The production, to be presented in conjunction with the Royal National Theater, would include the American cast.
The lecture will be presented in conjunction with the international loan exhibition "Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261-1557)," onening on March 23 and bringing together 350 masterpieces of Byzantine art from 30 countries.
Some proposals have been sketched out to Russian officials, and the full plan is to be presented in conjunction with the first meeting between President Bush and President Vladimir V. Putin, on June 16 in Slovenia.
Mr. Morrison set the wheels in motion for a production: two productions, it turned out, both to be presented in conjunction with a four-day musicological conference, After the End of Music History, dedicated to the music historian Richard Taruskin, also a specialist in Russiana (among many other things).
The arts honors will be presented in conjunction with the National Humanities Medals, which are managed by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and whose recipients include the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Marilynne Robinson, the former United States poet laureate Kay Ryan, the actress and playwright Anna Deavere Smith and Joan Didion, the essayist, novelist and screenwriter.
The choreographer Russell Maliphant's "Rodin Project" will be staged Dec. 3, and there will also be performances of "Desire Caught by the Tail," a surrealist play about the hardships of World War II written by Picasso over four days in 1941, to be presented in conjunction with the museum's "Picasso Black and White" exhibit.
