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Realizing a childhood dream, he created scenery that was highly conceptual yet playful for the Glimmerglass Festival, New ...
Blaming the president is a popular pastime these days, but one of America’s cultural leaders has come up with something ...
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 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, ...
At the Metropolitan Opera House, the troupe revives Frederick Ashton’s richly textured three-act production, set to music by ...
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 ...
But when it comes to opera, the Metropolitan Opera leaves us in the dust. Everything is big at the Met: a 3,800-seat house (vs. 2,200 at the Winspear Opera House) and a 2022-23 schedule of 23 ...
The Italian director Damiano Michieletto has engaged, and sometimes enraged, European audiences. Now he’s preparing for his ...
Yannick Nézet-Séguin, the Met’s music director designate, shared conducting duties with the company’s great Italian opera hand Marco Armiliato and with the music director emeritus, James Levine.