MetLiveArts <br>2022–23 Season

MetLiveArts
2022–23 Season

MetLiveArts presents a season of groundbreaking performances that explore the Museum’s galleries, collections, and histories.

Past Events

In front of a set of medieval stone pillars, a woman in a flowing navy blue dress strikes a dance pose. She stretches her left leg behind her, her arms and hands raised to the ceiling with palms facing up.

Bijayini Satpathy: Dohā

Tuesday, September 13, 2022 at 7pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

For her fifth and final performance as 2021–2022 MetLiveArts Artist in Residence, the incomparable Odissi choreographer and dancer Bijayini Satpathy builds on her prior explorations of movement and art with an evening-length performance for the stage of the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

In a warmly lit, white-walled room, a woman in black sequins stares into the distance. Behind her, a mirror reflects her back.

Arooj Aftab at The Met

Thursday, September 22, 2022 at 7pm
The Temple of Dendur

Drawing inspiration from the Museum's world-renowned collection of Deccan and Mughal art, manuscripts and objects, Brooklyn-based Pakistani composer, vocalist, and producer Arooj Aftab presents a site-specific performance in The Met’s majestic Temple of Dendur.

The four members of the Catalyst Quartet stand at various angles against a metallic backdrop, looking into the camera.

Catalyst Quartet: Lost and Found in the Galleries

Friday, November 25 and Saturday, November 26, 2022 at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm
Museum-wide

The Catalyst Quartet (MetLiveArts' ’22–’23 Quartet in Residence) takes their place in the galleries to help you discover the music that history has pushed to the margins, casting a modern eye on the Western musical canon and highlighting voices previously silenced.

A painting of Elizabeth I of England, dressed in a ruffled lace collar, tiara, gown, and pearls, against the backdrop of a royal ball.

Sight and Sound: Vaughan Williams & Renaissance England

Sunday, December 4, 2022 at 2pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now examine recent and ancient takes on the Tudor dynasty with regal music from Ralph Vaughan Williams and art from The Tudors: Art and Majesty in Renaissance England.

In black and white, three women dressed in grayscale stand on grass in front of a blurred tree. Two look straight ahead, while the third looks to the side.

Trio Mediæval

Sunday, December 11, 2022 at 2pm and 4pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Met Cloisters

The GRAMMY®-nominated vocal trio weaves strands of folk, jazz, and improvisation through six centuries of holiday music from Britain and Scandinavia—all in one of NYC’s most reverberant spaces!

A person stares ahead. His elaborate costume includes a winged headpiece that obscures his face and a garment made from tatters of the United States flag.

Catalyst Quartet: Bassline Fabulous with Machine Dazzle

Friday, December 16 and Saturday, December 17, 2022 at 7pm
Vanderlyn Panorama, The American Wing

MetLiveArts' ’22–’23 Quartet in Residence takes an immersive dive into Bach’s behemoth Goldberg Variations as “theatrical genius” (The New Yorker) performance artist Machine Dazzle interprets the music’s inescapable evolution through a personal, emotional lens.

Headshots of (left to right) soprano Karen Slack, countertenor Reginald Mobley, baritone Will Liverman, pianist Howard Watkins, and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens

Songs in Flight

Thursday, January 12, 2023 at 7pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Starting from a massive database of “runaway ads” from early U.S. newspapers, composer Shawn Okpebholo, librettist Dr. Tsitsi Ella Jaji, and a star-studded cast of singers, instrumentalists, and poets (headlined by polymath Rhiannon Giddens) bring to life the stories of enslaved individuals who liberated themselves from a cruel, ugly cycle whose effects ripple to this day.

A brightly-painted statue of a woman stands atop a pedestal inscribed with Greek letters. In the background sit two ornate clay urns and many white marble statues.

Sight and Sound: Haydn, Brahms, and the Manufactured Classical Ideal

Sunday, February 19, 2023 at 2pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they discuss true and false notions of the classical past, featuring music by Haydn and Brahms and art from Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Color.

Against a black background, two men sit in front of two other men, who stand behind. All four wear black concert attire, and each man holds an instrument — clockwise from top left, violin, viola, violin, cello.

Quartetto di Cremona

Wednesday, March 1, 2023 at 7pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Four of The Met's prized musical instruments receive their ensemble debut in the hands of one of Italy's foremost string quartets, the Quartetto di Cremona! Featuring works by Bach, Schubert, and Webern.

Three musicians who have just finished performing stand in front of an ensemble of other musicians.

Apollo's Fire presents
DIASPORA: Jewish Music of Longing and Celebration

Sunday, March 19, 2023 at 3pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Cleveland’s foremost Baroque orchestra returns to The Met for a thrilling program of music from Sephardic and Ashkenazic Jewish traditions, plus selections from Baroque Italy’s small, but mighty community of Jewish composers.

The four musicians of the Catalyst Quartet face to the left against a black background, each holding their instruments -- from left to right, cello, viola, violin, violin.

Catalyst Quartet: Lost and Found in the Galleries

Friday, April 7 and Saturday, April 8, 2023 at 6pm, 7pm, and 8pm
Museum-wide

The Catalyst Quartet (MetLiveArts' ’22–’23 Quartet in Residence) once again takes their place in the galleries to help you discover the music that history has pushed to the margins, casting a modern eye on the Western musical canon and highlighting voices previously silenced.

A dark painting of two farmers wearing everyday attire and a uniformed soldier by a lighthouse. They look out over the open ocean, several sailboats in the background.

Sight and Sound: Art & Music in Nineteenth-Century Denmark

Sunday, April 16, 2023 at 2pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now for an artistic snapshot of post-imperial Denmark, featuring the symphony that sparked Danish composer Niels Gade’s friendship with Felix Mendelssohn alongside art from Beyond the Light: Identity and Place in Nineteenth-Century Danish Art.

Tickets from $35 (including fees)

A ballet dancer balances on his right leg, his left leg outstretched at hip height. His right arm sticks straight out at shoulder height, and his left arm arcs over his head.

Catalyst Quartet: Impacto with Herman Cornejo

Wednesday, May 10, 2023 at 7pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

To cap off their ’22–’23 residency, the Catalyst Quartet celebrates the reach and impact of Latin America’s most talented composers, featuring a brand-new dance choreographed and performed by veteran American Ballet Theatre Principal Dancer Herman Cornejo.

Tickets from $35 (including fees)

A man with a bushy beard, dressed in all black, plays a violin.

Johnny Gandelsman Plays Bach

Monday-Thursday, May 22–25, 2023 at 7pm
Fuentidueña Chapel, The Cloisters

Violinist Johnny Gandelsman finishes the MetLiveArts spring season with four consecutive nights at The Cloisters! Join him for J.S. Bach’s complete solo-violin sonatas and partitas, plus the composer’s six cello suites in novel arrangements for violin.

Tickets from $70 (including fees)

A woman stretches her arm out to the side in a dance pose.

Digital Retrospective: Bijayini Satpathy

May 2023

As part of The Met's celebration of Asian American & Pacific Islander Heritage Month, revisit the works that groundbreaking performer Bijayini Satpathy created over the course of her 2021-22 MetLiveArts residency. And don't forget to join us for a special Zoom conversation with Satpathy herself!

Four members of a string quartet stand in a line against a gray concrete wall. They each hold their instruments and wear chic concert attire in red, blue, and black.

Catalyst Quartet: CQ Minute

January–June 2023
The Met's Instagram (@metmuseum | @metlivearts)

In commemoration of their 10th anniversary, Catalyst Quartet (MetLiveArts' ’22–’23 Quartet in Residence) commissioned miniature string quartets from eleven composers, ranging from Pulitzer winners to jazz legends to indie-pop stars. Watch The Met’s Instagram feeds for videos of these bite-sized pieces—follow along at @metmuseum and @metlivearts!

A line of dancers in black shirts and black thigh-high rubber boots dances against a wall of windows. In front of them, a pool of water reflects their images.

Madeline Hollander: Hydro Parade

Saturdays June 3, 10, and 17; 6 pm
Museum-wide

Artist, choreographer and dancer Madeline Hollander takes inspiration from The Met's many water sources, staging a durational performance which connects the ancient waterways that flow below the Museum to the buzzing activity within its walls.

Free with Museum admission

A man in a red shirt and ballet tights in the middle of a ballet jump.

Ballet Hispánico: Buscando a Juan

Thursday, July 13, 2023; 1 pm & 3 pm
Friday & Saturday, July 14 & 15, 2023; 6 pm & 8 pm
Robert Lehman Wing, Court Level

Reacting to ideas presented in the exhibition Juan de Pareja: Afro-Hispanic Painter, dancers from Ballet Hispánico explore the "sancocho"—literally, mixed soup—of cultures and diasporas, considering the assumptions experienced when witnessing people of color in traditionally white spaces.

Free with Museum admission