Starring Angel Blue and Piotr Beczała, Michael Mayer’s new staging of Verdi’s Egyptian classic favors monumentality at nearly ...
Michael Mayer is directing the Met’s first new production of Verdi’s classic in nearly four decades, aiming for something fresh yet enduring.
For 36 years, Sonja Frisell’s mounting of Aida at the Metropolitan Opera, with its monumental Pharaonic sets by Gianni ...
Peter Gelb thinks “experimental” music leads to dwindling audiences, but performances around the country suggest otherwise.
The divas and tenors of opera in the modern day may be unfamiliar to all but the most sophisticated of us, but those stars ...
By Zachary Woolfe For a long time, people went to the Metropolitan Opera for the horses. They looked to the Met, the country’s largest performing arts institution, for the kind of gaudily ...
After being postponed due to the pandemic in the 2020-21 season, The Met's new production of the opera Aida finally opened as ...
Angel Blue, one of the most admired singers of her generation, is headlining the Metropolitan Opera’s first new production of ...
Soprano Angel Blue is fresh off a widely acclaimed run as Margarita Xirgu in Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, in the opera’s ...
Norwegian soprano Lise Davidsen stars as the volatile title diva in David McVicar’s thrilling production of “Tosca,” which ...