In a gesture of solidarity with the victims of the war in Ukraine, the Metropolitan Opera and the Polish National Opera gather leading Ukrainian musicians into the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra for a European and American tour lead by conductor Canadian-Ukrainian Keri-Lynn Wilson. The program includes Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov’s Seventh Symphony; Chopin’s Piano Concerto No. 2, with Ukrainian pianist Anna Fedorova; and either Brahms’s Fourth Symphony or Dvořák’s Ninth Symphony. The orchestra premieres their tour with the opening concert in Warsaw on July 28th with further stops in: London (July 31), Munich (August 1), Orange (August 2), Berlin (August 4), Edinburgh (August 6), Snape Maltings (August 8), Amsterdam (August 11), Hamburg (August 13), Dublin (August 15), New York (August 18 and 19), and Washington, DC (August 20).

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