Rehearsing Out Cry with Tennessee Williams

Michael York rehearsing Out Cry with Tennessee Williams, 1973

Strauss Meets Frankenstein" program at the Long Beach Opera 2008

Michael York, Strauss Meets Frankenstein, Long Beach Opera, 2008

Michael York

Rachel York, Michael York, and James Barbour in Lerner and Loewes Camelot

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2016 Murder, Lust and Madness, a 400th Anniversary Tribute to Shakespeare
2013 My Fair Lady, concert performances at the Kenedy Center and Santa Barbara

King Lear, at the Old Vic, London

2011 Lisztian Loves, with pianist Andre Watts at the Ravinia Festival
2010 Henry V: A Shakespeare Scenario, Narrator, with Sir Neville Marriner and the Nashville and Detroit Symphonies

2009

David Lean Film Tribute, with John Williams and the Chicago Symphony

Enoch Arden, with Pianist Libor Novacek, Rudolfinum, Prague

Intimate Letters as Leos Janacek, with the Long Beach Opera

Egmont (Beethoven/Goethe) Narrator, with Dawn Upshore and the Aspen Chamber Orchestra

An Evening with Andreas Haefliger and Michael York La Jolla  Music Society Summerfest

2008

Strauss Meets Frankenstein, recital with the Long Beach Opera

Barbar the Elephant with pianist Lucille Chung, and Peter and the Wolf, Bard Music Festival (narrator)

The Abduction from the Seraglio  (narrator/ Pasha Selim) with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Conlon, Ravinia Festival

Extracts from Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra with Susannah York, Festival of Classical Theatre, Merida, Spain 

2007

January–July US tour of Camelot as King Arthur

2006

A Grand Tour Recital with Kate Burton and Roger Rees, Teatro la Fenice, Venice,  Italy, and New York City

Shakespeare in Music with the Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Miguel Harth-Bedoya

The Abduction from the Seraglio (narrator/ Pasha Selim) with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, conducted by James Conlon

Antony and Cleopatra (narrator), inaugural concert of the Hollywood Symphony Orchestra

Amadeus as Salieri, staged concert performance at the Hollywood Bowl, with the LA Philharmonic, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

2005

Peer Gynt as Peer, concert performance with the Pasadena Symphony

Shadows and Voices: The Last Days of Tchaikovsky as Tchaikovsky, with the Aspen Music Festival

2004

Russian David… Soviet Goliath as Dimitri Shostakovich, with the Aspen Music Festival

2003

Dear Editor: A 90th Anniversary Celebration of Poetry Magazine

For The Time Being: Advent (Thea Musgrave)

Narrator with the New York Virtuoso Singers (American Premiere)

Enoch Arden (Tennyson/Strauss), concert performances with pianist John Bell Young in England and Sweden; subsequently New York, Washington, Florida, Aspen Music Festival, and Long Beach Opera

Broadway Goes to the Movies with Stephanie Powers, LA Gala

2002

Christopher Columbus: A Musical Journey, title role, world premiere concert performance conducted by Carl Davis

Shakespeare at the Bowl narration, with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra

2001

Conversations on “A Life in the Theatre” at the Pasadena Playhouse

The Journey of Falstaff and Henry V (narrator) and

Scenes and Sonnets with the National Symphony Orchestra, Kennedy Center, Washington DC

2000

Host of L.A. Opera’s Gala Concert for Peter Hemmings

1999

The Shadow of Greatness, staged reading

1997

Magda’s Story with Stockard Channing

Live at the Lensic,  Benefit Variety Show, Santa Fe

1996

Host of Ira Gershwin at 100, Carnegie Hall

1993

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me with Stephen Rea, Broadway

Under Milk Wood, 40th Anniversary Production, New York City

Nora with Linda Purl, Williamstown Theatre Festival

1991

The Crucible, National Actors Theatre inaugural production, Broadway

1990

Whisper in the Mind by Laurence/Lee with E.G. Marshall

1989

The Moving of Lilla Barton, staged reading for LA Theatre Works

Hollywood Salutes Pirandello with Julie Harris and Amy Irving

1986

Founding member of the L.A. Classic Theatre Works

1983

Playing the Palace, NY, with Jeanne Moreau in Phaedre

1982

in The Little Prince with Ellen Green (Broadway musical debut)

1981

Cyrano de Bergerac as Cyrano, inaugural production, Santa Fe Festival Theatre

1980

Bent on Broadway

1975

Ring Round the Moon with Glynis Johns, Ahmanson, Los Angeles

1973

Broadway debut in world premiere production of Tennessee Williams’ Out Cry

1970

Hamlet, title role, at Thorndike Theatre

1966

Any Just Cause with Jeremy Brett

1965

National Theatre Company, London


Much Ado About  Nothing

Armstrong’s Last Goodnight

Trelawney of the Wells

1964

Debut at Dundee Repertory Theatre

 


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