New York, New York
LIMELIGHT’S GUIDE TO THE BEST ARTS EVENTS IN THE BIG APPLE this October
Classical Music
Cleveland at carnegie
Carnegie’s Hall Opening Night Gala features an all-star trio of Anne-Sophie Mutter, Lynn Harrell and Yefim Bronfman, with the Cleveland Orchestra conducted by Franz Welser-Möst, for Beethoven’s Triple Concerto. The program is rounded out by the delicious Concert Suite from Richard Strauss’s Der Rosenkavalier. The following night it’s Mahler 5!
Laurie Anderson’s Nightcap
The New York Phil’s evening concert features Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique and Sibelius’s Violin Concerto. Cap off the entertainment over the road with a drink and an intimate exchange in the glow of the NY skyline as composer, visual artist and vocalist Laurie Anderson explores narratives and storytelling in music.
Pergolesi in Green-Wood Cemetery
The Stabat Mater describes the suffering of Mary at the foot of the cross and Pergolesi’s setting is among the most haunting. Performed by the String Orchestra of Brooklyn, the program includes Barber’s Adagio for Strings and Pärt’s Fratres. The performance will feature wall-to-ceiling projections up and down the catacombs.
Ivan Ilić on a barge
The intimate setting of Brooklyn harbourside barge finds questing pianist Ivan Ilić playing three concerts. The first features Hans Otte’s remarkable The Book of Sounds (1979-1982), the second combines Keeril Makan, Scott Wollschleger and Melaine Dalibert, and the third music by the likes of Antoine Reicha, Haydn – as arranged by Stegmann – and Beethoven.
Yannick & Grimaud
Take a vivid musical journey through the Alps and experience a majestic sunrise, a storm and awe-inspiring views from the peaks as Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Philadelphia Orchestra in Strauss’s Alpine Symphony. Meanwhile, Hélène Grimaud is the soloist in Bartók’s Third Piano Concerto with its gentle folk melodies amidst dazzling bravura.
Opera
Turandot
Christine Goerke, the Met’s recent Brünnhilde, reprises her role as Puccini’s ice princess. Met Musical Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium to conduct Franco Zeffirelli’s legendary production of Puccini’s final masterpiece, which also features tenor Roberto Aronica as Calàf, soprano Eleonora Buratto as Liù, and veteran bass-baritone James Morris as Timur.
Turn of the Screw
On Site Opera presents a uniquely immersive production of Britten’s gothic masterpiece about a governess, her two charges, and a pair of baleful ghosts. The drama will unfold in atmospheric locations around the grounds, both indoors in the stately rooms of Wave Hill House and outdoors overlooking sweeping views of the Hudson River.
Iestyn Davies & Fretwork
Carnegie Hall presents British countertenor Iestyn Davies in recital with the viols of Fretwork. Expect singing and playing of pristine beauty in a program of opera arias and song by composers of the Renaissance and Baroque – including Purcell, Handel, Byrd and Gesualdo – as well as 20th-century songs by Vaughan Williams.
Orfeo ed Euridice
The Met revives Mark Morris’s spirited take on the ancient Orpheus myth starring rising star mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton as Orfeo, the grieving lover on a quest through the underworld. Soprano Hei-Kyung Hong sings the plaintive Euridice. Mark Wigglesworth conducts Gluck’s elegant score, a prime example of the Classical era’s important reform operas.
Zauberland
A young woman waits at the border of Zauberland, a magical world of security and peace, her dreams haunted by images of the burnt-out city she was forced to abandon. Composer Bernard Foccroulle and writer Martin Crimp interweave 19 new songs with Schumann’s Dichterliebe. Katie Mitchell directs soprano Julia Bullock and pianist Cédric Tiberghien in a NY premiere.
Musicals & Theatre
The Inheritance
Profoundly touching and wickedly hilarious, Matthew Lopez’s two-part play asks how much we owe to those who lived and loved before us. Brilliantly re-envisioning E. M. Forster’s Howards End to 21st-century New York, it follows the interlinking lives of three generations of gay men. Award-winning Stephen Daldry (Billy Elliott, The Crown) directs.
The Rose Tattoo
A chance to catch Academy Award winner Marisa Tomei who unleashes a tour de force as Serafina, a widow who rekindles her desire for love, lust and life in the arms of a fiery suitor. Sharply directed by Trip Cullman, Tennessee Williams’s lesser-known gem sizzles with humour and heart during one sultry summer off the coast of Louisiana.
Tina: The tina Turner musical
From humble beginnings in Nutbush, Tennessee, to her transformation into the global Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, Tina Turner didn’t just break the rules, she rewrote them. This new stage musical, presented in association with Turner herself, reveals the story of a woman who dared to defy the bounds of her age, gender and race.
DAVID BYRNE’S AMERICAN UTOPIA
Following a sold-out world tour, the acclaimed theatrical concert comes to Broadway’s intimate Hudson Theatre for 16 weeks only. A coming together of the worlds of music and theatre, innovative pop/rock icon David Byrne (Talking Heads) shares the spotlight with a diverse ensemble of 11 musical artists from around the globe.
circa at white light
Australia’s Circa ensemble embodies electrifying explosions of physicality and power in a work that blurs the boundaries of dance, theatre, music and circus. En Masse features music by Swedish composer Klara Lewis interspersed with selections from Schubert’s Winterreise and Schwanengesang, and a two-piano arrangement of Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring.
New York, New York
LIMELIGHT’S GUIDE TO THE BEST ARTS EVENTS IN THE BIG APPLE
Australians are the world’s greatest tourists, right? And no city offers quite as much in the way of artist thrills and spills as the Big Apple. After a year spent finding his feet, Limelight Editor-at-Large Clive Paget has hunted down the big names and haunted the city’s glittering venues. He’s also found unexpected performance spaces, from clubs to churches and even the odd cemetery. From the glamour of the Met and the buzz of Broadway to classical music hideaways and, yes, even some free stuff, our insider’s guide aims to be everything an adventurous cultural tourist needs.