June 1, 2006
May 2010 New York City calendar of events
Saturday, May 1
Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
“Carmen” at the Met Opera
“Armida” at the Met Opera
Tickets go on sale for this month’s Project Shaw reading, “ Major Barbara” at The Players on Gramercy Park South
Live WWOW Mystery Radio Play at 6 and 8 p.m. at Partners & Crime bookshop
Karen Armstrong on Jerusalem at Walter Reade Theater at 7 p.m.
Stravinsky’s Russian-American Odyssey concert at the Morgan Library & Museum
Sunday, May 2
Sakura Matsuri cherry blossom festival at Brooklyn Botanic Garden
John Doe and Exene at City Winery at 8 p.m.
South African Photographs: David Goldblatt opens at the Jewish Museum (through Sept. 19)
South Africa Projections: Films by William Kentridge series begins at the Jewish Museum (through Sept. 19)
Institute of Culinary Education’s Essex Street Market tour at 10 a.m.
Five Boro Bike Tour
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Orient—Occident A Dialogue of Cultures at The Allen Room at 8 p.m.
92Y City Walk: Lower East Side Synagogues Beautifully Restored Sites of the Lower East Side at 12:15 p.m.
Monday, May 3
Deborah Voigt in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer ” at the Met Opera
New York Pops play 27th its Birthday Gala at Carnegie Hall’s Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage at 7 p.m.:
Free Contemporary Scandinavian Theater: Staged Readings at Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
Lecture: Surviving Mount St. Helens at the Explorers Club at 6 p.m.
Jerusalem: City of Heavenly and Earthly Peace at the Rose Theater at 7:30 p.m.
Lincoln Center’s What Makes it Great series on Monteverdi: Madrigals at 7:30 p.m. at the Walter Reade Theater
Tuesday, May 4
“Armida” at the Met Opera
Alwin Nikolais Centennial at the Joyce Theater (through May 9)
Lecture: Sound of Broadway: Richard Rodgers, America’s Waltz King at the Met Museum with June LeBell at 2:30 p.m.
Jane Krakowski at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through May 15)
Wednesday, May 5
American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 15)
“Tosca” at the Met Opera
Mayor John V Lindsay exhibtion opens at the Museum of the City of New York
Reading with Jonathan Eig, Author of “Get Capone” at Brooklyn Historical Society at 6:30 p.m.
Thursday, May 6
Mark Knopfler at The United Palace Theatre
Deborah Voigt in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer ” at the Met Opera
Museum of Modern Art stays open until 8:45 p.m. for MoMA Nights, with DJ, cash bar and gallery tours
Out of Scandinavia/Out of Context : New Indie Rock from the Nordics at Scandinavia House at 7 p.m.
a-ha plays the Nokia Theater (through May 8)
Friday, May 7
“Armida” at the Met Opera
Bklyn Designs (through May 9)
Antique Garden Furniture Show and Sale at the New York Botanical Garden (through May 9)
Saturday, May 8
Tosca at the Met Opera
James Levine conducts “LuLu” at the Met Opera with Marlis Petersen at 1 p.m.
The National Chorale performance of Carmina Burana, Orff at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education’s Chinatown Dim Sum Tour at 10 a.m.
Uptown, Downtown: NY is Chocolate Country walking tour with the Institute of Culinary Education
St. Paul’s Historic Dinner at 5 p.m. St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
Dan Zanes & Friends at the Met Museum at 2:30 p.m.
Sunday, May 9
Emerson String Quartet and
Jeffrey Kahane plays Dvořák and Janáček at Alice Tully Hall at 5 p.m.
American Symphony Orchestra plays Avery Fisher Hall at 3 p.m.
Monday, May 10
Deborah Voigt in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer ” at the Met Opera
92Y behind-the-scenes tour: United Nations Tour & Delegates Dining Room Lunch
Tuesday, May 11
“Armida” at the Met Opera
MOMIX at the Joyce Theater (through June 6)
Philip Pullman in conversation with Paul Holdengraber at 7 p.m. at the New York Public Library on “The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ”
Wednesday, May 12
An Italian Journey: Drawings from the Tobey Collection, Correggio to Tiepolo opens at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (through Aug. 15)
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Masur Conducts Beethoven and Bruckner
James Levine conducts “LuLu” at the Met Opera with Marlis Petersen at 8 p.m.
New York City Opera and Opera Noire of New York performs “ The Life and Times of Malcolm X” at 7 p.m. at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, marking the 45th anniversary of the assassination of Malcolm X
Thursday, May 13
“Tosca” at the Met Opera
Friday, May 14
One Step Beyond dance party from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m. at the American Museum of Natural History
Deborah Voigt in Wagner’s “Der Fliegende Holländer ” at the Met Opera
Institute of Culinary Education historical cooking class: Impressive Historic Desserts
NY Uke Fest (through May 16)
National Design Triennial: Why Design Now? at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum (through Jan. 9)
Chuck Close: A Conversation at the Met Museum at 6 p.m.
Saturday, May15
“Armida” at the Met Opera
James Levine conducts “LuLu” at the Met Opera with Marlis Petersen at 12:30 p.m.
Institute of Culinary Education historical cooking class: Carême and the Grand Art of French Cooking in the 19th Century at 6 p.m.
Free Super Sabado events all day at el Museo del Barrio
Museum of American Finance walking tour: Financial Architecture at 11 a.m.
Sunday, May 16
51st Annual Park Slope House Tour
Anthony Anderson’s MixTape Comedy Show at the Gotham Comedy Club at 8 p.m.
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Emerson String Quartet plays Dvořák and Janáček at Alice Tully Hall at 5 p.m.
92Y City Walk: Lower East Side Synagogues The Jewish Community of Revolutionary- and Colonial-Era New Amsterdam at 11 a.m.
Monday, May 17
Albrecht Dürer: What Beauty Is exhibition opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Sept. 12)
Lovin’ Spoonful at B.B. King Blues Club
Tuesday, May 18
International Contemporary Furniture Fair at the Javits Center
Brahms Sonatas concert at the Morgan Library & Museum
The Roman Mosaic from Lod, Israel opens at the Met Museum (through Feb. 6)
Mitzi Gaynor at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency (through May 22)
Wednesday, May 19
Bound For Success: International Bookbinding Competition opens at the Grolier Club (through July 31)
10 annual Joey Ramone Birthday Party Irving Plaza
Emerson String Quartet and Paul Neubauer plays Dvořák and Martinů at Alice Tully Hall at 8 p.m.
Thursday, May 20
Luigi Cherubini’s “Requiem” at Saint Patrick’s Cathedral at 7 p.m.
The Scandia String Quartet plays at Scandinavia House at 8 p.m.
Los Angeles Philharmonic plays Bernstein: Symphony No. 2, “The Age of Anxiety” and Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 6 in B minor (“Pathétique”) at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Friday, May 21
New Museum program: A Proposition by Matthew Barney at 7 p.m.
Sleepover at the American Museum of Natural History
Killing Joke plays Irving Plaza at 9 p.m.
Brooklyn Cyclones’ “Jersey? Sure!” Night
76th Annual Drama League Awards at the Marriott Marquis at noon
Romantic Gardens: Nature, Art, and Landscape Design exhibition opens at the Morgan Library & Museum (through Aug. 29)
Saturday, May 22
New Museum program: A Proposition by Matthew Barney at noon
Algonquin Round Table Walking Tour from noon to 2 p.m.
3rd annual Renaissance Faire at Aviator Sports and Events Center in Brooklyn (and May 23)
Downtown Eats walking tour with Nicole Harnett at noon
Los Angeles Philharmonic plays John Adams’ new “City Noir”and Mahler: “Symphony No. 1 in D major”at Avery Fisher Hall at 8 p.m.
Hudson River Pageant
Dance Parade NY
Sunday, May 23
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Nathan Lane in Conversation with Jordan Roth at 92Y’s Buttenwieser Hall at 7:30 p.m.
Free Drums Along the Hudson - A Native American Festival at Inwood Hill Park with Lotus Music and Dance from 11 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Paging Nurse Jackie events at the Paley Center at 7 p.m. with Edie
Falco, Linda Wallem, Liz Brixius and Richie Jackson
Monday, May 24
Project Shaw reading of “ Major Barbara” at The Players on Gramercy Park South at 7 p.m.
Sean Hayes in Conversation with Jordan Roth at 92YTribeca Mainstage at 8 p.m.
Lecture: Ghost Ships and Sea Monsters at the Explorers Club at 6 p.m. with National Geographic photographer Emory Kristof
Manhattan Theatre Club’s Spring Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street
Tuesday, May 25
Book Expo America at the Javits Center (through May 27)
Wednesday, May 26
NY Philharmonic open rehearsal at 9:45 a.m.: Gilbert Conducts Ligeti’s Le Grand Macabre
First concert at the New Meadowlands Stadium: Bon Jovi
Fleet Week - possibly with the Blue Angels (through June 2)
Museum of American Finance’s Fleet Week Walking Tour at 11 a.m.
Thursday, May 27
Bon Jovi at the New Meadowlands Stadium
El Museo Gala 2010 honoring Plácido Domingo and Tony Bechara at 7 p.m. at Cipriani 42nd
Friday, May 28
The cast of “Glee” play Radio City Music Hall (and May 29)
Saturday, May 29
South Street Seaport Museum public sails on the schooner Pioneer resume for the season
Jones Beach Air Show - possibly with the Blue Angels (and May 30)
Great Hudson River Swim
Race to the End of the Earth Antarctic exploration exhibition opens at the American Museum of Natural History (through Jan. 2)
Sunday, May 30
Walking tour of Staten Island’s Moravian Cemetery at 2 p.m.
Monday, May 31
Soldier’s Stories & Songs events at St. Paul’s Church National Historic Site at the edge of the Bronx
Met Museum opens for Holiday Monday schedule, from 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Children’s Museum of Manhattan open for a holiday Monday
New York Botanical Garden open for a holiday Monday from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
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