The March 2020 Dandelion Chandelier Luxury Events Calendar for The Arts and Culture is a curated list of ballet and modern dance performances and classical concerts. Plus jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020. It’s the best in the arts and culture in March 2020. For the full March 2020 Luxury Calendar, click here.
the best in the arts and culture in march 2020
Like the season of spring itself, the arts and culture calendar this month is all about new things.
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There are debuts aplenty, including the world premiere of Of Love and Rage from the ABT and a brand new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer at the MET. Also at the MET is the annual National Council Auditions Grand Finals Concert, where new singers have the opportunity to make their mark.
In visual arts, the brand new X Museum opens in Beijing. And Gerhard Richter: Painting After All at the Met Breuer will feature works never shown before in the US.
We don’t know about you, but this is making us keen to embrace the season and start anew.
performing arts and culture march 2020
1. best dance events in march 2020
One of Europe’s top ballet companies, Ballet Vlaanderen (known locally as Royal Ballet of Flanders), celebrates its 50th anniversary with a Joyce debut – Mar 3 – 7
In celebration of the centennial of the 19th amendment in 2020, which gave women the right to vote, the Martha Graham Company will perform The EVE Project. It’s a collection of new commissions and signature Graham classics that each make bold statements about female power at The Kennedy Center – Mar 5 – 7
The American Ballet Theatre will present the world premier Of Love and Rage, based on the novel Callirhoe by Chariton. The Greek tale of star-crossed lovers will be performed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts Costa Mesa, California. This is choreographer Alexei Ratmansky’s seventeenth work for the ABT – Mar 5 – 8
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Swan Lake. Courtesy Photo.
The Royal Ballet revives for the first time a new production of Tchaikovsky’s magnificent classical ballet, Swan Lake – Mar 5 – 16
The Richard Alston Dance Company will present its final performances after 25 years in operation. Final Edition is at London’s Sadler’s Wells Theater – Mar 7 – 8
2. best classical music concerts in march 2020
To mark the centenary of legendary violinist Isaac Stern’s birth, Emanuel Ax, Leonidas Kavakos and Yo-Yo Ma will perform together at Carnegie Hall. The three form an intense trio, as each helped redefine contemporary notions of chamber music. This all-Beethoven program features a cello sonata from the composer’s late period dedicated to his patron Archduke Rudolf. – Mar 4 – 8
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Isaac Sterns Birth. Courtesy Photo.
The Orchestre de Paris will hold its first event of the season with Finnish conductorJukka-Pekka Saraste. The program includes a performance of Mahler’s powerful Sixth Symphony – Mar 4 – 5
Barcelona Obertura Spring Festival will spread classical music across Barcelona for two weeks – Mar 11 – 30
Voices of Hope: Artists in Times of Oppression at Carnegie Hall will examine the role of artists during times of injustice through a series of 16 concerts – Mar 12 – May 22
François-Xavier Roth conducts the London Symphony Orchestra in an evening of Dukas including his best known work The Sorcerer’s Apprentice and lesser known works such as Symphony in C – Mar 22
3. best opera performances in march 2020
The annual National Council Auditions Grand Finals Concert is at the Metropolitan Opera. Past competitors include some of today’s greatest singers, including Renée Fleming, Susan Graham and Thomas Hampson – Mar 1
The Metropolitan Opera will present a brand new production of Wagner’s Der Fliegende Holländer – Mar 2 – 27
The Royal Opera will present Verdi’s La traviata, about a courtesan who sacrifices everything for love – Mar 14 – 23
Mozart’s Don Giovanni is at l’Opéra national de Paris – Mar 21 – Apr 24
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Diana Damrau. Courtesy Photo.
One of opera’s most enchanting artists, Diana Damrau joins the illustrious list of singers who have given a solo recital on the Met stage – Mar 29
4. best jazz and new music concerts this march 2020
Helen Sung Quintet Presents PUSH at Jazz at Lincoln Center, kicking off the venue’s Women in Jazz Celebration – Mar 1
Jazz festival season is almost upon us. Until then, the Sarasota Jazz Festival celebrates 40 years this month – Mar 8 – 14
Few artists command the stage like four-time Grammy Award winning singer Angélique Kidjo. She will perform at Carnegie Hall, celebrating the anniversary of the birth of her native Benin and other West African nations. And her own 60th birthday – Mar 14
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Angelique Kidjo. Courtesy Photo.
Critically-acclaimed trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire collaborates with some of the all-time greats in jazz including Jack DeJohnette, Gary Bartz and Tom Harrell for two nights at Jazz at Lincoln Center – Mar 27 – 28
Cape Town International Jazz Festival is the largest music event in sub-Saharan Africa – Mar 27 – 28
visual arts and culture in march 2020
1. best art museum exhibits in europe, middle east and africa in march 2020
Over two hundred masterpieces, including some never before gathered together, are on display in Rome. The Scuderie del Quirinale exhibit, Raphael, focuses exclusively on the Renaissance superstar, in commemoration of the fifth centennial of his death at age 37 – Mar 5 – Jun 2
Warhol’s iconic fusion of celebrity, popular culture and art is given blockbuster treatment in the Tate Modern’s exhibition of Andy Warhol – Mar 12 – Sep 6
London’s National Portrait Gallery explores the dazzling world of British high society in the interwar years through Cecil Beaton’s era-defining photography in Bright Young Things – Mar 12 – Jun 7
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Courtesy Photo.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude. Paris! at the Centre Pompidou will trace the Parisian period of Christo and Jeanne Claude between 1958 and 1964, as well as the history of the Le Pont-Neuf empaqueté project for Paris – Mar 18 – Jun 15
Despite the rise of wellness retreats, forest bathing and even silent retreats, anxiety levels are on the rise around the world. Sharjah Art Foundation curator Omar Kholeif aims to address the phenomenon with Art in the Age of Anxiety. The exhibit features work by Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Simon Denny, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Guan Xiao among others – Mar 21 – Jun 21
2. best art museum exhibits in north and south america in march 2020
The newly expanded MoMA will host a Donald Judd Retrospective that will, according to the museum,“explore the remarkable vision of an artist who revolutionized the history of sculpture, highlighting the full scope of Judd’s career through some 60 works in sculpture, painting, and drawing” – Mar 1 – Jul 11
Gerhard Richter: Painting After All at The Met Breuer will include Birkenau (2014) and Cage (2006), both works that have never before been seen in the US – Mar 4 – Jul 5
Carnegie Museum of Art’s An-My Lê: On Contested Terrain is the first comprehensive survey of the politically-charged work of the photographer. Featuring over 100 images, the exhibition presents seven of Lê’s series. Her evocative images draw on a landscape tradition to address the complexity of war – Mar 14 – Jul 26
Félix Fénéon is the subject of a new exhibition at the MoMA. Fénéon had a wide-ranging influence on the development of modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In the late 1880’s, he played a key role in defining the new movement known as Neo-Impressionism, a term he coined himself – Mar 22 – Jul 25
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Vera Lutter. Courtesy Photo.
New York-based artist Vera Lutter created work in LACMA for almost two years from early 2017 to early 2019. Her focus was examining the campus architecture, galleries, and collection holdings. Now Vera Lutter: Museum in the Camera features the compelling photographs made during her two-year residency – Mar 29 – Jun 19
3. best art museum exhibits in asia in march 2020
Brook Andrew is the first Indigenous curator of the 47-year-old Biennale of Sydney. A member of the Wiradjuri people, Andrew has included a significant number of Indigenous artists, including Noŋgirrŋa Marawili, S.J Norman and Demian DinéYazhi´ – Mar 14 – Jun 8
The best arts and culture, including ballet performances, jazz concerts and art museum exhibits in March 2020: Biennale of Sydney. Courtesy Photo.
The X Museum will open this month. The museum’s creator, Michael Xufu Huang, has said he’d like to feature work by scientists, engineers and designers. The name “X” underscores this multidisciplinary attitude – branding the museum as an incubator for the “crossing” of continents, generations and ideas – Mar 17
the best in the arts and culture in march 2020
That’s it. Some of the top ballet performances, jazz concerts and other events in the world of the arts and culture in March 2020.Have a dazzling month.
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