Galas & Special Events
Please join us for gala premieres and other events during the 2022-23 season.
For more information, please call 212.362.6000.
Wagner’s Lohengrin
Gala Premiere
Sunday, February 26, 2023 2PM ET
Wagner’s soaring masterpiece makes a long-awaited return to the Met stage, in an evocative new staging by François Girard. Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts a supreme cast led by tenor Piotr Beczała in the title role, alongside sopranos Tamara Wilson and Christine Goerke, bass-baritone Evgeny Nikitin, and bass Günther Groissböck. The gala begins with a reception at intermission, followed by a dinner with the cast after the performance.
To purchase gala tickets, please contact the Special Events Office at (212) 870-7492 or specialevents@metopera.org.
Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III, Gramma Fisher Foundation, Marshalltown, Iowa, and John and Carole French, with additional support from the William O. and Carole P. Bailey Family Foundation
- 2:00PM Performance
- Post Performance Cast Dinner
- Black Tie Optional
Lohengrin Gala Committee
GALA CHAIRMEN
Carole Bailey French and John French III
GALA CO-CHAIRMEN
C. Graham Berwind, III
Betsy and Ed Cohen
Christine F. Hunter
Jeanette Lerman-Neubauer and Joseph Neubauer
Ann Ziff
PRINCIPAL BENEFACTORS
Barbara Tober
Elizabeth and Jean-Marie Eveillard
PRINCIPAL SPONSORS
Judith-Ann Corrente
Dr. Bruce Horten
PRIME SPONSORS
H. Alexandra Kauka Hamill and Sterling Morton Hamill
Douglas Dockery Thomas
SPONSORS
Michele and Kamila Cestone
David Chou
Marcy Maguire
Yasuko Noguchi and George Shelden
Anne Kline Pohanka
Valerie and Tom Wolzien
COMMITTEE MEMBERS
Lia and William Poorvu
Anke Volcker
Committee as of February 3, 2023
Terence Blanchard’s Champion
Gala Premiere
Monday, April 10, 2023 8PM ET
Following the historic Met premiere of Terence Blanchard’s Fire Shut Up in My Bones to open the 2021–22 season, the company raises the curtain on another compelling opera by the six-time Grammy-winning composer, directed once again by James Robinson. The cast is led by bass-baritone Ryan Speedo Green as the young boxer Emile Griffith and bass-baritone Eric Owens as the fighter’s older self, and also features soprano Latonia Moore and mezzo-soprano Stephanie Blythe, with Yannick Nézet-Séguin on the podium. Take part in the gala festivities with cocktails and dinner before the performance.
To purchase gala tickets, please contact the Special Events Office at (212) 870-7492 or specialevents@metopera.org.
An opera by Terence Blanchard
Libretto by Michael Cristofer
Commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera. Originally commissioned by Opera Theatre of Saint Louis, co-commissioned by Jazz St. Louis.
A co-production of the Metropolitan Opera and Lyric Opera of Chicago
Production a gift of C. Graham Berwind, III and Lynne and Richard Pasculano
Additional funding from the Edgar Foster Daniels Foundation, The Ford Foundation, The Francis Goelet Trusts, and The National Endowment for the Arts.
- 6:00PM Cocktail Reception
- 6:30PM Gala Dinner
- 8:00PM Performance
- Intermission Champagne and Dessert
- Black Tie