The MET Orchestra has given 17 free masterclasses hosted and sponsored by the online learning company Lessonface during the 2020-21 Season. This series of masterclasses has featured 45 MET Orchestra Musicians coaching 46 students performing live from 17 US States, Canada, and 10 countries in Latin America, Europe, and Asia. This masterclass series will culminate...
The Vienna Philharmonic has released a statement in support of the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra. We are grateful for their voices of support. The text reads: Dear Ladies and Gentlemen,The world is watching. 30% of the members of the MET Orchestra can no longer sustain a living in New York City due to being faced with...
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
Eric Owens announces our next Spotlight series concert “Warmth from Other Suns” this Sunday January 17th 3 EST. Tickets can be bought at spotlight.metorchestramusicians.org The program features music from Sphinx organization Medal of Excellence winner Carlos Simon, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Caroline Shaw, arrangements of the Magic Flute, William Tell and Lakme, plus the Andante con...
As the Met Orchestra enters its tenth month without salary, we fear that a Cultural Great Depression awaits society on the other side unless there is significant support for the artists who give the world hope and inspiration. The members of the Met Orchestra deserve the dignity which has been afforded to all other musicians...
As the MET Orchestra Musicians & the Met Chorus Artists turn the page to 2021, we are pleased to begin with a special fundraising matching campaign, to support our community of artists in these unprecedented times.Thanks to a generous contribution from Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin and his life partner Pierre Tourville, any donations from January...
We have now been unpaid for 10 months and counting. The Metropolitan Opera is an outlier in our industry; every other major orchestra has been compensated since the very beginning of the pandemic. Met management is using the pandemic opportunistically. They are not seeking a short-term crisis-plan to balance out pandemic circumstances. They are seeking...
