November at Lincoln Center
Celebrate the performing arts with
Lincoln Center all month long!
This Month's Highlights
November 6 & 7 at 7:30 pm
Celebrate the global language of jazz. Featuring Marsalis’ Vitoria Suite, Shanghai Suite, and Marciac Suite, the program reflects Wynton Marsalis' global journey, distilling the cultures, experiences, and connections he and the orchestra have formed across these years.
Monday, November 9 at 6:00 pm
Accordionist Dr. William Schimmel returns to the Library for the Performing Arts 11/9 for another free concert with his creative partners, who will perform songs by Tom Jones, Elvis, Whitney Houston and other original works.
Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics
Opens November 13
The incomparable Pedro Almodóvar explores the artist’s tenuous relationship with fiction and reality in this film about an actress writing a script inspired by the lives of those around her—which is itself the invention of an Almodóvar-like filmmaker.
Maria Baranova-Suzuki
November 14 at 2:00 pm
November 17 & 19 at 7:30 pm
John Matsumoto Giampietro directs two short Italian comedic love stories, Rossini’s La scala di seta (“Silken Ladder”) and Nino Rota's I due timidi (“The Two Timid Ones”), accompanied by the Juilliard Orchestra conducted by Patrick Furrer.
Monday, November 16 at 8:30 pm
Join us at Lincoln Center's David Geffen Hall for an unforgettable evening of music and celebration. This one-night-only event raises critical funds for Lincoln Center's Free and Choose-What-You-Pay programming, sustaining our commitment to bring world-class performing arts to all.
Photo: Monika Rittershaus / Royal Ballet and Opera
November 16–December 4
Following his acclaimed production of Salome in 2025, director Claus Guth returns to the Met with a psychologically probing setting of JanáÄek’s haunting opera, headlined by powerhouse soprano Asmik Grigorian.
Tuesday, November 17 at 7:30 pm
From the vaulting cello theme of Brahms, to the hypnotic tone-painting of Arensky, to the euphoric French air of the late Romantic era, experience the music of three inspired composers at the height of their powers.
November 25–December 1 at 7:30 pm
Santtu-Matias Rouvali conducts Schubert’s Great Symphony, alongside Kevin Puts’s Bassoon Concerto, featuring Principal Bassoonist Judith LeClair, and Florence Price’s Dances in the Canebreaks.
Photo © Erin Baiano
November 27–January 2
Be transported alongside young Marie through a dreamlike world of swirling snow and glittering confections when George Balanchine's The Nutcracker® returns to Lincoln Center this holiday season, November 27–January 2.
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