Barbican Centre Announces 2010-11 GREAT PERFORMERS Feat. Malkovich & More

The Barbican Centre today announced the 2010-11 Great Performers programme: space exploration, serial killers, the return of Sellars and three operas based on a 38,736 line poem launch the Barbican's classical music season. 

Great Performers features the very best international soloists, conductors and orchestras. Between 16 October and 28 June, some of the world's greatest orchestras and most exciting artists perform in the Barbican Hall. Highlights of the season include:

- The Planets - Houston Symphony merges Holst's suite with high definition footage from the latest NASA explorations

- Kafka Fragments - Peter Sellars makes a welcome return to the Barbican to direct Dawn Upshaw and Geoff Nuttall in Kurtág's song cycle

- Liebestod - Pierre Audi stages an exploration of Wagner, Berg and van der Aa

- The Infernal Comedy - John Malkovich plays a serial-killer, in a staged concert accompanied by Baroque specialists Wiener Akademie

- Concerts with Barbican's International Associates Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra / Chailly; Los Angeles Philharmonic / Dudamel (the new Music Director's first appearance with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in London)

- The London Concerts - Berliner Philharmoniker / Sir Simon Rattle in February; and the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Sir Simon Rattle in March

- Singers including Philippe Jaroussky, Andreas Scholl, Cecilia Bartoli, Ian Bostridge, Dawn Upshaw, Gerald Finley, Natalie Dessay, Simon Keenlyside, Marie-Nicole Lemieux, Anna Caterina Antonacci, Sally Matthews, Ann Hallenberg, Joyce DiDonato, Jennifer Larmore

- Instrumentalists including Piotr Anderszewski, Evgeny Kissin, Murray Perahia, Frank Peter Zimmermann

Tickets go on sale to Barbican members on Thursday 28 January, and to general public on Friday 12 February. For a complete list of performances, please see www.barbican.org.uk/greatperformers1011.

The Barbican Centre is the largest multi-arts centre in Europe, featuring art, film, music, theatre, dance and education all under one roof and under one creative direction. The Centre comprises the 1,949 seat Barbican Hall, the 1,166-seat Barbican Theatre, the 200-seat Pit theatre, 3 cinemas, the 1,393 m2 Barbican Art Gallery, a 2nd gallery; The Curve, 4,645m2 of foyers and public spaces, the Lakeside Terrace, a roof-top tropical conservatory, 7 conference suites, 2 trade exhibition halls, private function rooms and the 3 restaurants; Searcy's, Waterside Café and Balcony Bistro.

 

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