Barbican Centre News

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m. for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala. Conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert, the program will open with Samuel Barber's The School for Scandal Overture of 1931, and will also feature selections from Richard Strauss's Salome and Richard Wagner's Tannhäuser, as well as Barber's Andromache's Farewell.

Tune in to PBS on Wednesday, September 21, 2011, at 7:30 p.m.* for Live From Lincoln Center's telecast of the New York Philharmonic's Opening Night Gala.

La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre is revolutionizing Henrik Ibsen's classic fantasy play Peer Gynt with David Schweizer's five-actor adaptation of the sweeping Norwegian epic.

Ramin Gray launches his Artistic Directorship of ATC with the UK premiere of Germany's most lauded and performed new play, in a bold co-production with The Drum Theatre Plymouth.

La Jolla Playhouse presents Peer Gynt, by Henrik Ibsen, adapted and directed by David Schweizer, running June 28 - July 24 (media night: Wednesday, July 6 at 7:30 pm) in the Sheila and Hughes Potiker Theatre. Tickets to Peer Gynt are available by calling the Box Office: (858) 550-1010 or online at LaJollaPlayhouse.org.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre is revolutionizing Henrik Ibsen's classic fantasy play Peer Gynt with David Schweizer's five-actor adaptation of the sweeping Norwegian epic.

Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) production of SOUTH PACIFIC, will be recreating the role of the French plantation owner at the Barbican Centre in London, where the production will run for a limited season of 7 weeks only from 15 August to 1 October, with an opening night on 23 August.

Talked about for months and now finally official, Paulo Szot, who has recently emerged as one of the most exciting voices in opera and who won a Tony for his performance as Emile de Becque in the Lincoln Center Theater (Andre Bishop, Artistic Director, Bernard Gersten, Executive Producer) production of SOUTH PACIFIC, will be recreating the role of the French plantation owner at the Barbican Centre in London, where the production will run for a limited season of 7 weeks only from 15 August to 1 October, with an opening night on 23 August.

Kansas City Repertory Theatre is revolutionizing Henrik Ibsen's classic fantasy play Peer Gynt with David Schweizer's five-actor adaptation of the sweeping Norwegian epic.

Renowned violinist Jennifer Koh joins Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale to perform the world premiere of Mugunghwa: Rose of Sharon by Mark Grey - named one of the Los Angeles Times '2008 Faces to Watch' - Sunday, March 6, 2011, 7 p.m., at Disney Hall. With text based on the extraordinary verses of Korean poet and engineer Namsoo Kim, who fled from a North Korean prison at the outbreak of the Korean War, the piece was commissioned by the Chorale and is the fourth piece to be premiered by the choir as part of its notable 'LA Is the World' initiative, which was launched in 2007. This installment begins phase two of the initiative, conceived by Gershon as a collaboration among composers, master musicians and the choir to expand the choral literature with works that mirror LA's vibrant multi-cultural fabric.

It was announced today that Wayne Shorter is due to perform at the Barbican Centre in London and at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in South Africa.

It was announced today that Wayne Shorter is due to perform at the Barbican Centre in London and at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in South Africa. How cool is that? Real.

Renowned violinist Jennifer Koh joins Gershon and the Los Angeles Master Chorale to perform the world premiere of Mugunghwa: Rose of Sharon by Mark Grey - named one of the Los Angeles Times '2008 Faces to Watch' - Sunday, March 6, 2011, 7 p.m., at Disney Hall. With text based on the extraordinary verses of Korean poet and engineer Namsoo Kim, who fled from a North Korean prison at the outbreak of the Korean War, the piece was commissioned by the Chorale and is the fourth piece to be premiered by the choir as part of its notable 'LA Is the World' initiative, which was launched in 2007. This installment begins phase two of the initiative, conceived by Gershon as a collaboration among composers, master musicians and the choir to expand the choral literature with works that mirror LA's vibrant multi-cultural fabric.

It was announced today that Wayne Shorter is due to perform at the Barbican Centre in London and at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in South Africa.

It was announced today that Wayne Shorter is due to perform at the Barbican Centre in London and at the Cape Town International Jazz Festival in South Africa. How cool is that? Real.

On January 21, 2011, the Los Angeles Philharmonic embarks on a 7-city, 13-concert European tour led by Gustavo Dudamel, his first international tour as Music Director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic. This tour marks the Los Angeles Philharmonic's 18th tour to Europe, the most recent being in 2007 with former LA Phil Music Director and now LA Phil Conductor Laureate, Esa-Pekka Salonen.

New entries into the top 20 are: Cultural Olympiad supremo Ruth Mackenzie, Young Vic artistic director David Lan, Barbican Centre director of programming Louise Jeffreys and Legally Blonde star Sheridan Smith.

New_York_Philharmonic_20010101 The New York Philharmonic will celebrate the 2010 holiday season with perennial favorites: the annual Holiday Brass concerts; Handel's Messiah, led by Bernard Labadie; and a nationally telecast All-Tchaikovsky New Year's Eve Concert, conducted by Music Director Alan Gilbert and featuring pianist Lang Lang as soloist.