Free with Museum admission

The Met Breuer, Fifth Floor

 

Ariana Kim and Miho Saegusa, violins

Ayane Kozasa, viola

 

With guest artist Kojiro Umezaki, shakuhachi player and composer

 

Aizuri Quartet offers a sampling of Japanese composers­—including Akira Nishimura and Paul Wiancko, as well as guest artist Umezaki—who have developed distinct musical voices in different parts of the world. Japanese-Danish performer and composer Umezaki, a member of the Grammy Award-winning Silk Road Ensemble, joins the quartet on shakuhachi—a traditional Japanese bamboo flute—for a fascinating look at the diversity of Japanese music around the globe.

 

Tickets start at $65

Gallery 217, The Astor Court

 

With spoken word artist Denice Frohman

 

Award-winning poet Denice Frohman joins the Aizuri Quartet for The Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross, Haydn's profound account of Christ's final utterances at Calvary. Commissioned in 1786 for the Good Friday services at a church in Cádiz, Spain, and later adapted for string quartet, Haydn's work originally featured a priest interpreting the titular words attributed to Jesus. In this updated version, Frohman replaces those words with new poems—all written especially for The Met performance.

 

Tickets start at $65

The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

 

With guest artist Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer

 

Aizuri Quartet is joined by the renowned Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a member of the Grammy Award-winning Silk Road Ensemble, for an exploration of music in migration, featuring works by Azmeh, Béla Bartók, and Lembit Beecher, plus a suite of short commissions by contemporary composers.

 

Tickets start at $35

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

 

Featuring Ensemble Dal Niente

 

Inspired by the titular collage-like technique from the visual arts, Assemblage, by composer, trombonist, and experimentalist George Lewis, is full of hairpin shifts in tempo and texture. Chicago's Ensemble Dal Niente, for whom the piece was written, gives the New York-premiere performance along with three of Lewis's works, including Mnemosis. A talk with George Lewis and multimedia artist Camille Norment follows the performance.

 

Free with Museum admission (online registration recommended)

 

"Sussan Deyhim is one of Iran's most potent voices in exile for the simple reason that she possesses a marvelously potent voice. She wails and coos and ululates, the sound of the soul in translation." —Los Angeles Times

 

The creative visions of two of Iran's most fiercely creative female artists converge on stage in this multimedia tribute to the irrepressible feminist poet and filmmaker the late Forough Farrokhzad. Performance artist and composer Sussan Deyhim, whose vocals can be heard in films such as Argo and The Kite Runner, combines visual projections, archival footage—including Farrokhzad's 1965 interview with Bernardo Bertolucci—and an original score, co-written with Golden Globe-winning composer Richard Horowitz.  

 

Tickets start at $35

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

José Lemos, countertenor

Christa Patton, harp, recorder, and flute

Deborah Fox, lute

 

The award-winning Brazilian countertenor José Lemos performs a program specifically for the Unicorn Tapestry Room at The Met Cloisters, marking the first time the intimate space is being used as a concert venue. Songs by 12th-century troubadours as well as other medieval French compositions will be intertwined with Renaissance court music dating from the time of the tapestries.

 

Tickets start at $65

 

Rebecca Fischer, violin

Jonah Sirota, viola

Gregory Beaver, cello

 

With special guests Paul Barnes, piano, and the Axion Estin Chanters

 

The Chiara String Quartet returns after a yearlong residency in 2016 to give its final performance ever. The celebrated ensemble ends its 18-year partnership with a contemplative program centered on the New York premiere of Philip Glass's Piano Quintet No. 1 ("Annunciation"), based on a Greek Orthodox hymn and featuring pianist Paul Barnes and the Byzantine strains of the Axion Estin Chanters. The program opens with Nico Muhly's Diacritical Marks, written for the quartet, and finishes with one of Beethoven's most poignant and haunting final works, the String Quartet in A Minor, Op. 132.

 

Tickets start at $45

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

 

Charles Lloyd, saxophone and flute

Bill Frisell, guitar

Greg Leisz, pedal steel guitar

Reuben Rogers, bass

Eric Harland, drums

 

Riding high on a second wave of popularity and innovation, Charles Lloyd—jazz saxophonist, flutist, composer, and arranger—celebrates his 80th birthday in 2018. The latest offerings by this 2015 National Endowment for the Arts Jazz Master and his ensemble, The Marvels, include traditional hymns, antiwar protest songs, and reimagined originals.

 

Tickets start at $65

 

Bringing a taste of Club Cumming—Alan Cumming's East Village bar—uptown to The Met, the Tony Award-winning star hosts an evening of amour-themed cabaret. Cumming's musical director and longtime collaborator, Lance Horne, and special guests will also be on hand for a bawdy tribute to St. Valentine.

 

Tickets start at $75

Bring the Kids for $1 tickets are not available for this event.

 

Benjamin Bagby, voice and medieval harps

 

Thousand-year-old songs and epic poems are reimagined by Benjamin Bagby in this singular performance experience of the Middle Ages. By way of texts like the Old English tale Beowulf and the famous Anglo-Saxon elegy The Wanderer, Bagby "comes as close to holding hundreds of people in a spell as ever a man has" (The New York Times).

 

Tickets start at $50

The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

 

 

A dramatic reading by Alan Cumming

 

Step into the private world of celebrated novelist and screenwriter Christopher Isherwood and artist Don Bachardy—with help from a woman who couldn't resist reading their mail. Acclaimed stage and screen actor Alan Cumming, with writer and scholar Katherine Bucknell, enlivens the emotional correspondence between the two men, who shared their love through letters while daring to be openly gay in conservative mid-century Hollywood. David Hockney's 1968 portrait of the pair provides the inspiration for this loving tribute to two extraordinary men. Presented in conjunction with David Hockney, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue November 27, 2017–February 25, 2018.

 

Tickets start at $45

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

World-renowned musician Sting has often mined his childhood memories of Northern England for creative inspiration, and in this concert the songwriter finds his muse in another former denizen of an industrial north: the painter Thomas Cole, founder of the Hudson River School. Both artists saw their respective landscapes destroyed by modern intrusions—one by incursions of the Industrial Revolution into the American wilderness, and the other by the collapse of England's shipping industry. In an all-acoustic performance, Sting weaves together storytelling and song against a visual scenescape created by artist Stephen Hannock. The evening begins with a special opportunity to view the galleries after Museum hours, beginning at 6 p.m. Presented in conjunction with Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue January 30–May 13, 2018.

 

Tickets start at $125

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

*This performance is for Members only. Please call 212-570-3753 for details on becoming a Member.

 

Mexican singer and performance artist Astrid Hadad has an irreverent and iconoclastic view of Mexican art, history, and cultural stereotypes, which she offers up with equal parts satire and keen intellect in a concert inspired by the exhibition Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue April 24–July 22, 2018.

 

Tickets start at $35

 

Inbal Segev, cello

TENET

Metropolis Ensemble

Andrew Cyr, conductor

 

Early-music vocal group TENET and the contemporary Metropolis Ensemble come together for an evening of works that include Charpentier's masterpiece Les Plaisirs de Versailles and two world premieres: a cello concerto by Timo Andres, inspired by John Vanderlyn's Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles, and a new work for period and modern instruments by Pulitzer Prize-winner Caroline Shaw.

 

Tickets start at $50

 

Opera Lafayette

Anna Reinhold, mezzo-soprano

Aaron Sheehan, tenor

Victor Sicard, baritone

Opera Lafayette Orchestra

Ryan Brown, conductor

 

Versailles has welcomed visitors since Louis XIV turned a small hunting lodge into the splendid palace and gardens the world knows today. Opera Lafayette, devoted to French repertoire from the 18th century, considers the music those visitors might have heard, offering up a program ranging from the time of the Sun King to the French Revolution, including Lully's Acis et Galatéeand Grétry's Richard Cœur de Lion as well as works by Gluck, Monsigny, and Rameau.

 

Tickets start at $30

 

Yotam Ottolenghi, chef, author, and restaurateur

 

Continuing his culinary foray into major exhibitions at The Met, master chef and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi, author of Sweet and other titles, turns to Versailles in an exploration of power and privilege through pastry. A cadre of the world's leading pastry chefs comes to The Met to create spectacular and imaginative cakes in tribute to the court's decadent cuisine. Guests of the event are invited to dress for the occasion and enjoy a Versailles-themed dinner as part of the festivities.

 

Tickets start at $250

Bring the Kids for $1 tickets are not available for this event.

The Petrie Court Café 

 

 

Red Priest

 

In their latest program, the Baroque ensemble Red Priest returns to The Met to ponder the sultry connections—real and imagined—between gypsy musicians and the court composers of the 17th and 18th centuries, including Biber, Telemann, Handel, and the composer after whom the group is named, Antonio Vivaldi, nicknamed "The Red Priest."

 

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

Emel Mathlouthi

Alsarah & The Nubatones

Farah Siraj

 

Three of today's most creative and expressive singers and songwriters from Muslim regions of the world share the stage in this program of music inspired by their homelands. Jordanian vocalist Farah Siraj is known as her country's "musical ambassadress." Alsarah escaped the stifling political climate of her native Sudan to craft her compelling "East African retro pop." And Emel Mathlouthi's protest songs became symbols of hope during the Arab Spring and 2011 Tunisian Revolution.

 

Tickets start at $35

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

Axion Estin Chanters

Eleftherios Eleftheriadis, director

 

Pomerium

Alexander Blachly, director

 

The Met marks the eve of the feast day of Saint Gregory the Great—the papal namesake of Gregorian chant—with a concert of early music. The Axion Estin Chanters, experts in the Byzantine repertoire, and Pomerium, considered to be the "consummate U.S. interpreter of early chapel choir music" (The Washington Post), offer up sonorous Greek chants and western hymns dedicated to the saint, who enjoyed equal veneration in the East and West.

 

Tickets start at $40

The Fuentidueña Chapel at The Met Cloisters

 

Clarion Choir and Brass Consort from the Clarion Orchestra

Steven Fox, conductor

 

The beloved Clarion Choir, joined by brass players from the Clarion Orchestra, returns to The Met with one of the great musical masterpieces of the Italian Renaissance, staged in the Medieval Sculpture Hall at The Met Fifth Avenue. Composed for Pope Marcellus II, whose reign lasted only 22 days, Palestrina's Missa Papae Marcelli has lived on for centuries—not least as a staple of papal coronations at St. Peter's Basilica, Rome.

 

Tickets start at $75

The Medieval Sculpture Hall

 

Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now explore parallels between music and the visual arts in this rich series. Events begin with a discussion of artworks paired with musical excerpts, followed by a full performance and audience Q&A. 

With Tyler Duncan, baritone

 

To commemorate the 500th anniversary of Michelangelo's birth, Shostakovich set 11 poems by the Renaissance master to music. The resulting symphonic song cycle illuminates the timeless struggle of artists across the ages—from Michelangelo and Beethoven to Shostakovich himself—in their quest to remain free. Presented in conjunction with Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018.

 

Tickets start at $25

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

Debussy's Nocturnes have long been celebrated for their ability to evoke the colors and light of the fleeting moment. But is the composer really music's answer to Impressionist painting? Comparing his works to those of Manet, Degas, and Whistler—who created his own series of "nocturnes"—illuminates how the artistic response to nature differs in music and painting. Presented in conjunction with Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue March 12–July 29, 2018.

 

Tickets start at $25

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

 

 

 

This residency is made possible by the Chester Dale Fund. The world premiere commission for The Met Breuer is made possible by Cynthia Hazen Polsky and Leon B. Polsky. Open rehearsals are supported by The Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation.

 

This residency is made possible by the Grace Jarcho Ross and Daniel G. Ross Concert Fund.

 

This performance is made possible by the Mossavar-Rahmani Fund for Iranian Art.

 

 

David Hockney, on view November 27, 2017–February 25, 2018

 

The exhibition is made possible in part by The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Jay Pritzker Foundation, the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund, and the Aaron I. Fleischman and Lin Lougheed Fund.

 

It is supported by an Indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

It is organized collaboratively by Tate Britain, London; the Centre Pompidou, Paris; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

 

Michelangelo: Divine Draftsman and Designer, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue November 13, 2017–February 12, 2018

 

The exhibition is made possible by Morgan Stanley.

 

Additional support is provided by an anonymous donor, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund, Dinah Seiver and Thomas E. Foster, Cathrin M. Stickney and Mark P. Gorenberg, Ann M. Spruill and Daniel H. Cantwell, and the Mark Pigott KBE Family.

 

It is supported by an Indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

The catalogue is made possible by the Drue E. Heinz Fund.

 

Additional support is provided by the Wolfgang Ratjen Stiftung, Liechtenstein.

 

Thomas Cole's Journey: Atlantic Crossings, on view January 30–May 13, 2018

 

The exhibition is made possible by The Peter Jay Sharp Foundation.

 

Additional support is provided by the Henry Luce Foundation, White & Case LLP, and the Terra Foundation for American Art.

 

It is supported by an Indemnity from the Federal Council on the Arts and the Humanities.

 

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, and The National Gallery, London.

 

The catalogue is made possible by the William Cullen Bryant Fellows of The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, on view March 12–July 29, 2018

 

The exhibition is made possible by the Sam and Janet Salz Trust, the Janice H. Levin Fund, and The Florence Gould Foundation.

 

The catalogue is made possible by the Janice H. Levin Fund and the Doris Duke Fund for Publications.

 

Painted in Mexico, 1700–1790: Pinxit Mexici, on view April 24–July 22, 2018

 

The exhibition is co-organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Fomento Cultural Banamex.

 

Visitors to Versailles (1682–1789), on view April 16–July 29, 2018

 

The exhibition is made possible by the International Council.

 

 Additional support is provided by the William Randolph Hearst Foundation, Beatrice Stern, the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund, the Gail and Parker Gilbert Fund, The Florence Gould Foundation, The Danny Kaye and Sylvia Fine Kaye Foundation/French Heritage Society, and Sheikh Hamad bin Abdullah Al-Thani.

 

It is organized by The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Palace of Versailles.

 

The catalogue is made possible by the Diane W. and James E. Burke Fund and The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

 

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body (1300-Now), on view March 20–July 22, 2018

 

The exhibition is supported in part by the Jane and Robert Carroll Fund.