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MEDIA CENTER

  • MonApril 5:

    April 5 – May 21: ANNA NETREBKO portrays four roles within six weeks at the Vienna State Opera: Mimì in La bohème, Micaela in Carmen, Elivra in I puritani, and the title role in Manon. [April 5, 8, 11 (La bohème); April 19, 22, 25 (I puritani); May 3, 6, 9, 12, 15 (Carmen); May 18, 21 (Manon): Vienna]

  • FriApril 9:

    April 9: With “Robert Schumann: Scenes from Goethe’s Faust,” LEON BOTSTEIN and the AMERICAN SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA complete their performances of the great trilogy of Schumann oratorios (Manfred and Das Paradies und die Peri were presented in previous seasons). [AFH]

  • FriApril 9:

    April 9: MICHAEL HERSCH’s A Forest of Attics : Music after texts of Bruno Schulz, a Network for New Music commission, receives its world premiere at the Philadelphia Ethical Society. [Philadelphia, PA]

  • SatApril 10:

    April 10: For the second time this season, CHANTICLEER performs at New York’s Metropolitan Museum (program tba). [Met Museum]

  • SunApril 11:

    April 11: THOMAS HAMPSON gives a recital co-presented by the New York Philharmonic and Lincoln Center’s “Art of the Song”. [ATH]

  • MonApril 12:

    April 12: Grammy Award-winning pianist YEFIM BRONFMAN plays Beethoven, Schumann, Tchaikovsky, and a Magnus Lindberg world premiere at Carnegie Hall. [CH]

  • ThuApril 15:

    April 15–17: Violinist/conductor NIKOLAJ ZNAIDER puts down his violin to lead the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra in performances of Tchaikovsky’s Fourth Symphony and Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with Swedish baritone Peter Mattei. [April 15: Uppsala; Apr 16, 17: Stockholm]

  • TueApril 20:

    April 20: The METROPOLITAN OPERA GUILD hosts its 75th Annual Luncheon, this year honoring beloved American mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade. [Waldorf=Astoria]

  • ThuApril 22:

    April 22–24: PIERRE-LAURENT AIMARD plays Schoenberg’s Piano Concerto with the Berlin Philharmonic, conducted by Jirí Belohlávek. [April 22, 23, 24: Berlin]

  • FriApril 23:

    April 23 – May 14: Renowned Wagnerian DEBORAH VOIGT is Senta in the Met’s Fliegende Holländer, her house role debut in one of her most spell-binding roles, opposite Juha Uusitalo as the Dutchman. [April 23, 26, 30, May 3, 6, 10, 14: Met]

  • SatApril 24:

    April 24: The CURTIS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA performs Barber’s Symphony No. 1, Mussorgsky’s Songs and Dances of Death, Ligeti’s Atmosphères, and Richard Strauss’s Also sprach Zarathustra, with Giancarlo Guerrero, conductor, and John Relyea, bass-baritone (‘96). [Philadelphia, PA]

  • WedApril 28:

    April 28: EIGHTH BLACKBIRD performs a new staging of Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire, choreograped and directed by Mark DeChiazza, at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art). DeChiazza uses movement and gesture to connect to the human core of this remarkable work. [Los Angeles, CA]

  • FriApril 30:

    April 30 – May 16: The DALLAS OPERA presents the world premiere of Jake Heggie and Gene Scheer’s Moby-Dick, the first new work to be performed in the company’s new home, the Margot and Bill Winspear Opera House. In his Dallas Opera debut, Ben Heppner stars as Captain Ahab, with Stephen Costello as Ishmael, Morgan Smith as Starbuck, and Jonathan Lemalu as Queequeg. The production is directed by Leonard Foglia and conducted by Patrick Summers. [April 30, May 2, 5, 8, 13, 16: Dallas, TX]