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Angélique Kidjo at The Met

Performances

April 25, 2022 and April 26, 2022

7 pm

The Met Fifth Avenue

The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium

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The Met welcomes Angélique Kidjo, one of the most singular and extraordinary voices in international music. 

For this performance, Kidjo invites us to join her on a musical odyssey from Africa, a fount of incomparably rich inspiration, to New York, the unique global crossroads and catalyst for her continually expanding innovative repertoire. 

Kidjo's performance anticipates the reinstallation of The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing—home to the galleries, currently under construction, that celebrate the genius of sub-Saharan creative expression—and underscores the aesthetic qualities, authorship, places of origin, array of cultures, and dynamic performance contexts of the art to be displayed. 

When completed, this re-envisioned global crossroads of the Metropolitan will feature high points of human achievement in three suites of galleries devoted to sub-Saharan Africa, the Pacific Islands, and ancient North, Central, and South America.

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This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art. Additional funding is provided by the New York State Council on the Arts.

These performances will take place in The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium. The venue has changed from The Michael C. Rockefeller Wing to The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium.

Seating is reserved. For additional tickets, inquiries, or further assistance please call 212.570.3750 or email: meteventtix@metmuseum.org.

Image: Angélique Kidjo. Photo by Fabrice Mabillo. 

For all MetLiveArts performances:

  • All performance attendees age 5 and older must show proof of full vaccination (two doses of an accepted vaccine, or one dose of the Johnson & Johnson vaccine).
  • All performance attendees age 18 and older must also show a valid personal ID.
  • Face coverings are required for all visitors age 2 and older, even if you are vaccinated.

MetLiveArts performances require proof of full vaccination (at least 14 days after the second dose of a two-dose series vaccine, or at least 14 days after a single-dose vaccine). Children 6 and under are not permitted to attend MetLiveArts performances, regardless of their vaccination status. 

The Met may require additional safety measures for these performances and will communicate such measures to confirmed guests in advance.

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Matthew Evan Taylor: Life Returns 
Metropolis Ensemble with RAJAS

Composer/saxophonist Matthew Evan Taylor’s Life Returns is an evening-length composition that draws from African American, South Indian, and Western European musical practices. The culmination of a yearlong commission by MetLiveArts and the Grammy-nominated Metropolis Ensemble, in collaboration with mrudangam artist Rajna Swaminathan’s ensemble RAJAS, Life Returns is a melding of freely improvised and through-composed music celebrating resilience in the face of despair and the triumph of light and color over darkness.

This program is made possible by the Adrienne Arsht Fund for Resilience through Art and the New York State Council on the Arts. 

Clarion Society:

Josquin des Prez Marathon

Marking the 500th anniversary of the death of the renowned Renaissance composer Josquin des Prez, The Clarion Choir and Orchestra take over galleries across The Met Cloisters for five hours of superb performances. From dazzling early works to more mature expressions, hear des Prez’s masterful sacred and secular music as it resonates throughout one of New York’s most enchanting museums.

This program is made possible by the Howard & Sarah D. Solomon Foundation, Emilie and Michael Corey, and the General Delegation of the Government of Flanders to the USA.

Sight and Sound:

Leon Botstein and The Orchestra Now

Dvořák, MacDowell, and Delacroix: The New World
Sunday, April 10, 2022

Wynona Wang, piano

The Met continues its ongoing series exploring the parallels between orchestral music and the visual arts. Conductor and music historian Leon Botstein draws connections between French artist Eugène Delacroix’s painting of a Natchez family forced to flee after the massacre of their tribe and American composer Ferruccio Busoni’s Indian Fantasy (1913–14), which is based on Indigenous melodies and rhythms, and the second movement of Antonín Dvořák's New World Symphony (1893), which was inspired by Longfellow's much-critiqued poem “The Song of Hiawatha.” The program will be followed by a Q&A.