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 ...

The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City's Lincoln Center remains a bastion of mid-century design excellence. But, like everything with a bit of age, a refresh is inevitable. The cultural ...

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 ...

Peek behind the curtain of this famous New York City institution and explore backstage areas that are typically not accessible to the public! The iconic lobby alone is a stunning space, and the ...

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 ...

You know you’re in trouble when a grand new production of Verdi’s “Aida” only catches fire midway through the second act, ...

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 at ...

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 ...

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, ...