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Thanks to all who joined us on Friday night for “Frida, Diego, and the Day of the Dead,” a truly special and historic evening: the first-ever collaboration between Death of Classical, @historicgreenwood and @metopera ! From the Gothic Arch to the Ofrenda altar, the spirits tastings to the final bows, it was a beautiful celebration of life, memory, and the Met’s stunning new production of “El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego.” We’re so glad you were part of it! We’re grateful for everyone who made this night possible, and we look forward to future collaborations! 🎤 @isabelleonardny @javier.arrey @vanessajuliamusic @nilswanderer 🗣 Librettist Nilo Cruz and Composer @gabrielalenafrank 🍹 @tobalanyc @curiouselixirs @pantalonestequila @zumbadortequila 🎵All of our incredible pre-show performers & crew that helped make this magical evening a success! 📸 @jbuschardt

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3 days ago

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Our deepest gratitude for everyone who joined us last weekend for "After the Fall," our third sold out series in the incredible Crypt under the Cathedral of @stjohnthedivinenyc ! Heartfelt thanks go out to: 🎻 Our incredible performers - alumni of @lgmusicfestival : Giancarlo Latta, Gregory Lewis, Benjamin Kronk, Bethany Hargreaves, Jiawei Yan, Sam DeCaprio, Matt Armbruster, Charles Paul 🎼 Composer extraordinaire @MissyMazzoli for joining us for three performances, and telling the backstory behind her amazing "Dark with Excessive Bright" 🍷🧀 Our beloved Food & Beverage sponsors: @bouchaine @curiouselixirs @baldorfood for keeping us well-hydrated and well-fed 💒 Our collaborators at @stjohnthedivinenyc for welcoming us into the extraordinary spaces of the cathedral and the crypt! 📷 Justin Buschardt

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11 days ago

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Announcing our 2026 Catacombs Concerts! 💀🎶 To those sanctified many of the subterranean persuasion, we are positively ecstatic to unveil our 2026 Angel’s Share season in the Catacombs at The Green-Wood Cemetery, with two programs that feel tailor-made for underground reverie (and a skosh of crushing existentialism)! This season, we mark the 250th Anniversary of America's founding with two programs that interrogate the notion of legacy and collective memory: 📅 June 18-20 🎹 @PianistMinKwon returns to the Angel's Share with her powerful America/Beautiful project, offering a kaleidoscopic view of the shared American experience in all 250 years of its beauty and ugliness 📅 July 9-11 🎻 @PoiesisQuartet will juxtapose the haunting resignation of Beethoven's final quartet Op. 135 with Jeff Scott's Tapestry of the Beloved Beatified, a radiant reflection of what it means to truly be a revolutionary 📍@historicgreenwood Catacombs 🍷 Spirits tasting, non-alcoholic elixirs, complimentary snacks 🎟️ Secure your tickets at the link in bio!

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17 days ago

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We're deeply excited to announce a new collaboration with our amazing friends at the @metopera (our 1st ever with 'em!) & our beloved partners at @historicgreenwood , entitled 𝑭𝒓𝒊𝒅𝒂, 𝑫𝒊𝒆𝒈𝒐, 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒂𝒚 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑫𝒆𝒂𝒅! Join us May 8 for an immersive celebration of musical excerpts, poetry, reflections, and conversations taking inspiration from "El Último Sueño de Frida y Diego," the sumptuous new opera by @GabrielaLenaFrank and Nilo Cruz. If you're anything like us, you like your opera the way you like your romance (doomed) – so come share in an evening-long exploration of love, loss, legacy, and the fine art of being remembered well. ❤️ @metopera 📍@historicgreenwood 📅 May 8 (rain date May 9) 7-9 PM 🍾 Spirits tasting, non-alcoholic elixirs, complimentary snacks & food for purchase 🎤 Opera with poetry, storytelling, conversation, & more! 🎟️ Gather your favorite living companions & secure your tickets at the link in bio!

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1 month ago

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We're #thrilledtoannounce our new brand identity: 🌈🦄 𝐿𝐼𝐹𝐸 𝒪𝐹 𝒞𝐿𝒜𝒮𝒮𝐼𝒞𝒜𝐿 🌈🦄 The world is scary enough these days, so we've decided to leave the Crypts, Catacombs and Cemeteries behind - going forward, we'll be shifting our concerts to exciting new venues like IKEA showrooms, Infant Daycare Centers, and the lobby of the WeWork in Hudson Yards! Our inaugural performances this April include a program of string trio arrangements of Jason Mraz's greatest hits, a 90-minute set of variations on Pharrell's "Happy" for solo Tuba, and an opera composed and directed by Timothée Chalamet.

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1 month ago

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Thank you to everyone who joined us last week for the world premiere of Jeff Beal's New York Études, Vol. II– it was incredibly special to open our 2026 Crypt Sessions season in honor of MS Awareness Month 💛 We'd like to extend an extra special thanks to... 🎶The singular @jeffbealmusic for two evenings of mesmerizing solo piano magic in the Crypt! (If you weren't able to join us in person, you can stream New York Études, Vol II., out now on @weareplatoon , wherever you get your music.) 🍷 🧀 Our incredible Food & Beverage sponsors @curiouselixirs @bouchaine @baldorfood @brooklyncured for keeping us happily be-sipped and be-snacked all night long 🎹 And to @steinwayandsons because it would have been tricky (even by our standards) to pull off a solo piano show without a beautiful Steinway piano! 📸 @jbuschardt

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1 month ago

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We'll soon descend into the crypt at the Church of the Intercession for the first time this year, with the incredible composer, @JeffBealMusic . Jeff is bringing the world premiere of his New York Etudes Vol. II, to the Crypt March 26 & 27, in honor of MS Awareness Month. Recently featured in @BroadwayWorld and @TheViolinChannel , Jeff reflects on nearly two decades living with MS and how it has shaped his musical journey. 📰 Read both features in full & 🎟️ secure your tickets via the link in bio!

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends! We’re excited to announce our next Crypt Session beneath the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on May 1-2. pairs rarely-heard chamber arrangements of @MissyMazzoli’s Dark with Excessive Bright and Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, two stunning works written nearly a century apart, each wrestling with loss, destruction, and the stubborn persistence of beauty, performed by several fearless alumni from the prestigious @lgmusicfestival The Crypt under the Cathedral of @stjohndivinenyc ️May 1-2 ️Tickets on sale now at link in bio

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Once more unto the breach, dear friends! We’re excited to announce our next Crypt Session beneath the Cathedral of St. John the Divine on May 1-2. 𝐀𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐚𝐥𝐥 pairs rarely-heard chamber arrangements of @MissyMazzoli ’s Dark with Excessive Bright and Richard Strauss’s Metamorphosen, two stunning works written nearly a century apart, each wrestling with loss, destruction, and the stubborn persistence of beauty, performed by several fearless alumni from the prestigious @lgmusicfestival 📍The Crypt under the Cathedral of @stjohndivinenyc 🗓️May 1-2 🎟️Tickets on sale now at link in bio

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🐍 Arrivederci, Tiergarten ⛲️ C’est le pays de nos désirs Down the alley and back through history — @deathofclassical Weimar speakeasy at @prototypefest turned opera, burlesque, and Weill into a reckoning with madness past and present 🎭🥀

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2 months ago

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Passing notes with Beethoven on a Saturday night. This is @arielquartet performing Beethoven’s String Quartet No. 14 in C-sharp minor, Op. 131 inside a catacomb at The Green-Wood Cemetery. Stunning and expressive, the piece is considered by many (including Beethoven himself!) to be one of his finest works for a string quartet. Check it out: ▪️YouTube.com/AllArtsTV ▪️Produced with pals at @historicgreenwood + @deathofclassical

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3 months ago

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For our first Crypt Session of 2026, we're honored to welcome five-time EMMY® winning composer and pianist @jeffbealmusic , performing the world premiere of his deeply-personal New York Études, Vol. II for two nights only, March 26 & 27. Born out of Beal's experience of living with Multiple Sclerosis (March is MS Awareness month), these intimate piano works transform vulnerability into resilience, and uncertainty into grace. 📍 The Crypt under the Church of the Intercession 🗓 March 26 & 27 — MS Awareness Month 🎟 Tickets on sale now at link in bio

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3 months ago

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A heartfelt thank you to everyone who came out to our two sold out performances of Tiergarten, in partnership with @PrototypeFest ! Sending all of our love to… 🎤 The incredible artists, led by our incredible Master of Ceremonies Kim David Smith, who brought this incredible program to life! 🍷 Our incredible sponsors whose food and drink warmed us through a cold night! 🎭 The incredible production team who turned the beautiful Cullen Hall at St. Paul’s Carroll Street into a proper 1920s Berlin speakeasy! We look forward to our next journey through time... until then, stay warm, everyone! ❄️ 📷 @weirdhours 📹 Roni Polsgrove

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3 months ago