{"id":12692,"date":"2024-03-11T17:34:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:34:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/?p=12692"},"modified":"2024-03-11T17:34:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-11T17:34:00","slug":"metropolitan-opera-orchestra-announces-first-asia-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/2024\/03\/11\/metropolitan-opera-orchestra-announces-first-asia-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Metropolitan Opera Orchestra Announces First Asia Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Metropolitan Opera Orchestra (Photo: Met Opera)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Friday, the Metropolitan Opera Orchestra announced its first tour to Asia in a press release<\/a>. From June 19th-30th, Yannick N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin will lead the 110-person ensemble in concerts in South Korea, Japan and Taiwan with singers Lisetta Oropesa, Christian Van Horn and El\u012bna Garan\u010da. Their programs will include operatic works by Debussy, Bart\u00f3k, Wagner and Gounod, as well as orchestral works by Brahms, Mozart, Mahler and the American composer Jessie Montgomery<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Why it\u2019s happening:<\/strong> While the Metropolitan Opera\u2019s HD productions are regularly broadcast in Asia, the Met General Director Peter Gelb related<\/a> that this tour will further allow the ensemble to reach its \u201cglobal constituency<\/a>.\u201d Asia is also a booming market for classical music, which the organization hopes will generate some new fans and funds to help account for the losses incurred<\/a> during the Coronavirus pandemic.<\/p>\n

Digging deeper:<\/strong> Although the Met has previously toured to Japan, this tour marks their first-ever performances in South Korea and Taiwan. Both Gelb and N\u00e9zet-S\u00e9guin cited music\u2019s unifying power as a motivator when planning this tour, which will include Jessie Montgomery\u2019s \u201cHymn for Everyone<\/a>,\u201d originally premiered by the Chicago Symphony Orchestra<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Metropolitan Opera announced its orchestra will tour to Asia for the first time in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":12693,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[360,3,255],"tags":[404],"yst_prominent_words":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2024\/03\/Metropolitan-Opera-Orchestra-.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12692"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12694,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12692\/revisions\/12694"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12692"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ludwig-van.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=12692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}