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 {…}
This March, Lincoln Center is set to do its first cross-campus exploration of an artist. Entitled “See Me As I Am: Lincoln Center’s Year-Long Celebration of Terence Blanchard,” the event will see seven organizations, including Film at Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, The Juilliard School, Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, The Metropolitan Opera, New York Philharmonic, and The New York Public Library {…}
Audiences at Lincoln Center will be able to stream a unique concert experience on Dec. 1, 2022. The showcase will feature the Christmas World of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Cultural Center in Athens, including a lighting ceremony and concert, live streamed to a 50-foot digital wall in the main lobby of the new David Geffen Hall. The showcase will feature {…}
Lincoln Center has announced additional programming for their winter and spring lineup of performances for the 2022-23 season. First up is a presentation of Terrance McKnight’s “Langston & Beethoven: Black & Proud,” which celebrates the famous poet’s birthday with a number of works by Beethoven, David Baker, and George Gershwin, set to Hughes’ poems. This collaboration with the New York {…}
Lincoln Center is set to premiere “Song of the Ambassadors” on Oct. 25. The opera is billed as an AI opera, as it will blend music, science, and technology. K Allado-McDowell, an artist, author, and speaker, is the person behind the concept of the work, which was written in collaboration with AI language model GPT-3. The opera’s music by Derrick {…}
Jeanine De Bique is set to appear alongside the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra as part of Lincoln Center’s “Summer in the City” program at the end of the month. The soprano will perform Barber’s “Knoxville: Summer of 1915” as well as arias from Mozart’s “Zaide” and “Don Giovanni.” The performance, slated for July 29 and 30, 2022, will include Beethoven’s {…}
Lincoln Center has announced the return of performances to the David Rubenstein Atrium, including the “American Songbook: A World of Voices” series this April. Scheduled between April 14-30, the “American Songbook” series, while not featuring operatic works specifically, includes a vast array of performances by international singers and composers. Opera devotees will be particularly interested in the showcase scheduled for {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced the Passport to the Arts Fall 2021 season. The pass will provide access to classes, performances, and custom-designed experiences for children, teens, and adults with disabilities and their families. Programs will include in-person viewings of “Cinderella” and “The Magic Flute” at the Metropolitan Opera as well as behind-the-scenes clips from Lerner & {…}
(Photo credit: Gregory Kramer) Shanta Thake will take the helm as Lincoln Center’s first Ehrenkranz Chief Artistic Officer, replacing Jane Moss who held the position of Artistic Director for 26 years before stepping down in 2020. The new position replaces that of Artistic Director. With Lincoln Center entering a new phase of artistic endeavors, Thake will oversee several high-visibility projects {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced the expansion of its “Lincoln Center Activate” initiative, offering arts professionals in education and community engagement the chance to develop their creative and professional skills with the intent to spark change throughout the arts. The initiative will focus itself around a single prompt: “How do we achieve radical welcoming that will help {…}
President Adam Krauthamer has sent a letter to Local 802 members condemning Lincoln Center’s Restart Stages. Krauthamer, who has been outspoken about the Metropolitan Opera’s lockout is now taking aim at Lincoln Center due to the lack of contracts with unions.” In the letter, Krauthamer said, “Most of you know that Lincoln Center is producing a series called Restart Stages, {…}