Carnegie Hall has announced its 2019-20 season!

The 2019-20 season will honor the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth with over 35 performances celebrating the composer’s work and impact and will be dedicated to violinist, educator, and activist Isaac Stern, 2020 marking the centenary of his birth.

We will focus primarily on vocal performances in this season announcement.

Orchestras

The first performance of Carnegie Hall’s 2019-20 season will kick off the Beethoven Celebration, as Music Director Franz Welser-Möst leads The Cleveland Orchestra and soloists in performing Beethoven’s Triple Concerto in C Major and Romance for Violin and Orchestra in G Major. The program also includes the overture to Nicolai’s “The Merry Wives of Windsor” and Strauss’ “Der Rosenkavalier” Suite.

Performance Date: Oct. 3, 2019

Yannick Nézet-Séguin will begin his season-long Perspectives series in October with The Philadelphia Orchestra. In the spring, he will conduct a complete Beethoven symphony cycle performed across four concerts. Featured vocalists are soprano Angel Blue, mezzo-soprano Mihoko Fujimura, tenor Rolando Villazón, baritone Quinn Kelsey, and the Westminster Symphonic Choir.

Performance Dates: Oct. 15, 2019 – Apr. 3, 2020

Orchestra of St. Luke’s will appear under the baton of Bernard Labadie to perform works by a variety of composers, featuring contralto Marie-Nicole Lemieux. Later in the season, the orchestra will perform an all-Beethoven program, which will feature soprano Karina Gauvin, mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor, tenor Jeremy Ovenden, baritone Joshua Hopkins, and La Chapelle de Québec.

Performance Dates: Oct. 17, 2019 – Mar. 5, 2020

Diana Damrau will perform Strauss’ “Four Last Songs” with the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra and Chief Conductor Mariss Jansons.

Performance Dates: Nov. 8 – 9, 2019

Music Director Riccardo Muti will conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in two concerts and will feature Perspectives artist mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato. The first evening will include music inspired by Rome, and the second evening will feature an all-Prokofiev program.

Performance Dates: Nov. 15 – 16, 2019

DiDonato will return to the stage with the Orchestre Métropolitain de Montréal, which will make its Carnegie Hall debut with Artistic Director and Principal Conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin with works by Mozart and Bruckner’s Symphony No. 4, “Romantic.”

Performance Date: Nov. 22, 2019

Perspectives artist John Eliot Gardiner will lead the Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique in a complete Beethoven symphony cycle performed on period instruments, along with the ballet score to “The Creatures of Prometheus.” Vocalists to be featured in the Ninth Symphony are soprano Lucy Crowe, contralto Jess Dandy, tenor Michael Spyres, and bass Tareq Nazmi, along with the Monteverdi Choir.

Performance Dates: Feb. 19 – 24, 2019

Kent Nagano, in his final season as Music Director of the Orchestre Symphonique de Montréal, will lead Schumann’s Piano Concerto and Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 13, “Babi Yar.” Members of the Chamber Singers, Oratorio Society, and Varsity Men’s Glee Club of the University of Illinois will be featured vocally.

Performance Date: Mar. 24, 2019

Music Director Robert Spano will lead the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus in “Missa solemnis,” with soprano Susanna Phillips, mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke, tenor Ben Bliss, and bass Matthew Rose.

Performance Date: Apr. 4, 2019

The Met Orchestra

The MET Orchestra will present three concerts this season.

Their first concert, led by Gianandrea Noseda, will showcase Shostakovich’s Violin Concerto No. 1, featuring violinist Christian Tetzlaff, and Stravinsky’s “The Firebird.”

Performance Date: May 15, 2020

Their second concert of the season will be led by Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin. The program will include Beethoven’s Romance for Violin and Orchestra in F Major, Op. 50 and Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 61 featuring violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter, along with Prokofiev’s Symphony No. 5 in B-flat Major, Op. 100.

Performance Date: Jun. 12, 2020

Their final performance, also under the baton of Maestro Nézet-Séguin, will include Jörg Widmann’s “Lied,” and Strauss’ “Ein Heldenleben, Op. 4” and “Four Last Songs” featuring soprano Elza van den Heever.

Performance Dates: Jun. 16, 2020

Vocals

Tenor Ian Bostridge will perform with pianist and composer Brad Mehldau in a recital presenting Mehldau’s new song cycle, co-commissioned by Carnegie Hall. The program also includes Schumann’s “Dichterliebe.”

Performance Date: Oct. 24, 2019

Joyce DiDonato will sing Schubert’s “Winterreise” in December, accompanied by Yannick Nézet-Séguin. In the spring she will present “A French Soirée” and perform works by Ravel, Debussy, and more. For her final concert, she will be joined by early music ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro for “My Favorite Things,” a program that will include works by Monteverdi, Purcell, Gluck, and Handel.

Performance Date: Dec. 15, 2019 – May 26, 2020

Accompanied by pianist Lars David Nilsson, baritone Peter Mattei will perform Schubert’s “Winterreise.”

Performance Date: Jan. 31, 2020

Bass-baritone Sir Bryn Terfel will make his long-awaited return to Carnegie Hall in a recital with pianist Natalia Katyukova.

Performance Date: Feb. 9, 2020

Baritone Gerald Finley, accompanied by pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet, will perform songs by Schubert, Schumann, Fauré, and Ravel.

Performance Date: Mar. 22, 2020

Bass-baritone Davóne Tines, accompanied by pianist Adam Nielsen, will perform songs by Schubert, Brahms, Eastman, and Caroline Shaw.

Performance Date: Apr. 3, 2020

Soprano Renée Fleming will give a recital alongside celebrated pianist Evgeny Kissin.

Performance Date: Apr. 23, 2020

Pianist James Baillieu will accompany baritone Benjamin Appl as he performs his solo recital entitled “Nocturne.” Appl will explore works with a nighttime theme by composers including Schubert, Schumann, Strauss, and more.

Performance Date: May 14, 2020

Additional vocal highlights of the season will include solo recitals by sopranos Golda Schultz, Pretty Yende, and Sally Matthews.

Performance Dates: Nov. 1, 2019; Dec. 4, 2019; and Feb. 4, 2020, respectively.