The Hispanic Society Museum and Library on Audubon Terrace will hold two candlelight performances of Tomás Luis de Victoria's Requiem on Sunday, October 25, 2026, at 4 p.m. and 6 p.m. The Skylark Vocal Ensemble, a six-time Grammy nominee, will sing in the gallery that holds Joaquín Sorolla's Vision of Spain murals.

Victoria finished the Requiem in 1605. It was his last composition, written to honor the death of Empress Maria of Spain. Sorolla's Vision of Spain is the museum's permanent installation, and the Requiem will be sung in the gallery built to hold it.

The concert is one of three programs at the museum this week, and it comes as several of the Hispanic Society's fall exhibitions head into their last week of display.

The Requiem on October 25

Both performances take place in the Sorolla Gallery. RSVP is through the Hispanic Society's events page. The museum says a limited number of free tickets for the 6 p.m. performance will be released before the program.

The Sorolla Gallery itself is marking a milestone. A Living Vision: the Sorolla Gallery at 100 is on view from May 21, 2026, through May 27, 2027, for the gallery's 100th year.

Also this week at the museum

  • Thursday, October 22, 6 p.m.: A book presentation with Jonathan Ezra Goldman, a humanities professor at New York Institute of Technology, in conversation with Rochelle Rives, an English professor at the Borough of Manhattan Community College. They will talk about Puerto Rican life in 1920s New York, including figures such as Pura Belpré, Jesús Colón, Arturo Alfonso Schomburg and Bernardo Vega. Goldman's book, Hidden Histories of Jazz Age New York from the Suppressed to the Strange, will be on sale and he will sign copies. RSVP is required.
  • Saturday, October 24, 3 p.m.: A live reading of Antichrist and the Hermit, a 16th-century religious play by the Nahua nobleman Fabián de Aquino. Translator Ben Leeming opens with a half-hour talk on Nahuatl-Christian texts, followed by excerpts performed by Irwin Sanchez and Mark DiBattista in the original Nahuatl with English subtitles. A discussion on current efforts to keep the Nahuatl language alive and an audience Q&A close the program at 4:30 p.m. RSVP is required.

The following Sunday, November 1, at 6 p.m., Australian guitarist Miles Johnston plays works by Albéniz, Llobet, Granados, Turina, de Falla and Tárrega in the Sorolla Gallery, as part of the first Hispania Música in New York series organized by the Málaga-based Fundación Hispania Música.

Exhibitions in their final days

Three shows close on November 1: Uptown Visions, A Collection Without Borders and Esperanza Cortés: Embroidered Allegories. The next exhibition, Mantilla: Fashion Unveiled, opens November 20, 2026, and runs through March 28, 2027.

Hours, admission and directions

The museum is open Thursday through Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. and closed Monday through Wednesday. Admission is free, though visitors need to reserve a free ticket before entering the galleries. The suggested donation is $15 for adults, $10 for New York, New Jersey and Connecticut residents, and $5 for students and seniors 65 and older. Children under 10 and members are free.

The entrance is at 3741 Broadway, between 155th and 156th Streets. Enter Audubon Terrace on the west side of Broadway and go up the steps through the iron gates; the museum door is on the left, between two limestone lions. The 1 train stops at 157th Street and Broadway, a short walk north of the entrance.

RSVP links for the Requiem, the book talk and the play reading are on the Hispanic Society's events calendar.

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