It doesn’t get any better than Frederica “Flicka” Von Stade! Tickets are now available at: Spotlight.METOrchestraMusicians.org for our upcoming MET Orchestra Spotlight Series concert, “Songs Without Words” on Sunday April 25th at 3PM ET
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...
After over a year of enormous financial difficulties, the musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra are thrilled to announce that we have been invited to join Maestro Fabio Luisi and the Dallas Symphony Orchestra for a week of performances and educational initiatives in the Dallas area featuring performances of Mahler’s First Symphony on April 30th...
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...
It has been over a year since we were able to perform together at the Metropolitan Opera. We felt it was important to share this with all of you because we are still here, waiting for it to be deemed safe for us to return to the house we love and have dedicated our artistic...
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...
The musicians of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra welcome the warm and strong support of Maestro Yannick Nézet-Séguin in his March 18, 2021 letter to the Orchestra. We wholeheartedly agree that the Board of the Metropolitan Opera must “urgently help to find a solution to compensate our artists appropriately.” Failing to do so would result in...
