Visiting Presenters

The evening will include all-time legends and unknown gems from the worlds of jazz, blues, rock and R&B. The star-filled and soulful program will include headliner and 10-time Grammy winner Norah Jones. In addition, featured acts include a centennial tribute to Miles Davis with Gary Bartz and Patrice Rushen; Buster Williams' Something More with Lenny White; A Tribute to Ernest Ranglin featuring 17-year old guitar phenom Marel Hidalgo; and a tribute to Cal Tjader and Willie Bobo featuring Juan Diego Villalobos and Sammy Figueroa. Additional performers include Clifton Anderson, Mike Camacho, George Colligan, James Genus, Mike Griot, Winard Harper, Stefon Harris, Monte Croft, Ana Petrova, Antoine Roney, Pablito Rosario, Leonieke Scheuble, Marcos Torres, Steve Wilson and more. Special Guest: Ann Curry. Artistic Director:: Steve Jordan.

Third Street Music School presents NYC’s largest and most expansive youth ensemble program: ISO at Third Street. Featuring over 200 young musicians, from across the five boroughs, this concert features ISO at Third Street’s Carnegie Hill, Concert and Symphony Orchestras and the ISO at Third Street Symphonic Band.

Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto classics and rarities with a period-instrument orchestra and a performing style the Wall Street Journal calls “transformative.” 

Mozart’s Don Giovanni was the first opera ever to become a permanent part of the international repertory, from its premiere in 1787 to the present day. It was also the earliest work included in North America’s first season of Italian opera two hundred years ago–a production personally supervised and edited by Lorenzo da Ponte, the original author of the text. Teatro Nuovo is restoring the form of the title he and Mozart used, Il Don Giovanni, and is taking the anniversary occasion to restore as well everything we can learn about the performance style of the work’s early life. It presents the famous drama in a streamlined, brilliantly vivacious guise. Ricardo José Rivera, the baritone star of Teatro Nuovo’s last three seasons and more recently of the Metropolitan Opera’s I Puritani, returns in his first-ever portrayal of the Don; Geoffrey Loff leads the company’s celebrated original-instrument orchestra. The projected English titles come to us from Da Ponte’s son Luigi, created for the printed 1826 libretto. Expect the unexpected! 

For more details, visit TeatroNuovo.org

Pre-opera Serenade at 6pm: The Great Garcías (I).  Music by three members of the amazing family that brought Bel Canto opera to the New World: Manuel García and his daughters Maria Malibran and Pauline Viardot. Presented by Teatro Nuovo’s Resident Artist Program (Timothy Cheung, Director). 

Pre-opera Lecture at 6:30pm: Will Crutchfield introduces Il Don Giovanni 

PHOTO CREDIT Ricardo José Rivera in Anna di Resburgo (Steven Pisano) 

Graphic from the handwriting of Lorenzo da Ponte

Note on seating: The front row of Orchestra seating is Row D, as the rows before that are removed for this performance.

Teatro Nuovo presents Bel Canto classics and rarities with a period-instrument orchestra and a performing style the Wall Street Journal calls “transformative.” 

Rossini’s Il Turco in Italia is a madcap comedy with a touch of the surreal. A poet needs a story, fast, for the opera he must write, and manipulates a colorful cast of characters to make it happen: a flirtatious heroine who has a husband, a lover-boy, and a visiting Turkish Bey all wrapped around her little finger (until she doesn’t). Teatro Nuovo favorites Vincent Graña and Mattia Venni return, joined by debut artists Kresley Figueroa and Max Alexander Cook; Elisa Citterio and Derrick Goff lead the band on violin and cembalo. 

For more details, visit TeatroNuovo.org 

Pre-opera Serenade at 6:00pm: The Great Garcías (II): The adventure of bringing opera to the New World was bold and sometimes dangerous (think bandits in a remote Mexican mountain pass). Teatro Nuovo’s Resident Artists tell the story in music, letters, memoirs, and reviews. 

Pre-opera Lecture at 6:30pm: Will Crutchfield introduces Il Turco in Italia 

PHOTO CREDIT 

Vincent Graña and Mattia Venni in Crispino e la Comare (Steven Pisano) 

Graphic from the handwriting of Gioachino Rossini

Note on seating: The front row of Orchestra seating is Row D, as the rows before that are removed for this performance.