NEW YORK (AP) – The New York Philharmonic will resume subscription performances in September after a historic 18-month gap caused by the coronavirus pandemic. Displaced from her home in Lincoln Center’s David Geffen Hall due to a remodel, she will have a reduced schedule of 78 concerts in different venues.
The Philharmonic said Tuesday that its season will open on September 17 with Jaap van Zweden conducting the orchestra and pianist Daniil Trifonov in Anna Clyne’s “Within Her Arms,” Copland’s “Quiet City,” George’s “Antifonys for Chamber Orchestra.” Walker and Beethoven’s Piano Concerto No. 4.
That concert, the orchestra’s first regular event since March 10, 2020, will be the first of 50 at Lincoln Center’s 1,086-seat Alice Tully Hall, a venue most commonly used for chamber music and recitals. There will be 28 concerts at the 1,233-seat Jazz at Lincoln Center Rose Theater, located on Columbus Circle about 800 meters (less than half a mile) from Geffen Hall, plus four concerts at Carnegie Hall, home of the orchestra between 1891 and 1962.
The next season will include a regular Sunday matinee series for the first time since 1964-65. There will be no intermissions until at least December.
Countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo will be the artist in residence. She will perform with transgender artist Justin Vivian Bond from January 27-29 and will sing a program on February 3-5 that includes the world premiere of Gregory Spears ‘setup to new texts by Tracy K. Smith and “Les Nuits d’ été ”(‘Summer Nights’) by Berlioz, usually sung by mezzo-sopranos.
Gustavo Dudamel will direct shows from March 9-20, 2022, focusing on the relationship of Robert Schumann and Clara Wieck Schumann, along with world premieres.
Geffen Hall, home of the Philharmonic since 1962, is undergoing a $ 550 million renovation that could be advanced during the pandemic. It is scheduled to reopen in the fall of 2022 with a capacity for fewer than 2,200 people, up from 2,738. The orchestra rows are shrinking from 43 to 33, and the stage has been moved forward by 7.6 meters (25 feet), allowing seven rows of wraparound seats behind the orchestra. About two-thirds of the third level are being eliminated.
The pandemic resulted in the cancellation of the last 27 subscription concerts of the 2019-20 season in addition to six unsubscribed concerts, 103 subscription concerts of the 2020-21 season and 16 unsubscribed concerts, and additional events such as youth concerts, shows nights and tours.
In its last full season, the Philharmonic presented 104 subscription concerts and 15 unsubscribed concerts.
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