Events

Yo-Yo Ma shares some of the music that has helped him understand life and reflects on how it has shaped his thinking about human nature, art, and our search for meaning. This special evening of music and words asks us to consider what music is for, and how it can guide us on a path towards hope. 

Straight from Havana, Grammy-nominated Orquesta Akokán channels the fiery Cuban mambo revolution of the 1940s and 50s while pushing the grooves to new heights. Bursting with an innate sense of soul and songcraft and featuring “some of the island’s greatest instrumentalists” (The New York Times).

CORELLI Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4
VIVALDI Flute Concerto, “La Notte”
HEINRICH BIBER Rosary Sonata XV, “The Coronation of the Virgin Mary”
PERGOLESI Stabat Mater

The Santa Fe Symphony Concertmaster, David Felberg, performs Jennifer Higdon’s 2010 Pulitzer Prize-winning Violin Concerto in its Santa Fe debut.

Graham Nash will be joined on stage by Todd Caldwell, Adam Minkoff, and Zach Djanikian, performing favorites from across his sixty-year career.

One of the most iconic and dynamic modern dance ensembles of our time, the Paul Taylor Dance Company has been innovating and transforming the art form of modern dance since 1954.

Conductor Joana Mallwitz makes her Met debut leading an extraordinary cast in Mozart’s comic masterpiece.

BROOKLYN RIDER ALMANAC Selections from Book II
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG Quartet No. 2 in F-Sharp Minor, Op. 10
COLIN JACOBSEN Chalk and Soot

JACOBSEN Bethesda Bliss
GABRIELA ORTIZ La Calaca
JACOBSEN New Work for Violin and Orchestra
COPLAND Appalachian Spring

Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin takes the podium on May 17 to conduct Strauss’s one-act tragedy, which will be transmitted live from the Metropolitan Opera stage to cinemas worldwide. Leading the company’s first new production of the work in 20 years, Claus Guth, one of Europe’s leading opera directors, gives the biblical story a psychologically perceptive Victorian-era setting.

The legend of Faust has been retold in countless ways over the centuries and while five versions are known to exist, Faust always sells his soul to the Devil for unlimited knowledge and a lifetime of worldly pleasure! Under the baton of Maestro Guillermo Figueroa, with choral direction by Carmen Flórez-Mansi

The Metropolitan Opera’s 2024–25 Live in HD season comes to a close with a live transmission of Rossini’s effervescent comedy on May 31.