The baritone Nathan Gunn, a Met favorite who was in excellent voice, was joined by two rising singers in their 20s: the impressively gifted soprano Susanna Phillips and the intensely expressive tenor Michael Fabiano. Jonathan Kelly, from the Met’s music staff, accompanied most of the program, though the pianist Julie Gunn, Mr. Gunn’s wife, also played stylishly, notably in the offbeat fare her husband sang.

Julie Gunn, a vocal coach and accompanist by profession, provided much more than support, as the piano is an equal participant in this enterprise. When she was not buoying the vocal line up from beneath with running commentary, she was either drawing him in with engaging scene-setting passages or recapitulating with a quietly emphatic closing statement. She proved a thoughtful and sensitive interpretive partner throughout.