NYC Arts: The Complete Guide to Art and Culture

Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Manhattan

This 16.3-acre campus is home to 12 resident companies, including Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, the New York City Opera, the New York City Ballet, the Metropolitan Opera, the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Jazz at Lincoln Center, and the New York Philharmonic, among others.

Musica Sacra

Manhattan

Musica Sacra is the longest continuously performing professional chorus in New York City. The repertoire represents the masterpieces of choral music – the motets, cantatas, passions, and B Minor Mass of Bach, the masses of Mozart and Haydn, the Requiems of Mozart, Brahms and Fauré, Bloch’s Sacred Service, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms, Bernstein’s Chichester Psalms, and more.

Music Before 1800

Manhattan

Director Louise Basbas established the concert series in 1974 to offer New York audiences nine centuries of rarely heard medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and early classical music performed by top artists from the United States and abroad. Each season, Music Before 1800 presents eight Sunday afternoon concerts at Corpus Christi Church.

New York Public Library for the Performing Arts

Manhattan

Since its opening in 1965, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts has earned a reputation as one of the world's largest and most comprehensive collections of information on the performing arts. Each year, the library presents more than 200 free concerts, play readings, lectures, film screenings and panel discussions.

Queens Theatre

Queens

A broad range of performing arts disciplines—drama, dance, music, performance art, troupe comedy, children's events—from a host of multicultural companies are presented in either the 476-seat Main Stage Theatre or the 100-seat cabaret/black box studio.