MetLiveArts presents innovative works new and old that highlight the Museum’s spaces, objects, pasts, and futures.
Upcoming Events
Catalyst Quartet and Gabriel Cabezas: Encuentros
Sunday, June 30, 2024 at 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
![A choir sings underneath a 12th-century apse and Jesus figure. An audience watches.](
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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.
![A choir sings in a medieval courtyard (chapter house).](
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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.
![An orchestra stands for applause.](
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Sight and Sound: Harlem Renaissance
Sunday, April 14, 2024 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they investigate classical music in the Harlem Renaissance, featuring music by William Grant Still.
Catalyst Quartet: Lost and Found in the Galleries
Friday & Saturday, March 15 & 16, 2024 at 6 pm, 7 pm, & 8 pm
Museum-wide
For the final time, 2023-24 MetLiveArts Quartet-in-Residence Catalyst Quartet 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.
Free with Museum admission.
![An orchestra clad in black and blue plays as a projection shows on a screen above.](
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Sight and Sound: Debussy and Fauvism
Sunday, March 10, 2024 at 2 pm
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
Join Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now as they discuss parallels between the technicolor art and music of early 1900s France, featuring music by Debussy.
![A band, which includes (L to R) a cellist, clarinetist, guitarist, vocalist, bassist, tabla player, and sitar player, performs for an audience.](
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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!
![A body dances under a blue textile bedazzled with pieces of mirrored glass.](
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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.
![Clockwise from top left: a woman in a green dress; a man in a navy blue blazer; a woman in a goldenrod dress with her hand on her braided hair; a man with his eyes closed and hand in front of him, wearing a black coat; a man in a white short-sleeved button-down; a man in a gray sweater](
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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.
![An Egyptian temple stands in a glass-paneled room. (The Temple of Dendur)](
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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.