Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly ...

Mayer’s weak attempt to address opera’s recent struggles with its history of fetishization of “exotic” cultures adds nothing ...

The first indicator was the audience Tuesday night at the Metropolitan Opera, which welcomed the new year with the premiere ...

By Javier C. Hernández Photographs and Video by OK McCausland When the director Michael Mayer set out to stage Verdi’s “Aida” at the Metropolitan Opera, he knew the stakes were high.

That figure is Peter Gelb, the general manager of the Met. In an opinion essay published in the Times in November, Gelb argues that opera had “turned inward” in the second half of the ...

In opera the same role can transform, again and again, with each new interpreter, even over the lifetime of one singer. It’s a reason to keep coming back. At the Metropolitan Opera this season ...

On Saturday at 1 p.m., hear the Metropolitan Opera's broadcast of Jacques Offenbach's "Les Contes d'Hoffmann" on Classical ...

From her opening cries of “Mario!” (three of them), Radvanovsky was sovereign. She was una vera Tosca, a true Tosca. Italian, ...

Soprano Adela Zaharia has made her debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York as Musetta in Puccini’s La Bohème. She appeared in the performance on January 11, and will perform again on January 15, ...

Soprano Angel Blue is fresh off a widely acclaimed run as Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, in the opera’s ...

Someone at the Met should have been giving flu shots (before RFK Junior makes them illegal), because something is obviously ...