(Photo credit: Lawrence Sumulong)

Summer for the City has announced hundreds of free events to take place at Lincoln Center over three months.

For the purposes of this article, only vocal works are featured.

Opening the summer series is the Lincoln Center’s new commission from director James Blaszko in a new work that unites opera, drag, queerness, and gender expression entitled “Soundcake: Aural Confections by Sapphira Cristál & Monét X Change.”

Performance Date: June 12, 2024

The Young People’s Chorus of New York City presents “Red Light, Green Light.” Francisco J. Núñez conducts.

Performance Date: June 13, 2024

Next up are Toshi Reagon’s participatory opera “Songs of the Living Freedom Songs: a Juneteenth Celebration” and the Community Choir project “Songs of the Living” and “Parable Path.”

Performance Date: June 19, 2024

“The Ritual of Breath Is the Rite to Resist” is a transdisciplinary opera and creative act of resistance by Jonathan Berger, Vievee Francis, and Enrico Riley. The work responds to the murder of Eric Garner and the ongoing theft of Black life at the hands of the State. The opera will feature original paintings and drawings of Black life by Riley, soprano vocals performed by Neema Bickersteth, a chamber ensemble, poetic dance movements, and immersive projections by Peter Nigrini. In this new adaptation, the Lincoln Center presentation of Ritual will also feature a 75-person chorus of singers from Sing Harlem and Dartmouth College Gospel Choir—both directed by Knoelle Higginson.

Performance Date: June 19, 2024

Kazem Abdullah conducts Brahms and Stravinsky with soprano Heather Buck, tenor Chris Lysack, and bass Edwin Jhamal Davis in the “Avery Fisher Legacy Concert.”

Performance Dates: July 26 & 27, 2024

J’Nai Bridges sings Lieberson’s “Neruda Songs.” Carlos Miguel Prieto conducts.

Performance Dates: July 30-31, 2024

Soprano Sonya Headlam performs Joseph Bologne’s “Aria” rom “L’Amant anonyme” and Mozart’s “Exsultate, jubilate.” Jeannette Sorrell conducts.

Performance Dates: August 2 & 3, 2024