Cal Performances Announces 2014-15 Season Published: May 13, 2014 By: Débora Silva Season highlights include Yo-Yo Ma performing solo Bach at the Greek Theatre Cal Performances has announced its 2014-15 Season, featuring the finest internationally acclaimed performers in music, dance, and theater. Among the many presentations this season: Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, co-commissioned with the UK’s Barbican Centre Jiří Bělohlávek leading the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Choir in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, a perfect pairing given the Orchestra’s long connection to Dvořák who conducted the ensemble’s debut performance in 1896 The Australian Ballet’s premiere of Graeme Murphy’s iconic Swan Lake set to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score Robert Wilson’s production of The Old Woman starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe Théâtre de la Ville’s production of Pirandello’s absurdist comedy, Six Characters in Search of an Author; renowned German choreographer Sasha Waltz & Guests returning after more than a decade in a program of Schubert’s Impromptus Pandit Chitresh Das’ Shiva, a work by the world’s premier practitioner of the classical kathak tradition of northern India Visit the Cal Performances website for a complete schedule of performances and more details about the 2014-15 Season programming. UCB students receive a 50% discount on single tickets. For more information, call the Ticket Office at 510.642.9988 or email tickets@calperformances.org.
Season highlights include Yo-Yo Ma performing solo Bach at the Greek Theatre Cal Performances has announced its 2014-15 Season, featuring the finest internationally acclaimed performers in music, dance, and theater. Among the many presentations this season: Benjamin Britten’s Curlew River, co-commissioned with the UK’s Barbican Centre Jiří Bělohlávek leading the Czech Philharmonic Orchestra and Prague Philharmonic Choir in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater, a perfect pairing given the Orchestra’s long connection to Dvořák who conducted the ensemble’s debut performance in 1896 The Australian Ballet’s premiere of Graeme Murphy’s iconic Swan Lake set to Tchaikovsky’s sumptuous score Robert Wilson’s production of The Old Woman starring Mikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe Théâtre de la Ville’s production of Pirandello’s absurdist comedy, Six Characters in Search of an Author; renowned German choreographer Sasha Waltz & Guests returning after more than a decade in a program of Schubert’s Impromptus Pandit Chitresh Das’ Shiva, a work by the world’s premier practitioner of the classical kathak tradition of northern India Visit the Cal Performances website for a complete schedule of performances and more details about the 2014-15 Season programming. UCB students receive a 50% discount on single tickets. For more information, call the Ticket Office at 510.642.9988 or email tickets@calperformances.org.