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The Concerts in the Court Series is sponsored by Elizabeth R. Lemieux, PhD. With half of the group rooted in bluegrass, and the other half steeped in jamband music, the Wisconsin-based Chicken Wire Empire has become one of the most in-demand groups of the “jamgrass” trend born out of the Midw...

Founded in the early 2000s, the Adam Ezra Group blends folk, rock, soul and pop influences to their interactive, euphoric performances. The roots rock band, headed by Adam Ezra, includes fiddler Corinna Smith, drummer Alex Martin and bassist Poche Ponce. The band has shared the stage with the like...

Founded in the early 2000s, the Adam Ezra Group blends folk, rock, soul and pop influences to their interactive, euphoric performances. The roots rock band, headed by Adam Ezra, includes fiddler Corinna Smith, drummer Alex Martin and bassist Poche Ponce. The band has shared the stage with the like...

Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes its triumphant return to the Met stage after 17 years. In a sequel to his revelatory production of Parsifal, director François Girard unveils an atmospheric staging that once again weds his striking visual style and keen dramatic insight to Wagner’s breathtaking...

Wisconsin Poet Laureate Dasha Kelly Hamilton uses baking as an analogy in a multi-layered 50-minute performance exploring American exceptionalism, class, and race. With rapid-fire alliteration, Hamilton’s performance is a history lesson combined with a real-life onstage demonstration of making cak...

Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy. Maestro Daniele Rustioni takes the podium to oversee a brilliant ensemble cast that features sopranos Hera Hyesang Park ...

Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Both these popular composers had the rare ability to write immediately engaging short pieces with memorable melodies, and buoyant rhythms - heroic Polonaises and zesty Norwegian Dances. Disc...

A dream cast assembles for Strauss’s grand Viennese comedy. Soprano Lise Davidsen is the aristocratic Marschallin, opposite mezzo-soprano Isabel Leonard as her lover, Octavian, and soprano Erin Morley as Sophie, the beautiful younger woman who steals his heart. Bass Günther Groissböck returns as...

Six-time Grammy Award–winning composer Terence Blanchard brings his first opera to the Met after his Fire Shut Up in My Bones triumphantly premiered with the company to universal acclaim in 2021. Bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green is the young boxer Emile Griffith, who rises from obscurity to become ...

Keyboard Conversations Series Sponsors: Dr. Cynthia Parlato, Dr. Douglas Hurd, and Dr. Lorna W. Grant Discover the stories behind Haydn's humorous Gypsy Rondo and deeply affecting F Minor Variations, Beethoven's stormy F Minor Sonata, and Mozart's ebullient and virtuoso The Trumpeter as inte...

Tony Award–winning director Ivo van Hove makes a major Met debut with a new take on Mozart’s tragicomedy, re-setting the familiar tale of deceit and damnation in an abstract architectural landscape and shining a light into the dark corners of the story and its characters. Maestro Nathalie Stutzman...

One of opera’s most beloved works receives its first new Met staging in 19 years—a daring vision by renowned English director Simon McBurney that The Wall Street Journal declared “the best production I’ve ever witnessed of Mozart’s opera.” Nathalie Stutzmann conducts the Met Orchestra, with the pi...