The Met Orchestra

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Carnegie Hall: Stern Auditorium/Perelman Stage57th Street and, 7th Ave, New York City, New York, 10019, United States

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Programme

Ortiz, Gabriela (b. 1964)	Antrópolis
Bernstein, Leonard (1918-1990)	Symphony no. 1, "Jeremiah"
Blanchard, Terence	Fire Shut Up in My Bones: Suite (New York premiere)
Dvořák, Antonín (1841-1904)	Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World", Op.95

Performers

The Metropolitan Opera Orchestra
Yannick Nézet-Séguin	Director, Conductor
Angel Blue	Soprano

The Met Orchestra performs a program that highlights its enormous range under the baton of Yannick Nézet-Séguin. Soprano Angel Blue—one of today’s leading singers at the Metropolitan Opera and beyond—joins in Bernstein’s Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah.” Antrópolis, by Carnegie Hall’s 2024–2025 Debs Composer’s Chair Gabriela Ortiz, offers a reflection of Mexico City as told through its legendary dance halls. The orchestral suite from Terence Blanchard’s acclaimed Fire Shut Up in My Bones receives its New York premiere, melding influences from the worlds of opera, jazz, and more. The concert concludes with a longtime audience favorite: Dvořák’s “New World” Symphony.

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Available August 12 at 11 AM

Subscriber/Member Presale: August 5 at 11 AM

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The bible of Czech music: Eva Krestová on Dvořák’s New World Symphony

Bachtrack, 6th February

The leader of the Czech Philharmonic’s viola section gives us an inside view on performing perhaps the most famous work in all of Czech symphonic repertoire.

Nézet-Séguin writes a love letter to the Met Orchestra

David Wolfson, 19th June

Yannick Nézet-Séguin treats Dvořák’s New World Symphony as a concerto for orchestra in one of the Met Orchestra’s periodic off-the-leash outings to Carnegie Hall.

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