Bernstein's Mass, Jeremy O. Harris and Beethoven's Egmont, More in New York Philharmonic's 2026-2027 Season

Season programming is out for New York Philharmonic's 2026-2027 season, the group's first under new conductor Gustavo Dudamel. The season will include seven world premieres, residencies by Marina Abramović and Gustavo Santaolalla, the return of the Art of the Score series, and more.

The season will feature the first-ever New York Philharmonic performances of Leonard Bernstein's MASS, staged in its entirety, June 9-12, 2027. The 1971 work combines the Latin mass text with new lyrics by Bernstein and Stephen Schwartz, and was comissioned by Jacqueline Kennedy as part of the opening for the Kennedy Center in 1971. The Philharmonic performances will be conducted by Dudamel, with casting to be announced.

Dudamel will also conduct Beethoven's Egmont, in a rare performance of the complete work, May 28-June 1, 2027. While the overture is often performed as a standalone piece, the complete suite of incidental music has only been performed by the Philharmonic on four occasions over the past 150 years. Composed to accompany Goethe's play of the same name, the Philharmonic will perform Beethoven's work alongside Jeremy O. Harris's adaptation of the play. Erin Morley will serve as the soprano soloist, with a narrator to be announced.

Egmont will be part of a three-week celebration of Beethoven, which will also include performances of the composer's ninth symphony, second piano concerto, and three string quartets arranged for orchestra by three of the Philharmonic's former music directors: Gustav Mahler, Dmitri Mitropoulos, and Leonard Bernstein. The complete Beethoven spotlight will take place from May 19-June 5, 2027.

The season's opening weeks will include the world premieres of new works by Zosha Di Castri and Tania León. Di Castri's work, with a title to be announced, will be performed September 16-19, alongside John Adams' On the Transmigration of Souls and Prokofiev's Symphony No. 5. Tania León's Imágenes mestizas, a New York Philharmonic commission, will be performed September 25-29, on a program also featuring Mahler's Symphony No. 5. Dudamel will conduct both sets of concerts. Both world premiere works will also receive additional special performances on October 1 and 2. On October 1, Di Castri's new piece will be performed alongside Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 with soloist Lang Lang, and on October 2, Imágenes mestizas will be performed alongside Osvaldo Golijov's Azul for Cello and Orchestra, with soloist Yo-Yo Ma.

As previously announced, Dudamel will conduct two performances of Puccini's Tosca at Carnegie Hall. The inaugural program of an annual opera-in-concert series, Tosca will star soprano Marina Rebeka as Tosca, with tenor Jonas Kaufmann as the painter Cavaradossi, and baritone Ludovic Tézier as Baron Scarpia. All three singers will be making long-anticipated returns to New York City, having made their most recent opera appearances in New York in 2017, 2018, and 2011 respectively.

Bassoonist Judith LeClair will perform the world premiere of Kevin Puts' Bassoon Concerto November 25-December 1. The NY Philharmonic co-commission with the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra and Minnesota Orchestra will be performed on a program with Schubert's Symphony No. 9, and Florence Price's Dances in the Canebrakes, as orchestrated by William Grant Still. Santtu-Matias Rouvali will conduct.

David Robertson will conduct a one-night-only concert December 8, celebrating Steve Reich at 90. Synergy Vocals will join the orchestra to perform Reich's Tehilim, a setting for orchestra and chorus of four Hebrew psalms.

Violinist Joshua Bell will make his NY Philharmonic conducting debut January 2-3, 2027, leading two performances of Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4, as well as Vivaldi's The Four Seasons, in which Bell will also play as soloist.

Håkan Hardenberger will perform the world premiere of Unsuk Chin's Trumpet Concerto January 8-10, 2027, with Eva Ollikainen making her NY Philharmonic debut as conductor. The new work will be performed alongside Tchaikovsky's Capriccio Italien and Sibelius' Symphony No. 5.

Dudamel will conduct the world premiere of El Payador perseguido, by artist-in-residence Gustavo Santaolalla. The NY Philharmonic commission is a multimedia work directed by Alberto Arvelo, who also adapted the libretto for the work from texts by Argentine songwriter Atahualpa Yupanqui. El Payador perseguido will be performed March 3-6, 2027.

Marina Abramović, the season's second artist-in-residence, will direct a staged production of Stravinsky's The Soldier's Tale and Manuel de Falla's El Amor brujo. Dudamel will conduct the performances March 10-14, 2027, with vocalist Pasión Vega and a narrator to be announced.

Violinist Hilary Hahn will perform the world premiere of David Lang's Violin Concerto April 1-6, 2027. Elim Chan will conduct the concerts, which will also include Debussy's Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun and the complete ballet score of Stravinsky's Firebird.

The Philharmonic's Art of the Score life-to-film concert series will return with three concerts of film scores performed live to screenings of the film. Anthony Parnther will conduct Michael Abels' score for Jordan Peele's Get Out October 28-31. Justin Freer will conduct John Williams' score for Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, marking the film's 25th anniversary, December 17-20. Finally, Musica Sacra will join the Philharmonic to perform the music of Mozart as arranged for the film Amadeus June 24-27, 2027, with a conductor to be announced.

To see the full season lineup, visit NYPhil.org.