The exhibition brings together more than seventy paintings and drawings from major institutions and private collections across the world. The works will be presented in a broadly chronological order, with thematic groupings charting Chagall’s encounters with avant-garde artistic movements, highlighting how he combined these new pictorial languages with his own imaginative and fantastical motifs to create his innovative and expressive works. A major highlight of the exhibition is the rare presentation of the seven large-scale murals designed by Chagall for the State Yiddish Chamber Theatre in Moscow in 1920, on loan from The State Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

Ellen Gallagher’s art explores issues of race, identity and transformation. Renowned for her reworking of popular black imagery, Gallagher draws on postwar magazines and advertising, as well as film and music culture. She makes repeated reference to the traditions of minstrelsy, as well as to specific performers such as vaudeville star Bert Williams and jazz musician Sun Ra. Pages from mid-century black photomagazines such as Ebony, Our World and Sepia - all dominated by advertisements for Afro hairstyles, wigs and skin products aimed at African-American women - are often cited in her investigation of the anxieties and tensions surrounding black identity in the age of consumerism. Historically specific cultural references are merged with Gallagher’s own personal biography as a black Irish American woman.

This survey exhibition takes an overview of Gallagher’s practice, exploring the themes which have emerged and recurred from her seminal early canvases, to her ‘wigmap’ grid collages, through to recent film installations and new bodies of work. The exhibition will include such key works as Bird in Hand 2006, a complex relief built up in layers of printed matter, plasticine, crystal, paint and gold leaf. In Bird in Hand, human life and marine life converge at the bottom of the ocean in a mythical black Atlantis.

Gallagher’s mysterious vision of marine life extends beyond the canvas and into other media, such as the 16mm film installation Murmur 2003-4, created in collaboration with Edgar Cleijne, as well as the ongoing series of delicate watercolours and cut paper works entitled Watery Ecstatic. The large-scale sculptural installation Jungle Gym/Preserve 2001 will also be on display, which appears to be an abstract matrix of white poles, but on closer inspection becomes an intricate network of symbols referencing the traditions of whale-bone carving. New and recent work on display for the first time at Tate Modern, including Morphia, a series of two-sided drawings, will also show how Gallagher combines the intimate with the epic, the urban with the oceanic, the ethereal with the physical and history with the present.

Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island in 1965 and now lives and works in Rotterdam and New York. Solo exhibitions of her work have included those held at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York andNew Museum,New York. She was awarded the Joan Mitchell Fellowship in 1997 and an American Academy Award in Art in 2000 and her work is held in many major public collections, including MoMA, New York; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Fine Arts,Boston; and Centre Pompidou, Paris.

Ice Age art was created between 40,000 and 10,000 years ago and many of the pieces are made of mammoth ivory and reindeer antler. They show skilful, practised artists experimenting with perspectives, scale, volumes, light and movement, as well as seeking knowledge through imagination, abstraction and illusion.

These exceptional pieces are presented alongside modern works by Henry Moore, Mondrian and Matisse, illustrating the fundamental human desire to communicate and make art as a way of understanding ourselves and our place in the world.

One of the most beautiful pieces in the exhibition is a 23,000-year-old sculpture of an abstract figure from Lespugue, France. Picasso was fascinated with this figure and it influenced his 1930s sculptural works.

The culmination of 8 years’ work, Sebastião Salgado: Genesis draws together some 200 black and white images of landscapes and wildlife, alongside depictions of human communities that continue to live in accordance with their ancestral traditions and cultures.

Salgado says of the Genesis collection, ‘This has been one of my longest photographic adventures: eight years researching, exploring and celebrating nature’s unspoiled legacy. I have journeyed through 32 countries to rediscover the mountains, deserts and oceans, the animals and peoples that have so far escaped the imprint of modern society. It is a pictorial depiction of the lands and lives of a still pristine planet. I feel Genesis also speaks urgently to our own age by portraying the breathtaking beauty of a lost world that somehow survives. It proclaims: this is what is in peril, this is what we must save.’

Genesis is Sebastião Salgado’s third long-term examination of global issues, following his previous acclaimed collections Workers and Migrations. He has been awarded numerous major photographic prizes in recognition of his accomplishments, most recently receiving the Gold Medal Award for Photography from the National Arts Club in New York.

Born in Brazil in 1944, Salgado trained as an economist before starting work for the International Coffee Organization and travelling to Africa on missions for the World Bank. By 1973, he had abandoned his life as an economist to become a photographer, working on news assignments before steering more towards documentary and reportage work. Salgado is a UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador and is also an honorary member of the Academy of Arts and Sciences in the USA.

After the London premiere, the exhibition will travel to Toronto, Rio de Janeiro, Rome and Paris and is supported by Vale.

Featuring more than 70 images, in Alive: In The Face of Death, photographer Rankin sets out to explore and challenge our perceptions of death. Through his lens, the stories of those touched by death are revealed. 

They include people living with a terminal illness, those who have faced death and survived, and those who work within the death industry. 

One portrait is of 48-year-old Mum, Sandra, who was diagnosed with breast cancer eight years ago.  In Rankin’s image of her, Sandra feels she is displaying her ‘inner warrior’ as she battles her condition.

Death; we can deny it and medicine can delay it, but it is life’s only certainty.  Despite this, it remains the ultimate taboo in British society today.

Rankin’s own response to the subject is reflected in a series of self-portraits and in his ‘life masks'. These include images of living stars such as Jarvis Cocker, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Joanna Lumley along with those who have passed away such as Marlon Brando and Peter Cushing. 

Developed over a three-year period, Geoffrey Farmer’s The Surgeon and the Photographer will be shown for the first time in its completed form for its UK premiere.

The work consists of hundreds of puppet-like figures, composed of images cut from old books and magazines mounted onto fabric forms, and is accompanied by a new film commission. His work blends the collage and assemblage traditions of Hannah Höch and Robert Rauschenberg, the element of chance employed by John Cage and Merce Cunningham, and an animist perspective from Pacific Northwest Coast cultures.

This programme charts the pan-European importance of the Italian composer and violinist Arcangelo Corelli, which was unequalled during his lifetime. Corelli’s groundbreaking concertos directly influenced that of his pupil Francesco Geminiani and Vivaldi, and also left a lasting mark on works by younger composers such as William Babel and Giovanni Benedetto Platti.

The Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin is a chamber orchestra founded in East Berlin in 1982. It regularly performs under the direction of one of its four leaders.

Akademie fur Alte Musik Berlin
Georg Kallweit, leader

Artistic Director of the Aldeburgh Festival since 2009, Pierre-Laurent Aimard – the Grammy Award-winning French pianist – returns to lead the UK institution in its 66th year, which is also the centenary year of founder Benjamin Britten. The festival’s programming ranges from Bach and Byrd to Stravinsky and Shostakovich and to premieres by Elliott Carter, Jonathan Harvey, Judith Weir, Poul Ruders, Wolfgang Rihm and Magnus Lindberg, among others. Aimard himself will perform a century’s worth of works from Britten to Boulez, and will co-present a tribute to Elliott Carter with composer-conductor Oliver Knussen.

The 2013 festival features many signature works by Britten, including a concert performance of his iconic opera Peter Grimes and a host of chamber, instrumental and vocal pieces.

As pianist, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will perform in several concerts during the festival, including a duo concert with cellist Valérie Aimard, his sister. On 8 June, the two Aimards will perform pieces by Shostakovich and György Kurtág, as well as cello sonatas by Britten and Elliott Carter. On 11 June, Pierre-Laurent Aimard will give a solo recital titled Piano Century: 1913-2013, which will range from Debussy, Stravinsky, Ives and Messiaen to Cage, Ligeti and Helmut Lachenmann, along with pieces by Prokofiev, Schoenberg, Bartók, Cowell, Stockhausen, Carter, Boulez, Harrison Birtwistle, Marco Stroppa, Tristan Murail and George Benjamin. Aimard will also premiere new commissions from young composers in the Britten-Pears Young Artist Program. On 15 June, he will perform Stockhausen’s Kontakte, with Samuel Favre on percussion and Marco Stroppa on sound diffusion. On 22 June Aimard will participate in three concerts, first joining pianists Tamara Stefanovich and Nenad Lecic to perform major works from 1913, then presenting a tribute to Elliott Carter with Oliver Knussen, featuring the world premiere of Carter’s Epigrams, a piano trio written for Aimard. Lastly will be a concert of 20th- and 21st-century music with the Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, including a world premiere by Magnus Lindberg.

Copland: Inscape
Britten: Symphony for Cello and Orchestra
Shostakovich: Symphony No 5

London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

Copland: Orchestra Variations
Shostakovich: Cello Concerto No 1
Copland: Short Symphony (Symphony No 2)
Britten: The Young Person's Guide to the Orchestra

London Symphony Orchestra
Michael Tilson Thomas, conductor
Yo-Yo Ma, cello

J.S. Bach, Mozart, Haydn, Schmann

Till Fellner is an Austrian pianist (born, 1972) whose interpretations of baroque and classical literature are notable for their intellectual poise and artistic integrity. Rather than vulgar showmanship or mind-numbing virtuosity, he offers a rare glimpse into the art and style of classical Viennese performance practice. Mr. Fellner took a sabbatical from public performance in 2012 to study new repertoire.

Among connoisseurs of the Viennese musical tradition and the art of the piano, ticket sales will be brisk.

Bach, Brahms, Debussy, Franck

Truls Mork, cello
Christian Ihle Hadland, piano

Winner of Placido Domingo’s 2011 Operalia Competition, soprano Pretty Yende studied in South Africa before completing her training at La Scala. Ms. Yende's future engagements include the Deutsche Oper Berlin and the Metropolitan Opera in New York.

Pretty Yende, soprano
James Vaughan, piano

Kyle Eastwood Band

Kyle Eastwood grew up in Carmel, California, as the eldest son of actor Clint Eastwood. As a child he listened to records of jazz stars such as Duke Ellington, Count Basie and Miles Davis playing in the house. His father had been attending the Monterey Jazz Festival since it began in 1958 and when his children were born it became a yearly family outing. His latest album, ”The View From Here” (Jazzvillage, Harmonia Mundi), embraces this musical heritage which goes back to the soundtrack of his youth when his father introduced him to the joys of the bass line.

Kyle Eastwood, bass
Graeme Blevins, sax
Quentin Collins, trumpet
Martyn Kaine, drums
Andrew McCormack, piano

Benjamin Britten: Peter Grimes (Concert version)

Steuart Bedford, conductor

Anthony Kraus, chorus master

Cast

Alan Oke:  Peter Grimes
Giselle Allen:  Ellen Orford
David Kempster: Captain Balstrode
Gaynor Keeble:  Auntie
Lexi Hutton: First Niece
Charmian Bedford: Second Niece
Robert Murray:  Bob Boles
Henry Waddington:  Swallow
Catherine Wyn-Rogers:  Mrs Sedley
Christopher Gillett:   Rev Horace Adams
Charles Rice: Ned Keene
Stephen Richardson: Hobson

The Chorus of Opera North with the Chorus of the Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Britten–Pears Orchestra

Fisherman Peter Grimes is an outsider in the community of misfits and bigots who populate “the Borough”, a fictionalised version of Aldeburgh. Is he responsible for the death of his young apprentice? Is he mad, evil or a misunderstood visionary?

Britten’s early masterpiece has captured the imagination of audiences around the world ever since its premiere in the aftermath of the second  world war, transforming the sadistic fisherman of The Borough, George Crabbe’s poem on which the opera is based, into an enigmatic anti-hero.

Aldeburgh Music
Snape Maltings Retailing
Snape, Saxmundham
Suffolk IP17 1SP
United Kingdom

Fourteen-time Grammy Award winning singer, songwriter, and producer Alicia Keys palys the O2 Arena in London where she showcases her fifth studio album, Girl on Fire.

Alicia Keys is often compared to the soulful likes of Roberta Flack and Aretha Franklin, bringing classical training and old-school sensibility and R&B to the hip-hop music of this generation. The talented young singer, songwriter, and extraordinary pianist released her sophomore album entitled The Diary of Alicia Keys in December 2003, a follow-up to her award-winning, multi-platinum debut album Songs in A Minor. Already a major pop and R&B hit, The Diary of Alicia Keys reflects the artist's love for the music of the sixties and seventies, featuring the chart-topping single "You Don't Know My Name."

Grammy nominated American artist Miguel has been announced as support.

Four-time Grammy Award nominated Iranian maestro Kayhan Kalhor’s kamancheh – a traditional four-stringed, upright Persian fiddle – met New York-based string quartet Brooklyn Rider for the first time as part of globe-trotting cellist Yo-Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble.

Rock’n’raï icon Rachid Taha made a much-awaited  Mick Jones of The Clash, Agnès B and Eric Cantona. 

Singer-songwriter Souad Massi has been hailed as Maghreb's answer to Tracy Chapman. Capable of fusing everything from chaâbi to American folk rock and Portuguese fado, while mixing electric and acoustic instruments with her haunting vocals, Souad’s melancholic ballads bear the imprint of Algeria's troubled recent past.

Eddie Izzard is one of the best stand-up comedians of his time. In 2011 the man who turned talking ‘Bollocks’ into an art form performed and sold–out Madison Square Garden in New York. He spent a three-month residency at the Théâtre de Dix Heures in Paris performing STRIPPED: ‘Tout en Francais’ (in French!) and then became the first stand-up to play a solo show at Los Angeles’ Hollywood Bowl.  Never one to rest on his laurels Izzard now plans to take on the world with a brand-new comedy tour, Force majeure. The tour visits 27 countries in Europe, the USA, Africa, Asia and Australia.

Algeria, 1950s. A blend of Berber sounds, Andalusian melodies, jazz and chanson rises amongst the walls of the historic Casbah in Algiers. The music is called chaâbi - meaning 'of the people'; and it's played by groups of Jewish and Muslim musicians. Algeria’s war of independence a decade later breaks these two communities apart, burying the memory of a part of the Franco-Algerian history which is still not fully known today.

Separated by history for fifty years, the 25-piece orchestra of Jewish and Muslim musicians returns to the Barbican after a critically-acclaimed performance in 2007 as part of The Barbican's Ramadan Nights series.

Cocktail Sticks is a new short play that revisits some of the themes and conversations of Alan Bennett’s memoir A Life Like Other People’s.

A son talks to his dead father as his mother yearns for a different life. It’s funny, tender and sad.

Nicholas Hytner directs Alex Jennings as Alan Bennett. He is joined by Derek Hutchinson, Gabrielle Lloyd, Maggie McCarthy and Jeff Rawle, with music performed by Rachel Elliott and Chris Fish.

The pinnacle of my social life is a scrutty bit of lettuce and tomato and some tinned salmon. Mind you, I read in Ideal Home that if you mix tinned salmon with this soft cheese you can make it into one of those moussy things. Shove a bit of lemon on it and it looks really classy.                                             - Alan Bennett

Rastak is a music ensemble for contemporary Iranian folk, singing in a number of Iranian ethnic languages, dialects and accents. The ensemble seeks to collect, record and interpret traditional Iranian folk music for a global audience, incorporating language, culture and history also merging traditional instruments and forms with contemporary rhythms.

Thea Sharrock's production of new musical The Bodyguard is based on Lawrence Kasdan's 1992 Oscar nominated Warner Bros. film, The Bodyguard, with book by Alex Dinelaris.

This version of the smash hit film which starred Kevin Costner and the late Whitney Houston, is now playing in London's West End starring  Heather Headley & Lloyd Owen.

Joining Headley and Owen are Debbie Kurup (Nicki Maron), Mark Letheren (The Stalker), Ray Shell (Bill Devaney), Nicolas Colicos (Tony Scibelli), Mark McKerracher (Herb Farmer), Sean Chapman (Sy Spector), David Page (Rory Fryman) and Oliver Le Sueur (Ray Court).

Former Secret Service agent turned bodyguard, Frank Farmer, is hired to protect superstar Rachel Marron from an unknown stalker. Each expects to be in charge – what they don't expect is to fall in love.

Maxim Gorky: The Children of the Sun 
Directed by Howard Davies

Maxim Gorky’s darkly comic play is set in Russia as the country rolls towards revolution. It depicts the new middle-class, foolish yet likable, as they flounder about, philosophising and flirting, blind to their impending annihilation.

Cast:

Geoffrey Streatfeild (Protasov ), Lucy Black, Matthew Flynn, Paul Higgins, Gerald Kyd, Emma Lowndes, Maggie McCarthy, Justine Mitchell, Steven Blake, Florence Hall, Jonathan Harden, Lucas Hare, Matthew Hickey, Paul Hickey, Gemma Lawrence, Gerard Monaco, Anna O’Grady, Rhiannon Oliver, Stephen Wilson, Karren Winchester

Design: Bunny Christie
Lighting: Neil Austin