Metropolitan Opera

Boston Symphony Orchestra names new music director

2 days ago

Nelsons has earned distinction on both the opera and concert podiums, including those of the Berlin Philharmonic, Vienna Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra and Bavarian Radio Symphony...

Lars Cleveman debuts at Met as Siegfried

9 days ago

The list of tenors who can sing the title role of Wagner's "Siegfried" is such a short one that any newcomer tackling the part at the Metropolitan Opera is worthy of note - and there's always the...

Review: Stirring revival of Poulenc opera at Met

11 days ago

So emotionally drained was the audience at Saturday afternoon's performance at the Metropolitan Opera that silence lingered in the house for several moments after the curtain fell.

Dalayman's rapturous Immolation caps `Ring'

13 days ago

Magnificent playing by the orchestra, inspired conducting by Fabio Luisi and a rapturous performance of the "Immolation Scene" by Katarina Dalayman brought the Metropolitan Opera's latest "Ring"...

Damrau dazzles in debut as Violetta at Met

64 days ago

Two spontaneous eruptions from the audience just about said it all as the Metropolitan Opera revived Willy Decker's brilliantly stripped-down and de-romanticized production of Verdi's "La Traviata."

Opera superstar Anna Netrebko is conquering the world, theater by theater

69 days ago

Everybody at the Metropolitan Opera knows all the bad Russian words already!

`Francesca' returns to Met after 27-year absence

74 days ago

Westbroek, who made her Met debut as Sieglinde in Wagner's "Die Walkuere" two years ago, gives a more rounded portrayal.

Colleges, theaters to create new Civil War plays

79 days ago

Separately, Matthew Aucoin, an assistant conductor at the Metropolitan Opera, is using Walt Whitman's poetry about being a medic to develop a new opera.

50 seasons after debut, Maazel returns to Met

83 days ago

While Lorin Maazel isn't slowing down, his tempi are based on the performance of Verdi's "Don Carlo" he led to mark the 50th anniversary season of his Metropolitan Opera debut.

Ades' `Powder Her Face' opens NY City Opera season

90 days ago

The pleasure-above-all nature of the Duchess, the former Ethel Margaret Whigham, is fueled by cocaine, alcohol, callousness and disregard for boundaries, while Ades searches for a modern musical...

Striking new look for 'Parsifal' at Met in NYC

90 days ago

The French-Canadian director's starkly modern and thought-provoking staging, first seen last year in Lyon, France, premiered at the Metropolitan Opera on Friday night.

Mayer's `Rigoletto,' set in Vegas, opens at Met

109 days ago

In their Met debuts, Robert Pomakov was a booming Monterone and Oksana Volkova a seductive Maddalena.

Sin City Duke: Met moves `Rigoletto' to Las Vegas

115 days ago

Diana Damrau recalled when she learned the Metropolitan Opera's new production of "Rigoletto" would be set in the glitzy Rat Pack-era Las Vegas of 1960, not 16th-century Mantua.

Chereau directs `Elektra' at Aix-en-Provence, Met

115 days ago

Patrice Chereau will direct a new staging of Strauss' "Elektra" in a co-production with the French Aix-en-Provence Festival, New York's Metropolitan Opera and several other companies.

Review: Pretty Yende debuts at Met in Rossini romp

120 days ago

Preparing to exit the stage during the opening moments of Rossini's "Le Comte Ory" at the Metropolitan Opera, Pretty Yende tripped on a couple of steps leading down from a wooden platform and fell...

Review: Meade makes her mark as Verdi's Leonora

121 days ago

Angela Meade, a rising star at the Metropolitan Opera, rose a notch higher as she stepped into one of the touchstone roles of the soprano repertory, Leonora in Verdi's "Il Trovatore."

Opolais makes winning Met debut in 'La Rondine'

125 days ago

Kristine Opolais was such a hit at her Metropolitan Opera debut that she got bopped on the head.

Met gives `Barber' a cut in English version

141 days ago

For the first time since Rossini's most famous work was given its Metropolitan Opera premiere in 1883, "The Barber of Seville" is being presented by the company in English rather than Italian, a...

Berlioz's 'Troyens' revived at Metropolitan Opera

146 days ago

Bryan Hymel will take over, making his Met debut Wednesday night and singing the rest of the run, including a matinee on Jan. 5 that will be broadcast to theaters around the world.

Swiss opera diva Della Casa dies at 93

157 days ago

She first performed in 1941 and went on to sing on many of the world's great opera stages including the Metropolitan Opera, the Royal Opera House and La Scala.

Met 'Ring' cycle, L.A. percussion group nominated for classical work

163 days ago

LOS ANGELES-This year's Grammy Award nominees in the classical music categories feature a typically diverse mix of recordings, ranging from gargantuan undertakings such as the Metropolitan Opera's...