2013 Season
Our first production of the season, Karlheinz Stockhausen’s OKTOPHONIE, played to sold-out houses even with performances added due to popular demand. It’s not too late–subscribe now to ensure your place at the rest of our staggering performing and visual art productions this season and get the best seats at the best prices. Click here for more information.
Photo: Naotaka Hiro
Paul McCarthy: WS
June 19– August 4, 2013
“…a maverick … a visceral visionary…”
–The Guardian (London)
Influential and provocative artist Paul McCarthy’s largest work in the U.S. to date is a monumental display of fantasy, excess, and dystopia, featuring a full-scale forest, LA ranch houses, and a cacophony of film and sound. More Information
Photo: AKA
The Machine
September 4–18, 2013
“[Playwright] Matt Charman…has had the kind of meteoric rise that usually happens only in the movies.”
–The New York Times
U.S. Premiere
Depicting chess phenomenon Garry Kasparov’s historic defeat against the IBM super-computer and its inventor Doctor Hsu, this new play by Matt Charman is staged in an intensely intimate environment by Donmar Warehouse Artistic Director Josie Rourke to capture every heart-wrenching moment of this epic struggle of man against machine. More Information
Massive Attack V Adam Curtis
September 28–October 4, 2013
“A collective hallucination”
–Robert Del Naja of Massive Attack
“A musical entertainment about the power of illusion and the illusion of power”
–Adam Curtis
U.S. Premiere
An epic experience mixing music, film, politics, and breathtaking moments of illusion created by filmmaker Adam Curtis and Robert Del Naja of music pioneers Massive Attack, with Punchdrunk director Felix Barrett, designer Es Devlin, and the the innovative art and design practice United Visual Artists. More Information
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Photo: Lucie Jansch
The Life and Death of Marina Abramović
December 12–21, 2013
“5 stars – Stunningly lit with a coruscating soundtrack and a sublimely tender score … flow[ing] gorgeously past your eyes and ears...”
– The Independent (London)
Visionary director Robert Wilson creates a newly restaged version of this intersection of visual art, opera and theater featuring Abramović and Willem Defoe with original music performed by Antony More Information.
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Board of Officers Ceiling and Chandelier - Photo: Herzog and de Meuron/Eik Frenzel
Recital Series
Fall 2013
The newly-restored Board of Officers Room is the perfect setting for these intimate performances of classic repertoire by some of today’s leading interpreters: Christian Gerhaher, baritone; Vilde Frang, violin; Anton Batagov, piano. more information
PREVIOUSLY THIS SEASON
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Photo: Ryo Kato
OKTOPHONIE
March 20–27, 2013
“Karlheinz Stockhausen...one of the great visionaries of 20th-century music.” –The Guardian (London)
New York Premiere
Karlheinz Stockhausen’s epic electronic masterpiece gets an exciting new life from acclaimed visual artist Rirkrit Tiravanija. Adorned in white, the audience takes a ritualized musical journey from plunging darkness into blinding light while seated in a lunar environment to fully immerse themselves in the all-encompassing sound. More Information
2013 Season Sponsors:
Support for Park Avenue Armory’s artistic season has been generously provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Bloomberg Philanthropies, The Shubert Foundation, the Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, the Marc Haas Foundation, The Charles Evans Foundation, and the Isak and Rose Weinman Foundation.
