The weekend at Lincoln Center will feature a number of performances and events for all audiences.
At the Metropolitan Opera, three operas will play throughout Friday and Saturday. "La Rondine" by Puccini premieres on Friday Jan.11 with an all-star cast. Giuseppe Filianoti returns to the Met after a critically acclaimed run in La Clemenza di Tito in the role of Ruggero. Kristine Opolais makes her long awaited Met Debut as Magda, the swallow who in search for love realizes she cannot attach herself to anyone and must remain a free woman. Ion Marin returns to the Met podium after an absence of 10 years.
On Saturday, Jan. 12, "Il Trovatore" plays at matinee and will be broadcast on the radio on WXQR and Sirius. The opera garnered rave reviews this past fall and returns for a short run in David McVicar's "Vibrant" Production Patricia Racette brings her intensity to the role of Leonora and Marco Berti brings his signature Italianate voice to the role of Manrico. Mezzo Soprano Stephanie Blthye and Alexei Markov join the cast for Verdi's masterpiece.
In the evening the Met presents "Maria Stuarda," in a David McVicar production. The opera relates Queen Elizabeth and Maria Stuarda's power struggle and stars Joyce Didonato who triumphed in the towering title role. Elza Van Den Heever sing Elizabeth, Matthew Polenzani sings Leicester, and Maurizio Benini conducts Donizetti's luccious score.
Avery Fisher Hall will feature a program of Bruckner and Bruch with Pinchas Zuckerman and Christoph Eschenbach leading the New York Philharmonic. Zuckerman will show his virtuosic skills by playing Bruch's first Violin Concerto while Eschenbach conducts Bruckner's 6th Symphony. The program will be performed on Friday and Saturday at 8 pm with a pre-concert lecture at 7pm.
The Chamber Music Society will also feature a concert of Brahms and Dvorak at the Alice Tully Hall. Cellist David Finckel teams up with his wife pianist Wu Han and Violinist Phillip Setzer for the Dvorak's famous Dumky Trio.
Events that will continue throughout include the "Big Apple Cicus Presents Legendarium," and "Vanya and Sonia And Masha And Spike" at the Lincoln Center Theater, in a play by Christopher Durang.
For more information visit Lincolncenter.org.
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