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}} The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) is a major performing arts venue in Brooklyn, New York City, known as a center for progressive and avant garde performance. It presented its first performance in 1861 and began operations in its present location in 1908. Today, BAM has a reputation as a leader in presenting "cutting edge" performance and has grown into an urban arts center which focuses on both international arts presentation and local community needs. Its purpose is to provide an environment in which its audiences – annually, more than 550,000 people – can experience a broad array of aesthetic and cultural programs. BAM has been headed by Karen Brooks Hopkins, President, and Joseph V. Melillo, Executive Producer, for over 25 years. The Brooklyn Academy of Music along with the Downtown Brooklyn Cultural District are members of the Global Cultural Districts Network. ==Timeline== *1861: The Academy of Music on Montague Street is inaugurated on January 15, with a program including Mozart and Verdi. Mercadante’s Il Giuramento, the first opera performance, appears one week later with First Lady Mary Todd Lincoln in attendance *1864: The Brooklyn and Long Island Sanitary Fair raises money for the United States Sanitary Commission aiding sick and wounded Union Civil War soldiers *1884: Mark Twain and George W. Cable entertain with readings and storytelling *1891: Booker T. Washington delivers a speech on full emancipation *1903: The first Brooklyn Academy of Music burns to the ground *1908: Brooklyn Academy of Music opens new home on Lafayette Avenue in Fort Greene The gala opening features the Metropolitan Opera production of Charles Gounod’s ''Faust'' with Geraldine Farrar and Enrico Caruso. *1908: Isadora Duncan dances with Walter Damrosch conducting the New York Symphony Orchestra *1917: Sarah Bernhardt gives six performances in three days at the age of 73, despite an amputated leg *1931: Paul Robeson gives a song recital *1936: The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences merges with the Brooklyn Academy of Music *1937: Herva Nelli makes her operatic debut, as Santuzza in ''Cavalleria rusticana''. *1940: President Franklin D. Roosevelt appears to packed crowds with 2,200 in the Opera House; 700 are onstage, and 6,000 outside in the street *1948: Pearl Primus and Company dance her experiences of Africa *1952: Physical deterioration necessitates the removal of the cornice at 30 Lafayette Avenue. A rescue plan includes paying New York City a rent of $1 a year for 100 years *1962: Rudolf Nureyev makes his American debut with the Chicago Ballet shortly after defecting from the Soviet Union *1967: Harvey Lichtenstein is appointed president of the Academy *1968: Merce Cunningham Dance Company performs its first extended New York season *1969: Robert Wilson makes his BAM debut with ''The Life and Times of Sigmund Freud'' *1971: The Royal Shakespeare Company makes its BAM debut with ''A Midsummer Night’s Dream'', directed by Peter Brook *1973: BAM’s newly renovated ballroom is formally dedicated as the Lepercq Space, named after Paul Lepercq, chairman of the board *1977: A month before the fall season, a 30-inch city water main under Ashland Place bursts, causing severe flooding *1977: BAM presents the inaugural DanceAfrica, created by Chuck Davis, the country’s largest celebration of African-American dance *1981: The Next Wave series debuts with the Trisha Brown, Laura Dean, and Lucinda Childs dance companies and Philip Glass’ opera Satyagraha *1983: Laurie Anderson makes her BAM debut with United States: Parts I—IV in the second season of the Next Wave series *1983: Next Wave features The Photographer with music by Philip Glass, directed by JoAnne Akalaitis, and choreographed by David Gordon *1984: Pina Bausch’s Tanztheater Wuppertal makes its BAM debut with ''The Rite of Spring'', ''1980'', ''Café Müller'', and ''Bluebeard’s Castle'' *1987: BAM produces its first Martin Luther King Jr. tribute with the Brooklyn borough president’s office *1987: The BAM Majestic Theater is inaugurated with Peter Brook’s nine-hour-long ''The Mahabharata'' *1989: The American premiere of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s ''Atys'' with Théâtre National de l’Opéra de Paris features the BAM debut of William Christie and Les Arts Florissants *1992: The American debut of Mark Morris Dance Group’s ''The Hard Nut'' *1995: The Swedish Royal Dramatic Theatre returns as part of a city-wide Bergman Festival with over 350 events; BAM’s Karen Brooks Hopkins is executive producer *1997: BAMcafé opens in the Lepercq Space *1998: The Carey Playhouse is converted to the four-screen BAM Rose Cinemas, home to BAMcinématek, featuring repertory, independent, and foreign films *1998: Ballett Frankfurt first appears at BAM in ''EIDOS : TELOS'' choreographed by William Forsythe *1999: Harvey Lichtenstein retires and is succeeded by Karen Brooks Hopkins (president) and Joseph V. Melillo (executive producer) *1999: The Majestic Theater is renamed the BAM Harvey Theater in honor of Harvey Lichtenstein, in conjunction with an endowment gift from the Doris Duke Charitable Trust *1999: BAMcafé Live begins programming free weekend music in the Lepercq Space *2002: Fiona Shaw plays the title role of Euripides’ ''Medea'', directed by Deborah Warner; following its BAM run the Abbey Theatre production moves to Broadway *2003: Royal National Theatre / Market Theatre of Johannesburg production of ''The Island'', originally directed by Athol Fugard *2005: Eat, Drink & Be Literary begins its first season in partnership with the National Book Awards in the BAMcafé *2006: Robert Redford inaugurates Sundance Institute at BAM, a three-year partnership *2006: BAM celebrates ''Steve Reich @ 70'', including choreography by Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker and Akhram Khan *2007: Visual artist William Kentridge directs his interpretation of Mozart’s ''The Magic Flute'' *2007: Sufjan Stevens performs ''The BQE'', a Next Wave Festival commission exploring the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway *2008: Paul Simon performs in three BAM-produced concert engagements in a month-long residency, ''Love in Hard Times: The Music of Paul Simon'' *2009: BAM launches The Bridge Project, a transatlantic partnership with London’s Old Vic and Neal Street Productions; productions of Chekhov’s ''The Cherry Orchard'' and Shakespeare’s ''The Winter’s Tale'', directed by Sam Mendes, open at BAM before touring the globe *2009: BAMcinemafest is inaugurated, featuring independent films and repertory cinema from around the world *2009: Cate Blanchett plays Blanche Dubois in the Sydney Theatre Company’s production of ''A Streetcar Named Desire'', directed by Liv Ullmann *2010: Ground is broken on the BAM Richard B. Fisher Building, named in his honor by his widow, Jeannie Donovan Fisher, with substantial support from New York City *2010: Alexei Ratmansky creates a new version of ''The Nutcracker'' for American Ballet Theatre’s five-year seasonal residency at BAM *2010: DanceMotion USA, a program of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs of the United States Department of State produced by BAM, showcases contemporary American dance abroad; the first tours features Evidence, ODC/Dance, and Urban Bush Women *2011: BAM celebrates ¡Sí Cuba!, a citywide festival of Cuban culture, with the BAM presentations of Creole Choir and Ballet Nacional de Cuba *2011: BAM’s 150th anniversary celebration begins with the restaging of the landmark production of Jean-Baptiste Lully’s ''Atys'', conducted by William Christie with Les Arts Florissants *2012: ''Jimmy Kimmel Live!'' broadcasts a week of shows from October 29 to November 2. *2013: BAM celebrates Black History Month, a month of African-American culture, with guest appearances by celebrities such as Morris Chestnut, Halle Berry, Gabrielle Union and Terrence Howard, and live performances by artists such as Mary J. 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