Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced a newly commissioned performance that commemorates Juneteenth, titled “I Dream a Dream That Dreams Back at Me, a Juneteenth Celebration.” The performance is conceived and curated by award-winning poet and artist Carl Hancock Rux, and will unfold across four parts of the Lincoln Center campus on June 19, 2021. It is presented {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced the official public opening of Restart Stages, a new outdoor performing arts center constructed on the Lincoln Center campus. The new initiative will welcome back audiences to reimagined community spaces and new outdoor venues and will feature Pop-Up performances in music, dance, drama, and more. For this article, we will only focus {…}
Lincoln Center at Home is set to present a unique concert experience on March 29, 2021 featuring one of opera’s greatest legends. “Jessye Norman: Women of Legend, Fantasy, and Lore” will kick off at 7:30 via Lincoln Center at Home’s official platform. The concert, which originally aired back in 1994 as part of “Live From Lincoln Center,” showcased the famed {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts and the Young People’s Chorus of New York City have partnered to pay tribute to those who lost their lives due to COVID-19. On March 14, the two organizations will release a video of the children’s chorus singing “You’ll Never Walk Alone” from Rodgers & Hammerstein’s “Carousel.” Available on Lincoln Center’s Facebook, YouTube, and {…}
Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts has announced Restart Stages, a new initiative that will create 10 outdoor performance and rehearsal spaces—an outdoor performing arts center—as well as other outdoor civic venues to help kickstart the performing arts sector and contribute to the revival of New York City. The new project will be made possible by the support of the {…}
Lincoln Center has canceled all performances for the spring of 2021. The organization announced that it will cancel the remainder of the events in the 2020-21 Great Performers series and 2020-21 David Rubenstein Atrium Season, as well as the annual American Songbook series. As a result, all previously announced concerts in the Great Performers series are canceled through May 9, {…}
Christine Goerke paid tribute to Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg in a moving video performance at Lincoln Center. Goerke performed Leonore’s aria “Abscheulicher!” from Beethoven’s opera “Fidelio,” a work that Ginsburg said gave her “the greatest hope for the future.” The video was filmed on Lincoln Center’s campus with Bradley Moore at the piano. In a statement, Lincoln Center noted, “the {…}
On Thursday, Sept. 24, from 11 a.m until 2:00 p.m., Lincoln Center, in partnership with Food Bank for New York City, will host a pop-up food pantry. Musicians from the New York Philharmonic, the Mostly Mozart Festival, and Met Orchestra Musicians will provide music for those standing in line to receive fresh produce and shelf-stable items. New York’s premiere culture {…}
In partnership with New York’s flagship classical radio station, WQXR, Lincoln Center’s Mostly Mozart Festival kicked off on Monday, August 10. The annual summer festival has been a fixture of the New York art scene since 1966, and the organization forged a path to keep the tradition in a safe way as COVID-19 continues battering the United States. This Friday, August {…}
Lincoln Center, the heart of New York’s performing arts scene, comprising the New York Philharmonic, the Metropolitan Opera, and the New York City Ballet, has agreed to pay two Wall Street banks $73 million to end its contracted interest-rate swaps, according to a Bloomberg report. Interest rate swaps, as defined by Investopedia, are forward contracts in which one stream of {…}
For the first time in its 60+ year history, Lincoln Center is lighting its iconic plaza with a rainbow design and flying the Pride flag in front of its campus. The flag will be lit up as an acknowledgment of the histories, struggles, and contributions of the LGBTQIA+ communities, and will celebrate the full spectrum of queer identity. The installation {…}
