Mistango Choir Festival

Met Museum Presents's Blog Entries

  • Pergamon: The Romantic Obsession at The Met Fifth Avenue featuring soprano Susanna Phillips (4/15/16 @ 7 pm)

    Soprano Susanna Phillips and bass-baritone Shenyang join pianist and program curator Brian Zeger for an all-Schubert evening exploring the high Romantic imagination's obsession with the historical and imagined ancient city of Pergamon. Bard professor Christopher Gibbs provides the fascinating context linking ... read more
  • In the Salon of Vigée Le Brun at The Met Fifth Avenue featuring soprano Jolle Greenleaf (4/8/16 @ 7 pm)

    Jory Vinikour, fortepiano Jolle Greenleaf, soprano Robert Mealy, violin The most important woman artist of her time, eighteenth-century French painter Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun was a favorite of Marie Antoinette and an intimate friend of many famous composers of her time. Her letters and diaries refer to musi... read more
  • The Little Match Girl Passion (Wednesday, December 23, 7:00 p.m.)

    A new holiday tradition: experience the "tender and mysterious atmosphere" (New York Times) of David Lang's Pulitzer Prize–winning choral parable, The Little Match Girl Passion, based on the powerful eponymous story by Hans Christian Andersen. Conductor Julian Wachner leads the Grammy–nominated Choir of Trinity Wall ... read more
  • American Boychoir (Wednesday, December 16, 7:00 p.m.)

    The matchless American Boychoir presents a cheerful program of holiday hymns and Christmas carols: a heavenly evocation of Christmases past, present, and future in a not-to-be-missed December event. Tickets to this event include Museum admission. Met Museum PresentsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 Fifth AvenueNew York, NY 10028For Tic... read more
  • Julia Bullock Naumburg Foundation Recital

    Hailed as "an impressive, fast-rising soprano" (New York Times) and "opulent and glorious" (Opera News), Julia Bullock won the 2014 Naumburg Vocal Award. She dazzles in repertoire ranging from Maurice Ravel and Kurt Weill to John Cage. Tickets to this event include Museum admission. Met Museum PresentsThe Metropolitan Museum of Art1000 ... read more
  • Obsession (concert, February 6th, 7:00 p.m.)

    Drawing inspiration from an exhibition that examines Paul Cézanne’s lifelong, intimate—some would say obsessive—artistic dialogue with his wife, muse, and model, Hortense Fiquet, Attacca mines a similar relationship: that of Czech composer Leoš Janáček and the married woman thirty-seven years his junior, Kamil... read more
  • Turning Music into Gold (concert, January 29th, 7:00 p.m.)

    Performing on period instruments, the endlessly inventive Ensemble Caprice spotlights the rich and fascinating culture of the court of Rudolf II in Prague-the most interesting European city of its time-where scientists, artists, musicians, and alchemists mixed and mingled to outrageous and resplendent results. Tickets to this event inc... read more
  • All Is Calm: The Christmas Truce of 1914 (concert, December 23rd, 6:00 p.m.)

    Hailed by Fanfare as "the premier men's vocal ensemble in the United States," Cantus presents the heartwarming true story of a truce held during World War I on Christmas night in 1914, exactly one hundred years ago. Using actual quotes and letters from soldiers, Cantus shares one of the greatest displays of true Christmas s... read more
  • Simone Dinnerstein for the Holidays (concert, December 20th, 7:00 p.m.)

    The acclaimed pianist returns to the Met for a festive holiday performance with a program including Poulenc's Suite française, Debussy's Suite bergamasque, Crumb's A Little Suite for Christmas, and Schubert's Sonata in B-flat major, D. 960.   Tickets to this event include Museum admission. &nbs... read more
  • Songs of the Season (concert, December 19th, 7:00 p.m.)

    The Choristers of the Cathedral Church of Saint John the DivineMalcolm Merriweather, Conductor   The renowned Choristers make their Met debut with a lively and seasonal program by Benjamin Britten, John Rutter, and Robert Sirota. With soloists Mellissa Hughes and Nadia Sirota.   Tickets to this event include Museum admission. &n... read more