The Metropolitan Opera presents For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope, a special concert and live radio broadcast being heard throughout the United States and internationally.
Met Music Director Yannick Nézet-Séguin conducts Mozart’s Requiem, Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, and Silvestrov’s “Prayer for Ukraine” in a performance given for the people of Ukraine and remembering the war’s innocent victims, on the one-year anniversary of the invasion.
Maestro Nézet-Séguin will lead the Met Orchestra and Chorus, joined in the Requiem by soloists Golda Schultz, Emily D’Angelo, Dmytro Popov, and Vladislav Buialskyi.
For Ukraine: A Concert of Remembrance and Hope can be heard live at 7:00 p.m. ET on Friday, February 24 on WEKU Classical at weku.org and on the WEKU Mobile App.