MetLiveArts 2018: Winter-Spring Season
MetLiveArts Artist in Residence: Andrea Miller and Gallim
World Premiere of New Work
May 18–20, 22–24:
Performances during Museum hours
May 8–13, 15–17:
Open rehearsals during Museum hours
"Her viscerally physical movement wrings every inch of life from her dancers—and you'll be holding your breath, too."—New York Magazine
Returning after the success of Stone Skipping, choreographed for The Temple of Dendur in The Sackler Wing, Andrea Miller, artistic director of the dance company Gallim, shifts her focus to the contemporary art of The Met Breuer for this world premiere—an invigorating and visceral integration of art, architecture, and movement inspired by the exhibition Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300–Now), on view at The Met Breuer March 21–July 22, 2018. Audiences will also have a chance to view Miller's creative process at open rehearsals during Museum hours.
Free with Museum admission
The Met Breuer, Fifth Floor
MetLiveArts Quartet in Residence: Aizuri Quartet
Ariana Kim and Miho Saegusa, violins
Ayane Kozasa, viola
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Karen Ouzounian, cello
Japan Across the World
Friday, February 23, 7 p.m.
With guest artist Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi player and composer
Aizuri Quartet offers a sampling of Japanese composers—including Akira Nishimura and Paul Wiancko, as well as guest artist Umezaki—who have developed distinct musical voices in different parts of the world. Japanese-Danish performer and composer Umezaki, a member of the Grammy Award-winning Silk Road Ensemble, joins the quartet on shakuhachi—a traditional Japanese bamboo flute—for a fascinating look at the diversity of Japanese music around the globe.
Tickets start at $65
Gallery 217, The Astor Court
Seven Last Words
Saturday, March 31, 2 p.m.
With spoken word artist Denice Frohman
Award-winning poet Denice Frohman joins the Aizuri Quartet for The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, Haydn's profound account of Christ's final utterances at Calvary. Commissioned in 1786 for the Good Friday services at a church in Cádiz, Spain, and later adapted for string quartet, Haydn's work originally featured a priest interpreting the titular words attributed to Jesus. In this updated version, Frohman replaces those words with new poems—all written especially for The Met performance.
Tickets start at $65
The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters
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Music and Migration
Friday, June 1, 7 p.m.
With guest artist Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer
Aizuri Quartet is joined by the renowned Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a member of the Grammy Award-winning Silk Road Ensemble, for an exploration of music in migration, featuring works by Azmeh, Béla Bartók, and Lembit Beecher, plus a suite of short commissions by contemporary composers.
Tickets start at $35
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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New Commissions and PremieresGeorge Lewis: Assemblage [New York Premiere]
Sunday, February 25, 2 p.m.
Featuring Ensemble Dal Niente
Inspired by the titular collage-like technique from the visual arts, Assemblage, by composer, trombonist, and experimentalist George Lewis, is full of hairpin shifts in tempo and texture. Chicago's Ensemble Dal Niente, for whom the piece was written, gives the New York-premiere performance along with three of Lewis's works, including Mnemosis. A talk with George Lewis and multimedia artist Camille Norment follows the performance.
Free with Museum admission (online registration recommended)
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
The House Is Black Media Project [New York Premiere]
Saturday, March 10, 7 p.m.
"Sussan Deyhim is one of Iran's most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvelously potent voice. She wails and coos and ululates, the sound of the soul in translation." —Los Angeles Times
The creative visions of two of Iran's most fiercely creative female artists converge on stage in this multimedia tribute to the irrepressible feminist poet and filmmaker the late Forough Farrokhzad. Performance artist and composer Sussan Deyhim, whose vocals can be heard in films such as Argo and The Kite Runner, combines visual projections, archival footage—including Farrokhzad's 1965 interview with Bernardo Bertolucci—and an original score, co-written with Golden Globe-winning composer Richard Horowitz.
Tickets start at $35
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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Music for the Unicorn Tapestry Room
Sunday, April 15, 1 and 3 p.m.
José Lemos, countertenor
Dongmyung Ahn, vielle and rebec
Christa Patton, harp, recorder, and flute
Deborah Fox, lute
The award-winning Brazilian countertenor José Lemos performs a program specifically for the Unicorn Tapestry Room at The Met Cloisters, marking the first time the intimate space is being used as a concert venue. Songs by 12th-century troubadours as well as other medieval French compositions will be intertwined with Renaissance court music dating from the time of the tapestries.
Tickets start at $65
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Chiara String Quartet: Philip Glass Premiere
Saturday, May 12, 2 p.m.
Rebecca Fischer, violin
Hyeyung Yoon, violin
Jonah Sirota, viola
Gregory Beaver, cello
With special guests Paul Barnes, piano, and the Axion Estin Chanters
The Chiara String Quartet returns after a yearlong residency in 2016 to give its final performance ever. The celebrated ensemble ends its 18-year partnership with a contemplative program centered on the New York premiere of Philip Glass's Piano Quintet No. 1 ("Annunciation"), based on a Greek Orthodox hymn and featuring pianist Paul Barnes and the Byzantine strains of the Axion Estin Chanters. The program opens with Nico Muhly's Diacritical Marks, written for the quartet, and finishes with one of Beethoven's most poignant and haunting final works, the String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.
Tickets start at $45
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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Masters at The MetCharles Lloyd and The Marvels
Friday, January 26, 7 p.m.
Charles Lloyd, saxophone and flute
Bill Frisell, guitar
Greg Leisz, pedal steel guitar
Reuben Rogers, bass
Eric Harland, drums
Riding high on a second wave of popularity and innovation, Charles Lloyd—jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, and arranger—celebrates his 80th birthday in 2018. The latest offerings by this 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and his ensemble, The Marvels, include traditional hymns, antiwar protest songs, and reimagined originals.
Tickets start at $65
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
Many Fathoms Deep: A Valentine from Alan Cumming
Wednesday, February 14, 7 p.m.
Bringing a taste of Club Cumming—Alan Cumming's East Village bar—uptown to The Met, the Tony Award-winning star hosts an evening of amour-themed cabaret. Cumming's musical director and longtime collaborator, Lance Horne, and special guests will also be on hand for a bawdy tribute to St. Valentine.
Tickets start at $75
Bring the Kids for $1 tickets are not available for this event.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
Der Wanderer: Songs of Travel from the Middle Ages
Sunday, March 4, 3 p.m.
Benjamin Bagby, voice and medieval harps
Thousand-year-old songs and epic poems are reimagined by Benjamin Bagby in this singular performance experience of the Middle Ages. By way of texts like the Old English tale Beowulf and the famous Anglo-Saxon elegy The Wanderer, Bagby "comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has" (The New York Times).
Tickets start at $50
The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters
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Exhibitions AmplifiedThe Animals: Love Letters between Christopher Isherwood and Don Bachardy
Tuesday, February 13, 7 p.m.
A dramatic reading by Alan Cumming
Step into the private world of celebrated novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy—with help from a woman who couldn't resist reading their mail. Acclaimed stage and screen actor Alan Cumming, with writer and scholar Katherine Bucknell, enlivens the emotional correspondence between the two men, who shared their love through letters while daring to be openly gay in conservative mid-century Hollywood. David Hockney's 1968 portrait of the pair provides the inspiration for this loving tribute to two extraordinary men. Presented in conjunction with David Hockney, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue November 27, 2017–February 25, 2018.
Tickets start at $45
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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Sting: Atlantic Crossing
Tuesday, April 24*; Wednesday, April 25; Thursday, April 26
6 p.m.: Private Exhibition Viewing
7:30 p.m.: Performance
World-renowned musician Sting has often mined his childhood memories of Northern England for creative inspiration, and in this concert the songwriter finds his muse in another former denizen of an industrial north: the painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. Both artists saw their respective landscapes destroyed by modern intrusions—one by incursions of the Industrial Revolution into the American wilderness, and the other by the collapse of England's shipping industry. In an all-acoustic performance, Sting weaves together storytelling and song against a visual scenescape created by artist Stephen Hannock. The evening begins with a special opportunity to view the galleries after Museum hours, beginning at 6 p.m. Presented in conjunction with Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue January 30–May 13, 2018.
Tickets start at $125
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
*This performance is for Members only. Please call 212-570-3753 for details on becoming a Member.
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The Baroque Cabaret of Astrid Hadad [World Premiere]
Saturday, April 28, 7 p.m.
Mexican singer and performance artist Astrid Hadad has an irreverent and iconoclastic view of Mexican art, history, and cultural stereotypes, which she offers up with equal parts satire and keen intellect in a concert inspired by the exhibition Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue April 24–July 22, 2018.
Tickets start at $35
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
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Three programs inspired by
Visitors to Versailles (1682–1789)
, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue April 16–July 29, 2018:
Time Travelers to Versailles
Saturday, April 21, 7 p.m.
Inbal Segev, cello
TENET
Metropolis Ensemble
Andrew Cyr, conductor
Early-music vocal group TENET and the contemporary Metropolis Ensemble come together for an evening of works that include Charpentier's masterpiece Les Plaisirs de Versailles and two world premieres: a cello concerto by Timo Andres, inspired by John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, and a new work for period and modern instruments by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw.
Tickets start at $50
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
Opera in Versailles
Thursday, May 3, 7 p.m.
Opera Lafayette
Anna Reinhold, mezzo-soprano
Aaron Sheehan, tenor
Victor Sicard, baritone
Opera Lafayette Orchestra
Ryan Brown, conductor
Versailles has welcomed visitors since Louis XIV turned a small hunting lodge into the splendid palace and gardens the world knows today. Opera Lafayette, devoted to French repertoire from the 18th century, considers the music those visitors might have heard, offering up a program ranging from the time of the Sun King to the French Revolution, including Lully's Acis et Galatée and Grétry's Richard Cœur de Lion as well as works by Gluck, Monsigny, and Rameau.
Tickets start at $30
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium |
Feast of Versailles with Yotam Ottolenghi
Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m.
Wednesday, June 20, 7 p.m.
Yotam Ottolenghi, chef, author, and restaurateur
Continuing his culinary foray into major exhibitions at The Met, master chef and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Sweet and other titles, turns to Versailles in an exploration of power and privilege through pastry. A cadre of the world's leading pastry chefs comes to The Met to create spectacular and imaginative cakes in tribute to the court's decadent cuisine. Guests of the event are invited to dress for the occasion and enjoy a Versailles-themed dinner as part of the festivities.
Tickets start at $250
Bring the Kids for $1 tickets are not available for this event.
The Petrie Court Café
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Vocal Music and Chamber Music at The MetThe Gypsies in the Court
Wednesday, February 28, 7 p.m.
Red Priest
In their latest program, the Baroque ensemble Red Priest returns to The Met to ponder the sultry connections—real and imagined—between gypsy musicians and the court composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Biber, Telemann, Handel, and the composer after whom the group is named, Antonio Vivaldi, nicknamed "The Red Priest."
Tickets start at $50
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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Women's Voices
Saturday, March 24, 7 p.m.
Emel Mathlouthi
Alsarah & The Nubatones
Farah Siraj
Three of today's most creative and expressive singers and songwriters from Muslim regions of the world share the stage in this program of music inspired by their homelands. Jordanian vocalist Farah Siraj is known as her country's "musical ambassadress." Alsarah escaped the stifling political climate of her native Sudan to craft her compelling "East African retro pop." And Emel Mathlouthi's protest songs became symbols of hope during the Arab Spring and 2011 Tunisian Revolution.
Tickets start at $35
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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The Feast of Saint Gregory [U.S. Premiere]
Sunday, March 11, 1 and 3 p.m.
Axion Estin Chanters
Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, director
Pomerium
Alexander Blachly, director
The Met marks the eve of the feast day of Saint Gregory the Great—the papal namesake of Gregorian chant—with a concert of early music. The Axion Estin Chanters, experts in the Byzantine repertoire, and Pomerium, considered to be the "consummate U.S. interpreter of early chapel choir music" (The Washington Post), offer up sonorous Greek chants and western hymns dedicated to the saint, who enjoyed equal veneration in the East and West.
Tickets start at $40
The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters
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Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli
Friday, April 6, 7 p.m.
Clarion Choir and Brass Consort from the Clarion Orchestra
Steven Fox, conductor
The beloved Clarion Choir, joined by brass players from the Clarion Orchestra, returns to The Met with one of the great musical masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, staged in the Medieval Sculpture Hall at The Met Fifth Avenue. Composed for Pope Marcellus II, whose reign lasted only 22 days, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli has lived on for centuries—not least as a staple of papal coronations at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.
Tickets start at $75
The Medieval Sculpture Hall
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Sight and Sound
Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now
Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now explore parallels between music and the visual arts in this rich series. Events begin with a discussion of artworks paired with musical excerpts, followed by a full performance and audience Q&A.
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Shostakovich, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Conscience
Sunday, February 11, 2 p.m.
With Tyler Duncan, baritone
To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth, Shostakovich set 11 poems by the Renaissance master to music. The resulting symphonic song cycle illuminates the timeless struggle of artists across the ages—from Michelangelo and Beethoven to Shostakovich himself—in their quest to remain free. Presented in conjunction with Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018.
Tickets start at $25
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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Beyond Realism: Debussy and French Painting
Sunday, May 20, 2 p.m.
Debussy's Nocturnes have long been celebrated for their ability to evoke the colors and light of the fleeting moment. But is the composer really music's answer to Impressionist painting? Comparing his works to those of Manet, Degas, and Whistler—who created his own series of "nocturnes"—illuminates how the artistic response to nature differs in music and painting. Presented in conjunction with Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue March 12–July 29, 2018.
Tickets start at $25
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
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For tickets and information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570-3949. Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Monday–Saturday, 11 a.m.–3:30 p.m.
Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance. Prices are subject to change. Bring the Kids for $1 tickets for children (ages 7–16) are available for all performances (unless specifically noted) when accompanied by an adult with a full-price ticket. For more information, visit https://www.metmuseum.org/tickets, call 212-570-3949, or visit the box office. Prior to evening concerts that take place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, audiences can enjoy a pre-performance drink in the theater. Doors will open approximately one hour before the event. |
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About MetLiveArts: The groundbreaking live arts series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art explores contemporary performance through the lens of the Museum's exhibitions and unparalleled gallery spaces with singular performances and talks. MetLiveArts invites artists, performers, curators, and thought leaders to explore and collaborate within The Met, leading with new commissions, world premieres, and site-specific durational performances that have been named some of the most "memorable" and "best of" performances in New York City by The New York Times, New Yorker, and Broadway World. |
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