An annual summer tradition, the Metropolitan Opera’s popular summer recital series in New York City parks continues this year, showcasing performances from Emily Pogorelc, a dynamic American soprano who made her house debuts at the Vienna State Opera, Opernhaus Zurich, and Dutch National Opera during the 2025–26 season; Joshua Blue, a British American tenor who most recently appeared in Mozart’s Requiem at the Hollywood Bowl and as Tamino in the Met’s revival of The Magic Flute; American baritone Edward Nelson, who starred as Tracy Bacon in the Opening Night company premiere of Mason Bates’s The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay and made recent debuts at Houston Grand Opera and in Baden-Baden, A Coruña, and Liège; and pianist Dimitri Dover, a graduate of the Metropolitan Opera Lindemann Young Artist Program who has been on the music staff at the Met since 2016. This event forms part of Carnegie Hall’s United in Sound: America at 250 festival.