Carnegie Hall will reopen in fall, but no orchestras before 2022
NewsCarnegie Hall will reopen its doors in October after a 19-month Covid closure.
But the program will be small-scale and sporadic, it was announced last night.
The first recital will be on October 9 with tenor Jonas Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch. The first large orchestra will be the New York Philharmonic, conducted by Susanna Malkki on January 6.
The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra with Vasily Petrenko will be the first international orchestra on January 31.
Have you decapitated Yuja Wang in the accompanying image?
I think it’s time for you to leave this site.
decapitated the bit depth of the photo
Don’t complain. He left in the most important parts.
(I mean the hands, of course /eyeroll)
Yes, a pretty disappointing season. The Vienna Phil are coming (with Gergiev………..zzzzzz) and the Maryinsky orchestra (with Gergiev………zzzzzzzzz!) the RPO are doing one night. The Phillies and BSO will be back (thank heaven) and the best news is a few programs by the NYPO in a decent acoustic.
Yep – and no RCOAmsterdam and Berlin.
To be fair, there are some wonderful solo piano recitals as well as vocal and violin/piano programs with very distinguished artists. The BPO haven’t even announced their “home season” as COVID continues to ravage Germany and other European nations.
Didn’t Deborah Borda indicate that the NY Phil will perform some of its concerts at Carnegie Hall during the 2021-22 season while Geffen Hall is being rehabbed?
We will look back on all this as ‘the lost years’. And it will be years.
Hopefully only two…….hopefully…
With vaccines widely available I think it’s time to get back to business as usual. Nobody want to go to small-scale concerts after an entire year of small-scale concerts.
It will take time to roll out the vaccine programme. But we are reaching the stage where we are going to have to get back to normal.
Actually, the first large orchestra back onstage at Carnegie Hall will be The New York Pops in December followed by concerts in February, March, and their annual gala in April. We typically perform a 5 concert subscription series in the hall each year to sold out houses. Its the largest and most lucrative subscription series that Carnegie Hall has.