Friday, September 4, 2026

This month at Lincoln Center


September at Lincoln Center

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Celebrate the performing arts with
Lincoln Center all month long!


This Month's Highlights

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Opens today, September 4

Frequently hailed as the greatest Czech film ever made, František Vláčil’s staggering medieval epic plunges into the blood-soaked borderlands of 13th-century Bohemia amid the uneasy transition from paganism to Christianity.

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Thursday, September 10 at 7:30 pm

The Lincoln Center Presents 26/27 season kicks off with a FREE performance that integrates the sounds of South Asia, the Middle East, and North America into the contemporary music world by reimagining the role of the cello in modern music.

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September 16–19

Gustavo Dudamel conducts Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5, John Adams’s On the Transmigration of Souls, and the world premiere of Zosha Di Castri's Invisible House.

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September 17–19

Wynton Marsalis interprets the music of jazz masters Monk, Armstrong, Coltrane, Chick Corea, and other giants. Performed with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, these big band arrangements by Marsalis bring his imagination and insight to seminal works.

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Photo © Erin Baiano

September 22–27

George Balanchine’s glittering full-length Jewels sets off the season with its singular splendor: from the elegance of Emeralds to the jazzy flair of Rubies, and the majestic opulence of Diamonds.

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Paola Kudacki / Met Opera

September 22–October 20

The Met season opens with hair-raising drama as Quinn Kelsey and Lise Davidsen star as the Scottish king and the power-mad lady Macbeth, in a new production by Louisa Proske. Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts.


Ballet dancers in white outfits on stage

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