.

Downtown SeasonThe Agony And The Ecstasy Of Steve JobsNew York Premierecreated and performed by Mike Daiseydirected by Jean-Michele Gregoryoctober 11 – november 13, 2011Following the success of The Last Cargo Cult, Mike Daisey turns his razor-sharp wit to America’s most mysterious technology icon in this hilarious and harrowing tale of pride, beauty, lust,

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and industrial design. He illuminates how the CEO of Apple and his obsessions shape our lives, while sharing stories of his own travels to China to investigate the factories where millions toil to make iPhones and iPods. Daisey’s dangerous journey shines a light on our love affair with our devices and the human cost of creating them. King Lear by William Shakespearedirected by James Macdonaldoctober 18 – november 20, 2011In no other play is Shakespeare’s tragic vision more terrifyingly clear—and nowhere in his canon does he dramatize more power-fully or humanely that only kindness and love are potent enough to counter mankind’s darkest impulses. When King Lear divides his kingdom among his three daughters, he sets in motion a cascade of violence that sweeps the civilized world to the brink of chaos, and Lear to the edge of madness. Featuring Academy Award-nominee and Golden Globe-winner Sam Waterston in the title role. Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good) devised and performed by Gob Squadjanuary 19 – february 5, 2012 (limited run)Gob Squad’s Kitchen returns after its hit run at The Public’s 2011 Under the Radar Festival. It’s 1965 and everything is just about to happen. The German/British collective Gob Squad invites you to take the hand of the King of Pop himself, Andy Warhol, and take a trip back to the underground cinemas of New York City, back to where it all began. Gob Squad’s Kitchen reconstructs Warhol’s films in the quest to illuminate the past for a new generation, reflecting on the nature of authenticity, the here and now, and the hidden depths beneath the shiny surfaces of modern life. The Twenty-Seventh ManWorld Premiereby Nathan Englanderdirected by Barry Edelsteinfebruary 21 – march 25, 2012



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Best-selling author Nathan Englander (For the Relief of Unbearable Urges) adapts this warm and deeply moving new play from his acclaimed short story of the same name.A Soviet prison, 1952. Stalin’s secret police have rounded up 26 writers, the giants of Yiddish literature in Russia. As judgment looms, a twenty-seventh suddenly appears: Pinchas Pelovits, unpublished and unknown. Baffled by his arrest, he and his cellmates wrestle with the mysteries of party loyalty and politics, culture and identity, and with what it means to write in troubled times. When they discover why the twenty-seventh man is among them, the writers come to realize that even in the face of tyranny stories still have the power to transcend. February House World Premieremusic and lyrics by Gabriel Kahane book by Seth Bockley directed by Davis McCallummay/june 2012Visionary and flamboyant editor George Davis transforms a dilapidated Brooklyn boardinghouse into a bohemian commune for the leading lights of 1940s New York. Residents include nov-elist Carson McCullers, composer Benjamin Britten, poet W.H. Auden, and the infamous Gypsy Rose Lee. The luminaries of 7 Middagh Street form a tumultuous and remarkable makeshift family, and search for love, inspiration, and refuge from the looming war in Europe. Inspired by true events, this powerful and funny new musical marks the first commission of The Pub-lic’s Musical Theater Initiative. February House will be developed this summer at New York Stage and Film. Chinglish New York Premiere On Broadwayby David Henry Hwang directed by Leigh Silverman

Nowadays, everyone wants to do business with China. Daniel, a Midwestern American businessman, travels to the provincial capital of Guiyang in the hope of landing a contract for his family firm, only to learn how much he doesn’t understand. His



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translators are unreliable, his consultant may be a fraud, and he is captivated by Xu, a government official who may be trying to help him—at least that’s what he thinks she’s saying. A funny, sexy portrait of our Pacific Century from the author of M.

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Sweet And SadWorld Premierewritten and directed by Richard Nelsonseptember 6 – september 25, 2011 Rhinebeck, New York. September 11, 2011. The Apple Family finds themselves together again for the first time since Election Night, 2010. Marian, reeling from a personal tragedy, now lives with her sister Barbara; sister Jane is back with her boyfriend Tim; their brother Richard has come up from Manhattan; and Uncle Benjamin prepares for his first dramatic performance in years. Over Sunday brunch on the tenth anniversary of 9/11, the Apples find themselves talking about loss, memory, remem-brance, and the meaning of compensation. With Sweet and Sad, Tony Award-winner Richard Nelson (Conversations in Tusculum, James Joyce’s The Dead) continues his series of plays exploring the immediate present and the ever-changing state of the nation through the story of the liberal Apples. The critically acclaimed ensemble cast first introduced to Public Lab audiences in last season’s That Hopey Changey Thing returns. Love’s Labor’s Lostby William Shakespearedirected by Karin Coonrodoctober 18 – november 6, 2011 The King of France and his three best buds swear off romance and withdraw into their studies ... until four girls show up. As the young couples stumble their way toward love, the others in their circle—a pedantic schoolmaster, a Spanish dandy, a streetwise con-man, and a cop with a few screws loose—work through their own mad dilemmas. In the end, the real world intrudes and brings everyone back to earth, but not even a cold winter blast manages to chill the warmth of this beguiling play.



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Titus Andronicusby William Shakespearedirected by Michael Sextonnovember 29 – december 18, 2011 Titus is Rome’s greatest general and the head of a noble Roman family. When his armies vanquish the Goths, their defeated queen unleashes a fury that rocks Titus’s city, devastates his chil-dren, and shatters his sense of self. The cycle of revenge is shock-ing, bloody, and all-encompassing, but expressed through poetry and theatricality as vivid, energized, and thrilling as anything in Shakespeare’s later works. The Total BentWorld Premierebook and lyrics by Stewmusic by Stew and Heidi Rodewalddirected by Joanna Settlefebruary 14 – march 4, 2012Stew and Heidi Rodewald, creators of the Tony Award-winning Passing Strange, team up with director Joanna Settle and return to The Public with a new musical about a black gospel prodigy from down south and a white music producer from South Lon-don who meet in a recording studio just south of the Twilight Zone, as they both desperately seek their own versions of tran-scendence, salvation, and a hit record. Divine inspiration, fantas-tical visions, and one legendary music-producer father frame this electrifying new musical about the complicated space between the sacred and the profane. The Total Bent is a co-commission with Berkeley Repertory Theatre.

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Roundabout Theatre

Roundabout’s mission has remained consistent. At the very heart of our work is our commitment to teaming great theatri-cal works with the industry’s finest artists to re-energize classic plays and musicals. In 1995, we expanded our mission to include the development and production of new works by today’s great writers and composers. The production of these new works, alongside the production of classics, enables Roundabout to embody the crossroads of American theatre. Roundabout’s future is filled with extraordinary possibility. Roundabout now operates five theatres: the Stephen Sondheim Theatre, the American Airlines Theatre, Studio 54, the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre/Laura Pels Theatre, and Black Box Theatre. Each of these spaces fulfils a different aspect of our mission, and has given Roundabout’s audiences, artists, and staff a place that we can all call home.

Man and BoyAmerican Airlines Theatreby Terence Rattigandirected by Maria Aitkenseptember 9 – november 27, 2011Tony Award® winner Frank Langella stars in Terence Rattigan’s gripping 1963 masterwork as a powerful business mogul whose ego and greed leave a path of destruction. Sound familiar?

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Sons of the ProphetHarold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatreby Stephen Karamdirected by Peter Dubois september 28 – december 23, 2011Tony Award® winner Joanna Gleason stars in this New York premiere. From the writer of the breakout hit Speech & Debate, Sons of the Prophet is a refreshingly honest take on how we cope with wounds that just won’t heal, and the funniest play about human suffering you’re likely to see.

Suicide, IncorporatedBlackbox Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatreby Andrew Hinderakerdirected by Jonathan Berryoctober 14 – december 23, 2011The right words can be hard to find, especially when they’re your last. Andrew Hinderaker’s provocative and darkly funny new play takes us to an unorthodox writing service that specializes in crafting the perfect suicide note, where a subversive new employee is suspected of the unthinkable. Could he actually be trying to keep his client alive?

Look Back in Angerby John Osbornedirected by Sam Gold

Considered to be a pivotal work of the last century, Look Back in Anger is John Osborne’s uncompromising and vibrant drama about four people struggling to live together and love each other in 1950’s England.

The Road to MeccaAmerican Airlines Theatreby Athol Fugarddirected by Gordon Edelsteinjanuary 17 – march 12, 2012


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Tony, Emmy,® and Golden Globe® winner Rosemary Harris returns to Roundabout with the remarkable Carla Gugino and Tony winner Jim Dale in this celebrated work by Tony winner Athol Fugard about an artist making her last stand for free expression in apartheid South Africa.

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Signature Theatre

Signature Theatre is a Tony Award®-winning, non-profit professional theater company with a mission to produce contemporary musicals and plays, reinvent classic musicals, develop new work, and reach its community through engaging educational and outreach opportunities. Signature Theatre’s 2011-2012 season launches with the pioneering AMVP Rep: a pair of world premiere musicals that make theatre history by running full productions in rotating repertory.

Hairsprayin the MAX book by Mark O’Donnell and Thomas Meehanmusic by Marc Shaimanlyrics by Scott Wittman and Marc Shaimanbased on the 1988 John Waters film Hairspray directed by Eric Schaeffernovember 21, 2011 – january 29, 2012

The 2003 Tony Award®-Winner for Best MusicalThe world is spinning out of control…but all Tracy Turnblad wants to do is dance. When she wins a coveted spot on “The Corny Collins Show,” Baltimore’s most popular teen dance program, the high school loser with the big heart, big personality, and big hair proves everyone wrong and becomes a local TV celebrity. It seems like Tracy will have it all—the eye of heart-

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throb Link Larkin, the Miss Teenage Hairspray crown, even a modeling gig with Mr. Pinky’s Hefty Hideaway. But is segregated Baltimore ready to embrace her demand for racial integration? And will her larger-than-life mother ever leave the house? “Stocked with deliriously tuneful songs…Hairspray is as sweet as a show can be without promoting tooth decay.” (The New York Times)

Really Really in the ARK by Paul Downs Colaizzodirected by Matthew Gardinerjanuary 31 – march 25, 2012 World Premiere “The gem of this generation, and the upside to our selfishness, is the invincibility we espouse.” From one of the country’s most promising new voices comes this contemporary drama that push-es the edges and embraces the harsh reality of today’s youth. At an elite university, when the party of the year results in the regret of a lifetime, one person will stop at nothing to salvage a future that is suddenly slipping away. In this quick-witted and gripping comic tragedy about “Generation Me,” it’s every man for himself.

Brother Russia in the MAXbook & lyrics by John Dempseymusic by Dana Rowedirected by Eric Schaeffermarch 6 – april 15, 2012World Premiere A world premiere rock musical from the award-winning creators of The Fix and The Witches of Eastwick. In a desolate potato field north of Omsk, a comically fourth-rate Russian theatre troupe sets up its tents and wows the local farmers with rock-fueled adaptations of Tolstoy and Dostoevsky. Tonight, however, the company will toss classic literature aside to showcase the life story of their impresario and star, the seemingly immortal Brother Russia—more commonly known as Grigori Yefimovich Rasputin. Yes, that Rasputin: the hypnotic mystic who seduced and ruled the Tsar and Tsarina in the waning days of Imperial


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Russia. “Dempsey’s lyrics are exceptionally witty, and Rowe’s music jaunty and tuneful, yet with the sophisticated sweep of a Sondheim.” (Time Magazine)

God Of Carnage in the ARK by Yasmina Reza translated by Christopher Hamptonapril 10 –june 24, 2012

The three-time 2009 Tony Award®-Winner, including Best PlayWashington Premiere From the award-winning author of Art comes this shrewd and vicious comedy that gleefully flouts the perception of human “ci-vility.” Two upper-middle-class Brooklyn couples meet to discuss an incident of playground violence between their sons. Though the evening begins with polite pleasantries, it quickly descends into primal madness as tempers flare, loyalties shift, and the par-ents devolve into children. Like last season’s Art, Reza ferocious-ly and hilariously strips her affluent, over-achieving characters down to their savage core. “An expert piece of stagecraft, and savagely funny.” (International Herald Tribune)

Xanadu in the MAX book by Douglas Carter Beanemusic & lyrics by Jeff Lynne & John Farrarbased on the 1980 Universal Pictures film directed & choreographed by Matthew Gardinermay 8 – july 1, 2012

Washington Premiere The award-winning instant cult classic musical comedy—featuring the hit songs “Magic,” “Suddenly,” and “I’m Alive.” Grab your loved ones and glow sticks—as Signature turns the MAX Theatre into one big disco-heaven ball! 1980. Venice, California. Legwarmers are in and roller skates are way sexy. Xanadu, the zany send-up of the cult film starring Olivia Newton-John, delivers rock-star hilarity in an electrifying tale of forbidden love. Kira, one of seven quirky Greek muses, is sworn to three things: to inspire mortals, never reveal her identity and never, ever fall in love. However, when she


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emboldens struggling artist Sonny to create the first roller disco, Kira feels the artistic pull of her own. “Heaven on wheels…outland-ishly enjoyable.” (The New York Times)

Limited Engagements In addition to the mainstage productions, Signature will also be presenting three shows with limited engagements.

Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men Of The Southin the ARK written and performed by E. Patrick Johnsonseptember 13 – october 9, 2011 tues. & wed. 7:30 pm; thurs. & fri. 8:00 pm; sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pmWashington DC Premiere Based on his award-winning and critically acclaimed book, E. Patrick Johnson stars in this new one-man exploration into the southern black gay community. A fascinating, validating oral history inspired by the author’s personal journey, Sweet Tea explores the perceptions, angst, triumphs, and vulnerabilities of this minority within a minority. With passion and insight, Johnson reinforces the spoken-word tradition while challenging stereotypes—and finding humor, humanity and hope within.

Saturday Night in the MAX book by Julius and Philip Epsteinmusic & lyrics by Stephen Sondheimoctober 29–30, 2011 sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pm onlyStephen Sondheim’s hidden gem Saturday Night (1953) is a Signa-ture special concert event that will play for four performances only. Unproduced for almost 45 years, Saturday Night is the first musical Mr. Sondheim ever wrote. This romantic comedy surges with the composer’s unique musical voice and sophisticated lyrics. On the eve of the 1929 stock market crash, a group of Brook-lyn boys despair of their dateless Saturday nights. One of them dreams of Manhattan society life and hatches a get rich quick scheme which ultimately backfires. Features gems such as “Satur-day Night,” “So Many People,” and “What More Do I Need?”


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A Second Chance in the ARK book, music & lyrics by Ted Shendirected by Jonathan Butterellnovember 15 – december 11, 2011 tues. & wed. 7:30 pm; thurs. & fri. 8:00 pm; sat. 2:00 pm & 8:00 pm; sun. 2:00 pm & 7:00 pmWorld Premiere From the director of Signature’s Giant comes this intimate new musical about unexpectedly finding love when you are least looking for it. Two savvy New Yorkers are seated next each other at a dinner party—he is mourning the recent loss of his wife; she is newly divorced. They share a passion for art. Neither wants nor feels that they deserve to find love—and yet they are irresist-ibly drawn to the other. This lyrical duet showcases their journey toward happiness against all the odds.

Contact4200 Campbell AvenueArlington, VA 22206www.signature-theatre.org

Tickets(703) 820-9771


http://www.signature-theatre.org

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Documents

NYC Guide for the Arts 2011-2012