Realizing a childhood dream, he created scenery that was highly conceptual yet playful for the Glimmerglass Festival, New ...

The Metropolitan Opera is again hosting its popular Summer HD Festival with free screenings at Lincoln Center Plaza starting ...

The series kicks off Friday, August 22, with a special screening of Maestro, the 2023 Leonard Bernstein biopic starring ...

The Italian director Damiano Michieletto has engaged, and sometimes enraged, European audiences. Now he’s preparing for his ...

Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something ...

Terence Blanchard's opera, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones" In its 138 years, America's leading opera house, the Metropolitan Opera in New York, had never staged an opera by a Black composer – until now.

At the Metropolitan Opera House, the troupe revives Frederick Ashton’s richly textured three-act production, set to music by ...

The Met Opera hired Christine Goerke, a reigning dramatic soprano, to host the series. While she offered a genial presence, she was trapped by a banal script, ...

Music ‘The Hours’ should have made an amazing opera. It didn’t. But strong singing bolsters the Metropolitan Opera adaptation of the 1998 novel by Michael Cunningham ...