The Metropolitan Opera is hinting at new projects to support Ukraine following a visit from the Minister of Culture and Ukraine’s Ambassador.

The company took to social media and said, “Ukraine’s recently appointed Minister of Culture Mykola Tochytskiy and Ukraine’s Ambassador to the United Nations Sergiy Kyslytsya visited Met General Manager Peter Gelb in his office this week to discuss the Met’s future projects to support Ukraine.”

Since the war broke out in Ukraine in February 2022, the Metropolitan Opera has supported Ukraine and the company allegedly fired “all Putin-supported artists” and later performed two concerts dedicated to Ukraine. The company has also worked alongside the Polish National Opera to form the Ukrainian Freedom Orchestra. It has also invited the First Lady of Ukraine who held a fundraiser and invited Ukrainian soldiers and the Ukrainian ambassador to a performance of “Tosca” starring Ukrainian soprano Liudmyla Monastyrska. In the spring of 2023 the Met displayed the Ukrainian flag on the facade of the theater for four weeks. On August 24, 2023, the company observed Ukrainian Independence Day and in September 2023 General Manager Peter Gelb received Ukraine’s Order of Merit.

The Met has also commissioned a work by composer by Ukrainian composer Maxim Kolomiiets and librettist George Brant.