Performers

Lise Davidsen, Soprano
James Baillieu, Piano

ALL-SCHUBERT PROGRAM

"Am Bach im Frühlinge," D. 316

"Ganymed," D. 544

"Der Zwerg," D. 771

"Gretchen am Spinnrade," D. 118

"Kennst du das Land," D. 321

Selections from Gesänge aus Wilhelm Meister, D.877

"Der Tod und das Mädchen" ("Death and the Maiden"), D. 531

"Der Musensohn," D. 764

"Lachen und Weinen," D. 777

"Suleika I," D. 720

"Auf dem See," Op. 543

"Der blinde Knabe," D. 833

"Du bist die Ruh," D. 776

"Die Allmacht," D. 852

"Die junge Nonne," D. 828

"Erlkönig," D. 328

"Litanei auf das Fest aller Seelen," D. 343

All Ages

Free

On the opening night of its 40th Anniversary season, SummerStage and the Blue Note Jazz Festival will showcase a supreme talent paying homage to jazz and R&B legend Dinah Washington. GRAMMY-winning vocalist Ledisi will perform selections from her new album For Dinah, an 8-song tribute to genre trailblazer Dinah Washington, who breathed new life into R&B in the ‘50s and ‘60s with her gospel, jazz, and blues roots, influencing the likes of Aretha Franklin, Quincy Jones, and more. The album is “a love letter to a beautiful Black woman who has inspired me. Made Me,” said Ledisi, who imbues Washington’s classics such as “This Bitter Earth,” and “What a Difference a Day Made,” with her own neo-soul and contemporary jazz stylings. Also appearing on the program is SummerStage alumnus José James, a jazz artist with a hip-hop soul who’s been blurring genre lines with his rich baritone since his 2008 debut album The Dreamer. His latest work is focused on connecting the dots between soul, hip-hop, disco, funk, jazz, and jazz-adjacent styles of 2024’s 1978 and last year’s 1978: Revenge of the Dragon. Like Ledisi, James has also been known to pay tribute to his forebears, dedicating sessions to the likes of Billie Holiday, Bill Withers, and Erykah Badu. Rounding out the lineup is Spilata, a jazz vocalist and songwriter who’s already made his mark at classic venues such as Birdland, Minton’s Playhouse, and Dizzy’s Club at Jazz at Lincoln Center.  Multi-talented DJ and producer of Milestones: Celebrating the Culture podcast Angélika Beener aka DJ Kultured Child is on the ones and twos. Brass Queens will perform a 2nd line through the venue prior to the beginning of the show.

The MET Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor

Bruckner Symphony No. 8

https://www.bklynguitarfest.com/

Once upon a time in the magical land of Brooklyn, there was an idea for a festival. And it was happening. In the great and chaotic month of June, where festivals and professional sports all jostle for space like people trying to get into a crowded elevator, worlds collided.

Guitarist and real estate developer Erik Ekstein really, really loves guitar. Enough to hire Alex Skolnick from the metal band Testament as his guitar teacher. Erik's company also manages the LeFrak Center at Lakeside in Southeast Prospect Park. Apparently, they looked around one day and thought: you know what this needs? A guitar festival. So Skolnick brought the idea to Joel Harrison, founder of the Alternative Guitar Summit, a keeper of the guitar flame across New York and beyond. And thus was born the first annual Brooklyn Guitar Festival — jazz to blues to rock to Americana, a true who's who of the instrument.1pm — Greg Koch Trio, followed by the Ally Venable Trio. Koch is Milwaukee’s unsung guitar hero, a fiendishly talented blues-rock shredder and showman who won the 1989 Bluesbreaker Showdown judged by Buddy Guy. Venable, from Kilgore, Texas, picked up the guitar at 12, charted #1 on Billboard Blues, and plays a right-in-your-face Texas blues.

3pm — Mike Stern Group. Six-time Grammy nominee, a key part of Miles Davis’s early-’80s comeback band, who plays with the lyricism of Jim Hall and the attack of Hendrix.

5pm — Bill Frisell Trio, with Luke Bergman and Timothy Angulo. Long hailed as one of the most distinctive improvising guitarists alive; Bergman’s pedal steel gives this trio a sound you rarely hear in the context.

6pm — All-stars play the music of John Scofield.
Nir Felder, Bill Frisell, David Gilmore, Lolivone de la Rosa, Steve Cardenas, Gilad Hekselman, others TBA. Five-plus of the finest guitarists in the city taking on Sco’s vast range, from straight-ahead to funk to down-and-dirty blues. Hearing Frisell navigate Scofield’s catalog is a once-in-a-lifetime thing.

8:30pm — Al Di Meola. The jazz-fusion titan who joined Chick Corea’s Return to Forever at nineteen and went on to make hit albums like Elegant Gypsy and Friday Night in San Francisco.

Saturday — 2nd Stage (Arlo Williamsburg)

12pm — Andy McKee. The Kansas fingerstyle pioneer whose “Drifting” became one of YouTube’s first viral guitar videos; he turns a steel-string acoustic into a full orchestra with altered tunings, tapping, and percussion.

2pm — Joel Harrison. Festival co-organizer, Guggenheim Fellow, performing new repertoire with three of New York’s most storied session singers, people who’ve backed Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, Paul McCartney, Seal, and Stevie Wonder.

4pm — Alex Skolnick. The man who curated half this lineup, fluent in everything from thrash to flamenco-inflected acoustic.

7:30pm — Vernon Reid. Living Colour founder, Grammy winner, ranked among Rolling Stone’s greatest guitarists; a genuinely eclectic player with a taste for avant-garde detours.

Join Carnegie Hall+ for a free, outdoor film screening of Puccini’s Tosca in Bryant Park. Filmed at Italy’s famed Arena di Verona, the monumental opulence of the ancient Roman arena adds to the spectacle and intense drama of the thrilling, tragic opera. Set in Rome during the Napoleonic Wars, it’s the story of two artists—painter Mario Cavaradossi and celebrated singer Floria Tosca—whose love is caught in the crossfire of political unrest and Baron Scarpia, the chief of police. Sonya Yoncheva and Vittorio Grigolo star in this captivating staging by Argentine director Hugo de Ana. Conducted by Francesco Ivan Ciampa, the acclaimed

Lawn opens at 4 PM

Run time: 2 hours, 15 minutes

Performers

Orchestra dell’Arena di Verona
Francesco Ivan Ciampa, Conductor
Sonya Yoncheva, Tosca
Vittorio Grigolo, Cavaradossi
Roman Burdenko, Scarpia
Giorgi Manoshvili, Angelotti
Giulio Mastrototaro, Sacristan
Carlo Bosi, Spoletta
Nicolò Ceriani, Sciarrone
Dario Giorgelè, Jailer
Coro dell’Arena di Verona
Roberto Gabbiani, Director

An annual summer tradition, the Metropolitan Opera’s popular summer recital series in New York City parks continues this year, showcasing performances from Emily Pogorelc, a dynamic American soprano who made her house debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, and Dutch National Opera during the 2025–26 season; Joshua Blue, a British American tenor who most recently appeared in Mozart’s Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl and as Tamino in the Met’s revival of The Magic Flute; American baritone Edward Nelson, who starred as Tracy Bacon in the Opening Night company premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and made recent debuts at Houston Grand Opera and in Baden-Baden, A Coruña, and Liège; and pianist Dimitri Dover, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program who has been on the music staff at the Met since 2016. This event forms part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250

An annual summer tradition, the Metropolitan Opera’s popular summer recital series in New York City parks continues this year, showcasing performances from Emily Pogorelc, a dynamic American soprano who made her house debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, and Dutch National Opera during the 2025–26 season; Joshua Blue, a British American tenor who most recently appeared in Mozart’s Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl and as Tamino in the Met’s revival of The Magic Flute; American baritone Edward Nelson, who starred as Tracy Bacon in the Opening Night company premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and made recent debuts at Houston Grand Opera and in Baden-Baden, A Coruña, and Liège; and pianist Dimitri Dover, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program who has been on the music staff at the Met since 2016. This event forms part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250

Led by Carnegie Hall Perspectives Artist Marin Alsop, the NOI Philharmonic makes its Stern Auditorium / Perelman Stage debut in a program that weaves together multiple perspectives on the American experience. The evening includes selections from Bernstein’s West Side Story and On the Town, alongside Gabriela Ortiz’s lively, percussive Antrópolis and Kevin Puts’s concerto Contact, a work that highlights the need for human connection. The orchestra is joined on Contact by the genre-crossing trio Time for Three.

L’amant anonyme (The Anonymous Lover)

Composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges
Librettist Desfontaines-Lavellée
Adapted by Kirsten Greenidge
based on the play L’amant Anonyme by Madame de Genlis
Stage Director Brandon Shaw McKnight
Music Director Kelly Lam
Intuitive Production Management

June 18, 19* & 20 @ 8:00pm
June 21 @ 4:00pm

New Camerata Opera presents Joseph Bologne’s L’amant anonyme, a rarely staged romantic comedy overflowing with elegance, warmth, and wit. In this new production, the action unfolds on a stylish 1960s television studio set inspired by the era of Leontyne Price, where backstage anticipation and on-air glamour blur in real time. French arias become luminous “live” moments under the lights, with cinematic transitions, period style, and playful theatricality that keep the story moving. With its sparkling score and irresistible charm, L’amant anonyme offers an evening that is funny, heartfelt, and utterly transporting.

ESTIMATED RUN TIME
90 Minutes, No Intermission

Esteemed interpreter of Gustav Mahler’s works, Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts The Met Orchestra in the composer’s Fourth Symphony. Though it’s the most compact of Mahler’s grand compositions, it contains numerous iconic moments—from its sleigh-bell opening, to a country fiddle solo performed by “Death,” to the fourth movement’s groundbreaking combination of solo voice and orchestra, showcasing mezzo-soprano extraordinaire Joyce DiDonato in this performance. DiDonato is also featured in Mahler’s five-song Rückert-Lieder. A selection by the late Saariaho, one of the great composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, completes the program.

Performers

The Met Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Music Director and Conductor
Joyce DiDonato, Mezzo-Soprano

Program

SAARIAHO Lumière et pesanteur

G. MAHLER Rückert-Lieder

G. MAHLER Symphony No. 4

• Pre-show reception 6-7p

• Concert 7-830p

• Pianist Min Kwon presents selections from America/Beautiful, a large-scale commissioning project featuring variations on “America the Beautiful” by 76 American composers. Conceived during the Pandemic and created in a period of national upheaval, the project brings together a wide range of musical perspectives, from reflective to confrontational, forming a multifaceted portrait of contemporary American identity. These performances feature selections from the project, marking the nation’s 250th anniversary and the release of Kwon’s complete recording of all 76 variations.