MetLiveArts Announces Performances and Events for June 2018
By: Stephi Wild May. 25, 2018
MetLiveArts has announced its lineup of performances and events for June 2018. Check out the listings below!
Aizuri Quartet: Music and Migration
Friday, June 1, 7 p.m.
With guest artist Kinan Azmeh, clarinetist and composer
The Aizuri Quartet is joined by the renowned Syrian clarinetist and composer Kinan Azmeh, a member of the Grammy Award-winning Silkroad Ensemble, for an exploration of music in migration, with works by Azmeh, Béla Bartók, and Lembit Beecher, plus a suite of short commissions by Pauchi Sasaki, Michi Wiancko, Wang Lu, and Can Bilir.
Tickets start at $35.
The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium
The Aizuri Quartet is the MetLiveArts 2017-18 Quartet in Residence
French Flute Tradition
Friday, June 15, 6 and 7 p.m.
Brandon Patrick George performs a double bill. At 6 p.m., in The American Wing, he will celebrate Versailles, regaling the audience with an over-the-top Baroque repertoire fit for a Sun King. A 7 p.m., in the Robert Lehman Wing, he will turn his attention to the moody and sensual compositions of Impressionist composers like Debussy and Cras, whose creative period coincided with extraordinary technological advances in the development of the Western classical flute. Inspired by the exhibitions Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence, on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through July 29, and Visitors to Versailles (1682- 1789), on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through July 29.
Following the performance, join curator Bradley Strauchen-Scherer for a tour of one of the newly reopened Musical Instruments Galleries, Gallery 684.
6 p.m.: Flutes of Versailles, featuring works by Jean-Baptiste Lully, Jacques-Martin Hotteterre, Michel de la Barre, and Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre; Gallery 735, The American Wing, Panoramic View of the Palace and Gardens of Versailles
7 p.m.: French Impressionists, featuring works by Claude Debussy and Jean Cras; Gallery 961, The Robert Lehman Wing
Free with Museum admission.
Feast of Versailles with Yotam Ottolenghi
Tuesday, June 19, 7 p.m.*
Wednesday, June 20, 7 p.m.*
*6 p.m., private viewing of the exhibition Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789)
Master chef and food writer Yotam Ottolenghi returns to The Met and sets his sights on Versailles in an edible exploration of power and privilege through pastry, joined by food historian Deborah Krohn and the world's leading pastry chefs, who will create spectacular and imaginative cakes in tribute to the court's decadent cuisine.
Dominique Ansel: The endlessly inventive James Beard Award-winning French baker, recently named World's Best Pastry Chef, has become known for many signature creations, including the Cronut®, Cookie Shot, DKA (Dominique's Kouign Amann), and Frozen S'mores.
Sam Bompas and Harry Parr: As Bompas and Parr, they are London's masters of food, design, and theatrics.
Dinara Kasko: The Ukraine-based chef takes inspiration from her architectural schooling and approaches cakes and treats as if they were scale models of buildings, using 3Dmodeling technologies.
Ghaya F. Oliveira: The Tunisian-born executive pastry chef at Restaurant Daniel has reached the pinnacle of the pastry profession, winning the James Beard Award for Outstanding Pastry Chef in 2017.
Janice Wong: Named Asia's Best Pastry Chef twice, this Singapore-based master focuses on pasty as "interactive, edible art"
Dress for the occasion and enjoy champagne, canapés, and cakes set in scenes created by celebrated event planner Preston Bailey. A private viewing of the exhibition Visitors to Versailles (1682-1789) precedes the event. The exhibition is on view at The Met Fifth Avenue through July 29.
Tickets start at $125.
Petrie Court Café
For tickets and information, visit www.metmuseum.org/tickets or call 212-570- 3949.
Tickets are also available at the Great Hall Box Office, which is open Monday- Saturday, 11 a.m.-3:30 p.m.
Tickets include admission to the Museum on day of performance. Prices are subject to change.
Bring the Kids for $1 tickets for children (ages 7-16) are available for all performances (unless specifically noted) when accompanied by an adult with a full-price ticket.
For more information, visit https://www.metmuseum.org/tickets, call 212-570-3949, or visit the box office.
Prior to evening concerts that take place in the Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, audiences can enjoy a pre-performance drink in the theater. Doors will open approximately one hour before the event.
The groundbreaking live arts series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art explores contemporary performance through the lens of the Museum's exhibitions and unparalleled gallery spaces with singular performances. MetLiveArts invites artists, performers, curators, and thought leaders to explore and collaborate within The Met, leading with new commissions, world premieres, and site-specific durational performances that have been named some of the most "memorable" and "best of" performances in New York City by The New York Times, New Yorker, and Broadway World.
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