Cook, Griffey, McDonald, et al. to Perform With New York Philharmonic

Tony Award winners Barbara Cook and Audra McDonald are among the artists scheduled to perform with the New York Philharmonic during the 2007-2008 season.

Cook will offer a special 80th birthday concert on November 19, 2007. She made her debut with the Philharmonic in 1961 in a tribute to Candide composer Leonard Bernstein; she played the role of Cunegonde in that show’s original Broadway production.

McDonald will be the soloist for Luciano Berio’s Folksongs, March 5-8, 2008. She has previously appeared with the Philharmonic in a concert version of Sweeney Todd and her recent New Year’s Eve concert, which was televised on Live from Lincoln Center.

Other noted vocalists who will appear with the Philharmonic this season include opera stars Anthony Dean Griffey, James Johnson, and Tatiana Pavloskaya in Zemlinsky’s A Florentine Tragedy, October 18-20, 2007; Susan Graham in Berlioz’s La Mort de Cleopatre, January 10-12, 2008; and Hui He, Walter Fraccaro, and George Gagnidze in a concert version of Puccini’s Tosca, to be conducted by Lorin Maazel, June 12-19, 2008.

For more information, visit www.nyphil.org.