As 2022 comes to a close, we're celebrating a selection of stand-out moments chosen by our friends at @metopera! 🔸January 2022 - Ringing in the new year with the curtain call from the premiere performance of the new production of Verdi's “Rigoletto” on December 31, 2021. © Ken Howard / Met Opera 🔹 March 2022 – Met Music Director @nezetseguin led the Met Orchestra and Chorus in “A Concert for Ukraine” at the Metropolitan Opera on March 14, 2022, with all proceeds supporting relief efforts in Ukraine. © Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera 🔸 May 2022 – A scene from @philipglassmusic's “Akhnaten,” with countertenor @arcostanzo in the title role. The Met’s production of the opera won the 2022 Grammy Award for Best Opera Recording. © Ken Howard / Met Opera 🔹 June 2022 - The Metropolitan Opera participated in New York City’s annual Pride March with a custom float, a quartet of star soloists, and nearly a hundred company members taking to the streets (Photos 4 & 5). © Rubén Sosa / Met Opera 🔸 August 2022 - @kerilynnwilsonmaestro, pianist @annapianist, and soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska joined the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra at Damrosch Park on August 18 and 19, 2022. © Richard Termine 🔹 September 2022 - @walkwithamal arrives at JFK Airport, welcomed by the Met Orchestra and Met Music Director @nezetseguin. © Marty Sohl / Met Opera 🔸 September 2022 - Soprano @sondraradvanovsky sang in the title role of Cherubini's “Medea” to open the Met’s 2022–23 season. © Marty Sohl / Met Opera 🔹 November 2022 - Soprano @kelliohara as Laura Brown, soprano @reneeflemingmusic as Clarissa Vaughan, and mezzo-soprano @joycedidonato as Virginia Woolf headlined the world-premiere production of composer Kevin Puts’ and librettist Greg Pierce’s “The Hours.” © Evan Zimmerman / Met Opera 🔸 December 2022 - Met Ballet dancers in costume for Mozart’s “The Magic Flute” as part of the annual Holiday Open House, which allows families to learn how an opera comes to life with hands-on stations throughout the opera house’s lobby. © Jenny Gorman / Met Opera