(Photo credit: Brooklyn Digital Foundry) Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, Inc. (LCPA) announced the preliminary design for the Amsterdam Avenue side of its campus. The project creates a new world-class outdoor performance venue, community park spaces, and removes the wall that has separated Lincoln Center from Amsterdam Avenue. Key features of the renovations include creating new welcoming entrances along {…}
The Lincoln Center’s “Summer for the City” program returns this summer. Only classical vocal events are featured in this article. Events are all free and pay-what-you-choose. The American Modern Opera Company presents a fusion of Monteverdi’s “The Coronation of Poppea” with W.E.B. Du Bois’s short story “The Comet” as part of the Run AMOC Festival. Performers include Anthony Roth Costanzo, {…}
Creative director, designer, and producer Clint Ramos is set to join Lincoln Center as Artist-in-Residence. Ramos is set to be the costume designer for the Met Opera’s recently announced 2026 production of “Tristan und Isolde.” Other projects on campus include leading curation for the 2026 edition of “American Songbook;” developing a new public art and theater piece set for premiere {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has appointed Dr. Mariko Silver as its next President and Chief Executive Officer, Board Chair Steven R. Swartz. She is a leader in the fields of philanthropy, education, government, and the arts and will join Lincoln Center on September 23, 2024. Silver will become the twelfth President and CEO of Lincoln Center and she {…}
(Photo credit: Tuesday night at Lincoln Center offered some true gems, an enticing evening even for seasoned New Yorkers. All the more delightful, as part of Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City, tickets for the show were “choose-what-you-pay”, making it accessible to a wider, more relaxed summer crowd in the Wu Tsai Theater of David Geffen Hall. It’s a welcome {…}
Lincoln Center has announced its programming for its “American Songbook” concert series. At the center of the series is countertenor John Holiday at The Appel Room, Jazz at Lincoln Center. The event is scheduled for March 14, 2024. In addition to this performance, Holiday will appear at an Anniversary Gala for Arizona Opera as well as in performance with the {…}
Soprano Cassie Chang has announced her Lincoln Center debut of “An Operatic Affair.” The soprano will be accompanied by pianist Nobuko Amemiya and will be performed at Lincoln Center on June 16. Admission is by donation with all proceeds going to Vocal Productions NYC. The performance will consist of some of opera’s most demanding and famous repertoire including eight arias {…}
Lincoln Center is set to present the world premiere of Jonathan Dove and librettist Alasdair Middleton’s “Search for Spring” on May 13, 2023. The new community choral experience will be performed outdoors at the Josie Robertson Plaza and will feature 800 individuals composed of five community choirs. The work aims to explore the emotional toll of climate change. “To begin {…}
“Summer in the City” at Lincoln Center features free events with thousands of artists celebrating New York City. The program is full of dance, international pop, stage plays, and more. For this article, only classical vocal performances are listed. Things kick off in June with “Nehanda,” an opera conceived and created by Nora Chipaumire. Billed as a juridical opera, Chipaumire’s sonic {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced that Katherine Farley will step down as Chair of the Board, and will be succeeded by Hearst CEO Steven R. Swartz. Farley has served as Chair of the Board since 2010, joining it in 2003. Before that, she was on the Boards of the New York Philharmonic from 1999 to 2005, Lincoln {…}
Composer and Innovator Tod Machover breathes vitality and brightness out of his very being. Abundance and color spring from his first words. Alert and active, he spoke with me from his farm and studio in Massachusetts. He drove from his state-of-the-art Media Laboratory at M.I.T. in Cambridge, where he is the Director of the Opera of the Future group as {…}