Mannes College The New School for Music announces the 13th annual Mannes Beethoven Institute, which will explore Beethoven’s sonatas and chamber music together with solo and chamber works of the American composer Peter Lieberson (1946-2011) in a week of intensive study. The program will run May 30 – June 4, 2013.

The Mannes Opera will perform Benjamin Britten’s masterpiece The Rape of Lucretia on May 10 and 11.

The acclaimed Mannes Orchestra will also perform works by Berg, Stravinsky, and Hindemith at Alice Tully Hall on March 29.

Program includes New York premiere of Jennifer Higdon’s “City Scape,” world premiere of the instrumental version of Shulamit Ran’s “Fault Lines,” and a live performance by Derek Bermel.

The young performers of Mannes Opera and the Mannes Orchestra will perform two rarely seen short operas by Stravinsky and Rossini.

“The young conductors of Mannes will have an outstanding opportunity to work directly with our conductors, staff and musicians to gain the type of real world experience that will definitely make a difference in their careers,” said Bufflo Philharmonic Orchestra Music Director JoAnn Falletta.

Under the baton of David Hayes, the Mannes Orchestra will perform on September 29 and October 30 in a new downtown location, at the Salvation Army’s Centennial Memorial Temple, 120 W. 14th Street.

Under the festival theme High Performance: Preparation for Concerts, Auditions and Competitions, the Guitar Seminar offers a week of master classes, workshops, and rehearsals open to classical guitarists at all levels, as well as well as public concerts by performers including the Newman & Oltman Guitar Duo, Denis Azabagic, Jason Vieaux, and many more.