On April 4th, 2020, we were deeply saddened to learn that we had lost a member of our Met Orchestra family. Violist Vincent Lionti passed away due to complications related to Covid-19.

This season, The Met Opera introduced a new production of Alban Berg’s Wozzeck by William Kentridge. In this production, our very own MET Orchestra Musicians are featured on stage as the tavern band – an integral part of the action. While many of us are used to playing in stage bands, we think this banda...

OperaWire interview with concertmaster Benjamin Bowman about his new job as concertmaster of the Metropolitan Opera, his first experiences with the violin, his teachers and more. Here’s a snippet (full feature here): The biggest challenge is that challenges take many forms, and continue to creep their way in, no matter what. It’s more a matter...

The experience of performing classical music is endlessly fascinating for music lovers. Marcia Butler, a former oboist and one of our very own Opera Fan(atics), has written about this in her new memoir, The Skin Above My Knee. She describes what it is like to perform in an orchestra and the aching love that brought...

Piano Technician Keeps the Met’s Engines Running By Jennifer Johnson Christopher Kennedy was 14 when he demolished the family piano. And honestly, the old Schiller had it coming. It’d been mocking him – Kennedy could just sense it, with its preposterous pitch and clanky tone – until finally, armed with a tool kit and adolescent...