Mirga is next up at the Met

The Metropolitan Opera’s orchestra Carnegie Hall concerts, a highlight of the Levine regime, have fallen into other hands in the interim months between Levine’s dismissal and Yannick’s succession.

The next one, on May 18 at Carnegie Hall, will be conducted by Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, who has never yet been seen at the Met.

The other two, in May and June, are with Gianandrea Noseda and Michael Tilson Thomas.

Friday, May 18 at 8 PM
Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, Conductor
Anita Rachvelishvili, Mezzo-Soprano
DEBUSSY Prélude à l’après-midi d’un faune
MUSSORGSKY Songs and Dances of Death (orch. Shostakovich)
TCHAIKOVSKY Symphony No. 4

Wednesday, May 30 at 8 PM
Gianandrea Noseda, Conductor
James Ehnes, Violin
MOZART Violin Concerto No. 5, “Turkish”
MAHLER Symphony No. 5

Tuesday, June 5 at 8 PM
Michael Tilson Thomas, Conductor
Pretty Yende, Soprano
RUGGLES Evocations
MOZART Exsultate, jubilate
MAHLER Symphony No. 4