Photo: Twitter It was an emotional night at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera on Monday, 28 February. The concert will be broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union, Sirius XM and streamed on the Met’s website. The Met Chorus singing the Ukrainian national anthem before opening of Don Carlos at the Met Opera, a day after the Opera announced it’s cutting ties with Pro-Putin artists. “I hope this special concert will demonstrate our unwavering support for the suffering people of Ukraine,” Nézet-Séguin said Monday.
The 70-minute program also will include Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings, “Va, pensiero” from Verdi’s Nabucco,” soprano Lise Davidsen in Richard Strauss’ Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs) and the finale of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with Davidsen, mezzo-soprano Jamie Barton, tenor Piotr Beczała, and bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green. Music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will lead a program that will feature Ukrainian bass-baritone Vladyslav Buialskyi and the Met chorus in Ukraine’s national anthem and “A Prayer for the Ukraine,” a choral work by a Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov. NEW YORK (AP) - The Metropolitan Opera will stage a benefit concert on March 14 for Ukraine relief efforts that will be broadcast on radio worldwide. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated.
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. The Met Chorus singing the Ukrainian national anthem before tonight’s opening of Don Carlos at the Met Opera, a day after the Opera announced it’s cutting ties with Pro-Putin artists NY1 pic.
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