

This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission. The concert will be broadcast by the European Broadcasting Union, Sirius XM and streamed on the Met's website.Ĭopyright 2022 The Associated Press. “I hope this special concert will demonstrate our unwavering support for the suffering people of Ukraine,” Nézet-Séguin said Monday. Since Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, Buialskyi has become a symbol of his country’s struggles at the Met, which will host a concert in support of Ukraine on Monday, March 14, 2022. 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. Vladyslav Buialskyi, a Ukrainian bass-baritone singer, rehearses Eugene Onegin at the Metropolitan Opera in New York, Feb. Photo: Twitter It was an emotional night at the prestigious Metropolitan Opera on Monday, 28 February. 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. 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.


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.
