MET Orchestra Musicians perform “Song to the Moon” with soprano Angela Gheorghiu from Antonín Dvořák’s opera “Rusalka” on our February 2021 MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert. Angela Gheorghiu performs from the Romanian Atheneum in Bucharest with the MET Musicians performing in upstate New York. Tickets: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org Nancy Wu and Bruno Eicher, violin Desiree Elsevier, viola...
Please enjoy “Tatal Nostru” (Our Father), sung by soprano Angela Gheorghiu. This performance is from our February MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert in which she sang from Romania while accompanied by our MET Orchestra Musicians who were in New York. Our next MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert is dedicated to those MET Musicians who we...
One of the benefits of the MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concerts is that it allows us to come together in a safe way to make music together again. This large brass and percussion ensemble marks the first time that we have performed together in one year. What a bittersweet and beautiful time for us! We...
A year ago, our “April Fool’s Day” was sadly not very funny, as this was the start of an enormously difficult year. This marked the beginning of massive financial insecurity, musical career insecurity and an ultimate sense of loss of spirit for us as artists. Despite these enormous challenges, and with your continued support, we...
Join us this Sunday, March 28th at 3 PM Eastern as we “Celebrate Opera in a Year Like No Other”, with Host Mezzo-soprano Susan Graham! We are beyond excited to perform selections from Carmen, Lucia, La Sonnambula, Aida, Tannhäuser and others as we commemorate a year since our last performance at the The Metropolitan Opera...
Soprano Angela Gheorghiu joins musicians from the MET Orchestra on the next Spotlight Series concert on Sunday, February 21st at 3:00 PM Eastern. The glamorous soprano joins the musicians from Bucharest in the beautiful Atheneum with MET musicians performing in New York in works by Dvořák and Pann. Enjoy the String Quintet #2, “Song to...
On February 21, 2021 at 3pm EST, the MET Orchestra Musicians will present soprano Angela Gheorghiu in concert from Bucharest’s stunning Romanian Athenaeum. This opera star, since her Metropolitan Opera debut in 1993, is one of the most beloved sopranos on the planet and was slated to return to the Met in the 2020/21 season....
There is still time to enjoy some “Warmth from Other Suns” by purchasing a ticket at Spotlight.MetOrchestraMusicians.org! This concert features Sphinx Organization Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon, Pulitzer-prize winning composer Caroline Shaw, Schubert’s “Death and the Maiden”, arrangements from the “Magic Flute”, “William Tell” and the Flower Duet from Delibes! Tickets are only $15...
Chelsea Knox (Principal Flute) and Julia Bruskin Wunsch (Cello) perform a selection from Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” arranged by Eric Stephenson, on our third MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert January 17th, 2021. Tickets are still available at: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org for $15
Please mark your calendars for the next performance in our MET Orchestra Spotlight Series, Warmth from Other Suns, premiering on Sunday, January 17 at 3pm EST. Hosted by bass-baritone Eric Owens, this program of woodwinds, strings and piano features new works by Pulitzer Prize winner Caroline Shaw and Sphinx 2021 Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon as well as operatic...
