This summer, New York’s Metropolitan Opera Orchestra will visit three countries, following its June annual residency at Carnegie Hall. The tour was initially planned for Summer two thousand twenty-one, however was postponed due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The Met Orchestra’s latest tour in Europe was twenty-one years ago in two thousand-second. The ensemble and its music director Yannick Nézet-Séguin will show up at the Philharmonie in Paris, France, on June twenty-seven and June twenty-eight; the Barbican Centre in London, England, on June twenty-nine; and the Festspielhaus in Baden-Baden, Germany, on July one and July two. The five concert programs will feature ions Berlioz’s Les Troyens and Verdi’s Otello, plus works by Bernstein, Matthew Aucoin, and Tchaikovsky. Opera singers joining the tour comprise Joyce DiDonato, Russell Thomas, and Angel Blue.

For NY audiences, one of the tour programs can be heard at Carnegie Corridor on June twenty-two, two thousand twenty-three, at eighth PM. The program features Act IV Otello, Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances W Side Story, the world premiere of Aucoin’s Heath (King Lear Sketches), and Tchaikovsky’s Romeo and Juliet Fantasy Overture. “It has been more than twenty years since the Met Orchestra was latest on tour in Europe, and I'm so delighted to lead these wonderful musicians in programs that reflect the new vision of the Met,” said Nézet-Séguin. “We spend many hours together in the pit, and it's a joy to stand before them as they bring their unique artistry to the greatest stages of the world.”