MetLiveArts presents innovative works new and old that highlight the Museum’s spaces, objects, pasts, and futures.
Upcoming Events
The Clarion Choir and Orchestra: Ockeghem Marathon
Wednesday, June 12, 2024 from 3 pm – 8 pm
Museum-wide, The Met Cloisters
Following their sold-out Josquin des Prez marathon in 2022, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra return to The Met Cloisters to celebrate the 600th birthday (give or take) of Franco-Flemish forefather Johannes Ockeghem.
The Clarion Choir and Orchestra: Best of Ockeghem
Thursday, June 13, 2024 at 7 pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
By popular demand, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra extend their celebration of Franco-Flemish composer Johannes Ockeghem's 600th birthday (give or take) with a tour of his finest works.
Catalyst Quartet and Gabriel Cabezas: Encuentros
Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 1 pm & 3 pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
Celebrate summer at The Met Cloisters as Catalyst Quartet caps their two-year residency with an electrifying program of voices from the Cuban Diaspora, featuring star cellist Gabriel Cabezas!
2023-24 Quartet in Residence: Catalyst Quartet
Catalyst Quartet returns for an unprecedented second season of residency! The ensemble will continue to deepen the ideas developed during year one, with in-gallery performances, special artist collaborations, and a new Instagram series to follow the ever-popular CQ Minute.
Past Events
Jog Blues
Fri-Sat, March 1-2, 2024 at 6 pm & 7:30 pm
The Robert Lehman Wing, Court Level
What do you get when you cross jazz, blues, and Hindustani classical music? Find out when Jog Blues brings their signature, 21st-century sound back to The Met's Lehman Court!
Tsedaye Makonnen: Astral Sea: The Need for Collective Refuge
Thursday, February 29, 2024 at 11 am & 1 pm
Gallery 199 and Gallery 548, The Carroll and Milton Petrie European Sculpture Court
Ethiopian-American multidisciplinary artist Tsedaye Makonnen activates her Astral Sea textiles (displayed in The Met’s Africa & Byzantium exhibition) with a new site-specific performance that journeys through the history of the Byzantine Era’s African diaspora.
Discussion: Songs in Flight Revisited
Tuesday, February 27, 2024 at 6 pm ET
Online
Following Songs in Flight's world premiere at The Met in 2023, members of the cast and creative team reunite to discuss the piece's inspirations, process, and staying power. Featuring composer Shawn E. Okpebholo, librettist Tsitsi Ella Jaji, countertenor Reginald Mobley, and co-commissioner Martha Guth, moderated by The Met's Lulu C. and Anthony W. Wang General Manager of Live Arts, Limor Tomer.
Free; registration required.
Handel: Made in America
Thursday, February 15 & Friday, February 16, 2024 at 7 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Through the lens of George Frideric Handel's life and works, musician and storyteller Terrance McKnight (WQXR) leads an intimate and revealing journey that weaves his own history with the story of Handel's world — and the money, power, and people that moved and were moved by it.
Hamed Sinno: Westerly Breath
Friday, January 26 and Saturday, January 27, 2024 at 7 pm
The Temple of Dendur
Singer, composer, and activist Hamed Sinno (former leader of alt-rock band Mashrou' Leila) weaves together myth, memoir, and monumentality in their new, site-specific opera for the Temple of Dendur.
The Little Match Girl Passion
Friday, January 5 and Saturday, January 6, 2024 at 7:30 pm
Gallery 305, Medieval Sculpture Hall
A longtime Met holiday tradition, David Lang's wrenching, Pulitzer Prize-winning work returns in its starkest form: four percussion-playing vocalists in front of the Museum's ornate Christmas tree and crèche.
ModernMedieval Voices:
A Midwinter Feast
Saturday, December 16, 2023 at 3 pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters
Following their triumphant Met debut in 2019, ModernMedieval Voices returns to The Met Cloisters for eight centuries of holiday carols, chants, folk songs, traditional tunes, and ecclesiastic music.
Catalyst Quartet Plays Met Instruments
Saturday, December 9, 2023 at 7 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
MetLiveArts' '23-'24 Quartet in Residence gives a rare quartet of Met collection instruments their first outing in more than 70 years! Featuring works by Haydn, Price, Gershwin, Glass, and more.
Sight and Sound: Art for the Millions
Sunday, December 3, 2023 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they investigate the relationship between American music and the Great Depression, featuring music by Copland and art from the exhibition Art for the Millions: American Culture and Politics in the 1930s.
The Great Hall Commission: Jacolby Satterwhite, A Metta Prayer
Saturdays October 14, 27 (Fri), 28; November 4, 11, 18; December 2, 2023 at 7 pm
The Great Hall
Jacolby Satterwhite creates an immersive, multifaceted installation with video, music, movement, and live performance. This ambitious project transforms the Museum's Great Hall, inviting visitors to explore works of art from the Collection in an unprecedented way.
Free with Museum admission