Tickets Friday, February 24 at 7pm ET
Live–streamed on the Met website
The Metropolitan Opera
30 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023
This event is recommended by the Polish Cultural Institute New York.
Overview
On February 24, at 7PM, the Metropolitan Opera presents a concert to mark the one-year anniversary of Russia’s brutal invasion of Ukraine, in association with Lincoln Center and the Permanent Mission of Ukraine to the United Nations. Tickets are $50 and go on sale Wednesday, February 1, at 12PM ET. The concert will also be broadcast live on Metropolitan Opera Radio on Sirius XM Channel 355, made available via the Toll Brothers–Metropolitan Opera International Radio Network, and streamed live on the Met website.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin leads the Met Orchestra, Chorus, and star soloists in a program of Mozart’s Requiem and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, as well as the Ukrainian National Anthem and Valentin Silvestrov’s “Prayer for Ukraine.” The soloists will be soprano Golda Schultz and mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo, as well as Ukrainian tenor Dmytro Popov and Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi.
To support relief efforts in Ukraine, please visit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine website.
For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope is made possible with the additional support of Ann Ziff, Chairman; Dr. Frayda B. Lindemann, President and Chief Executive Officer; and Tod Johnson, Vice President and Chair of the Executive Committee.
The Met’s Aeolian-Skinner pipe organ used in this performance of Mozart’s Requiem was renovated thanks to a Wyncote Foundation grant from Frederick R. Haas.
Timeline
Lead image source: The Metropolitan Opera.
