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Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Learn the stories behind the patriotic compositions of Gershwin, Bernstein, Copland and more as internationally renowned pianist Jeffrey Siegel. Siegel discusses the influences that affected...

The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. Violin duo Malcolm McNeish, 23, and his brother, Umoja, 20, are Sons of Mystro. In their electric live act, they use violins to interpret pop music, reggae, and other genres with DJ Venimis and a drummer. Protégés of ...

Having triumphed at the Met in some of the repertory’s fiercest soprano roles, Sondra Radvanovsky stars as the mythic sorceress who will stop at nothing in her quest for vengeance, kicking off the highly anticipated 2022–23 Live in HD season. Joining Radvanovsky in the Met-premiere production of C...

Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Hear the beloved, melodious masterpieces of Chopin, Schubert, and Finnish composer Jean Sibelius while discovering what inspired their genius as internationally renowned pianist Jeffrey Sieg...

Soprano Nadine Sierra stars as the self-sacrificing courtesan Violetta—one of opera’s ultimate heroines—in Michael Mayer’s vibrant production of Verdi’s beloved tragedy. Tenor Stephen Costello is her self-centered lover, Alfredo, alongside baritone Luca Salsi as his disapproving father, and Maestr...

Soprano Renée Fleming makes her highly anticipated return to the Met in the world-premiere production of Pulitzer Prize–winning composer Kevin Puts’s The Hours, adapted from Michael Cunningham’s acclaimed novel. Inspired by Virginia Woolf’s Mrs. Dalloway and made a household name by the Oscar-win...

The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. With a flair for the wild and unexpected, the genre-defying TAKE3 (Lindsay Deutsch on violin, Jason Stoll on piano, and Mikala Schmitz on cello) brings the refinement of a rigorous classical music background and infus...

Umberto Giordano’s exhilarating drama returns to the Met repertory for the first time in 25 years. Packed with memorable melodies, showstopping arias, and explosive confrontations, Fedora requires a cast of thrilling voices to take flight, and the Met’s new production promises to deliver. Soprano ...

The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. With half of the group rooted in bluegrass, and the other half steeped in jamband music, the Wisconsin-based Chicken Wire Empire has become one of the most in-demand groups of the “jamgrass” trend born out of the Midw...

The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. 10,000 Maniacs Saturday, March 11, 7:30 p.m. Our fourth Concert in the Court goes mainstream! The earthy and soulful rock of 10,000 Maniacs has been a cornerstone of the alternative music scene for more than 40 ...

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking...

Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton uses baking as an analogy in a multi-layered 50-minute performance exploring American exceptionalism, class, and race. With rapid-fire alliteration, Hamilton’s performance is a history lesson combined with a real-life onstage demonstration of making cak...

Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Both these popular composers had the rare ability to write immediately engaging short pieces with memorable melodies, and buoyant rhythms - heroic Polonaises and zesty Norwegian Dances. Disc...

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as...

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become ...

Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Discover the stories behind Haydn's humorous Gypsy Rondo and deeply affecting F Minor Variations, Beethoven's stormy F Minor Sonata, and Mozart's ebullient and virtuoso The Trumpeter as inte...

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzman...

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pi...