Dudamel in Command, a ‘Macbeth’ Opera and Steve Reich Coming This Fall

Also this season, the Berlin Philharmonic comes to Carnegie Hall, “Lincoln in the Bardo” arrives at the Metropolitan Opera and dueling “Toscas.” ...

Python vies for role in Met Opera production

Snake charmer Zoe Ziegfeld is searching for the perfect python to join her on stage for a production at the Metropolitan ...
Wall Street Journal

Fears Amid Cheers for the Metropolitan Opera

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 ...
digitalmusicnews

Metropolitan Opera Still Scrambling After $200 Million Saudi Donation Falls Through

The Metropolitan Opera is looking into multiple funding options, including the sale of its iconic paintings, following a failed agreement with the government of Saudi Arabia. New York’s ...
The New Yorker

The Year the Metropolitan Opera Declared War on the Critics

Can the art of opera ever escape the suffocating grip of its magnificent past? Judging from the striking array of contemporary works that reached American stages in the past year, we might be closer ...
New York Post

The Metropolitan Opera’s vocal coach breaks down the difference between American and European performers

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, ...
nytimes.com

How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences

new video loaded: How the Metropolitan Opera Feeds Its Audiences transcript Opera is an art form that favors extravagant appetites. The marriage of music and cuisine is nowhere more evident than ...
OperaWire

Anna Netrebko’s Defamation Complaint Against the Metropolitan Opera & Peter Gelb Dismissed

Anna Netrebko’s Defamation Complaint against the Metropolitan Opera and Peter Gelb has been dismissed. In her decision, ...