John Malkovich. Photograph: Lori Ann Cook/AP
It competence not be the cheeriest night out, examination John Malkovich as a resurrected Austrian sequence torpedo on entertainment with a antique band and dual sopranos singing arias about attempted murder and abandonment, but it will, the Barbican"s inventive executive cheerfully suggests, be one of his personal highlights.
"It"s a kind of 21st-century version of an 18th-century melodrama," pronounced Graham Sheffield. "Absolutely shining and utterly unique."
The Malkovich piece, The Infernal Comedy – piece drama, piece unison – is formed on the loyal story of Jack Unterweger, who killed at slightest eleven prostitutes. "Probably not a thing to take a chairman on a initial date," Sheffield conceded.
The show was voiced currently as piece of the Barbican"s plans for the entrance year, along with the lapse of big-name regulars such as Peter Brook, with The Magic Flute; Michael Clark, with the subsequent complement of his prolongation come, been and gone; and Robert Lepage, with a new multimedia prolongation called Blue Dragon.
The centre"s handling director, Sir Nicholas Kenyon, embellished a flushed design of the Barbican"s last twelve months. "We are construction on success given last year the Barbican had the most appropriate year ever with 1.2m tickets sole and attendances 13% up, and that is stability this year. People are shopping tickets by the recession. We are in a duration of conspicuous success opposite the arts."
Other highlights voiced currently embody screening the ultimate Nasa outdoor space footage for the Houston Symphony"s opening of The Planets; the Dutch entertainment organisation Toneelgroep Amsterdam restaging 3 Antonioni films; a new version of Peter Pan from the National Theatre of Scotland; and Peter Sellars directing his version of György Kurtág"s Kafka Fragments.
The Barbican"s move in to easterly London will continue: for example, when the jazz fable Wynton Marsalis arrives with the Jazz at Lincoln Centre band from New York there will be jam sessions at Dalston"s Vortex and a family unison in Hackney.
"We are formulating a new indication for the destiny of what an humanities centre can be," pronounced Kenyon. "It depends on the communication of glorious names with as different an assembly as possible."
In visible arts, the Barbican art gallery"s big summer show will be an scrutiny of the attribute in between surrealism and architecture, with the architects Carmody Groarke conceptualizing a "house" in that there will be the work of artists from Man Ray to Dalí to Louise Bourgeois. Then in the autumn the art studio will host the initial European muster clinging to fashionable Japanese conform from the early 1900s to the present.
The Barbican"s main proprietor orchestra, the London Symphony orchestra, will see the principal conductor, Valery Gergiev, take on Tchaikovsky and Shostakovich as well as a less informed name, the vital Russian composer Rodion Schedrin.
Sir Colin Davis will go on his array of Nielsen symphonies, Bernard Haitink will control Schumann, André Previn will control Strauss and Vaughan Williams and Sir Simon Rattle will control the LSO for the initial time given 2000.
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