Carnegie Hall resumes full pre-pandemic program in season 23-24

Carnegie Hall will reach its pre-pandemic level of 170 concerts in a 2023-24 season that will focus on the fall of the Weimar Republic.

The chamber announced on Tuesday that the season will open on October 4 with the Riccardo Muti conduct the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in the Violin Concerto of Tchaikovsky con Leonidas Kavakos and “Pictures of an exhibition” of Mussorgsky.

Carnegie was closed due to the coronavirus pandemic from March 2020 until early October the following year. It featured around 115 events in the 2021-22 season and has around 150 this season. Next season’s 170 will roughly equal his total in 2018-19.

Carnegie is averaging 89% capacity this season, up from 93% in 2018-19 but slightly above 88% in the first season back from the pandemic.

“Last season we were a little conservative with the number of concerts we scheduled because we thought maybe people wouldn’t come to the concerts,” Carnegie Hall CEO Clive Gillinson said during an interview. press conference. “And then when we saw that people were desperate to get back to live entertainment, not just music, we added quite a few concerts.”

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Weimar’s programs will run from January to May and will include jazz, cabaret and artistic song, as well as classical music and opera. Concerts include Franz Welser-Möst conduct the Cleveland Orchestra (January 20-21) and the Vienna Philharmonic (March 1-3), Yannick Nezet-Seguin conduct the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (February 1), Gianandrea Noseda conducting of the National Symphony Orchestra (February 3), Simon Rattle conducting of the Bavarian Radio Symphony Orchestra (May 2-3).

“Weimer demonstrates many lessons about the fragility of democracy that are as relevant today as they were then, and makes it so clear that democracy is a very fragile flower that must be nurtured and protected at all times,” Gillinson said.

Among the scheduled activities are Daniel Barenboim with the Staatskapelle in Berlin in the four symphonies of Brahms (November 30 and December 1); Zubin Mehta at the head of the Munich Philharmonic (February 3 and 4); Carnegie Hall debut Klaus Makela with the Orchester de Paris (March 16); and the Carnegie Hall debut of Jakub Hrůsa with the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra (April 24).

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Tania Leon will occupy the chair of composition for the coming season and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, with its musical director andris nelson, will present the New York premiere of a new work. Nelsons will conduct a concert version of Shotakovich’s “Macbeth of Mtsenk” on January 30 with a cast that includes his ex-wife, the soprano Kristine Opolaisthere John Williams will be combined with the cellist Yo-yo Mom for a concert on February 22.

The pianist Mitsuko Uchida will offer four concerts in the second part of its three-season Perspectivas cycle.

Recitals include bass-baritone Bryn Terfel (14 November), tenor Juan Diego Florez (29 November), for soprano Diana Damrau (February 6) already Igor Levit performing transcriptions of Beethoven’s Third Symphony, Mahler’s Tenth and Hindemith’s ‘1922’ suite (March 7).

Source: AP

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