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New York City Opera General Manager and Artistic Director George Steel today announced the company's 2010-2011 season, which spotlights American composers and 20th-century works within a mix of world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season will also feature the launch of a concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers of this season's operas. Taking advantage of the possibilities offered by the recent renovation of the company's home, the David H. Koch Theater, the concert series expands the repertoire and programming of City Opera and casts new light on the season's productions.

Labor Records today released Music of Tribute: Berg, an hom age to Viennese composer Alban Berg. 2010 marks both the 125th anniversary of the birth, and 75th anniversary of the death, of this towering figure of early 20th-century mod­ernism.

Beginning on October 27, New York City Opera will present Parallel Perceptions, a contemporary art exhibition that features the works of six visual artists that have been paired with productions from City Opera's 2010-11 season, including Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place; Richard Strauss's Intermezzo; Donizetti's The Elixir of Love; three one-act operas (Monodramas) by John Zorn, Arnold Schoenberg, and Morton Feldman; and Stephen Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon. Curated by accomplished artist and photo editor Naomi Ben-Shahar, the exhibition will take place during the fall and spring seasons and includes a series of additional paintings, sculptures, and photographs by Charles Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Tina Barney, Isaac Julian, Dash Snow and Kehinde Wiley.

Organist Paul Jacobs will perform Johann Sebastian Bach's organ masterwork, Clavierubung III in its entirety at New York's Alice Tully Hall on Tuesday, November 16 at 7:30 p.m.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

The Cell Theatre presents SOLO @ the cell, a special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

Beginning on October 27, New York City Opera will present Parallel Perceptions, a contemporary art exhibition that features the works of six visual artists that have been paired with productions from City Opera's 2010-11 season, including Leonard Bernstein's A Quiet Place; Richard Strauss's Intermezzo; Donizetti's The Elixir of Love; three one-act operas (Monodramas) by John Zorn, Arnold Schoenberg, and Morton Feldman; and Stephen Schwartz's Séance on a Wet Afternoon. Curated by accomplished artist and photo editor Naomi Ben-Shahar, the exhibition will take place during the fall and spring seasons and includes a series of additional paintings, sculptures, and photographs by Charles Ray, Pipilotti Rist, Tina Barney, Isaac Julian, Dash Snow and Kehinde Wiley.

the cell presents SOLO @ the cell - special solo performance series playing right in the heart of Chelsea for the month of October. Under the direction of Founding Artistic Director Nancy Manocherian and Artistic Director Kira Simring, the cell celebrates the works of nine different NYC solo artists, all with varying backgrounds, featuring both original pieces and unique adaptations.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, acclaimed conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt decided to make a recording of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess as a gift to himself.

In celebration of his 80th birthday, acclaimed conductor Nikolaus Harnoncourt decided to make a recording of George Gershwin's opera Porgy and Bess as a gift to himself.

Season Features World Premieres, New York Premieres, New Productions, More than 20 Debut Artists, and an All-New Concert Series at the David H. Koch Theater

Today New York City Opera released full casting, creative team, and production details for the company's 2010-2011 season.

Today New York City Opera released full casting, creative team, and production details for the company's 2010-2011 season. The season spotlights American composers and 20th-century works, world premieres, New York premieres and new productions. Offering audiences the opportunity to experience new and rarely performed operas as well as modern interpretations of traditional repertoire, the 2010-2011 season also will feature the launch of a new concert series showcasing the non-operatic works of several of the composers whose operas will be presented on the mainstage.

The L.A. Contemporary Dance Company (LACDC) teams up with the a capella group Sonos in a double bill with BODYTRAFFIC to present 'MADE IN L.A.', an evening of contemporary dance, theatre, and music highlighting the unique and dynamic visions of these young, vivacious Los Angeles companies, on Friday, June 18, 2010, 8:30 p.m. at the Ford Amphitheatre.

Philip Glass's acclaimed Songs and Poems for solo cello, written for and recorded by Wendy Sutter in 2007, surprised many fans and critics with a new voice for the composer, one imbued with deeply Romantic emotion and Classical tradition. Subsequent works such as Glass's Sonata for Violin and Piano (2009) and Partita for solo violin (2010) have continued this direction. Now a new CD marks the arrival of the Glass Chamber Players, a group of classical virtuosi and chamber musicians whose mission is to perform Glass's chamber works in conjunction with masterpieces of the classical repertoire, putting both in striking new contexts.

Soprano Lisa Delan, pianist Kristin Pankonin, cellist Matt Haimovitz and mezzo-soprano Zheng Cao present a rich and varied collection of art songs by living American composers entitled AND IF THE SONG BE WORTH A SMILE: AN EVENING OF AMERICAN SONG, Friday, May 21, 2010 at 8 p.m. at The Allen Room in Frederick P. Rose Hall, home of Jazz at Lincoln Center, Broadway at 60th Street.