People who care about opera can’t stop talking about the baby, or “that damned baby” as a disgruntled patron put it on the way out of the Metropolitan Opera last week. It’s a directorial conceit in a ...

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 ...

"It's been one of the greatest adventures of my life, and I've had a few," Sting said of working on his musical. By Caitlin Huston Business Writer The rock star will star in an adapted version of his ...

MANHATTAN, N.Y. (PIX11) — The Metropolitan Opera is again hosting its popular Summer HD Festival featuring free screenings at Lincoln Center Plaza starting Saturday. The festival kicks off with a ...

Tamara Mumford as the Pilgrim, Eric Owens as Jaufré Rudel, and Susanna Phillips as Clémence in Kaija Saariaho’s L’Amour de Loin (all photos by Ken Howard, courtesy the Metropolitan Opera, unless ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook “Grounded,” the new work that opened the season, has been joined by revivals of three Puccini, Verdi and Offenbach classics. By ...

Shortly before Matthew Christopher Pietras’s body was discovered, the Metropolitan Opera had been told that the $10 million he had just donated did not belong to him. By Julia Jacobs He was a regular ...

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 ...

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Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I cover travel trends and wellness and family travel. Russian mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Gubanova, who calls San Ginesio, Italy home, ...

Can the pop star help salvage the beleaguered Metropolitan opera house by putting on a show of his own? By Benjamin Svetkey and Julian Sancton, Editors The fat lady hasn’t quite sung for Manhattan’s ...

Saudi Arabia has dangled some $200 million to lure the Metropolitan Opera out of Lincoln Center and into the Royal Diriyah Opera House. The venerated company will perform Mozart's , Puccini's , and ...