Brooklyn Bridge Park's Pier 1 Harbor View Lawn became an open-air concert venue June 17 as the Metropolitan Opera brought its ...

In a directing career that included over 70 Met Opera broadcasts, he said his work was “dictated by the music, by key change, ...

The former Police frontman discusses 'The Last Ship,' the catharsis of performing it night after night, why he doesn't feel ...

After his 2014 musical failed on Broadway, the musician is bringing a revised version of it to the Metropolitan Opera for a limited run this week.

NEW YORK — Describing the new Metropolitan Opera production of “Salome” feels a bit like recounting the details of a dream: The lines start to blur, the colors begin to drain, the details dissolve in ...

Le Nozze di Figaro will be presented at the Metropolitan Opera. This classic opera features a talented cast, including soprano Pretty Yende and mezzo-soprano Clémentine... Fidelio, Beethoven's only ...

Earlier this month the Metropolitan Opera, America’s largest performing-arts institution, which opens its 2025-26 season on Sunday, announced it had signed a memorandum of understanding with the Saudi ...

Gabriela Lena Frank's first opera, in its Met debut, sees late Mexican painter Frida Kahlo leaving the underworld on the Day of the Dead to be reunited with her husband and fellow artist Diego Rivera.

You know you’re in trouble when a grand new production of Verdi’s “Aida” only catches fire midway through the second act, ...

Condensing Melville’s vast and discursive work into a three-hour opera may have seemed as foolish as Captain Ahab’s increasingly desperate voyage to find the whale that maimed him, but Heggie and ...

Editor’s note: This is the first in a three-part series of reported commentaries on the future of opera. NEW YORK — It’s a big house. The Metropolitan Opera seats nearly 4,000 people up into its fifth ...