Past Events

  • Recital Series

    Isabel Leonard & Ted Sperling

    January 5, 2018 - January 7, 2018

    Highly acclaimed for her expressive intensity, impeccable technique, and charisma, Grammy Award-winning Isabel Leonard has thrilled audiences around the globe both in the opera house and on the concert stage at the Vienna State Opera, Paris Opera, and at the Salzburg and Glyndebourne Festivals, amongst others. Having also become an audience favorite on the Metropolitan Opera stage, the celebrated mezzo-soprano moves to a much more intimate space—the Board of Officers Room for a program of beloved songs and lesser-known gems by Leonard Bernstein in celebration of the centenary of his birth.

  • Recital Series

    Nadine Sierra & Bryan Wagorn

    February 16, 2018 - February 18, 2018

    The youngest winner ever of both the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and the Marilyn Horne Foundation Vocal Competition, Nadine Sierra is being hailed as one of the most promising new talents in opera today, with impressive recent debuts at the Metropolitan Opera, La Scala, Paris Opera, and San Francisco Opera. She performs a wide-ranging program of art songs from Schumann and Strauss to Barber and Bernstein and works by Spanish and Brazilian composers that offers audiences the chance to get to know the seamless technique, abundant musicality, and vocal beauty of this star on the rise in one of the only spaces that could provide such a personal encounter—the Board of Officers Room.

  • Recital Series

    Lindemann Young Artists

    March 6, 2018 - March 7, 2018

    With notable alumni including Stephanie Blythe, Christine Goerke, Nathan Gunn, Mariusz Kwiecien, Sondra Radvanovsky, and Dawn Upshaw, The Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artists Program is considered one of the most prestigious programs for artists through training and performance opportunities on the Metropolitan Opera stage. Hear some of the next generation of opera greats from the program—mezzo soprano Emily D’Angelo, bass David Leigh, and pianists Valeria Polunina and Nate Raskin in an evening of song in the Board of Officers Room.

  • Recital Series

    The Crossing

    September 19, 2018 - September 20, 2018

    Having “made a name for itself in recent years as a champion of new music” (The New York Times), The Crossing comes to the Armory to perform an ambulatory concert that utilizes the corridors and historic rooms to create a unique kind of seamless music with fluidity of movement from room to room. The program includes world and New York premieres by David Lang, Louis Andriessen, and a new work by Ted Hearne, co-commissioned by the Armory. The new music champions are dedicated to expanding the contemporary choral music experience through commissions, collaborations, community, and performances that are characterized by a distinctive unity of sound and spirit.

  • Recital Series

    Severin von Eckardstein

    November 13, 2018 - November 14, 2018

    Few other pieces showcase Schumann’s creative expression and unrestricted imagination than his fantasy works, written both early and late in his career. Making his New York recital debut, pianist Severin von Eckardstein captures the subtle variety of this dreamy music in two distinct programs that showcase his superb technique and emotional depth. He opens his residency exploring the connection between Schumann and Russian composer Nikolai Medtner through their exploration of fantastical elements, and then turns to darker myths in a program that pairs the composer’s works with those of Wagner and Liszt.

  • Recital Series

    Thomas Oliemans & Malcom Martineau

    December 17, 2018 - December 19, 2018

    Hailed as “one of the most renowned Dutch singers” (Volkskrant), Thomas Oliemans has been taking the opera world by storm with his dynamic vocal color and communicative singing style at major opera houses and festivals throughout Europe, including Dutch National Opera, Royal Opera House Covent Garden, Teatro Real, and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence and Salzburg Festival. He brings his burnished baritone across the Atlantic to make his U.S. recital debut in an artfully curated program of lieder and arts songs from the late Romantic period.