MetLiveArts
2023–24 Season

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.

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.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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