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Friday, April 18
The Metropolitan Opera
Metropolitan Opera House, Lincoln Center at 7:30 pm

Puccini: Bohème

Metropolitan Opera Orchestra, Nicola Luisotti, Conductor
Angela Gheorghiu   •   Ainhoa Arteta   •   Ramón Vargas
Ludovic Tézier   •   Jeff Mattsey   •   Oren Gradus
Paul Plishka

Sung in Italian with Met Titles in English

American Symphony Orchestra
Avery Fisher Hall, at 8:00 pm

Leon Botstein, conductor


New Italian Renaissance

Gian Francesco Malipiero: Pause del Silenzio I (1917) US Premiere
Giuseppe Martucci: Symphony No. 2, Op. 81 (1904)
Ildebrando Pizzetti: Three Preludes to Sophocles' Oedipus (1903) US Premiere
Alfredo Casella: Italia, Rhapsody for Orchestra, Op. 11 (1909)
Ottorino Respighi: Fountains of Rome (1916)


Arc Duo
Baruch Performing Arts Center, at 8:00 pm

Heather Holden, flute   •   Bradley Colten, guitar


The concert, sponsored by the New York City Classical Guitar Society, will feature works for flute and guitar by Judah Adashi, Roland Dyens, David Leisner, and Daniel Pinkham.


Engelman Recital Hall
Baruch Performing Arts Center (BPAC)
55 Lexington Avenue
entrance on 25th street between Lexington & 3rd Avenue


Dicapo Opera
Dicapo Opera Theatre, at 8:00 pm

Puccini: La fanciulla del West

Dicapo Opera Orchestra, John DiCostanzo, conductor
Irina Rindzuner   •   Zeffin Quinn Hollis   •   Marcos Aguiar
Michael Boley   •   Bryce Smith  •   Chad Armstrong
Paolo Buffagni   •   Vaughn Lindquist  •   Martin Fisher


The opera is sung in Italian with English titles.

Juilliard Chamber Ensembles
New York Society for Ethical Culture, at 8:00 pm

Program: TBA


Free, tickets required.

New York Society for Ethical Culture
2 West 64th Street at Central Park West

Yi-Hsin Lin
Weill Recital Hall, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

Yi-Hsin Lin, Violin


Program: TBA


Musicians from Marlboro
Metropolitan Museum of Art, at 8:00 pm

José Vicente Castelló Vicedo, horn   •   David Bowlin, violin   •   Yura Lee, violin Kim Kashkashian, viola   •   Rachel Ku, viola   •   Michael Nicolas, cello


Mozart: Horn Quintet in E flat Major, K. 407
Britten: Quartet No. 2 in C Major
Dvořák: String Quintet in E flat Major, Opus 97, B. 180


The concert is in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.


New York City Opera
New York State Theater, Lincoln Center at 9:00 pm

Bernstein: Candide

New York City Opera Orchestra, George Manahan, conductor
Daniel Reichard   •   Lielle Berman   •   Jessica Wright
Judith Blazer   •   Kyle Pfortmiller   •   Richard Kind

Sung in English with supertitles in English


The OMNI Ensemble
Brooklyn Conservatory of Music, at 8:00 pm

The OMNI Ensemble, Joshua Feltman, Conductor
Misa Ann Iwama, mezzo soprano   •   Olivier Fluchaire, violin   •   David Bakamjian, cello
David Wechsler, flute   •   Paul Garment, clarinet   •   Yoojin Oh, piano

With Guest Artists: Marco Benevento, keyboards   •   Joe Russo, percussion


Electro-Acoustic music of John Coltrane, Ornette Coleman, Erik Satie, Henry Purcell, Marco Benevento, Joe Russo, and imrovisations


Brooklyn Conservatory of Music
58 Seventh Avenue, Park Slope


András Schiff
Isaac Stern Auditorium, Carnegie Hall, at 8:00 pm

András Schiff, Piano


Works by Beethoven:
Sonata No. 12 in A-flat Major, Op. 26
Sonata No. 13 in E-flat Major, Op. 27, No. 1, “quasi una fantasia”
Sonata No. 14 in c-sharp Minor, Op. 27, No. 2, “Moonlight”
Sonata No. 15 in D Major, Op. 28, “Pastoral”


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