The Metropolitan Opera is going downtown. The Met has arranged with Le Poisson Rouge, the high-art cabaret space in Greenwich Village, to present two concerts based on Met productions of two contemporary operas: “The Tempest†by Thomas Adès and Nico Muhly's “Two Boys.†The collaboration gives the Met some visibility in the slightly hipper, younger and more contemporary music scene, and adds big-institution luster to Le Poisson Rouge, which has become firmly established as a New York concert site. The Met often collaborates with major institutions like Juilliard, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art but rarely with such a small fish. “It seemed like a good idea, as a way of educating the audience and reaching out to a new audience, to have performances down there,†Peter Gelb, the Met's general director, said. Mr. Gelb said the first performance, on Oct. 26, would involve a few cast members of “The Tempest,†Mr. Adès as pianist and several chamber musicians performing scaled-down numbers from the opera. The concert will include works by Ives, Purcell, Stravinsky and Tippett. Mr. Muhly will play and program the second concert at an undetermined date in the spring. Mr. Gelb said the Met was paying for the performances and would split the ticket take with Le Poisson Rouge.
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