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 ...

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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 ...

Dressed in a flight suit, mezzo-soprano Emily D’Angelo portrays a fighter pilot named Jess, who unexpectedly falls in love, gets pregnant and has to drop out of the military. It's the story of ...

In an early scene from "Moby-Dick," the crew of the whaling vessel The Pequod get to know their skipper. His name is Captain Ahab, and they are on a dangerous journey to track down the white whale ...

Young singers from The Metropolitan Opera and Madrid's Teatro Real are set to perform alongside MUSICA VIVA NY Chamber Choir in an upcoming concert program.

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 ...

Derrick Goff, onetime vocal coach at the Metropolitan Opera: “I grew up surrounded by church music, choirs, piano playing. I started taking languages. There’s vocal music in other countries, operas, ...

While working on his knowing and lively study of the 1981-82 season of the Metropolitan Opera, “A Year at the Met,” the editor and music historian Patrick J. Smith was on hand for the premiere of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Metropolitan Opera House is laying off staff, cutting salaries and its program, and even considering selling historic pieces ...

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 ...