Kennedy Center Season Will Range From ‘Swan Lake’ to Hip-Hop

With the Mariinsky Ballet’s “Swan Lake,” Wagner’s “Tristan und Isolde” and a weeklong hip-hop festival, the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington is offering a mix of classics and contemporary pop culture in its 2013-2014 season.

Programming for the capital’s art center includes more than 2,000 performances of dance, theater and music, Michael Kaiser, the center’s president, announced. Some highlights include a revival of Henry Krieger and Bill Russell’s “Side Show”; an international theater festival with productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” from the Old Vic in Britain and “The Suit” from France’s Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord, directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Hélène Estienne; the National Symphony Orchestra’s birthday salutes to Richard Strauss; and a concert version of “Der Rosenkavalier” featuring Renée Fleming.

Jazz fans can attend a concert devoted to the trumpeter Arturo Sandoval that will feature Chick Corea, Bill Cosby, Doc Severinsen and Andy Garcia. The youngest audience members can look forward to the premiere of the Washington National Opera’s newly commissioned production of Jeanine Tesori’s “The Lion, the Unicorn, and Me,” directed by the company’s new artistic director, Francesca Zambello.

Mr. Kaiser is scheduled to leave the center in December 2014 and this will be the last full season of programming under his leadership.

More information can be found at kennedy-center.org.