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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...